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IS CHINA THE NEWFRONTIER FOR RACING?

HEATHow racehorses handle summer temperatures

CHARLIE LOPRESTILow-key trainer having

a successful run

GILES ANDERSONHARLIE LoPresti is a trainer who has impressed mefor some time and reading his profile in this issue itsuddenly strikes me that this is a horseman who hasbeen around some top flight horses for all his workinglife. Managing a small team of elite equine athletes isno small task and to have them competing regularly at

the top of their game is an achievement in itself. Perhaps what makesLoPresti consistent is the sense of levelheadedness which comes across inthis profile. Here is a man who seemingly takes the rough with the smoothand plays with the cards that he’s dealt.

For our second trainer profile, Bill Heller has spent time with a Floridabased trainer, Ron Gaffney. Back earlier this year, Ron called me about thearticle of Bill’s on Standardbred’s v’s Thoroughbred’s (Issue 23) and gaveme his very insightful views on the subject. He also went into great detailabout his background and I was amazed by the hands on approach headopts and aged 71 can still be found on top of his horses galloping themmost mornings. As his wife of 29 years Emmy says, “it’s all he has everknown”.

Being in Florida, Gaffney will have experienced summer heat, well at least humid heat and perhaps not the level of extreme temperaturesthat have been such a part of this summer across much of central North America. But what are the best ways to deal with this heat? Dr Stacey Oke has produced a timely investigation for us and her

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findings make for some interesting reading.As climatic conditions around us change, so do many of the processes

in production of food for both humans and equines. One of the recentadditions to an ever changing feeding regime has been the introductionof a system know as Hydroponic Feeding which allows for grass mats tobe grown in a concentrated environment. For trainers looking to ensurethat horses can graze on a plentiful supply of consistent grass, thisapplication of technology is certainly a welcome addition to the optionsopen for trainers.

Much has been written in recent months about how racehorses simplydon’t run as often as they used to. However, not in Australia. Over the pastyear or so, many of us will have read and witnessed the amazing mareBlack Caviar. Her appetite for racing has gripped many who follow her.The ability to race this tough mare again and again, week in week out, atthe highest level has made her story more special. But she’s not alone, sowe asked our Australian correspondent, Mitchell Lamb, to ask Australiantrainers, how do they get their horses to run week in week out?

Our other international focuses in this issue include our initial reporton the rebuilding of racing in China as well as the views of the global vet,John McVeigh. If that’s not enough for you, well the magazine is topedand tailed by our excellent columnists – William Koester and Alan Balchat the front and Sid Fernando at the back.

Wherever your racing takes you this summer, good luck! n

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EEP in the rainforestsof South America, asmall frog crouchesquietly in the moistunderstory, as he hasdone for centuries. A

world away, journalists and bloggers typefrenetically about dermorphin, and theatrocities of this poison at the hand of man. Inour community, we are angry with the cheatersbut understand that the depravity of doinganything just to win a purse is a harsherpunishment than anyone can lay on them. Butwe are truly outraged at those who should havedisallowed this animal abuse to be a part of oursport.There is no gray area here. This is not a case

of someone administering a medicinal drug fora strategic gain or administering a legal drugwithin 24 hours of a race. We are not talkingabout cross-contamination or poppy seeds on abagel. Dermorphin is classified as Class 1: drugsthat are stimulants and depressants that have the highest potential to affect performanceand that have no generally accepted medicaluse in the racing horse. It has absolutely noplace on the backside of a track, in the hands oftrainers, or even veterinarians. It cannot beaccidentally given. To be sure, to administer aClass 1 drug means that someone is blatantlyCHEATING. The truth is disheartening. The last five years

have seen 55 Class 1 positives in NorthAmerica, broken down as such: 12 in 2007, 17

in 2008, 11 in 2009, ten in 2010, and four in2011. In 2012, there was one positive beforethe dermorphin positives were called. Thisyear’s Class 1 positives could surpass the total ofthe past five years with one drug alone. As splitsamples are being examined and the Class 1positives are expected to reach an all-time high,our reputation and credibility will plummet toan all-time low, with the public losing whatlittle faith they have in our ability to regulateourselves. And so we spin in circles looking for

someone to blame. Each of us is more defensive than the next.

Horsemen’s groups say that there are a few badapples. They try to deflect blame by claimingthat they drug test more than any other sport.Racetracks are silent, as if they have no hand in the game, though they consort and contractwith known cheaters. They too are complicit.Racing commissions are quick to give lipservice and speak of lack of funding. They shy away from stern punishments and walk oneggshells so as not to embarrass theiradministrations by getting overturned in court. They are reluctant to take a standbecause they aren’t empowered with any depthof knowledge and feel vulnerable. They mightget egg on their faces if the horsemen feel likethrowing one.As the saying goes, pessimists find difficulty

in every opportunity while optimists findopportunity in every difficulty. This recentincident, looked upon optimistically, comes at

the right moment. It offers us all – horsemenand horsewomen, tracks, and commissioners –the opportunity to do somethingunprecedented: to make a united effort againstan indefensible crime that endangers horses,jockeys, and the integrity of the sport itself. This is an excellent opportunity to pivot a

“small win,” a keystone movement that allowsus to disarm our confrontations and practiceworking together. Let’s make a united effort thatwill be looked back on historically as alandmark moment that saved our sport. Let’s beunequivocal and demand that there be no moreClass 1 drug violations in horseracing. Let’ssend a strong message – we, those empoweredto make a difference, will not tolerate blatantdisregard for sportsmanship and animal abuse.One and done: lifetime expulsion from oursport. We’ll each contribute. Horsemen’s groups have never thrown

anyone out of their organizations for a positivedrug test. Make a strong statement and ban anyClass 1 violator for life. Racetracks have not used their power to take

a stand against corrupt trainers. Make a strongstatement by ruling off all Class 1 violators forlife. Racing commissions have not drawn a hard

line in the sand. Make a strong statement andplace all Class 1 positives on your stop list andreciprocate with all jurisdictions.It’s way past the kick-the-can-down-the-road

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The views of William Koester

One and Done

“Dermorphin is classified as Class 1: drugs that are stimulants and depressantsthat have the highest potential to affect performance and that have no generally

accepted medical use in the racing horse”

WILL’S WAY

DI am honored to have the opportunity to speak on a subject that is important to me

as a life-long enthusiast of Thoroughbreds and racing. I previously chaired theAssociation of Racing Commissioners International (RCI), but the opinions and

ideas expressed in this article are mine alone and do not necessarily represent eitherthe RCI or the members themselves.

Issue 25

CONTENTS...


2 Will’s WayThe views of William Koester.

10 California Thoroughbred TrainersAlan Balch on the public’s perception ofracing; Trainer Peter Eurton.

16 TRM trainer of the quarterGarry Simms, trainer of Bashford Manor Stakes winner Circle Unbraken.

18 Charlie LoPrestiFrances J. Karon profiles horseman Charlie LoPresti, whose current arsenal includes Wise Dan, Successful Dan, andTurallure.

26 Racing in ChinaGolden opportunities may await horseracing in an unexpected place, by Suzy Crossman and and XX.

32 Girl PowerKen Snyder writes on the growing trendof successful female riders.

38 The Dollase familyBill Heller continues the “Family Values” series with a look at the Dollases.

44 Australian racingTher tough Australian racehorse, by Mitchell Lamb.

52 Hydroponic feedingCatherine Dunnett on the pros and consof feeding hydroponic grass to horses intraining.

58 Ron GaffneyThe 71-year-old trainer who still exercises his own horses and who does things the old fashioned way, by Bill Heller.

64 Handling heatA look at the signs of heat stroke and what can be done to help avoid or treat it, by Stacey Oke.

72 John McVeighDavid Thiselton on Dr John McVeigh, who is making waves in his advocacy for a worldwide medication policy.

78 Product Focus80 Stakes Schedules

Forthcoming stakes races from North America and around the world.

88 Sid Fernando columnOur new columnist on the EIPH and Salix debate.

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Issue 25

CONTENTS...


2 Will’s WayThe views of William Koester.

8 California Thoroughbred TrainersAlan Balch on the public’s perception ofracing; Trainer Peter Eurton.

14 TRM trainer of the quarterGarry Simms, trainer of Bashford Manor Stakes winner Circle Unbraken.

16 Charlie LoPrestiFrances J. Karon profiles horseman Charlie LoPresti, whose current arsenal includes Wise Dan, Successful Dan, andTurallure.

26 Ron GaffneyThe 71-year-old trainer who still exercises his own horses and who does things the old fashioned way, by Bill Heller.

32 Girl PowerKen Snyder writes on the growing trendof successful female riders.

36 Racing in ChinaGolden opportunities may await horseracing in an unexpected place, by XX and XX.

42 Hydroponic feedingCatherine Dunnett on the pros and consof feeding hydroponic grass to horses intraining.

48 Handling heatA look at the signs of heat stroke and what can be done to help avoid or treat it, by Stacey Oke.

54 John McVeighDavid Thiselton on Dr John McVeigh, who is making waves in his advocacy for a worldwide medication policy.

58 BiomechanicsHow does a horse move? By David Earl Williams.

66 The Dollase familyBill Heller continues the “Family Values” series with a look at the Dollases.

72 Australian racingIn advance of Black Caviar’s anticipated trip to Royal Ascot, Mitchell Lamb introduces us to the tough Australian racehorse.

76 Product Focus77 Stakes Schedules

Forthcoming stakes races from North America and around the world.

88 Sid Fernando columnOur new columnist on the EIPH and Salix debate.


Alan F. Balch was hired asExecutive Director of CaliforniaThoroughbred Trainers in April2010. His professional career inracing began at Santa Anita in1971, where he advanced to theposition of Sr. Vice President-

Marketing and Assistant General Manager, and was incharge there of the Olympic Games EquestrianEvents for Los Angeles in 1984. He retired in the early90s to become volunteer president of the nationalequestrian federation of the USA, as well as of theNational Horse Show at Madison Square Garden. Heremains volunteer president of USA Equestrian Trust,Inc.

Dr Catherine Dunnett BSc,PhD, R.Nutr. is an independentnutritionist registered with theBritish Nutrition Society. She hasa background in equineresearch, in the field of nutritionand exercise physiology, with

many years spent at The Animal Health Trust inNewmarket. Prior to setting up her ownconsultancy business, she worked in the equinefeed industry on product development andtechnical marketing.

Sid Fernando (@sidfernando) ispresident of eMatings LLC andWerk Thoroughbred Consultants,Inc. He is the former bloodstockeditor of Daily Racing Form andalso blogs about racing andbreeding.

James L. Gagliano has beenwith The Jockey Club since2005 and is currently itspresident and chief operatingofficer. He also serves as vicechairman of the ExecutiveCouncil of the International

Federation of Horseracing Authorities, representingthe Americas. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degreein history from Providence College.

Bill Heller, Eclipse-Award winnerBill Heller's 22nd book, "Above ItAll; The Turbulent Life of JoseSantos," was published in March,2011. Heller, a member of theHarness Racing Hall of FameCommunicators Corner, is 58 andlives in Albany, New York, just 30

miles south of Saratoga Race Course, with his wifeAnna and their 22-year-old son Benjamin, a seniorhonor student at the State University of New York atNew Paltz.

Frances J. Karon is fromPuerto Rico and graduate ofMaine’s Colby College with aBachelor of Arts degree inEnglish. She operates RoughShod LLC based in Lexington,Kentucky and specializes in

sales, pedigree research and recommendations.

Mitchell Lamb was the seniorproducer and reporter withAustralia's Sky Racing Networkfor more than a decade and iscurrently senior producer for theindustry-owned network TVN.His passion for racing extends

more than 25 years and hails from a strong familyinvolvement in the industry but also a genuine passionfor the sport from all aspects.

Dr. Stacey Oke is a licensedveterinarian and freelancemedical writer and editor. Inaddition to writing for varioushorse publications, she alsocontributes to scientific journals,is an editor of an internationally-

recognized, peer-reviewed journal, createscontinuing education materials for both human andveterinary medicine, and conducts biomedicalresearch studies.

Ken Snyder is a Louisville,Kentucky based freelance writer.He is a regular contributor toseveral other racing publications,a feature writer and essayist forsome non-racing magazines,and an advertising marketing

writer, as well.

David Thiselton is the chiefracing writer for Gold CirclePublishing, who are contracted to produce all of the racing pages for theIndependent Newspaper Group in South Africa including

eight broadsheets.

David Earl Williams Ph.D Hasfulfilled many roles in the scienceof racing and contributed to anumber of scientific journals onthe subject of the locomotion ofthe racehorse. Aside from this heis also a noted country and

western singer.

Publisher & Editorial DirectorGiles Anderson

EditorFrances Karon

Executive Assistant Alice Jefford

Design/ProductionNeil Randon

Advertising SalesGiles Anderson

Photo CreditsBenoit Photo, Michael Burns Photography Ltd,Fodder Solutions, Horsephotos.com, Frances J. Karon, Suzie Picou-Oldham,Shutterstock, Sportpix - Colin Bull/Martin King, Matthew Willman

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lives of our horses. Without fear of contradiction,I can say that there is more attention on theracetrack today than ever before to the safety ofthe racehorse, and its health and welfare. In therare places where that is not so, the sportdeserves unreserved condemnation.Yet horsemanship itself, as the elderly among

us defined it, has changed and undoubtedlydeteriorated in important ways over the decades,as part of the cultural change that has taken usfurther and further from the farm and toward thecity. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s a lost art, butthe horsemanship of our forebears is on theendangered species list itself.Then there are the misunderstanding and

mismanagement of our sport by our leaders,which is to say ourselves. A capitalist (meaningreturn-on-investment) mentality has married theregulatory mind and the progeny of thatmarriage are often incompatible with successfulracing. And good horsemanship. It is no accidentthat the two most successful tracks in the UnitedStates today are Keeneland and Del Mar (with anod to Saratoga, but think about what’s differentthere nowadays). Those two “resorts” (I considerLexington a resort for a few weeks each springand fall when it celebrates racing) have nobenefit of electronic or table gaming, haverigorously resisted the temptation to expandracing dates, at least thus far, and return theirsurpluses to the sport and its infrastructure,

much to their own benefit, the sport’s, and thepublic’s. Where else can you say that? Nowhere.So, nowhere else does the public continually

flock for the sheer sport and the sport and thesport, with another nod to Saratoga, aside from acouple of blockbuster days at Churchill Downs,one at Pimlico, and one at Belmont Park, leavingthe Breeders’ Cup aside. And all those examples highlight what the

public really wants, in any brand or anycommodity or any sport: quality.The overall, week-in and week-out quality of

our sport has drastically declined over the last 20years, in large measure because there is just toomuch of it for the competitive and culturalframework in which we live. Operators andregulators and horsemen have demanded it, orpermitted it. Much to our own and their owndetriment.As a result of our frustration with how things

are, journalists, regulators, politicians, and manyin racing’s own leadership who should knowmuch, much better are chasing after therapeuticmedication (chiefly furosemide) as a culprit, andmaking it front page news. In the process of sucha misguided if well-intended effort, they aregiving the humane lobby just what it has alwayswanted: an activity with animals which shouldbe banned (according to them). And they arepersuading the public that there is a “drugproblem” in horse racing that every bit ofobjective evidence indicates the public has notperceived nor worried about. At least until now.

In the bargain, the horse and horsemanshipsuffer even more. What can possibly be humaneabout withholding advances in therapeuticveterinary and medical science from our horses,especially given what our regulators andoperators expect from them these days?Aside from Keeneland and Del Mar, our other

and isolated days of prominence and great sportprove that the American public’s appetite forquality racing continues to be robust, evenrecord-breaking. How long will or can thatcontinue, should the opinions of those editorialwriters and “humane” lobbyists and some of ourleading regulators and organizations even morethoroughly infect massive public opinion witherroneous and damaging perception? We’re not too far from the precipice. I have my

own doubts about whether we have the will orthe intellect to pull back from it. Enhancingquality in racing and horsemanship, based onproperly understanding and defining what theytruly are, would serve us far better than the self-defeating and self-fulfilling prophecies of thosein our sport’s leadership who are marching ustoward that cliff.In short, we’re focusing on the wrong

things. n

By Alan F. BalchCTT Executive Director

H, NO,” I can hear yousaying to yourself, “notanother essay aboutimpending doom.”But if you have

anything to do withracing, any kind of even passing interest in it,you would have to be living under a rock not tohave been aware of and thought about therelentless attack on it we’re seeing in nationalmedia, led by The New York Times, whoseeditorial writers condemned it as “thisdisreputable sport.”That really hurts. I never thought I would live

to see the day that presumably intelligentobservers would resort to such language –commonplace in the newspapers of the early1900s when racing was actually barred in manystates throughout America.Having witnessed the evolution of our sport

for the last 40 years from a professionalperspective, through previous periods of bothdoom and boom, I’ve never seen anythingapproaching the present trauma. What I want tounderstand better is just what are the reasons forit?I believe them to be a confluence of cultural

changes joined with serious self-inflictedwounds of radical misunderstanding andmismanagement of the sport by its ownleadership (to the extent it even has anyleadership).The cultural changes are quite obvious to

anyone who has lived with horses. First is theurbanization of the United States (much moreso,I believe, than in the British Isles and Europe).Second is the success of the “humane” industry(and I do believe it’s an industry with its owngoals and massive funding). Making mostanimals, including horses, into members of thehuman family, has extraordinarily far-reachingramifications. Most of the rest of the worldrather unapologetically considers the horse aslivestock, and therefore fit for rendering andeven human consumption, but we Americansare generally appalled by such thoughts.Which is not to say, I hastily add, that we

shouldn’t be caring and careful stewards of the

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“There is more attentionon the racetrack todaythan ever before to thesafety of the racehorse,and its health and welfare”

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(sending out Miss Cheeky to a second-placefinish in the Madison Stakes at Keeneland onApril 12), I checked my iPad to find out thatItssultryinthecape had won, and theymentioned the streak.”More good luck followed at the Betfair

Hollywood Park meet when My Gi Gi becamehis second graded stakes winner with a nosevictory in the Grade 2 Honeymoon Handicapfor three-year-old fillies on the turf on June 9.Dennis Conner, a client with whom Eurton

RAINER Peter Eurton canonly hope that the Del Marmeet this summer canapproach that of 2011.Eurton elevated his stature

from solid SouthernCalifornia conditioner to Grade 1 winnerthrough the accomplishments ofWeemissfrankie, who captured the Del MarDebutante for two-year-old fillies lastSeptember.Eurton sensed something unusual in the air

during that entire meet following the death ofowner and close friend Frank Alesia, whodied in Carlsbad in February, 2011, and afterwhom the filly was named.“It was the meet of all meets,” said Eurton

from a mezzanine box seat recently atHollywood Park. “Everybody felt throughoutthe meet that Frank was there in some way,carrying those horses.“All the horses seemed to be running

lengths better than they had,” continuedEurton of divine help. “I think we won eightraces. Weemissfrankie’s maiden win onopening day and the Debutante were bothvery emotional. Jet Blue Girl ran a humongousrace. Mega Heat won a couple. Hard to Resistwon on closing day.”On the lighter side, Eurton also saddled

Joker Face to win the much-ballyhooed Battleof the Exes match race under Mike Smith overa mount ridden by Chantal Sutherland. “Thatwas a kick, about as much fun as winning astakes race,” said Eurton. “There was so muchhype and attention before the race.”The momentum of the Del Mar meet

carried on through 2011 and the present year.Weemissfrankie came back to win a secondGrade 1 in the Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anitaand proved she was one of the leaders of herdivision with a third-place finish in theBreeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at ChurchillDowns.Eurton remained one of the leading

percentage trainers on the circuit and went ona tear during the 2012 Santa Anita meet,setting what was believed to be an all-time

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record in the 75-year history of the track witheight consecutive wins.Eurton’s streak started with Belle Passe on

April 5 and continued through April 15 withChickie Charms. In between, Eurton recordedthe first triple of his career on April 7, a featovershadowed by I’ll Have Another winningthe Santa Anita Derby the same day.“That was freakish,” said the personable

brown-haired trainer. “I wasn’t really keepingtrack. But on the day I was in Kentucky

Peter Eurton is embraced by jockey Rafael Bejarano after Weemissfrankie wins theDel Mar Debutante last year

and I did was claim horses,” said Eurton. “Wedidn’t start buying young horses at sales untilwe got Euroglide as a two-year-old in 2006and She’s Cheeky the following year. Westarted going to Ocala and hooked up with(bloodstock agent) Larry Zap.“Nobody was more generous than Frank,”

said Eurton of Alesia, a character actor duringthe beach party movies in the 1960’s anddirector of the television show ‘CaptainKangaroo.’”“He would come to the stable and one day

asked ‘How many guys work for you?’”recalled Eurton. “I said ‘seven,’ and he peeledoff seven $100 bills for each. “He didn’t believe in tipping people after.

He took care of them before. That’s just theway he was raised. He always made peoplefeel comfortable, no matter who they were. Healways treated them with respect.“Frank always said, ‘If you win a Group

race for me, I’m going to buy you a Carrera,’”said Eurton, who tried but settled for severalungraded stakes wins and graded placings forhim during two decades. “After theDebutante, I asked Sharon, ‘Do I get the carnow?’”The dream 2011 Del Mar meet was in stark

contrast to a nightmarish 2010 one. Eurtonwas hurtin’ after suffering serious injuriesduring opening week of the session.“I was going to educate a two-year-old in

the starting gate,” recalled Eurton. “I was on


enjoyed success last year with Miss Becca,bought a share of My Gi Gi with two otherMontana residents while she was laid up atRancho Paseana during the winter andrecommended turning her over to Eurtonupon her return this spring.After finishing second by a nose in her

debut for Eurton in the Grade 3 SenoritaStakes, My Gi Gi got the benefit of the photoin the Honeymoon. “We were second best thatday – and I’m not afraid to say that – but thebest horse doesn’t always win, and we got agreat ride from Rafael (Bejarano),” said Eurtonafter the filly got the jump on 1-2 favoriteLady of Shamrock, who just missed.Eurton said that his stable has grown to 40

head and includes 16 two-year-olds, none ofwhich he is more excited about for Del Marthan an unraced filly named Indygo FMA.“Frank’s widow, Sharon, named her for his

initials, Frank Michael Alesia,” explainedEurton of the filly he hopes carries the samegood karma as Weemissfrankie.“She’s by Indygo Shiner,” added Eurton.

“We bought her for $95,000 at the KeenelandSeptember yearling sale for the samepartnership that owns Weemissfrankie.” Thatgroup consists of Sharon Alesia, Mike Mellen’sBran Jam Stables, Joe Ciaglia, Rob Dyrdek andNick Cosato as well as one new member,Jimmy Porrello.“We hope she turns out to be the new

version of Weemissfrankie,” said Eurton,

Weemissfrankie storms clear to win the Del Mar Debutante in impressive style


crossing his fingers that she will be able tomake her first start at Del Mar. “She is not asfar along in training as Weemissfrankie was,but as large as she is, she’s very athletic.”Eurton also hopes to train Weemissfrankie

at Del Mar on the comeback trail. The filly,who earned $559,920 last year, suffered acondylar fracture of a cannon bone finishingfourth in the Hollywood Starlet in December and underwent surgery to insertone screw.Weemissfrankie has been jogging since her

recovery, and Eurton hopes she will be readyto breeze at Del Mar and race this autumn.“She’s half wild,” said Eurton of the filly’smorning anxiety for an anticipated return.Eurton will cultivate fond memories of

Alesia at Del Mar. He trained for him since1989 and 15 horses in his current stable areowned by his widow in partnerships.“When we started out together, all Frank

“It was the meet of allmeets. Everybody feltthroughout the meet thatFrank was there in someway, carrying thosehorses”

my pony at the side. The bridle came over hishead, he got out and came in my direction.“He reared up on top of me, grabbed me in

the back, pulled me up and dropped me tothe ground,” said Eurton of the frighteningincident. “I landed on my head, but waswearing my helmet. The guys at the gate saidhe was going to savage me and shooed himaway.“I felt like I had been hit by a truck and was

out cold for a few seconds. I’m glad I don’tremember. Guys who saw it said they thoughtI was history.“I literally had teeth marks in my lower

back and a hematoma the size of a football,”said Eurton. “I went to the hospital (Scripps inEncinitas) and later had to have it drainedwith a three-inch incision. I also hurt myknee, which got better. The back is still tight.”Eurton, who will turn 55 on August 12,

saw the pain of 2010 outweighed by the joy of2011, when the big meet propelled his stableto personal-high earnings of $1,540,304. Heis already well ahead of that pace this year,with earnings in excess of $1.1-million at thehalfway point.For that, Eurton thanks an experienced and

loyal stable crew. Alex Perez serves asforeman, with his brother, Guadalupe Perez,and uncle, Luis Martinez, as assistants. “Theyhave been with me for 15 years,” said Eurton.“Most of my grooms have been with me forten to 15 years, too. Most of them started as

hot walkers and were promoted.”In a testament to Eurton’s ability to keep

horses around, Euroglide and She’s Cheekyare still going strong. Euroglide, an eight-year-old gelding stakes-placed four times, has wonsix of 31 starts, been in the money 18 timesand earned more than $275,000.She’s Cheeky, a seven-year-old mare, has

been in the money in 20 of 26 starts and gave Eurton a chance to see New York for thefirst time in June when she finished third inthe Grade 3 Vagrancy Handicap at BelmontPark.She’s Cheeky has been placed in graded

stakes seven times, three of them Grade 1, inquest of her first added-money victory. “She’svery polite,” said Eurton of the perennialbridesmaid, who has passed the $430,000earnings mark with her steady paychecks.Other Eurton standouts include Star

Nicholas, who won two stakes and placed in

four others from 2008-10; Masterpiece, upset winner of the Harry Brubaker Stakes at Del Mar in 2007; and Cee Dreams, a$20,000 claim who climaxed a long careerwith a victory in the 2001 Cal Cup MatronStakes and made such an impression on hertrainer that his e-mail address begins with hername.California native Eurton was born in

Alhambra, but grew up in Chatsworth andNorthridge in the San Fernando Valley. Hisparents divorced when he was three, and hewas introduced to the track at ten by hisfather, Wayne, an avid fan who raised him.The five-foot six-inch Eurton longed to be a

jockey and recalled checking the sports pagein high school during the 1970’s to see howmany races his heroes Bill Shoemaker andLaffit Pincay, Jr., had won while his classmatesfocused on baseball, football, and basketballresults.At 16, Eurton – who had never been on a

horse – enrolled at the Rex Ellsworth JockeySchool in Chino and learned the basics.During that time, his mother, Shirley – whohad married trainer Steve Ippolito after thedivorce and moved to Illinois with him –relocated to Arcadia with her secondhusband.“After I finished the jockey school, I got a

job galloping horses for Steve,” explainedEurton of his introduction to the backside.“He hooked me up north at Bay Meadowswith trainer John Ellul, a former assistant, andlater found an agent in Canada to launch myriding career.“I was the leading bugboy in Alberta,” said

Eurton of his apprentice year at Northlandsand Stampede parks. “But I only rode from 19to 21. I got hurt and fractured six vertebrae.And I had a weight problem. I finished inMexico, at Agua Caliente.”Eurton returned as an exercise rider for

Ippolito and learned plenty. “Steve was reallyon top of their legs and very aggressive,” saidEurton. “He was on top of how they weremoving, Johnny on the spot. If I worked ahorse too slow, he’d bring him out the nextmorning and work again.“Steve was old school: walk one day, gallop

four and breeze,” continued Eurton of the lateconditioner’s regimen. “Steve knew wherehorses fit and when to move on them. He wasa great claiming trainer and a great good-horse trainer.”Eurton met Alesia through Ippolito. “Steve

trained for Frank’s father in Chicago,” saidEurton. “Frank kept his father’s colors andhad horses with Steve here when I first methim in the barn as an exercise rider.” Eurtontook out his trainer’s license in 1985, and fouryears later Alesia turned his horses over tohim.Eurton lives in La Verne with his wife of 27

years, Lisa. They have one daughter, Britney, a24-year-old University of Southern Californiagraduate and an aspiring actress. n

My Gi Gi and jockey Rafael Bejarano, right, hold off Lady of Shamrock (AlonsoQuinonez) to win the Grade II $150,000 Honeymoon Handicap at Hollywood Park

“Most of my groomshave been with me forten to 15 years, too.Most of them started ashot walkers and werepromoted”



Garry Simms (third from right) with Circle Unbroken and owners after the two-year-old colt won the Bashford Manor Stakes at Churchill Downs

FTER winning a race, the lastthing a trainer wants to see isa red light appearing on thetote board. But this wasn’t anyrace. It was the 111th runningof the Grade 2 $109,800

Bashford Manor Stakes for two-year-olds.Then again, this wasn’t any trainer. A year and

a half earlier, doctors who had told Garry Simmshe had two months to live because of multiplemyeloma – an incurable cancer which starts inthe plasma cells in bone marrow – revised theirforecast, telling him he had two weeks to live.They were wrong. “By the grace of God,” the 60-year-old trainer said.Instead of dying, Simms won the 2011 and

2012 Grade 2 Debutante Stakes for two-year-oldfillies with Flashy Lassie, who cost $4,000 andmade her first start in a $20,000 maiden claimer;and Blueeyesintherein, a $10,000 purchase.Flashy Lassie’s victory was Simms’ first stakestriumph at Churchill Downs, which he used tosneak into as a kid.On June 30, his two-year-old colt Circle

Unbroken, named for the owners and theirfriends who had helped Simms through hishellish battle with cancer, split horses late and

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winning trainer. He grew up in Louisville, buthis dad was a carpenter and a preacher. Hismom worked at Sears and Roebuck.Simms owned a bar in Louisville in 1975

when an older friend of his walked in and askedif he wanted to go partners on a Thoroughbred.Simms said, “Absolutely.”Simms said, “The horse had a bowed tendon.

He ran twice, and I like to bet. I bet quite a largeamount on him, and he got beat the length ofthe stretch twice.”Then his friend invited Simms over for

dinner. “He asked his wife to bring over theirwin pictures,” Simms said. “There were 15pictures. The guy was 80 years old. I’m not thesmartest guy in the world, but I knew I could toa better job than that.”Simms bought a farm in Shelbyville and went

to work for trainer Dianne Carpenter in 1984.He started on his own in 1991 and had successwith horses such as Magna Graduate, who hetrained for the colt’s first three starts. But there’snothing more exciting in racing than having anundefeated two-year-old stakes winner. Now hehas two.The journey hasn’t been easy. Simms endured

two bone marrow stem-cell transplants, 15radiation treatments and 60 sessions of

captured the Bashford Manor by a length. Onlythe red “Objection” sign appeared on the toteboard.“Naturally, when I was walking down to the

winner’s circle I was concerned,” Simms said.“But I didn’t see anything. He split horses.”The objection was denied. “All my problems

with cancer go away when I win a horse race,”he said. “It’s the best therapy you can have.”Circle Unbroken’s victory made Simms just

the fifth trainer to sweep the Debutante andBashford Manor in one year and upped hisrecord at the Churchill Downs Spring Meet toseven victories and one second in ten starts.Both Blueeyesintherein and Circle Unbroken

are two-for-two, and there’s no telling just howgood they will become.Simms went a bit out of character when he

purchased Circle Unbroken for $92,000 as ayearling. “Usually, I stay under the $50,000range,” he said. “This colt, I don’t know how toexplain it. As far as conformation, he was asperfect as you can get. He had that eye, and thewalk I want. I just fell in love with him rightfrom the start. I would have gone higher. Ithought he was the real deal.”There was nothing in Simms’ background

that indicated he would become a stakes-

chemotherapy. At one point, he shrunk from six-foot-three to six-foot, and 150 pounds, 40 lessthan what he weighs today. It took him fourmonths to recover from the first bone marrowtransplant. “You’re so sick and weak,” he said.But he’s survived, a relief to his wife, Dianna,

and their three grown children, Garry Jr., Ashley,and Zack, as well as his mom. She had neverbeen to a racetrack, but last winter in Florida sheaccompanied her son to Gulfstream Park oneafternoon.And she attended this year’s Debutante, when

Simms won the stakes for the second straightyear. “She got so excited,” Simms said. “She’s 90and in good shape. She jumped up in the air andsaid, `This is fun! I love this!’”Simms decided to test her on the spot, asking

her if she’d invest in buying more horses. Shetold him, “I’m in.”

So Simms’ future may be a lot of fun. And hedoes indeed look ahead despite his cancer. “Ihave a lot of faith,” he said. “I have a lot offriends who pray for me. I’m just an upbeat guy.Always have been. There are people who are inworse shape than me. I have good horses nowand I’m going to keep them. And I don’t havetime to feel sorry for me. That’s why I gotthrough everything.”


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CHARLIE LOLPRESTI

CHARLIELOPRESTI

Respected horseman


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HEY’D take me to the sales inNew Jersey when I was a kid,and they’d say, ‘Get on that thingand see if he’s broke!’” he laughs.“I was like a little crash dummy,you could say.”

LoPresti’s Welsh pony Red enabled him tobecome “a little entrepreneur” – briefly –when he was 11 or 12. “I used to sell ponyrides on the streets in New York after school,for 50 cents or something,” he remembers.“Then my dad found out I was doing that andhe got really mad!”His parents, whose own parents had come

to the United States from Italy, worked onWall Street and “didn’t understand” why theirson wanted to “fool” with horses. He neverwent to the track yet was fixated on horses,but not necessarily racing, as far back as hecan remember. “I’d watch the races onSaturday afternoons just because I likedlooking at the horses, not because racinginterested me. I just liked seeing them,” hesays.When LoPresti, 54, was around 17, he got

a summer job managing a show horse barn inLong Island. “It was a glorified groom’s job. Iprobably cleaned 20 stalls a day and rode fiveor six horses, mowed grass, and did a little bitof everything.” He picked up a copy of TheBlood-Horse in the barn and read an ad for ajob at a farm in Virginia. When he arrived foran interview, he was told that the position hadbeen filled. “But they must have liked me,because they said, ‘I’ll tell you what, why don’tyou call our trainer in New York when you goback home?’” He took their advice and washired by Joe Cantey in the fall of 1977.That winter, LoPresti traveled to Oaklawn

Park in Arkansas with Cantey’s stable, whichincluded Cox’s Ridge, who won the 1978Oaklawn Handicap-G2, and a young MissBaja (who would go on to win the 1979 AppleBlossom H.-G2). The trainer told him that hewas too big to ride and said, “You don’t have

T Charlie LoPresti had a rather unusual childhood for a kidgrowing up in Brooklyn, New York. Despite city living, hisuncle’s carriage horses were stabled on the bottom floor ofthe family brownstone, so LoPresti was “always around”horses from a young age.WORDS: FRANCES J. KARON PHOTOS: SUZIE PICOU-OLDHAM, FRANCES J. KARON


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stands out in my mind,” he says. “I rememberthe pictures of him running with the bitsliding through his mouth and Pat Valenzuelariding him when he blew the turn [in theBreeders’ Cup Juvenile] and still won the race,and that’s kind of the way he was when wewere riding him. We’d be galloping along inthe field and a bird or something would shootoff and he’d take off. ‘Holy smokes! He justopened up ten on that set of yearlings!’”Finally, after years of managing other

people’s farms, the LoPrestis decided to settledown. They bought 200-acre Forest LaneFarm in Kentucky and concentrated ondeveloping their own place. But almostinevitably, after about a year, another farmcame courting. This time, the call came fromNeil Howard at Henryk de Kwiatkowski’sCalumet Farm, and he hired LoPresti to takecharge of the breaking and pre-training atCalumet, while Amy ran Forest Lane.One of the boarders at Forest Lane was the

convalescing stakes-placed Competitive Edge,a “tough horse to deal with” owned by Robertand Beverly Lewis (and, coincidentally, co-bred by Calumet). At Lewis’ urging, LoPrestitook the gelding to Calumet and trained him,taking out his trainer’s license to saddleCompetitive Edge to run second in aKeeneland allowance in April of 1993. By July,the four-year-old son of Mogambo wasLoPresti’s first winner.That September, when Competitive Edge

any future as a gallop boy. You’d be better offworking your way up as assistant trainer.” ButLoPresti wanted to experience other aspects ofthe industry, so Cantey arranged for Ted Carr,then manager of Domino Stud in Kentucky, totake him under his wing, with this instructionto Carr: “Don’t you be easy on this kid. Youwork his butt off.”At Domino, LoPresti was introduced to

breaking yearlings, teasing mares, breedingstallions, foaling – and to Amy Featherston, aKentucky girl who had horses in her blood.Her father Porter ran the pressroom atThoroughbred Record, where her uncle Georgewas staff photographer. As a child, Amy usedto play on the roof near the press box atKeeneland Race Course, and she spent hersummer vacations working with her mother atHenry White’s Plum Lane Farm.After a spell at Domino, LoPresti and his

then-girlfriend Amy spent a season in SouthCarolina breaking yearlings for Cantey beforea stint at the track with fledgling trainer ShugMcGaughey, who was married to Amy’s sisterMary Jane at the time. (Amy’s nephew ReeveMcGaughey now works for LoPresti.)They left to help Carr develop Payson Stud

for Virginia Kraft Payson, and in themeantime, LoPresti and Amy wed on the dayConquistador Cielo won the Belmont Stakes,in 1982. “We had a combination Belmontparty and wedding reception,” Amy says.Their friends “went up to the minister beforethe ceremony and they said, ‘Look, we’ve gotto be back at the house by five o’clock becausewe have to watch the Belmont.’”Among the yearlings the LoPrestis broke for

Mrs. Payson were Carr de Naskra (namedafter Ted Carr), who swept the Travers/JimDandy double in 1984; Salem Drive-G2; andLac Ouimet-G2. After a couple of years atPayson, they moved to upstate New York,where they spent two years building up andmanaging a new farm, before Carr was askingthem to return to Kentucky – Carr had

hooked up with Allen Paulson, and he wantedLoPresti back on his team.Paulson’s Brookside Farm was a major

operation from the outset, buying such prizedbroodmares as Seattle Slew’s dam My Charmerand champion Dahlia. LoPresti says, “Iremember I took My Charmer’s baby, it was aNijinsky colt, in the backseat of my Blazer tothe clinic because he was a preemie.”That colt didn’t survive, but there was no

shortage of well-bred horses at Brookside.LoPresti estimates that he broke in excess of150 yearlings, including champions Arazi,Blushing John, and Eliza plus Grade 1winners such as Dinard and Fraise, per year.“It’s hard to say the best one, but Arazi always

“Arazi always standsout in my mind. Iremember him runningwith the bit slidingthrough his mouth andPat Valenzuela ridinghim when he blew theturn and still won therace, and that’s kind ofthe way he was when wewere riding him”

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won his second race for LoPresti, he defeateda Calumet horse trained by Bill Mott, catchingde Kwiatkowski’s attention in the process. “Itwas funny,” LoPresti says. “[de Kwiatkowski]never knew my name – he always called me‘that boy’ – and he said, ‘How come that boydoesn’t have horses for us?!’”Actually, many people still don’t get his

name right, as the common writing of hissurname as “Lopresti” in racing programs andarticles is inaccurate!Calumet’s Mariuka was to become LoPresti’s

first stakes winner, capturing the BryanStation Stakes at Keeneland in October, 1996.A year later, LoPresti recorded his second andthird stakes victories – also at Keeneland –with Calumet’s Sesaro in the Nureyev Stakesand with Mariuka a week later in the A.P. IndyStakes. Sesaro followed up with a victory inthe Shakertown Stakes at Keeneland nextApril.LoPresti, who currently has 24 racehorses

based at Keeneland, has always maintained asmall stable, and consequently, it was 11 yearsfrom Sesaro’s last stakes win until the nexttime a LoPresti charge, Successful Dan in2009, won a black-type race. In the interim,from 1999 to 2008, LoPresti’s best season was2005, when he registered ten wins, tenseconds, and nine thirds from 56 starts. “There were a lot of times when I thought

about giving this up and going back to thefarm,” he says now. “I never really wanted totravel, and I think that’s hurt me over theyears, because people wanted to give mebetter horses. But I stuck to my guns. I neverwanted to split my stable up and havedivisions everywhere.”During the Competitive Edge days, LoPresti

began attending clinics put on by naturalhorseman Buck Brannaman. “I used to think Iwas really good at breaking yearlings. Then Istarted doing it the way they do it and Ilearned a lot from those guys,” LoPresti says. “I

wish I knew now what I should have knownthen. Horses that I had to fight with to break,I wouldn’t have had that fight. You can neverlearn too much about these horses. About thetime you think you’ve learned everything,something different comes along. You learnevery day.”LoPresti really enjoys breaking horses, and

as a trainer, it’s vital to him. “My name’s onthem and I can’t blame anybody else and saythey weren’t broken properly. If they don’t runit’s nobody’s fault but mine.”As Amy watches two of their horses stand

calmly in the gate for a couple of minutes tosoothe another trainer’s filly having a morningschooling session meltdown, she says,“Starting gates should be their friend. We do alot of gatework at the farm, it makes a bigdifference.”Their client base is comprised of long

associations founded on the LoPrestis’ skill atbreaking youngsters, rehabilitating layups,and working with difficult stock, for suchowners as Morton Fink; Brandon andMarianne Chase (for whom they broke, butdid not train, Grade 1 winners AlbertusMaximus and Irgun); Richard, Elaine, andBert Klein; and, previously, the Lewises,whose 1999 Horse of the Year Charismaticreceived his early lessons at Forest Lane.Howard, who’s now general manager of

Gainesway Farm, says, “Charlie then was justlike Charlie is now. Charlie’s honest and he’s atrue horseman. He doesn’t push them, he justputs a lot of groundwork into them and theyperform accordingly.”“I know one thing,” LoPresti says. “I’ve

heard Ray Hunt and Tom Dorrance and evenBuck say that if you look at every horse andit’s not performing or the horse isn’t brokenright, if you look at every horse and say, ‘Whatdid I do as a trainer that’s wrong?’ or ‘Whatcan I do better to make that horse be better?’And that makes a better horseman. You couldsay, ‘That horse is a piece of junk, he just can’trun.’ Well that’s the wrong way of looking atit. It’s better to say, ‘What can I do better tomake that horse be better?’ If it’s a 15 claimer,what can I do better to make him run at thatlevel, or if he’s a Grade 1 winner, what can Ihave done different with Wise Dan [second in

“Right now, everybodywants to send me horsesbecause they see WiseDan and Successful Dan.But those horses mademe; I didn’t make them.At least I’ve got to thinkthat way”


Grade 1 winner Wise Dan (above) sets a

track record at Keeneland in the Grade 3

Ben Ali Stakes under John Velazquez.

Grade 3 winner Successful Dan (above

right) and Turallure (below right), a Grade 1

winner, at LoPresti’s barn

the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap] tomake him win that race?”If it sounds like he is being self-critical, well

– he agrees. “Yes, I am kind of hard on myself;it’s probably one of my biggest things. You canonly do so much sometimes, but I just hate tosee horses that are not broken properly or thatare hard to deal with, because a lot of times it’sman-made, it’s not the horse’s fault. The horseis just trying to survive. I don’t think they’remean by nature.”The Chases’ Street Cry homebred Here

Comes Ben was the first to showcase LoPresti’straining skills on a national stage, when hewon the Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga in2010.Fink’s homebred “Dan” horses have proven

that LoPresti’s step up to Grade 1-winningtrainer was no accident. Lightly raced six-year-old Successful Dan, in particular, hasbeen a testament to the LoPrestis’ patienceand ability. At three, the son of SuccessfulAppeal won the Grade 3 Northern DancerStakes at Churchill Downs in his third career start, before a torn suspensory knockedhim out of commission for a over year. Hecame back as a four-year-old to win theGreenbrier Fayette Stakes-G2 at Keenelandand the Grade 1 Clark Handicap at Churchill,for which he was disqualified and placedthird. The roughly run Clark re-aggravated his

suspensory, and Amy slowly nursed thegelding back from injury at Forest Lane. Aftera year and a half away from the races, he madea winning return in allowance company atKeeneland before setting a 1 1/16 mile trackrecord of 1:41.04 in the Grade 2 AlyshebaStakes at Churchill on the Kentucky Oaksundercard. Most recently, he ran second as thefavorite in the Prairie Meadows CornhuskerHandicap-G3.“Yeah, he’s a lot of work,” LoPresti admits of

Successful Dan, with a shrug. “You know,

when you’re a little guy and you don’t have alot of horses, you try to preserve those reallygood ones because there’s not an influx ofthem coming in all the time. I’ve been veryfortunate to have those horses, and I knowhow fortunate I’ve been. When you gethorses, you treat them all the same, even if it’sa 15 claimer or a Grade 1 winner. At the endof the day you could say they had everyopportunity. They either make it or theydon’t.”“We say a lot of prayers,” says Amy. “Charlie

loves his horses, all of them. I mean, even thecheap ones. The horses have been so good tous, and it broke his heart when SuccessfulDan got hurt again. You pray every day theystay in one piece, that’s all we care about.”Another to fly the flag for the LoPresti

program is the five-year-old Wiseman’s Ferrygelding Wise Dan, a five-time graded stakeswinner who won last year’s Grade 1 ClarkHandicap and this year set a nine-furlongtrack record at Keeneland, stopping the clockin 1:46.63 in the Grade 2 Ben Ali Stakes, inwhich he romped by 10½ lengths under ahand ride. In his most recent start, he wassecond by a head to Ron the Greek in theStephen Foster.Turallure, a six-year-old campaigner by

Wando owned and bred by Donna Arnold’sFour D Stable, won last season’s RicohWoodbine Mile Stakes-G1 before falling anose short of Court Vision – a length in frontof third-placed Goldikova – in the TVGBreeders’ Cup Mile-G1.While Turallure’s Breeders’ Cup beat was

“tough,” says Amy, it wasn’t their hardest

defeat. “You want to know what aheartbreaker is? A heartbreaker is winning aGrade 1 [with Successful Dan] and havingthem take your number down.”Then, too, is another, more sobering reality.

Of Wise Dan’s loss in the Stephen Fosterunder regular rider Johnny Velazquez,LoPresti says, “I was disappointed, but I’m notdisappointed in the horse. He ran his race.”Velazquez was injured during a fatalbreakdown 32 minutes later, in the next raceon the card. “We all get caught up in winningand losing, and I said, ‘Look at this guy. We’redisappointed we didn’t win but at least thehorse came back good and nobody got hurt,and now Johnny’s hurt.’ People lose sight of allthat.“I’ve had a great run the last three years.

Successful Dan could get hurt again. WiseDan could get of an age where he doesn’treally want to run like he used to as he getsolder and maybe my younger horses don’tcome along like they did. They may be the

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best horses I’ll ever have in my life. That’s thething. Right now, everybody wants to send mehorses because they see Wise Dan andSuccessful Dan. But those horses made me; Ididn’t make them. At least I’ve got to thinkthat way.”A potential difficulty facing all Kentucky

trainers is the state of racing in thecommonwealth, which has suffered a steadydecline. Legislators recently voted to phase ina ban on race-day Salix (Lasix). LoPresti says,“I’ve got mixed emotions. They’re trying toclean up their act, talking about what’s betterfor breeding and everything, but I think thatthey’re pinning it on the racetrack and Lasixbut there are other issues, too, with all thescrews and wires and stuff breeders do to foalsanymore. “Everybody needs to get on the same page

and work together instead of putting theblame on the racetrack or us putting the blameon the breeders. A lot of these breeders,they’re quick to put a horse through the salering but you don’t see many of them puttingtheir silks on their horses at the racetrack, andthey forget that the only reason the sales existis because of the racetrack. Why else wouldpeople buy horses?”While LoPresti enjoys training, “that’s all

you ever do,” he says. “You don’t get muchtime to go around and do things. I like to gofishing and hunting and I used to like to go to

Nevada and brand calves and rope, and I don’tget much time for that anymore. I don’t knowhow long I’ll train. I guess I’ll do it as long asthe horses are good and the business is good.I’ll always do something with them, though.”Amy notes that it’s the small things that help

him relax from his high-pressure, seven-day-a-week job. “He turns off his phone or he leavesit somewhere and we go away for theafternoon and fly-fish. That levels him off.”He is a natural fit in Kentucky, despite his

Brooklyn roots. LoPresti conducts his entireinterview astride Donnie, a handsome geldingon whose dam he played polo and who lookssuitably unimpressed by the (many) pats hegets from passersby. Near the gap, LoPrestinotices another trainer’s horse balking. “Hey,you want some help, buddy?” he asks therider, before taking the horse’s rein and leadinghim midway around the turn. Only afterLoPresti’s last set is finished training does he

dismount to hose off Donnie and eat a proteinbar for breakfast. LoPresti reflects, “Take a guy like Bill Mott.

I used to send him a lot of horses fromCalumet. He’s a great horseman. There are alot of trainers, but there are not manyhorsemen. He can get on one and gallop it, hecan shoe it, take a bad one like Theatrical andgo to work on it. He’s always been one guy Ithink of when people ask, ‘Who would youwant to be like as a horse trainer?’ When webeat [Mott’s] Courageous Cat with Turallure inthe Woodbine Mile – I beat him like that onthe wire – he was the first one to come downand congratulate me, and then it was ironic,that night he beat me the same way with Ronthe Greek [in the Stephen Foster], I went overand congratulated him. “But the thing about it is, when you’re

running second to or beating a guy like BillMott, you know you’re in the right company.If you’re running in those kind of races andyou’re getting beat like that, at least you knowyou’re doing things right.” Then LoPresti,deflecting the success away from himself,adds, “And you’ve got good horses; you’relucky.”Charlie LoPresti has come a long way from

his afternoons of peddling pony rides on citystreets, and he has firmly established himselfas a respected horseman adept at getting thebest out of his horses. n

“When you’re runningsecond to or beating aguy like Bill Mott, youknow you’re in the rightcompany”

Amy LoPresti runs the 200-acre

Forest Lane Farm in Lexington

where she handles breaking and

training of yearlings

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Has the goldengate opened forracing in China?

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Wuhan is the largest racetrack in China and canaccomodate 34,500 people

Wuhan, otherwise known as Orient Lucky City, has the capacity to stable 500 horses

HINA’S communistgovernment officiallybanned horseracing in 1949,but the rapid developmentof new racetracks since the1990s has slowly but surely

brought about a change of mind fromgovernment officials. Now, racing is now oneof the largest growing industries in thecountry.Racehorse ownership is viewed as a status

symbol; the number of racehorses wealthypeople in China own is more important tothem than the money they could earn ifgambling were legal. Their two “must-haves”are a luxury car … and a racehorse. WithShanghai and Beijing being among the world’srichest cities, there is a lot of money availableto spend on this growing sport.Although China is vast in size, all the major

racetracks are situated within the east of thecountry. Wuhan, otherwise known as OrientLucky City, is the largest of them. Establishedin 2003, Wuhan has the capacity to stable 500horses for training and racing, and canaccommodate a crowd of 34,500 people. Withan initial investment of $200 million, its


training facilities could see it become a worldleader.The most recent development, welldocumented in the media, is Tianjin. Beijingis the nearest city to this new HK$26 billion($4 billion) development. With plans for aracetrack, a training center with the ability tohouse 4,000 horses, a breeding center, andquarantine and veterinary facilities, it will beon a par with Meydan. It has already attractedsupport from world leaders in their specialistfields such as Coolmore Stud in Ireland andthe Royal Agricultural College in the UnitedKingdom. Although it seems to be behindschedule at present, there is no doubt that theChinese want this to be their showpiece, and

C How much do you know about the racing and Thoroughbredindustry in China? The most common answer is probably,“Not much.” As its government has the country poised tobecome a racing nation fit to compete with the rest of theworld, this will soon change.WORDS: SUZY CROSSMAN AND MARCO WONG

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it proves their commitment to horseracingand Thoroughbred breeding.China’s stringent quarantine laws have been

a major problem for the importation ofhorses. This fall, the first Global ChampionsTour – a worldwide show jumpingcompetition series – was due to take place forthe first time in Shanghai but was put off until2013. That they hadn’t yet eased theirquarantine laws was a blow to many butthey’re aware that its commitment to changefor next year could open up a huge market tothem. With an ease in quarantine regulations, it’s

hoped that it will be as easy to import horsesto China as the many thousands of horses that

Godolphin in Dubai and is by the influentialStorm Cat, stands at Lisui Farm in Beijing,while Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes winnerSousa stands at Ordos Farm in Inner Mongolia.Both stallions have covered about 60 mareseach which we are very pleased about.“Standing stallions is one way we can helpChina develop its Thoroughbred breedingindustry,” he continues. “Education is another.In addition to having three Chinese graduatesof, and one trainee currently on, our DarleyFlying Start program, we recently launched aninitiative called Dubai InternationalThoroughbred Internships. These internshipswill see an annual intake of Chinese universitygraduates spend nearly a year at a Darleyfacility in either Australia, America, England,Ireland, or Japan to learn the fundamentals ofThoroughbred breeding and racing. Theinterns will also visit Dubai to experienceDubai’s local horse racing industry and learnhow Sheikh Mohammed has beeninstrumental in the development of theEmirate over the past 40-plus years. Our longterm plan is to have a Darley breeding andeducation base in the Beijing area.”

have already been imported to Hong Kong.There are nine major racetracks in the

eastern region of China, and with billions ofdollars being invested by the government thewindow of opportunity for all equine-relatedbusinesses is enormous. The key players inthe Chinese bloodstock industry will becomefamiliar faces at venues such as Keeneland andOcala; they want the best and are prepared topay for them.This fall two international horse fairs willbe held: the smaller trade fair in Beijing; andthe China International Horse Fair inShanghai, which last year attracted nearly5000 visitors. The Chinese need horses,knowledgeable professionals, and top classproducts and nutrition advice, and HORFAShanghai has extended an invitation to therest of the world to exhibit their goods withthe hope of building business partnershipsand gaining access to the best products onoffer.Everything the Chinese are doing only goesto prove that they want to be taken seriouslyand gain the world’s respect, and not simplybe the poor relation. Coolmore has commited

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“With an ease in quarantine regulations,it’s hoped that it will beas easy to import horsesto China as the manythousands of horses thathave already beenimported to Hong Kong”

Billions of dollars have been invested into racing by the government including an initial $200 million at Wuhan

to helping the Chinese import over 100 Irish-bred Thoroughbred mares over the next threeyears and Darley already has stallions on theground.“We stood two stallions in China for the firsttime this season,” says Darley Flying Startdirector Joe Osborne, also managing director ofDarley’s Kildangan Stud. “Both have been verywell accepted by Chinese breeders. Jalil, whowon the Group 2 Maktoum Challenge for


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A host of high-profile investors is hopingthat with 2014 being the “Year of the Horse” abright and prosperous new era of racing inChina will have been born. But for theirsubstantial outlays to pay dividends, breedinggiants and other big money financiers aregambling on the government lifting a ban onbetting. There is no indication betting onhorseracing will be allowed any time soon,but it hasn't stopped hopeful overseasentrepreneurs from making ambitious plans,or just trying to gain a foothold – so that ifgambling does get the green light, they'reready to go.Until the revenue from pari-mutuelwagering becomes a reality, racing will remainan unprofitable pastime for China's nouveauriche and a potential financial black hole forbackers, with many already lured by thetantalizing, untapped market.Racing exists in many parts of China –

ranging from traditional, non-Thoroughbredevents, to more orthodox racing – but the banon betting renders them all hobby-levelpursuits for participants.It was less than seven years ago whenBeijing Race Club seemed headed in the right

“We stood two stallionsin China for the firsttime this season. Bothhave been very wellaccepted by Chinesebreeders”

Joe Osborne of Darley

HK$9 million ($1.16 million) on a two-year-old by Fastnet Rock, caring little for thegelding's lack of residual stud value.The Special Administrative Region of Hong

Kong remains the only part of China to getracing right, at least since the halcyon days ofthe Shanghai Race Club in the early part of the20th century. Perhaps the Hong Kong JockeyClub [HKJC] has the right idea with its long-term strategy in establishing a presence in itsneighboring country.The HKJC is building a training center for

400 horses at Conghua, 25 miles north east ofGuangzhou and a 3½-hour drive from theJockey Club's existing facilities at Sha Tin. Thesite was originally developed to host theequine events at the 2010 Asian Games, butby 2014 the club plans to make it an alternatetraining base.The beauty of Conghua is that it could beconverted into an operational racecourse in amatter of months. Of course, despite theHKJC being a global betting giant, boastingturnover figures the envy of any racingjurisdiction, even it has to wait for the all-important decree on gambling by the Chinesegovernment. n

direction with its world-class facilities andpari-mutuel wagering. But when thegovernment clamped down on gambling atthe venue, investors fled and more then 600horses were destroyed in the immediateaftermath, with reports of animal neglect sincethen.While the racing world edges tentatively

into the volatile market, Chinese owners arebreaking out and making their presence feltabroad. At the Hong Kong International Salein March, a mystery Chinese businessman – afirst-time buyer no less – splurged a massive

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‘Get me Rosie,she’s HOT!’

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Rosie Napravnik and BelieveYou Can after victory in theFair Grounds Oaks


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HOW a replay of this year’sKentucky Oaks to someonetotally unfamiliar withhorseracing and he or shemight get an idea of whatmakes the sport compelling:

two horses dueling down to the wire,straining with all-out, innate effort to win; twojockeys piloting them with balance,fearlessness, and obvious skill equal to thedesire of their mounts. Now spring the shocker: the winning

jockey was a woman, Rosie Napravnik,besting John Velazquez, last year’s KentuckyDerby-winning jockey and a Hall of Famerider. Now add another shocker: the winningride was no fluke to those who know racing.Napravnik had just led all jockeys in wins andmoney earned at the Fair Grounds meet thatconcluded in April. In fact, she obliterated hercompetitors, winning 111 races and earning$3.7-million, against 79 wins and $2.5-million for James Graham in second.Consider some statistics at the time of

writing: at Suffolk Downs in Boston, JackieDavis leads the meet in purse earnings while

Tammi Piermarini leads in wins. At ArlingtonPark, Rosemary Homeister Jr. is the thirdleading rider in her first summer at theChicago track. Emma-Jayne Wilson is fifth inthe jockey standings at Woodbine with over$2-million earned in 2012. Last, but not least,at Belmont Park, the home of arguably thetoughest and best jockey colony in racing, theaforementioned Napravnik is fourth in pursesearned and wins. Napravnik, too, is theseventh leading rider in North America bymoney earned. We’re talking about the best in sports,

transcending jockey standings, purses earned, and a Kentucky Oaks win: this isabout a level playing field where gender,unlike in every other sport except, perhaps,

S It hs been 43 years since male jockeys boycotted a race atChurchill Downs to prevent Penny Ann Early from riding, butnow female jockeys are in the ascendancy, making asignificant impact at racetracks across the nation WORDS: KEN SNYDER PHOTOS: HORSEPHOTOS.COM

auto racing, means absolutely nothing.It has reached a point, 43 years from when

male jockeys at Churchill Downs boycotted arace to prevent Penny Ann Early from riding,that the gender issue isn’t an issue. “I reallyhate how much focus is put on women versusmen,” said jockey Oriana Rossi, currentlyestablishing herself at Churchill Downs andother Midwestern racetracks. “I don’t thinkyou can generalize every female jockey justlike you can’t generalize every male jockey.”The Italian-born, English transplant breaks itdown even further: “There are a lot of badfemale riders just like there are a lot of badmale riders. But we have very good femaleriders who are kind of carrying the torch.” Gender isn’t an issue for the leading torch-

Rosie Napravnik urges Believe You Can clear to win the Kentucky Oaks – she was leading rider in wins and purses at the Fair Grounds meet

female, not to say that it wouldn’t be a goodstride for women. I think a lot of women see itthat way and that’s great. But for me, I’m justgoing to work and doing what I do.” Tammi Piermarini has been going to work

for 27 years primarily at Suffolk Downs and hasbooted home 2,000-plus winners, potentialHall of Fame-numbers for the native NewEnglander. She has seen it all ... except for thekind of discrimination you might expect for arider entering the game only 15 years or soafter the boycott of Penny Ann Early.“I was well accepted right from the start,”

she said. “Here in New England it’s the type oftrack where the harder you work, the moreyou get on, the more you’re going to ride.”Discrimination, if it could be called that,

carrier, Rosie Napravnik, either. “I really don’tfocus on the female versus male factor,” shesaid. A self-proclaimed “brat” growing up,much of her behavior, she said, stemmed fromnot wanting to be treated like a girl but “to betreated equally with everybody else.“It’s no surprise that I ended up in a sport

where I’m competing against men because Ireally don’t see the difference.” Napravnik’s agent, Matt Muzikar, doesn’t

see a difference. “Rosie doesn’t ride like a girl.Her particular seat and the way she finisheson a horse – she finishes better than a lot ofguys,” he said. Muzikar represents both Napravnik and

Javier Castellano, the current leader among all jockeys in purses earned. One might

FEMALE JOCKEYS

Juklie Krone became the first femalejockey to win a Triple Crown race in1993 with Colonial Affair in the Belmont

Emma-Jayne Wilson has earned more than$2 million at Woodbine in 2012

Rosemary Homeister is the third leadingrider at Arlington Park this year

think Napravnik would automatically besecond-call to Castellano. Not so, according to Muzikar. “Sometimes Javier gets her second call; sometimes she gets Javier’s second call. It’s no set way,” he said. “They like fresh faces,” said Muzikar of

New York trainers acquainting themselveswith Napravnik in this, her first full summerat Belmont. The caveat is that they like freshfaces that end up in winner’s circle photos –which Navpravnik is doing. Asked if a win in a future Kentucky Derby

would be especially meaningful to her becauseshe would be the first female jockey to winracing’s most famous race, Napravnik said, “Itwould be a personal accomplishment thatwould mean a ton to me whether I was male or


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came primarily from fans who would heckleher when she rode under her maiden name,Tammi Campbell (before her marriage to JohnPiermarini, her agent), with, “‘Go back homeand make your soup!’” she recounted with alaugh.In the wake of retirements by Donna Barton

Brothers, Julie Krone, and Patti Cookseybetween 1999 and 2004, female ridersseemed to be, for a time, disappearing,according to Piermarini. “It seemed like it wasjust Jill Jellison and me,” she said. Now thereis a female colony-within-the-colony. Eight ofthe 32 riders with at least one start at SuffolkDowns currently are women, and Davis andPiermarini are joined by Andria Terrill in thetop ten in earnings.“Now you have the schools – the Chris

McCarron school,” said Piermarini of theNorth American Racing Academy [NARA],directed by Hall of Fame rider McCarron inLexington, Kentucky, as one reason for theincrease in female riders.McCarron sees a growing trend as his

academy trains aspiring jockeys. “The firstyear [2006] we had eight boys and three girls.The second year we had six boys and fivegirls. Fast forward to our enrollment this fall:we have 12 girls and one boy,” he said. The statistics would seem to bode well for

woman riders in the future if McCarron’sstudents can equal or approach the careersuccess of NARA alum Jackie Davis.Surveying the current riding landscape, he

“Females tend to be lighter and don’t starttheir day in a dehydratedfashion, so they’re probably going to be inbetter shape when theystart the day and in bettershape when they end”

Chris McCarron

sees a time when “a lot more females arecompeting at the top level.”His role as instructor affords him, too, a

unique perspective on the strengths andweaknesses, real and imagined, of femaleriders. Essentially, McCarron believes the oldbias that women lack the strength to compete against men misses the source ofstrength. It is fitness, not testosterone. “If youdon’t have the right fitness level, you don’t havestamina to finish strongly – you basically gettired and lose your balance. Fitness is muchmore important than brute strength,” he said.Linked to fitness is a factor that might

actually give women an advantage: “Mostmale jockeys have to reduce in some fashion,whether it’s dieting or hitting the hot box,”said McCarron. “Females tend to be lighterand consequently don’t start their day in adehydrated fashion, so they’re probably goingto be in better shape when they start the dayand in better shape when they end.” As for the “reverse bias” that woman have

better rhythm and touch, McCarron echoeswhat Oriana Rossi sees in general: “There’ll besome girls out there that don’t have that realgood touch and aren’t doing to do very well,and the same thing with guys.”Larry Jones, who has used female riders

ever since he started training (his first win in1982 was with a female jockey), addressesanother perceived weakness with femaleriders: not enough “oomph” with the cropdown the lane. “Now that we’ve got the

Rosemary Homeister and Vanquisher win the Kitten's Joy Stakes at Colonial Downs

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“Most trainers arealready well aware thata female can be as goodon a horse as a male.But they get pressurefrom outside sources,generally the owners”

Donna Barton Brothers

padded whips, I don’t think the men have asmuch advantage over women,” Jones said.The only real obstacle to successful careers

with female riders, he feels, is owners. “I thinka lot of their perspective is they’d rather havea ‘boy’ up on there,” he said. But that, too, ischanging, according to Jones. Given a choicebetween this year’s Kentucky Oaks stretch-duel jockeys, John Velazquez or RosieNapravnik, Jones feels most owners wouldsay, “Man, Johnny V. is a good jock, but let’sget Rosie. She’s hot.”Retired jockey and current NBC-racing

analyst Donna Barton Brothers subscribes toJones’ belief that the key for women is owners.“Most trainers are already well aware that afemale can be as good on a horse as a male.But they get pressure from outside sources,generally the owners. The owners don’t watchas much as they read, and a lot of informationcomes from the media.” Prosperity pluspublicity with female riders will, she believes,result in owners more open to women ontheir horses.So what can continue to put female riders

at racing’s top levels besides being physicallythe equal of men at race riding? Brothersbelieves it’s something that, just as withThoroughbreds, comes from the heart: “It’snot enough to want to win. To have thecompetitive desire that it takes to be a jockeyyou have to want him to lose. Not only do I

want to beat you, but I want you to losebecause I beat you.“When you get a rare breed like a Rosie

Napravnik or a Tammi Piermarini, you havesomebody who rides like a man, which is greatbecause you’re riding with men, but somebodywith the same competitive fire as the men.” That women are at the top of jockey

standings in so many venues is no surprise toBrothers. Recalling when she, Krone, andCooksey retired within five years of eachother, the belief was that all the female jockeyswere gone. “We all answered, ‘no they’re not.Trust me, they will surface,’” said Brothers.In July, jockey – and model – Chantal

Sutherland became the first female to win theGrade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup, on regularmount Game On Dude. Previously aSovereign Award winner as leading apprenticejockey in Canada, she was also the first of hersex to ride in the Dubai World Cup. Womenare making great strides in this industry.Ironically, the name for Rosie Napranik’s

mount in the Kentucky Oaks was Believe YouCan. You better believe that women ridershave not only “surfaced” but in greaternumbers, with greater success and at racing’stop levels. To borrow from an advertisingslogan directed to women in the late ‘60s –“You’ve come a long way, baby” – femaleriders in racing have come a long way ... tomore and more winners’ circles. n


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Wally and CincyDollase

Michelle and CraigDollase withAwesome Gem

Aimee Dollase


RELATIVE VALUES:The Dollases

THE DOLLASE FAMILY

“I was doing toothpaste and public healthcommercials in New Zealand,” she said. “Ithought I was going to be the next Twiggy.”To supplement her modeling income,Cincy landed a job as a stewardess with Pan-Am. “They had a flight from San Francisco toHawaii to New Zealand,” she said. “It was afantastic job for me.”Before she started flying the skies with Pan-Am, she was scheduled to complete a trainingschool course in Florida. She never made it.Riding with a friend, Cincy was in a verybad car accident and seriously injured herback and neck. She landed in the hospital,and when she was well enough to be released,she had to wear a brace stretching from herneck to her waist. “I looked like a … not veryattractive,” she said.Her dad came to visit, hoping to convince

Cincy to return to New Zealand. They wentfor a drive one day. “We saw a farm withhorses and stopped there to look at thehorses,” Cincy said. “My Dad and I used to goto the races.”While they were admiring the horses, thefarm’s owners, Wally’s parents, spotted themand went over to say hello. Then they gavethem a tour of the farm. When they weredone, Wally’s mom asked Cincy if she’d like tomeet her son. Cincy said, “Sure.” She’d missedhim on the impromptu farm tour because hewas working on the back end of the farm.“Wally was on a tractor and spreadingmanure,” Cincy said.Their eyes met, and, well you know howthat goes. A guy spreading manure; a gal in agruesome cast. How could they not fall inlove? Cincy described it this way: “Boing!!!”

DIDN’T even think about it until thewinner’s circle,” Craig said. And whenhe did? “That was special for me,” hesaid.It’s even more special now. Goodmemories are more important now.

Wally, the retired patriarch of his uniqueracing family, continues to battle Lewy BodyDisease, an insidious affliction which is oftenmisdiagnosed because Parkinson’s andAlzheimer’s diseases create similar symptoms.Wally, whose list of outstanding horsesinclude Champions Jewel Princess andItsallgreektome, Sharp Cat, and father-and-son Travers winners Deputy Commander andTen Most Wanted, retired last year. He hadmoved to Louisville five years earlier.“He still remembers the good times,” Craig

said. “You have to refresh his memory everynow and then, but for almost being a 75-year-old man, he’s in pretty good shape.”That’s because he has Craig’s mom, Cincy,

Wally’s wife of 46 years and counting. “Mymom is a rock in that relationship,” Craigsaid. “She’s always been a real troopersupporting us.”“Us” includes Craig’s three sisters. Two of

them, Michelle and Aimee, followed their dadinto racing. Their sister Carrie didn’t,becoming a registered nurse. Michelle is 45,Carrie 43, Craig 41, and Aimee 39.“I think we’re the only family who had four

licensed trainers,” Michelle said. “Horses were24/7 at my house. That’s all we know.”And that is perfectly fine with the Dollases.

“It wasn’t a business; it was a pleasure,” Cincysaid. “We’re big proponents of the horsebusiness. It kept our family such a unit. Those

horses gave so much back to us.”Maybe it’s because Wally and his childrenhave always done what is best for their horses.“The horse always came first,” Cincy said. “Healways told the kids, `It’s not about you; it’snot about ego, it’s about the horse. If youlisten to the horse, you’ll be a good trainer.’Charlie Whittingham told Wally, `Always havepatience. Then turn around and have morepatience. It pays off.’ Wally idolized Charlie.”Wally still idolizes Cincy. Their meetingputs the best episode of “How I Met YourMother” to shame.Cincy – it was her older sister’s best attemptat saying her real name of Cynthia – spentmost of her early childhood in the UnitedStates, then her teenage years in New Zealand,where her mom is from. One of sevenchildren, she moved to northern California,settling in a little town near San Francisco,when she was 20 to pursue a modeling career.

When 24-year-old trainer Craig Dollase won his first racewith his first starter, Brush Storm by six lengths at HollywoodPark, December 23rd, 1995, he didn’t immediately realize that

he’d just matched his dad Wally, who’d won with his firststarter at Bay Meadows 28 years earlier.

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I “It wasn’t a business; itwas a pleasure. We’re big proponents of thehorse business. It keptour family such a unit.Those horses gave somuch back to us”

Cincy Dollase


Craig Dollasebecame youngesttrainer to saddle aBreeders’ Cup winner when Reraisewon the 1998 Sprintat Churchill Downs

But it almost never happened. Wally had tofinish his chore before going back to hishouse. When he got there, he was stunned.The visitors had left, and his parents hadn’tasked their names. All they knew was thatthey were from New Zealand.Wally raced to the post office and asked ifanyone in his town regularly received mailfrom New Zealand. His guardian angel musthave been working there that day, because hetold Wally, “We’re really not supposed to tellyou, but …” He gave Wally the address. Wallyzipped over there and knocked on the door.Cincy answered. “Remember me?” he asked.They ordered a pizza and stayed up talkinguntil 3 a.m. that night. At the end, Wally said,“You know I’m going to marry you?” Shereplied, “I think so.”

“Both of us knew right away,” Cincy said.“We’d met our soul mates. It was an amazingthing. It’s been 46 years.”Wally, originally from Fort Atkinson,Wisconsin, worked for trainers BusterMillerick and Noble Threewitt in Californiabefore going on his own in 1967 and winninghis first race with his first starter, My Thief.But Wally made a career change in 1969,

purchasing Rancho Rio Vista, a breeding farmin Atascadero, California, near Santa Barbara.“We used to foal 150 in a year,” Cincy said.“We had five in one night. The kidsparticipated. They helped pull out babies.They began driving tractors at the age of nine.All you had to do was be able to reach thepedal.”Cincy home-schooled her children for five

years. “When we went back to high school,we were so far ahead of the other students,”Michelle said.Of course, they were also well educated in

taking care of horses. “They absorbed a lot ofknowledge,” Cincy said. “The time on thefarm gave them a lot of experience. It becamesecond nature.”One can only imagine what theconversations at the dinner table were like.“They weren’t allowed to argue about horses,”Cincy said. “They all respected each other.They all know how hard it is. And it is. Thereare so many ups and downs. You can have achampion one day, and the next day you canhave nothing. You have to find a middle. Youhave to be confident that you are right.”Wally sold the breeding farm and returned

to training in 1984. “He had the bug; hewanted to train again,” said Michelle, whopreceded Craig as her dad’s assistant beforeventuring on her own.

MichelleMichelle, who was married to jockey CoreyNakatani for 14 years before they divorced,became a trainer on her own. “Corey rode myfirst winner as a trainer, Batoutofhell, at DelMar in 1989,” Michelle said. “It was awesome,but the stewards wouldn’t allow my parents togo into the winner’s circle. They thought itwould confuse the public. When Corey and Imarried, he couldn’t ride any other horse inmy race.”Michelle trained on her own for a year and

a half, then ran a lay-up farm, Overview Farm,in Louisville for seven years.She switched careers in June, 2009, after

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Wally Dollase trained Ten Most Wanted to win the Travers Stakes in 2003

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learning about electric equine therapy at awomen’s horse seminar in Louisville. Usingcomputerized bio feedback from two FDA-approved micro-current instruments – anacuscope and a mycoscope – Michelle helpshurting horses restore their normal cell activity.“It reduces inflammation,” Michelle said.“When I treat horses they sleep. Thedrawback in what I do is that it’s very timeconsuming. It takes an hour to get feedback.”She is based in Louisville, but has clients

around the country. “I’m on the road once aweek,” she said. “My satisfaction is that I helpthese horses.”She wishes she could do more to help her

dad: “It’s so tough. But when I see him, he’shappy to see me. He’s really happy. He’s justdistant. It’s not his fault.”

CraigCraig began walking hots for his father soonafter he sold their breeding farm. “Dad wantedyou to be a hard worker,” Craig said. “Youcouldn’t be lazy around him, that’s for sure.He wanted you to work every day. I’ve alwaysadmired him for that.”Wally and Cincy told their kids they had tofinish high school and attend college beforethey could go full-time into racing. Craig gavehigher education a shot at Citrus JuniorCollege. “I took some business courses, and Isaid, `This isn’t for me.’ I do love the horses.”By the mid-‘90s, Craig was ready to begin

his own career. “I was really chomping on thebit to do my own thing,” he said. “I’ll neverforget the time when my dad said, `All right,son, it’s time for you to go on.’”Three years after his first win, he becamethe youngest trainer to saddle a Breeders’ Cupwinner when Reraise captured the 1998Sprint at Churchill Downs on the way tobeing named champion sprinter.“He learned so much from Wally,” Cincy

said. “He always gave them a long rein. Heallowed them to make mistakes. It’s hard tofollow your dad, especially if he’s successful.You have to be sure of yourself.”The lessons Craig learned from his dadcontinue to serve him well. “Dad always had alot of patience to do the right thing,” Craigsaid. “Patience is a tough word in our game.

Craig Dollase with his father and mentor Wally

Carrie Dollase with daughter Alyssa and mother Cincy

“Patience is a toughword in our game. It’srush, rush, rush. But youhave to treat a horse asan individual. Those arethe things I learned frommy dad”

Craig Dollase

It’s rush, rush, rush. But you have to treat ahorse as an individual. Those are the things Ilearned from my dad.”The incredible nine-year-old geldingAwesome Gem personifies the core of theDollase family’s approach to horses.“Absolutely,” Craig said. “No question aboutit. We take pride in him staying sound. He’sbeen one of those blue-collar type of horsesthat always gives his best. He shows up whenit counts.”On May 25th, Awesome Gem showed up atGolden Gate Fields to contest the $100,000Grade 3 Berkeley Handicap. He made a stronglate move to finish second by three-quarters ofa length to Positive Response. But PositiveResponse had drifted in twice in the stretch,bothering another horse, and was disqualified

and placed fourth. Awesome Gem was movedup to first. “Sometimes that happens,” Craigsaid. “It’s better to be lucky than good.”Awesome Gem has been good enough towin 11 of his 50 starts, with 15 seconds, fivethirds and earnings topping $2.8-million. Hehas earned at least $150,000 individually onfour different surfaces: fast dirt, wet dirt,synthetic, and turf, while competing at 12different racetracks.Michelle has done therapy on Awesome

Gem. “I see Craig once a month and treat hishorses, including Awesome Gem,” she said.“This horse loves me. He acts like a three-year-old.”

AimeeAimee had been training horses with her dad



for some 15 years when Wally could no longerdo his job the way he wanted to do it, whenLewy Body disease entered the Dollases’vocabulary. “It was very sad,” Cincy said. “Hecouldn’t get on his pony to watch his horsesand he was very distressed. Aimee, bless herheart, just took over. She tried so hard for sixmonths.”Then just about everybody realized it was

time to let go. It was time for Aimee to moveon. “Aimee is a very good horsewoman in herown right,” Craig said.Aimee considered starting her own stable inthe Midwest, but decided to stay in California,where she became Tom Proctor’s assistanttrainer last March while also training one ofher own horses. “I didn’t want to go to justanybody,” she explained.Her life will always be with horses. “Myparents gave us a choice of what to do, butonce you get a taste of it, just working with ahorse every day or competing in races andwinning a race, there’s such excitement. It’s inyour blood. It’s hard to get it out of yoursystem.”As her brother before her, Aimee tookeverything she could learn from her dad. “Hejust had a natural instinct with horses,” shesaid. “He had a great feel for what to do. Youhave to treat them as individuals. You can’t dothe same thing with every horse. They’re alldifferent. You have to have patience. It takes alot more work to do it that way, but that’s whatyou have to do.”She also admired his selection of horses.“He had an eye for horses,” she said. “Hebought a lot of horses for not a lot of moneywho turned out to be stakes winners. Healways looked for an athlete first. Then hechecked the pedigree.”She’s certainly not surprised with herbrother’s ongoing success. “Not at all,” shesaid. “He’s a good horseman, too. There’s nodoubt about it.”

Carrie“Carrie is a nurse, but she’s a wonderfulhorsewoman,” her mom said.Carrie seemed destined to be a healer. “If ananimal got hurt on the farm, I was theperson,” she said. “All my siblings said,`Carrie will take care of that.’”And she did. When she was six years old, oneof the workers on the farm heard a horriblenoise in the middle of the night. He investigatedthe following morning and found a newbornfawn laying in the grass, with no doe in sight.“They brought her to me,” Carrie said. “I bottlefed that deer. She was my baby.”Carrie named her Gloria and took care ofher for years. When her dad sold the farm,Carrie sent the deer to a nature retreat. “I wasgoing to be a veterinarian,” she said. Instead,she became a nurse specializing in labor and

delivery. She’s done that for 22 years.Living in Louisville, she visits her parents

frequently. “I know my mom is struggling,”Carrie said. “Every day is a challenge to her,but she is so strong. All I can do is supporther.“I think Dad’s very comfortable. He wakes

up and mom is there. When I go to theirhouse, they still have the races on all day long,TVG and HRTV. Dad sits in his chair with hisRacing Form and watches the races every day.He’s happy.”Maybe his ordeal is a bit easier because he

knows he and Cincy raised four qualitychildren, who are trying now to be goodparents to Wally and Cincy’s sevengrandchildren. “I’m so proud of all my kids,”Wally said. “They’re my greatestaccomplishment.” n

THE DOLLASE FAMILY

Awesome Gem has won earnings of $2.8 million on four surfaces and 12 different tracks


How do theAustraliansdo it?

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Black Caviar wins the

Coolmore Lightning Stakes

at Flemington


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LITE athletes – equine orhuman – need to bestructurally sound with thepower to perform. Feed themwell, keep them fit and ready,and get them on to the track

to do what they were born to do - win races.It’s the “method” that saw legendary

Australian trainer Tommy “TJ” Smith win 34Sydney training titles and a world record 279Group One races – “bone and muscle” wascoined to describe how Smith’s runners wouldinvariably seem to be rock hard fit, in superbcondition, and always hard to get past in atight finish.On a wider scale “tough” is an apt

characterization of the AustralianThoroughbred in general. Australians breed,raise, and race a resilient, robust, andunyielding horse – and it’s a process thatbegins from the earliest of ages.

Product of your environment“Well, I think it firstly gets back to natural


conditions,” says Les Young, founder ofDoncaster Bloodstock and a highly respectedThoroughbred breeding expert.“Most Australian horses are not ‘housed’ in

any way from when they are foaled, whichtends to be the case in the NorthernHemisphere where harsher weather occurs.“They tend to be left out in all weather and

get used to the conditions, they usually havelarger paddocks to roam, and colts inparticular are often left to roam in largergroups essentially until it’s time for a salepreparation where they get used to fending forthemselves - with the obvious exception of

E Frankel apart, all the talk has been of Black Caviar, theAustralian super filly who has won 22 successive racesincluding a dramatic Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal AscotThe five-year-old joined an impressive band of Australianhorses that have made waves on the European stage.WORDS: MITCHELL LAMB PHOTOS: SPORTPIX - COLIN BULL/MARTIN kINg, HORSEPHOTOS.COM

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Takeover Target with trainer Joe Janiak after winning the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot

food and health - and it allows them to be ableto get accustomed to pushing out of largegroups, somewhat simulating the racingexperience they will face soon enough.“The fact that we have much more time in

the day with natural light, we don’t get greatextremes of weather like they might overseasin places like England, Ireland, Japan, and theU.S., and also the fact that in the last half acentury pastoral practices in Australia haveimproved immensely,” Young says ofAustralia’s qualities for raising horses.“I also think that we are used to generally

racing on firmer, drier surfaces than the

Northern Hemisphere, and you soon find outif there’s any physical faults with a galloper,and over time they can be somewhat ‘bred’out of the breed and so we’re perhaps tendingto breed from horses that are innately moresound, particularly compared to NorthAmerica where obviously in many stateshorses can race on drugs, like Lasix, that maskproblems a horse may have.”Alf Matthews had a career in the saddle

spanning three decades, riding with greatsuccess in Australia and overseas. He is now aleading form expert and one of the mostrespected teachers of apprentice jockeys in hishome country.“In Europe they have been watering tracks

for years for ground that is no better thanwhat we would call dead – we’ve onlycomparatively just started doing that, and thatwhat has made our racehorses, through theyears, become essentially tougher – ourhorses, especially before the latter part of the20th century, were raced, spelled, and raisedin environments that were often harsh, and

“We are used to generally racing onfirmer, drier surfacesthan the NorthernHemisphere, and yousoon find out if there’sany physical faults witha galloper”

Les YoungThe Golden Slipper is the richest two-year-old race in the world

toughness was something horses had toquickly develop.” The raising of an Australian racehorse gets

them ready for the expectations they will haveplaced on them.“The way they’re reared is a lot behind it,”

explains Gerald Ryan, one of Australia’s mostrespected trainers and a renownedconditioner of two-year-olds and sprinters.“They’re born in a big open paddock,

nature takes its course to a big extent, andwhen they’re ready they are into the system ofyearling prep and it might be quite a whilebefore they see a paddock again.“It makes them mentally tough, we push

them through the ‘pain’ barrier earlier here,even horses that need time still go through apreparation for racing where they are taken asfar as possible without being hurt and then, ifneeded, they are given time to develop moreand grow bone, we make them mentallytough and that’s key.”Grahame Begg is the son of one of TJ

Smith’s great training rivals Neville Begg and a

superb conditioner, having trained more than25 Group One winners.“Our horses seem to stand up to a lot more

racing. It’s demanded of them because we don’thave a closed season – we race all year round.“In saying that, I think recently we have

definitely learned from the Europeans thatperhaps we don’t have to run our horses asoften, something that’s best seen with ourMelbourne Cup where successfulinternational runners in the race have hadeither had only one lead up run or perhapsnone and yet perform at their best – we’relearning from each other I guess.”

The two-year-old factorTwo-year-old racing is huge in Australia.Apart from the Melbourne Cup, the averageracing fan gets more excited about two-year-old racing than any other form. It’s the greatunknown and that’s what makes it excitingand appealing.So much prize money is devoted to it,

comparatively much more than any other

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racing jurisdiction. The Aus$3.5-million onoffer for the Golden Slipper makes it therichest two-year-old race worldwide.“The Golden Slipper, when established in

1957, put the focus on two-year-old racing tothe point it has now become, and has been fordecades, the stallion making race ofAustralia – and therefore it’s essentially thenumber one target race to win for breedersand consequently owners,” says Young.The pressure on trainers from owners

looking to get early returns for their racinginvestment is huge and potential ownershappy to wait until a horse is three or olderbefore they see prize money checks are fewand far between.“I go to every major sale in Australia,” Ryan

states. “You might have up to ten orders fromowners and just about all of them will say buya Slipper horse or a Magic Millions [sale-basedmillion-dollar two-year-old race] horse, veryrarely do they say, ‘Buy me a Derby horse.’“If you go and buy and a horse to win two-

year-old races, then once it’s done that, it’sdone its job, if it doesn’t train on you have torealize that’s the reason why. I once had a veryearly two-year-old type that got caught up inthe Equine Influenza outbreak in 2007. Thatcaused him to miss his two-year-old season,and by the time he could race at three all theothers had caught up to him and he was onlyan average horse.”Joe Janiak trained one of Australia’s most

“It’s like sending your kidto primary school whenthey should be at kindergarten and thatleap, if they’re not prepared for it, makesthem lost both physicallyand mentally”

Joe Janiak

popular gallopers in Takeover Target, winnerof Group races on four continents and acrossfive Australian states, and a horse who didn’trace until the age of four.“His previous owners spent around

Aus$70,000 in vet bills trying to get him tothe track when he was younger because theyknew he had ability,” Janiak says. “He justwasn’t mature enough and he got sore.“It happens so often because with the

amount of money that is paid for horses thesedays owners want a quick return becauseotherwise they’d be better off investing withthe bank. But it’s like sending your kid toprimary school when they should be atkindergarten and that leap, if they’re notprepared for it, makes them lost bothphysically and mentally.”

It’s in the bloodYou reap what you sew – and Australia has formany years been injecting speed into itsThoroughbred bloodlines. This speedprominence wasn’t always their way.“Going back in history we tended to breed,

say before the 1950s, along similar lines toEngland and Ireland, concentrating on classicbloodlines and Derby winners,” Les Youngrecalls.“With the coming of stallions like Star

Kingdom [arguably the most influential sire inAustralia’s history] and Newtown Wonder,that revolutionized the way breeders thought,

Choisir, shown here winning the Lightning Stakes at Flemington, won both the King’s Stand and Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2003

“We have definitelylearned from theEuropeans that perhapswe don’t have to run ourhorses as often”

Grahame Begg

and speed become the main emphasis infamilies, which naturally influenced ourracing, and the advent of the Golden Slipperenhanced that.“When the shuttle stallion concept started,

it was speed horses who made a name forthemselves here – Last Tycoon was a sprinterand he was really the first successful shuttlestallion, and of course he was followed byDanehill, again essentially a sprinter.Recently, there has been a slight shift back

to giving “classic” type shuttlers a chance tosucceed, but it can be a hard slog.

Respect is now forthcomingThe Australian racehorse has for a long timeperformed with great admiration on the worldstage.Phar Lap, our most famed of racehorses,

started it when he beat the best the world hadto offer in the 1932 Agua Caliente Handicap,the world’s richest race at the time, in Mexico.There are shining examples all throughout

the 20th century: Crisp the legendary jumperwho almost claimed the Grand National atAintree (Red Rum beat him in the last fewstrides with 23 pounds less weight);Strawberry Road performed admirably allover the world; Better Loosen Up won agroundbreaking victory in the 1991 JapanCup; plus Australian-bred runners haveperformed outstandingly at Hong Kong’sinternational meet since its inception; andmany more.In the last decade, Australian-bred or -

trained sprinters have been recognized assome of the best, and they probably were foryears before that, though Aussies themselvesmay have doubted it.“We were in some way intimidated in

previous times. It took the world to become asmaller place for us to become less like that.Now we see overseas horses everyday here,we see all the big races, we can travel to placesmuch easier and all of a sudden it becomes alot less intimidating,” Alf Matthews reasons.Choisir made people take notice; his

double sprint victories at the 2003 RoyalAscot Carnival, in the King’s Stand Stakes andGolden Jubilee Stakes, changed certainlymany Northern Hemisphere minds about theclass of our Thoroughbreds and their ability toperform on the biggest of stages.Since then Australians have won either the

King’s Stand or Golden Jubilee four moretimes, as well as a July Cup. They’ve also hadexpatriate horses claim victories in the twopremier mile races in England – the QueenElizabeth II Stakes (won by Starcraft) and theQueen Anne Stakes (won by Haradasun). SoYou Think who has proved himself a topweight for age performer, and Europe just sawBlack Caviar strut her stuff on their home turf.But taking a horse on the arduous journey

overseas is not as appealing to everyone.Prize money in Australia, especially for

sprinters, is as good as if not better than

anywhere else in the world - so the appeal hasto be of a different nature.“I don’t think if Black Caviar goes to

England and wins it really adds a lot to her value – where it really counts is for a coltto go over and win a major race in Europe because it instantly makes him areverse shuttle proposition and his value can automatically skyrocket,” Young says.Joe Janiak knew Takeover Target, who as a

gelding had no stud value, was capable ofcompeting overseas, but he needed a littleconvincing that it was within his reach.“We had Choisir go over there a couple of

years before us, so I rang [his trainer] PaulPerry up and asked what he thought mychances would be and he went through it andsaid to me that we can win so that was thedeciding factor – I had no confidence inmyself whatsoever, I didn’t think I had theability to do it and I’d never been there, but inthe back of my mind I knew I had a horsewho deserved his chance to compete there.”Royal Ascot and other European carnivals

have become major targets for Australianracehorses. Add in Hong Kong and Singapore,where a majority of horses are Australian- orNew Zealand-bred, and Dubai as the four bigoverseas jurisdictions Aussie trainers andowners are currently most comfortable withrunning their charges at.The U.S. is a final frontier for Australian

horses to conquer, but as Grahame Beggexplains, the Breeders’ Cup isn’t at an idealtime in the Australian racing schedule.“It is run right in the middle of our Spring

Carnival in Melbourne, which is unfortunatebecause it’s obviously the most appealingmeeting to want to go to in North America.”Begg continues, “Then there is the concern

about the fact that a lot of our horses aren’t bystallions nominated for the Breeders’ Cupraces, and the fees are large if you want to getaround that.”Gerald Ryan warns, “It’s a huge risk. The

travelling a horse has to undertake from hereis massive and can put great strain on them –look at Black Caviar, what if she goes overthere, doesn’t cop the trip one little bit andruns terrible? What has it achieved? But that’sthis risk you take when you want to take on achallenge like that.” Of course, Black Caviar proved that she was

up to the challenge.n

Legendary Australian trainer Tommy Smith with his daughter, trainer Gai Waterhouse

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Back to the future

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Feeding alongside hay or haylage, an additionalsource of forage, is realistic and can encouragebetter forage consumption overall in fussyeaters. Perhaps the bigger opportunity in racing,

however, is to use the hydroponic grass mats toreplace part of the concentrate feed. A singlemat can be used to replace roughly 4-6 poundsof concentrate feed, maintaining overall energyintake but reducing the reliance on high starchcereal feeds. A reduction in high starchconcentrate feed offers many potential healthand welfare benefits. Hindgut health may beimproved by reducing the exposure of theresident microflora to starch that has escapeddigestion in the small intestine. A healthyhindgut also means that fiber is fermented moreefficiently and the resident microflora are able to

The air and water temperature is strictly controlled within the growing chamber and light is provided by a UV source

From seed to feed in seven daysHydroponic grass involves growing greenshoots indoors under climate control withirrigation, without any soil or other growingmedium. The development of the cereal “seed”to a feed takes only 6-7 days. The cereal isgerminated or sprouted in specially developedtrays that are provided with automaticallycontrolled water from overhead sprays, which keeps them moist but not waterloggedand supplies them with the necessary nutrientsfor growth. The air and water temperature isalso strictly controlled within the growingchamber, allowing for optimal growth. Light is provided by a UV source and the growingunits can be powered by electricity oralternatively for the environmentally consciousby solar energy. Hydroponic grass can be grown from a

variety of cereal grains, the most common beingbarley or wheat. Oilseeds such as linseed orsunflower as well as lupins can be added to themix to modify the oil and starch content of theresultant sprouting grass. In some systems,herbs have also been added for their potentialbenefit. The product offered to the horseconsists of the green shoots and then a mat ofthe intertwined root structure of the grass.In terms of production, two pounds of cereal

seed yields approximately 15-22 pounds ofgrass fodder, and one of the larger units canpotentially produce one ton of fodder for useper day. As the grass mats are consumed, more

Hydroponic grass is not a new concept but rather an oldone that is enjoying a recent resurgence. Whereas Iremember the rather small hydroponic grass mats beingoffered simply as a tempter or succulent to sick andrecovering horses, today it offers a much greatercontribution to the daily energy and nutrient intake ofhorses in training. WORDS: DR CatheRine Dunnett BSC, PhD, R.nutR PhOtOS: FODDeR SOLutiOnS

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trays are inoculated, allowing a constant supplyof fodder mats on an ongoing basis.At first glance you may think that horses

would just eat the green grass shoots; however,the reality is that they eat the shoots and roots,so the whole growing mat is consumed leavingno waste.

Opportunity to reduce starch intakeIn fussy feeders, “Dr Green” can often be the keyto maintaining appetite as the level of work goesup and the pressure is on.It is not really practical to use the hydroponic

grass as a total replacement for forage due to itslow dry matter and high water content. A verylarge number of mats would have to be fed toachieve the same dry matter intake from anaverage daily amount of hay or haylage.

A single hydroponic grass mat can replace 4-6lbs of concentrate feed

improve their synthesis of B vitamins. Thereduced starch intake, coupled with morechewing and greater saliva production, bringspotential benefits for gastric health andbehavior. World class eventer ClaytonFredericks uses hydroponic grass successfullyto replace the majority of his horses’ concentratefeed and he is very pleased with the overallresult.

Simple more available nutrientsThe hydroponic grass mats like conventionalgrass have a low dry matter (about 20%) andhigh moisture content (about 80%), but despitethis, feeding a single 15-17 pound mat makes aworthwhile contribution to the ration and alsohelps ensure continued hydration.The feed value of hydroponic grass largely

depends on the nutritional content of thestarting material, i.e. the un-sprouted seed orgrain. Interestingly, the actual sprouting processcan improve the nature of the nutritionprovided. This is due to the presence of anumber of enzymes in the seed, which areactivated by watering, to help mobilizemacronutrients like protein, starch, and oil,converting a proportion of them into simpler,more available, compounds. While this processprovides readily available nutrients and a fuelsource for sprouting, these simple nutr ients canalso be used by the horse. Cereal grains such as barley and wheat are

high in starch and low in structural fiber.However, during the sprouting process thestarch is mobilized to provide sugars to drivegrowth and so the resultant level of starch in thesprouted grass is lower. Conversely, the fibercontent of the sprouted grass is increasedcompared to that in the original cereal grain.

Some of the protein will also be mobilized intoits constituent amino acids.

NOPS – Naturally occurringprohibited substanceWhile there are many potential benefits to theuse of hydroponic grass in racing, there are alsoa few questions that need to be answered.Sprouting grain of various types can contain asubstance known as hordenine. Hordenine orhydroxyphenylethyl dimethylamine is a plantalkaloid that has an action similar to that ofadrenalin in that it stimulates the heart,constricts blood vessels, and dilates the airwaybronchioles. As such, hordenine is consideredto be a prohibited substance, in North Americaand around the world. Hordenine can bepresent occasionally in horse feed ingredientslike barley and distillers grains, where somesprouting may have occurred. Many feedmanufacturers will test ingredients or finishedfeed for hordenine as part of an analysis screenfor NOPS (naturally occurring prohibitedsubstances) prior to releasing product for sale.As hydroponic grass arises from sproutingcereal grains, particularly barley, the presence ofhordenine is a potential risk for horses intraining. However, despite the potential forcontamination of feed with hordenine, therehave been relatively few post-race positiveresults for hordenine in recent years. Ideally,further work would be undertaken toinvestigate this issue along with a dialogue withthe relevant racing authorities. Another important factor for health and

safety is that good quality clean seed is sourcedand that a high degree of cleanliness during theproduction of hydroponic grass is achieved toprevent mold or bacterial growth, which couldbe a risk to horse health.

Self-contained towable units produceup to a ton of grass dailyThe practical use of hydroponic grass is mademuch easier by the availability of commercialunits for growing the mats on a small or largescale. These self contained often towable unitsare carefully climate controlled and offer bothsmall and large training establishments theopportunity to be self sufficient in producinghydroponic grass. The smallest units on a dailybasis can produce 55lbs of grass, while for alarger stable there are units that will provideabout a ton of hydroponic grass mats per day,which could suit more than 100 horses. Hydroponic grass is effectively a live feed

which may help to explain some of the oftenimmeasurable benefits of “Dr. Green” for horsesin training. Excessive consumption of highstarch-containing cereal feeds will certainlyhave an impact on the health and welfare ofthese horses. Hydroponic grass as part of abalanced diet could help to redress this balanceand contribute to realizing a more evolutionarynormal feeding pattern, bringing benefits tohorse health, welfare, and potentiallyperformance. n

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Macro Pre sprouted Sprouted barley

Nutrients (%) barley fodder at 7 days

Dry matter 91.4 14.35

Ash 2.81 3.72

Protein 11.73 13.68

NDF Fiber 20.2 31.8

ADF Fiber 7.2 15.5

Water soluble Carbohydrates

(sugars) 3.76 6.26

Non fiber Carbohydrate (starch, sugars

and pectin) 64.65 45.76

Macro Minerals (%)

Calcium 0.26 0.39

Phosphorus 0.42 0.44

Ca / P Ratio 0.62 0.89

Potassium 0.39 0.34

Magnesium 0.17 0.26

Microminerals (mg/kg)

Iron 96.1 147

Manganese 25.2 17.5

Zinc 17.5 22.4

Copper 8 7.8

Fazaeli et al (2012) World Applied Sci J

16 (4): 531-539, 2012

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Gaffney exercises

seven-year-old

gelding Varitek

RONGAFFNEYThe horsecomes first

The game changes. It alwayshas and it always will.Thankfully, not every trainertries to keep up. There aretrainers like 71-year-old RonGaffney, a transplanted NewEnglander now in SouthFlorida who still gallops hisown horses and has neverstopped believing that thehorse comes first.WORDS: BILL HELLER

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HAT’S why, though he had nohorses in New York, Gaffney wassaddened by the freaky number –18 – of fatal breakdowns duringAqueduct’s inner-dirt winter meet.“These horses are running year-

round,” he said. “They’re taking shots at thosepurses without caring for the horses or for theriders. That’s not good. That’s sad. Someone isnot paying attention.” Gaffney and his wife/partner Emmy have

spent a lifetime paying attention.“You don’t find trainers that take care of

their horses the way they do,” owner ScottSavin, the former president of GulfstreamPark, said. “They’re old school.”Savin, whose grandfather owned Mr.

Prospector, is old school, too. “We used to beon the Monmouth/Gulfstream Park circuitwith Sonny Hine and Jimmy Croll,” he said.“We live down here now, so we keep horses inFlorida. When it came to picking someone totrain horses at Calder, there was only oneperson on my list. It was Gaff. Gaff is thebest.”Abby Fuller, the 52-year-old jockey Gaffney

helped lure out of retirement, is also an ardentadmirer. Fuller will forever be linked tochampion three-year-old filly and Hall ofFamer, Mom’s Command, who won the NewYork Filly Triple Crown in 1985 for Fuller’sdad, Peter, who owned and bred the filly.After Fuller rode Stone in Love to a second

place finish in the “Lady Legends for theCure” on Preakness Eve, in 2011, Gaffneyconvinced her to return to riding full-timeafter a nine-year absence. “What happenedwas when she came from Pimlico, her father’shorse, A.J.’s Hot Mambo, was a little bit of a

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problem,” Gaffney said. “And we were puttingP.J. Lydon on her and she got hurt, and I saidto Abby, `You should ride this filly. She’s goingto win with you.’”Fuller was happy to oblige. “I’ve known

both Emmy and Ronnie for many, many years,back to Rockingham days,” she said. “Theylove their horses and they take really goodcare of them. They spoil them. The horses getcarrots and candy, which really helped A.J.’sHot Mambo. She needed a lot of TLC andextra attention. She definitely got that. Theygave her treats and petted her.”It worked. A.J.’s Hot Mambo won a

$40,000 maiden claimer at Calder lastSeptember 4th by a length and a quarter at11-1, giving Fuller her first win in ten years.But isn’t falling in love with horses

forbidden on the backstretch? “You’re notsupposed to,” Emmy Gaffney said. “I think it’sbeen our downfall to some degree, but whatelse are we going to do? At this stage of thegame, what else are we going to do?” Shelaughed, before adding, “Why change now?That’s not going to happen.”And yet, she still’s smiling. “It’s funny

because we’re getting more opportunities thanwe ever did when we were in New England,”


Emmy said. “Different owners. Scott Savin isone of them. Thank God. He’s great. AndAbby. And [former jockey] Jean Cruguet. Wehave a horse with Jean, which is cool, DuchessDenise [named for Cruguet’s late wife]. She’s athree-year-old filly in training. She’s breezingnow. She’s coming along nicely.”The Duchess is one of ten horses in

Gaffney’s stable at Calder. When Caldercloses, Ron races his horses at Gulfstream.“There are so many good trainers here,” hesaid in March. “There really are. At any time,you’re running against [Todd] Pletcher and[Tom] Proctor and [Bill] Mott. And [Allen]

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Gaffney with his wife Emmy

Jerkens. Who’s better than Jerkens? He’s agreat guy. I knew him as a kid. Whatever hesent to Suffolk Downs, I’d get on them andgallop them and blow them out for their race.It’s a different ballgame now. You get differentowners that are young guys and they probablydon’t even know who Jerkens is.”Gaffney toyed with being a rider before

becoming a trainer. “I grew up next to SuffolkDowns,” he said. “School was boring.” So herode.“He galloped horses and rode horses for my

father, Jimmy Rowe,” Emmy said. My dad [aformer steeplechase rider who became atrainer at Suffolk Downs in Boston] trainedSpicy Living. She won two legs of the NewYork Filly Triple Crown in 1963. I met Ronniewhen I was six years old. Ronnie’s a little olderthan I am.”Actually, Ron is 17 years older. He was 42

and Emmy 25 when they married. “My dadwas a little annoyed, but he got over it, andthey were the best of friends,” Emmy said. “It’san interesting life we’ve had. We’re a littledifferent. We’re more Mom and Pop. We’renot big like Todd Pletcher or [Bob] Baffert. ButRonnie has his say. He’s a force to be reckonedwith when it comes to horses.”

“He probably shouldn’tbe galloping, but whatshould he be doing, sitting home and watching ‘The Price IsRight?’”

Emmy Gaffney

Vain kept right on winning. His fifthconsecutive victory was also his turf debut, amile-and-a-sixteenth allowance race atHialeah when he went wire-to-wire from the10-post and held on by a nose. “He wasspecial,” Gaffney said.The following year, Gaffney decided to find

out just how special Call Me Mr. Vain was. Inhis stakes debut, the $48,000 Elkwood atMonmouth Park, June 12th, 1999, Call MeMr. Vain set the pace and held on well tofinish second by four lengths to Frisk MeNow, four lengths clear of third-place finisherSmart Coupons.Gaffney upped the ante three weeks later.

Sent off at 27-1 in the Grade 2 IselinHandicap at Monmouth, Call Me Mr. Vaindueled on the lead with Frisk Me Now beforefinishing second by three-quarters of a lengthto him, inducing this rarely seen comment inhis Daily Racing Form past performance line:“Very game effort.”Then, in between sixth-place finishes in the

$100,000 Carpenter Memorial at DelawarePark and the Grade 1 Donn Handicap atGulfstream, Call Me Mr. Vain won anallowance race at Gulfstream by a length anda half in a blazing 1:22 2/5 for seven furlongs.But Gaffney lost Call Me Mr. Vain after the

Donn. He wanted to give his horse some timeoff, and the owner didn’t agree, so he changedtrainers. In 14 starts with Gaffney, Call Me Mr.Vain had six wins and three seconds. He

That includes getting on the horses hetrains. “He probably shouldn’t be galloping,but what should he be doing, sitting homeand watching `The Price Is Right?’” Emmysaid. “This is all he’s ever done. His whole lifehas been devoted to this. Obviously, hedoesn’t get on real rank horses. We’re careful.Luckily, we don’t have any that are rank orstupid. Everybody’s pretty normal. And heloves it. He gets on them and they know him.”That didn’t prevent one of them from

falling on him as they were jogging.Twiceasbeautiful, an eight-year-old mare withnearly $200,000 in earnings, fell on him inearly March. “She was laying on me and shewouldn’t get up,” Gaffney said. Eventually shedid, and he walked away. Then, a couple dayslater, she finished third in a $25,000 claimerunder Joe Bravo, paying $17.80 to show atGulfstream.She did better than her stablemate Varitek,

who finished out of the money in a $6,250claimer two weeks later. Emmy owns theseven-year-old gelding, who is just four-for-65lifetime with a little more than $51,000 inearnings. “Ron’s been getting on Varitekforever,” Emmy said. “We really should begetting rid of Varitek, but he’s kind of afavorite of his and he loves riding him.”And it keeps him in the game. “People don’t

know what it was like to be at Suffolk,” Ronsaid. “I haven’t had a Derby horse or anythinglike that, but I’ve been around so many good

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Gaffney with Trip For A.J. at Calder

people. I was lucky. I was around good peopleand they loved their horses. They did whatwas best for their horses. This is the bestbusiness in the world because anybody canget lucky in this business. Anybody.”Even Gaffney. The luckiest day of his life

was January 12th, 1998, when he was one oftwo trainers to put in a claim for Call Me Mr.Vain, a speedy four-year-old gelding who wona mile-and-a-sixteenth $25,000 claimer thatafternoon at Gulfstream Park by 2¼ lengths,his second straight victory following a$25,000 maiden claiming score at Calder. “Igot him on a shake with Alan Iwinski, a goodguy, a good fella,” Ron said. “I’m glad I won.”Gaffney immediately moved his new horse

up to allowance company and Call Me Mr.


“I was lucky. I wasaround good people andthey loved their horses.This is the best businessin the world becauseanybody can get lucky inthis business. Anybody”

Ron Gaffney

would race until January, 2005, finishing his career with 23 wins, 12seconds and three thirds from 67 starts and earnings of $386,265.Gaffney’s current horses haven’t had that kind of success. Yet.It’s March 2nd at Gulfstream, and Baja Roja, a four-year-old filly

owned by Scott Savin and his daughter Jessica, is about to make herfirst start in 5½ months in a mile-and-a-sixteenth $25,000 claimerunder Abby Fuller at odds of 49-1.“She had pneumonia,” Gaffney said. “A lot of horses, when they

have pneumonia, you can forget about them. That’s a hard one.”Gaffney is slim and fit. He’s wearing a black golf shirt and jeans. He

goes to make a bet on his horse and chooses the slowest line. But hegets his wager in and stands next to Savin and his daughter.Savin, who now operates a casino in Miami and another one in

Naples, seems relaxed. He was asked when he knew that Mr.Prospector was special. “When he broke the track record atGulfstream,” he said. “We had a horse, Royal and Regal, who won the[1973] Florida Derby in the 10th race that day. He beat Forego andShecky Greene. In the 11th race, we ran Mr. Prospector in an other-than-one, and he broke the track record. When the horse that won therace after the Florida Derby is better than the horse who just won theFlorida Derby, you know you’ve got something pretty good.” Gaffney is asked if he still gets nervous before a race. “No matter

what,” he replied. “If they run their race and they come back in onepiece, if they hit theboard or they don’t,I’m tickled pink. Ifyou’ve got an excuse,that’s even better. Ijust get nervous forthe horse and rider. Ijust want them to getaround there. If youget a good trip,you’re happy,because I don’t thinkriders ride like theyused to. When Irode, it seemed likeeverybody kind oflooked out for each other. Now,somebody’s runningup their rear end and cutting them off. When horses come back, youhope they come back in one piece.”The gates spring open, and Fuller finds a good spot early, fourth in

the field of nine. She’s still a close fourth on the backstretch, then getsshuffled back in traffic to last in the stretch. But just before the wire,Baja Roja spurts a bit, finishing seventh. Fuller brings Baja Roja backand Gaffney rubs her nose. He speaks with Fuller, watches the replaywith her and the Savins, and heads back to his barn to cool out the fillyhimself, “just to see how much the race took out of her,” Gaffneyexplained. “How long it takes her to catch her breath and all. Shehadn’t run since September and she ran all the way. I bet she didn’t getbeat by more than 7½ lengths” – she didn’t – it was 5½ lengths. “I’mglad.”Gaffney is glad that he’s still in the game. “It gives me a taste,” he

said. “I say, `If you don’t work, you’re going to end up dying.’ You haveto keep working.”Gaffney also appreciates his family. “I have three older brothers and

three younger sisters,” he said. “None of them ever had anything to dowith the racetrack or horses. I’m lucky I have them all. When you’vegot three older brothers and three younger sisters and you’re 71, you’repretty lucky.”Most of all, he appreciates the woman he has shared his horse life

with: “I’ve got Emmy. I couldn’t have anyone better than her. I used togallop all of her father’s horses and she stuck with me. I got the bestwife in the world. All I need is a Zenyatta.” n

“I’ve got Emmy. I couldn’t have anyonebetter than her. I used togallop all of her father’shorses and she stuckwith me. I got the bestwife in the world. All Ineed is a Zenyatta”

Ron Gaffney

RON GAFFNEY



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How racehorses handle summer

temperatures

HEAT

HANDLING HEAT

OW would you like to win a $1-million Grade 1stakes race and NOThave a win photo tohang on your wall?

The intense heat and humidity the day BigRed Mike won the 151st Queen’s Plate atWoodbine Racetrack in Canada is why there isno “official win photo” taken byphotographer Michael Burns.

Trainer Nick Gonzalez, winner ofmore than 1,000 races, still recalls thatday in 2010.

“It was 100 degrees in the shade.We had the Queen [Elizabeth II ofEngland] and a big crowd. Mikeis a very excitable horse, so itwas stressful even before therace began,” says Gonzalez, whotrains primarily out ofWoodbine and Fort Erie with hisassistant, wife Martha.

Big Red Mike led the mileand a quarter race from gate towire. Afterwards, “Mike endedup galloping out for about twiceas long as usual,” adds Gonzalez.

This is because immediatelyafter the race, jockey Eurico DaSilva was interviewed for live


Eurico Da Silva celebrates

as Big Red Mike wins the

151st Queen’s Plate at

Woodbine

television coverage while still on Big RedMike, which is fairly typical for this type ofmarquee event.

When Mike and Da Silva finally reachedGonzalez after the interview, the trainerrecalls, “I could see he was in trouble rightaway.”

Recognizing the signs of heat stroke,Gonzalez immediately began cooling off BigRed Mike.

“Woodbine has (cold) water hosesstrategically placed about every eighth of amile, so we walked him and stopped to hosehim all the way (to the winner’s circle). TheQueen was there, waiting along with 1,000other people in the winner’s circle. I felt badmaking them wait, but…”

Despite cold hosing, Big Red Mike becameextremely agitated in the winner’s circle and,in Martha Gonzalez’ words, “was looking togo down.” Hence the abrupt ending to thecelebrations and win photo ceremony. TheGonzalez duo unceremoniously ripped thebed of roses from the Big Red Mike to get himback under the cold water.

Similar weather conditions occur at most ofthe major North American Thoroughbredtracks in the summer months as experiencedby Big Red Mike the day of the Plate. By mid-July, Belmont Park in New York will be astifling 82°F with 75% humidity, whereasCalder Race Course and Gulfstream Park inFlorida and Del Mar and Hollywood Park inCalifornia will all be upward of 90°F and 85%humidity. Under these conditions, intenselyexercising horses are at risk for heat stroke,which is defined as a persistent increase in thecore body temperature above 105°F incombination with decreased sweating.

Heat stroke most commonly occurs inThoroughbreds training or racing in humidenvironments. To avoid heat stroke, thehorses need to be hydrated, fit, acclimatizedto the heat and humidity, and carefullymonitored both during and after racing/training to ensure they do not develop heat-related disorders. How do Thoroughbredshandle training and racing in the hot summermonths and what can trainers do if theirhorses overheat?

H Although it can be safe to run inthe heat, high temperaturescombined with high humidity canhave profound effects on aThoroughbred’s performance andhealth.WORDS: STACEY OKE PHOTOS: HORSEPHOTOS.COM,

MICHAEL BURNS PHOTOGRAPHY LTD

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development of heat-related problems,”emphasises Schott.

“This heat load must be dissipated rapidlyto prevent development of heat-relatedproblems,” emphasizes Schott.

The main way that horses dissipate heat isthrough sweating.

“The rush of airflow along the body helpssweat evaporate while running, but the

efficiency of evaporative cooling diminishesconsiderably when horses are asked to standstill shortly after exercise, especially whenhumidity is high,” notes Schott. “Further, incomparison to their human counterparts,horses have approximately 50% less bodysurface area (per unit of body weight) fromwhich to sweat and dissipate heat.”

“Woodbine has waterhoses strategicallyplaced about everyeighth of a mile, so wewalked him and stoppedto hose him”

Nick Gonzalez

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Big Red Mike continues

to be hosed down after

showing signs of heat

stroke in the winner’s

circle

Then heat is onWhen racing and training, a Thoroughbred’smassive muscle mass generates extremelylarge amounts of heat.

“Although some of this heat is retained andcan actually improve function of activemuscle, the so-called benefits of ‘warming up,’more than 90% of the heat generated must beswiftly released from their bodies to limit therise in internal body temperature,” says HalSchott II, MS, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM fromMichigan State University’s College ofVeterinary Medicine.

Schott is an expert in fluid and electrolytebalancing in athletic horses. “If a horse cannot dissipate this heat, muscle and body temperatures can rise to critical levelsand health-related sequelae can quicklydevelop, some of which can be life-threatening.

“The heat can be a big problem, especiallyin places like Florida in the summer,” addsBruce Solomon, DVM, a racetrackveterinarian at Calder.

How horses normally handle heatTypically, a horse’s normal core (internal) body temperature is approximately100°F. During intense exercise in extremelyhot, humid conditions, core temperature can rise to 105°F within only a couple ofminutes of maximal exertion. “This heat load must be dissipated rapidly to prevent

This means that it is harder for horses tosweat to control internal body temperature (aprocess called thermoregulation) compared tohumans. Considering how tough it can be fortrainers, owners, jocks, lads, and others onthe track to cool themselves off on hotsummer days, you can image how anintensely exercising Thoroughbred must feel.

In addition to sweat production, effectivethermoregulation also requires an increase inblood flow to the skin. During exercise, thebrain “senses” an increase in bodytemperature as the temperature of bloodgoing to the brain increases to valuesapproaching 105°F. Through the nervoussystem, the brain then signals the bloodvessels supplying the skin to dilate, whichincrease the flow of blood to the skin. Bloodflowing close to the skin’s surface issubsequently cooled by evaporation of sweatand cooler blood returns to the heart where itis pumped to and cools the rest of the body.

“Increasing blood flow to the skin accountsfor approximately 60–65% of heat loss inhorses,” says Schott. The remaining heat loadis either stored in the body (10% or less) orlost through increased ventilation (about25%).

According to Schott, “The latter heat loss(from the lungs) is actually another form ofevaporative cooling in the respiratory tract asa consequence of full humidification ofinspired air.”


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thought to contribute to exercise-related heatillnesses.

“Fit racehorses that train in hot, humidconditions are better able to pump the bloodto the skin to permit sweating and heat loss,begin sweating at body temperatures that arelower than an unfit horse, and have animproved ‘thermal tolerance’ during exercise,”explains Schott.

Having a horse properly trained and “fit”for a race is not typically a problem, buthaving a horse acclimatized to racing in theheat can be significantly more challenging.

“There are actually two strategies for horsesthat will be racing in the heat,” says Solomon.“Some trainers forget about acclimatizingthem and bring the horses in as close to therace as possible… a ‘get in, get out with noharm done’ approach.

“Others bring them in 2-3 weeks early, and

When things get too hotWhen the ambient humidity is high, watercannot evaporate as efficiently from either theskin or the respiratory tract, which effectivelyimpairs heat loss.

If a horse’s body temperature gets too highduring exercise or continues to increase afterexercise, horses can appear weak anddisoriented; have shallow and rapid breathing(panting); and may develop muscle tremors orspasms. If the cause of these problems is notidentified quickly enough, a horse with heatstroke can potentially collapse, appear to behaving a seizure, or even die.

Because an exercising Thoroughbredcontinues to produce a great deal of heat evenafter coming off the track, heat exhaustionand heat stroke can develop even afterexercising has ceased, when they are stillcooling out, which is what appears to havehappened to Big Red Mike. This is particularly true if the horse is cooling out in areas that are poorly ventilated or in direct sunlight. Thus, signs of heatexhaustion/stroke may develop either soonafter training or racing or even while beingcooled out.

Risk factors for heat-related issuesThere are a number of factors that expertsbelieve contribute to heat-related healthproblems. For example, poor physicalconditioning, lack of heat acclimatization(adaptation to the heat), dehydration,electrolyte imbalances, and in the US, the use of diuretics prior to performing are all

“First and foremost, youhave to get them somefresh, cold water. If yousee if they are gettingwobbly, you get thewater on the head andneck as best you can”

Nick Gonzalez

COnsider humidity, nOt just

temPerature

The classic lifestyle of a Thoroughbred appearsto be beneficial for those residing in hotconditions because they train in the morningbefore peak temperature is reached.

“The biggest way to avoid heat-related issuesis to get an early start, to get things going assoon as possible,” advises Solomon.

At Calder, for example, the track opens at 5 a.m. and most horses train between then and7 a.m. By 8 a.m, training is done because evenby then the heat can become a serious concern.

Unfortunately, in areas such as Florida, theproblem is humidity.

“Humidity is actually highest in the earlymorning hours. So even though it is cooler at 5 a.m, thermoregulation can still be challenging for even the fittest racehorse,”warns Schott.

One strategy that racing jurisdictions couldconsider is a comprehensive investigation of the weather at specific racetracks to establish the optimum timing for competing. At the same time, investigators can also implement,test, and develop state-of-the-art facilities torapidly cool horses after training and racing.This is exactly what was accomplished prior to horses competing during the 2008 BeijingOlympic Games. For more information on this strategy, see the article “Managing the effects of the weather on the Equestrian Eventsof the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games” publishedin the December 2009 edition of the Veterinary

Journal (the abstract is available for free onPubMed).

Other ways tO Prevent

heat strOke

Hydration and ElectrolyteSupplementationHydration is a key way to protect aThoroughbred from the heat. Because sweatingis important for horses to help keep their bodytemperatures down during and after exercise,large volumes of electrolytes (like sodium,chloride, and potassium) are lost in the sweat(largely after the exercise bout is already over).

Gonzalez adds, “We’ve got two water buckets in every stall that are refreshedthroughout the day. Like other trainers, I use acomplete feed, but I still add electrolytes to thefeed. If a horse needs it, we also add electrolytesto the water.”

Solomon concurs and says, “The betterhydrated the horse is, the better they deal withthe heat.”

Hydration is particularly important for horsesracing on Salix (Lasix), which can dehydrate thehorses even before they get to the starting gate.

“We (veterinarians) have worked hard overthe past ten years or so to get trainers to notdraw the water before a race. Having free accessto water at all times definitely helps horses stayhydrated,” Solomon says.

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let them acclimatize to the heat. There is greatvariation in which technique works, and youcan’t predict which horses will respond towhich strategy.”

Cooling strategies aftertraining/racingAlthough traditional routines for cooling outhorses don’t change with the seasons, mosttrainers are extra observant of how theirhorses cool out in the summer.

“If a horse has an increased respiratory rateand an anxious look in their eye, the trainerstake some extra time to cool them out. Theyare sure to get cool water on their heads andbodies, bathe them in alcohol, make sure theirtemperatures come down, and get them infront of the fans,” Solomon explains.“Sometimes the trainers will even ice pack thecarotid artery.”

For horses that trainers know are less ableto handle the heat compared to other horses,Solomon recommends taking the time tomake sure they are sufficiently cooled out,even if it means walking them for far longerthan usual.

The same strategies apply following a win,but as Gonzalez recognizes, properly coolingout the winners can be more challenging thanafter a regular training session when they mayhave to stand still under bright sunshine inthe winner’s circle.

Gonzalez says, “(After a race) you’re kind ofrestricted because if you have to go to the testbarn you have to follow protocol once you’rein there. Nonetheless, first and foremost, youhave to get them some fresh, cold water. Ifyou see if they are getting wobbly, you get the water on the head and neck as best you can before you can get back to your

anhidrOsis:

the nOn-sweatinG disease

If sweating is the most important way for horsesto thermoregulate during intense exercise thenhorses that are unable to sweat are not onlygoing to perform poorly but are also at-risk forover heating.

“Equine anhidrosis is either a decreased abilityor complete loss of the ability for horses to sweat,”explains Robert MacKay, BVSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM,a professor in the Department of Large AnimalClinical Sciences at the University of Florida.

It is currently estimated that up to 6% ofThoroughbreds in Florida have anhidrosis, makingit a wide-spread and important medical condition.

Although the exact cause or causes of equineanhidrosis remains unclear, affected horses areexercise intolerant, have increased respiratoryrates, elevated body temperatures, are slow torecover following exercise, and have a notable lackof sweat over the rump, gluteal muscles, flanks,and ribs.

So how can horses suffering from thisaffliction even survive in the heat, let alonecompete athletically? In brief, they can’t.

“There is no cure for anhidrosis,” says MacKay.“Treatment is therefore aimed at controlling thehorse’s environment, and most horses need to bemoved to a region with a more temperate climatefor the remainder of its life, most likely.”

Solomon adds, “In my experience, the numberof completely anhidrotic horses is less than 1%.About 10% have low-grade conditions that aremanageable, but trainers just need to back off inthe worst part of the summer.”

Other strategies for dealing with “non-sweaters”include dietary supplements, such as thosemarketed for anhidrosis or products containingelectrolytes; methyldopa; veterinary-prescribedthyroid supplements or clenbuterol; and evenacupuncture. Diet changes may also be beneficial,swapping some of the protein and carbohydratesfor fat. But be beware, there is little true “science”to support any of these alternative therapies.

own barn and get the monster fan on them.”

Respect the heatBoth Gonazlez and Solomon recommendusing common sense in the heat and takingthe same precautions we would for ourselvesif we over do it on a hot summer day. Mostimportantly, keep the horses hydrated. If yourhorse gets overheated, follow these steps:l Move the horse out of the sun, to an areawith good airflow (a breeze or large fans);

l Immediately apply cool water to the wholebody using a hose or bucket then scrape offthe water;

l Continue “active cooling” until the rectaltemperature falls below 39.5°C; and

l Contact your veterinarian to examine anyhorse that has had emergency cooling orwho continues to appear distressed evenafter cooling. n


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John McVeigh: insearch of a global setof medication rules


JOHN McVEIGH

Dr. John McVeigh, who has made waves around the worldnot just for his association with trainers of the caliber ofMike de Kock and Sir Michael Stoute but also for his speechon Salix (Lasix) at a summit at Belmont Park in New Yorklast year, is of the strong opinion that a standard worldwidephilosophy on medication and doping control should bereached and incorporated within one worldwide set of rules. WORDS: DAVID THISELTON PHOTOS: MATTHEW WILLMAN, HORSEPHOTOS.COM

The latter is best summed up by the recentpublication, in the U.S.’s Thoroughbred DailyNews, of a no-holds-barred open letter fromCoolmore director of sales David O’Loughlin,that slams U.S. racing drug dependency.O’Loughlin revealed that a frequent

discussion topic at Irish, British, and Frenchsales regarded the perceived demise in qualityand endurance of American horses “becausethey are so dependent on drugs for racing” andto the widely held belief that “chronicbursting/bleeding is endemic in American-bred horses.”He added that much of this belief stems

from people's first-hand experience of U.S.-bred stock when they were put into a racingenvironment with zero tolerance of Lasix.“We are all too aware of horses which

couldn't compete in Europe because they bledso badly, but went on to achieve success at ahigh level in America with the assistance ofmedication,” he wrote.O’Loughlin reminisced about the great

American-bred racehorses and sires of the pastbefore concluding, “Many Europeanpurchasers who annually travelled toKentucky to purchase U.S.-bred weanlings,yearlings, or broodmares no longer do sobecause they believe your bloodstock is nowinferior and unsound. It's going to take a lot ofwork to turn this mindset around, but if youdon't do something about it soon thecommercial breeders in Kentucky will be leftwith a product the major international racingcommunity no longer wants."In June last year McVeigh, speaking at the

International Summit on Race DayMedication: Exercise-Induced PulmonaryHemorrhaging (EIPH) and the Racehorse, heldat Belmont Park, shared the findings of a 2004South African Study that identified a geneticlink to EIPH.The study, by Hans Weideman, S.J.

Schoeman, and G.F. Jordaan, was verycomprehensive and involved 63,146 horsesand 778,532 races run over a period from1986 to 2002. The study only considered epistaxis

(bleeding from the nose) and did not useendoscopes to look for lesser bleeding. Its

on race day. That policy is fair to the horse andprotects the integrity of the sport.”McVeigh is hence against the use of

furosemide (Salix/Lasix) and Phenylbutazone(Bute) in racehorses unless they are used ascontrolled therapeutic medicines for theoccasional horse that needs it on the trainingtracks.McVeigh need not reiterate that the policies

of some of the racing authorities of the WesternHemisphere towards the usage of medicationslike Lasix and Bute are the single biggestobstacle to international harmonization ofmedication control in horseracing.To illustrate the effects these policies are

having on the Thoroughbred breed, hepointed not only at the example of Germany,which does not allow stallions that have racedon medication in their breeding sheds, but alsoat the dwindling reputation of U.S.-bredThoroughbreds.


cVEIGH said, “Weshould put the bestmedical mindstogether for thewelfare and integrityof the sport.”

However, pointing at the Australian andU.S. models as an example, he acknowledgedthe logistical problems of a worldwide set ofrules ever becoming a reality.“In Australian racing there are six states and

two territories that each have their ownindependent governing bodies, and there arefour accredited laboratories in the country,each with its own methods.”This scenario is enhanced nearly tenfold in

the U.S., where there are more than 30different racing jurisdictions all with their ownlaboratories and sets of rules and detectiontimes.This is in contrast to Europe, for example,

where the European Horserace ScientificLiaison Committee (EHSLC) liaises andcoordinates between different countries, andCanada, where consensus has been reached ondetection times. “Can you imagine the politics on a world

scale if jurisdictions within a single countrycan’t reach an agreement?” lamented McVeigh.He added, “The American lobby is huge and

powerful as they breed the mostThoroughbred horses in the world.”McVeigh practices chiefly out of South

Africa, and he is the chairman of a liaisoncommittee between that country’s horseracingauthority (NHRA) and the VeterinaryAssociation.The NHRA is now adopting something close

to the suggestions the liaison committee hadactually made some 20 years ago regardingmedications.McVeigh, commenting on the NHRA’s

approach back in the 1990s, said, “It was likedriving down the road and not knowing whatthe speed limit was.” The NHRA is now closely following the

recommendations for medication detectiontimes given to them by the EHSLC.The NHRA has also accepted the

introduction of a simple record book thatMcVeigh designed that protects (or implicates)both the trainer and the veterinarian in caseswhere a horse is found to be “positive.”The book, which is numbered sequentially,

simply provides a master copy of the medicinedosage and the veterinarian’s advisedwithdrawal time and a tear off duplicate copyis left with the trainer.McVeigh’s beliefs on racehorse medication are

very clear: “Medicine should be administeredfor the welfare of the horse and in order to allowthe horse to safely compete to the best of itsability, but the horse should be free ofpharmacologically active levels of medications

M

“Lasix should be prescribed for horsesthat bleed and if this isnot the case it constitutesan abuse of medication”

John McVeigh

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JOHN McVEIGH

conclusion showed that epistaxis, as related to EIPH in South African Thoroughbred sires, had a strong genetic basis.Of equal concern was that the percentage

incidence of epistaxis among the racehorsepopulation increased over the 16 years of thestudy, particularly over the final five years. Inthe beginning it showed that 1% of racehorsesin South Africa bled from the nose, but by theend this figure had increased to 2.1% and it iscurrently at 2.5%.This figure differs around the world and, for

example, according to figures disseminated atthe summit, Britain has an epistaxis rate of0.33% per 1000 runners, Hong Kong’s rate is4.7% and Singapore’s is 5.1%. South Africa had many stallions imported

from the U.S. during the time of the EIPHstudy and one of the recommendations madein the conclusion was that Lasix be bannedinternationally from racing, or failing that,breeders should refrain from buying potentialsires that have raced on the drug.McVeigh also pointed out during his

summit speech that a couple of the sires thathad the worst statistics for passing on thebleeding trait were champion sires and hencehad high numbers of progeny. Many U.S. racing industry people are also

vehemently opposed to the use of Lasixincluding the likes of the legendary Kentuckybreeder Arthur Hancock, who said in a CBSreport, “Generation after generation, they'regoing to get weaker and that's what'shappened."

If this were 50 years ago,they never would haveallowed these drugs to beused. But today mostbreeders want to bringtheir stock to market anddon’t care about whathappens after their product is sold”

Barry Irwin – owner of

Animal Kingdom (above)

Barry Irwin, who owned and bred last year’sKentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom andwhose syndication company Team ValorInternational has enjoyed tremendous successwith South African-breds, among others, alsoweighed in.Irwin said, “In America, we have a few

problems that have created the perfect stormto mess up our racing, as follows: One, mosttrainers today know no other way to trainother than to use drugs because they have onlytrained under permissive med rules. Two,states rights prevail and we have 50 states andthey each have their own rules. Three,commercialism rules the day.

“If this were 50 years ago, when morebreeders raced their stock, they never wouldhave allowed these drugs to be used. But todaymost breeders want to bring their stock tomarket, they take shortcuts and don't careabout what happens after their product is sold.Add the drugs into the mix and anenvironment where the states have been sold abill of goods by trainers and veterinarians andthe problem is monumental.”McVeigh was in fact personally thanked for

the dissemination of the information providedby the EIPH study by a senior racing official inthe U.S., who was concerned about theintegrity of the breed.His summit speech was certainly a

contributory factor to the Breeders’ Cupdecision to make the five two-year-old eventsLasix-free this year and to have all 15 Breeders’Cup events Lasix-free by 2013.Unfortunately, in February this year, the

American Graded Stakes Committee, citingstrong opposition from horsemen, reversed a2011 decision that would require a ban onrace day Lasix in order for two-year-old racesto obtain a grade, although this reversal willnot affect the Breeders’ Cup, which has its ownraceday medication committee.This is not surprising, as a quick glance at a

U.S. racecard usually reveals that more than95% of the horses entered will race on Lasix.The conclusion of another study done by

Guthrie, Hinchcliff, and Morley on 167 horsesthat were subjected to race day conditions atthe Vaal racecourse in South Africa in


winner than horses of grade 0.”Some of the data provided by Guthrie,

Hinchcliff, and Morley did give leverage tothose who justify the use of Lasix on race day.However, this doesn’t justify the extremely

high percentage of horses in the U.S. andCanada that race on Lasix.McVeigh said, “Lasix should be prescribed

for horses that bleed and if this is not the caseit constitutes an abuse of medication.Although one in two horses will show signs ofbleeding after a race, only one in five bleed tothe extent that it effects their performance.”He pointed out that Lasix had become so

entrenched in U.S. racing that first-time Lasixusage is highlighted on the race card. TheDaily Racing Form said the reason thisinformation is important is because “first-timeLasix can sometimes leads to a dramaticallyimproved performance from a horse.McVeigh gives his full support to those

regulatory bodies that distinguish between thecontrol of illicit substances (doping control)and the control of therapeutic substances(medication control).“Doping” drugs, such as agents that

stimulate the central nervous system, canartificially enhance the horse’s physicalcapacity and its competitive instinct, and thereshould be zero tolerance for these drugs. However, an anti-doping policy must not

impede the use of legitimate veterinarymedications and therefore another importantphilosophy that most regulatory bodies arenow beginning to employ, and which McVeighalso supports, is that a “zero tolerance rule” isnot suitable for medication control.The high level of sensitivity of modern

screening methods allows traces of legitimatemedications to be detected long after theirpresence is having any effect. In the past thishas led to some trainers attaining “positives”and being unfairly labeled as “cheats” by theuneducated racing public.“Chasing traces is counterproductive,” said

McVeigh.He pointed out that the general racing

public do not have the knowledge todifferentiate between irrelevant traces andlevels that are having a pharmacological effect,or, even worse, to differentiate betweentherapeutic medicine and “dope.” The EHLSC, and other similar bodies like

the Racing Testing and MedicationConsortium (RMTC) in the U.S., have nowestablished the use of harmonized screeninglimits (HSL) relating to commonly used drugsin equine medication. McVeigh has no problem with the fact that

HSLs are generally kept confidential. “As longas one knows the detection time, it is fine,” hesaid. However, he feels strongly that progress

should be made towards reaching a worldwidestandard for Screening Limits so that detectiontimes are the same wherever a horse or aveterinarian travels.

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November of 2007 was the first time any proofhad been provided that Lasix does indeedreduce the incidence of bleeding.More than half of Thoroughbreds have

some amount of blood in their trachea after asingle race, and Hinchcliff et al had previouslyconfirmed the widely held belief that breathinginto the airways does impair the athleticperformance of racehorses.A study done by Hinchcliff in Australia

concluded that, “Horses with EIPH defined asgrade 2 or higher, were 4.0 times less likely towin, 1.8 times less likely to finish in the topthree places, and finished 1.8 meters[approximately 6 feet] farther behind thewinner than did unaffected horses. Theseverity of EIPH (grade 0 - 4) was significantlyassociated with reduced probability ofwinning, slower horse speed, and greaterlengths behind the winner. Horses with grade4 EIPH finished an average of 3.4 meters[approximately 11 feet] farther behind the

Screening Limits effectively reflect theassessments on integrity risks made by the authority that decides them.“No significant effect levels is what we

should all be aiming for,” said McVeigh,implying that the world should reachconsensus in this area rather than leavingdifferent racing authorities to assess their ownintegrity risks. In fact, at an Advisory Council Meeting of

the International Federation Of HorseracingAuthorites (IFHA) in 2010, there were strongopinions from the U.S., Australia, and HongKong representatives that in order for theIFHA to progress to global harmonization inthis area, publication of agreed ScreeningLimits was essential.The meeting was unanimous in agreeing

that the Advisory Council, and hence theIFHA, needed to progress this matter andproduce a list of drugs with InternationalScreening Limits (ISLs), signatory countries,and, if possible, the corresponding detectiontimes.This is still a work in progress.It should be noted that international

thresholds for “substances endogenous to thehorse, substances arising from plantstraditionally grazed or harvested as equinefeed, or substances in equine feed arising fromcontamination during cultivation, processingor treatment, storage or transportation,” arepublished by the IFHA. McVeigh explained that veterinarians still

had to use their discretion when administeringdrugs that had standardized detection times.“The withdrawal time will always be longerthan the detection time,” he said. “Forexample, a withdrawal period is longer if a

In an article in Thoroughbred Owner and

Breeder in 2010, Willie Haggas, trainer ofdual classic winner Dancing Rain – who wonthe Epsom Oaks and Preis der Diana in 2011– regarded employing McVeigh as his “vet” asperhaps the biggest step forward he hadtaken as a trainer. He recalled their firstmeeting, at which McVeigh looked at Haggas’horse Dupont for about ten minutes and thentold him exactly what he needed. “It was as ifa light went on,” he said regarding theimpression McVeigh had made.

Haggas later persuaded McVeigh to set upa full-time practice in Newmarket, which hedid, and many Newmarket trainers, includingSir Michael Stoute, now use him. McVeighalso has a practice in Chantilly in Francewhere the likes of Freddie Head use him.

However, his chief practices remain inDurban and Cape Town in South Africa, andMike de Kock summed up his value: “JohnMcVeigh has changed my way of thinking onhorse care. He has taught me to think out ofthe box as far as veterinary care goes, anddeal with the problem rather than think itwill go away. I attribute a large proportion ofmy success to John.”

WILLIE HAGGAS ON HOW JOHN McVEIGH

CHANGED HIS VIEWS ON HORSE CARE

“Generation after generation, they’re goingto get weaker and that’swhat's happened”

Arthur Hancock


JOHN McVEIGH

horse is fed the drug as opposed to being givenit intravenously.” He also explained that withdrawal times in

horses are effected by differing metabolismsand other factors, meaning it is possible for amedication to show a level above the HSL afterthe official detection time, so these variableshave to be taken into account to be safe. The IFHA was founded in 1993 in order to,

among other things, coordinate andharmonize the rules of the member-countriesregarding breeding, racing, and wagering.However, the member countries are unable toreach consensus on medication control.The aim of Article 6 of the IFHA is to protect

the integrity of horseracing, throughcontrolling the use of substances capable ofgiving a horse an advantage or disadvantage ina race, contrary to the horse’s inherent merits.Only 35 of the 59 member countries are fullsignatories to Article 6, which has 19 sections,and 17 are partial signatories.While some of the partial signatories sited

the regulation of Lasix and Bute as their onlydisagreement, there were others, includingGreat Britain, Australia, U.S., and NewZealand, who didn’t sign for section 10, whichdefines the constitution of a prohibitedsubstance. Still others disagreed with thethreshold levels for certain substances, whileKorea disagreed with the rule pertaining to theorigin of substances that can have a thresholdplaced on them and others didn’t accept the

McVeigh does not underestimate the threatof animal activist groups that tend to pounceupon the worst possible examples of the illeffects that equine sport has on horses, and hereckoned a worldwide standard set of ruleswould lessen their leverage power. McVeigh practices what he preaches and his

expertise in diagnosis and treatment havemade him a racehorse veterinarian ofworldwide renown.McVeigh concluded by saying that powerful

leadership would be needed to override thedifferences in opinion and reach a worldwideconsensus on medication and doping control.“Unpopular decisions are unpopular but

have to be made,” he said, before namingNelson Mandela as a leader who was notscared to make such decisions. Indeed thegreat man once said, “The day I am afraid to[risk my political capital] is the day I am nolonger fit to lead.” n

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section pertaining to laboratory service. TheU.S. disagreed with the section on sanctionsthat should be taken against a horse found tobe “positive.”It is clear there is still a long way to go to

reach worldwide consensus, while theproblem of tracking the administering ofrecombinant biological substances (EPO, GH,growth factors) is another challenge facing theworld’s equine sports scientists.McVeigh regarded the “gulf” between some

of the Western Hemisphere racingjurisdictions (the U.S., some tracks in Canada,and some South American countries includingBrazil), and countries that are signatories of theIFHA’s article 6 as “insane.”In the worst instances, the former not only

allow race day medications like Lasix, but alsogenerally a 48-hour detection time for Buteand a 24-hour detection time for Flunixin, asopposed to the 168 hours and 144 hoursrespectively recommended by the EHSLC. He also pointed to a gulf that could be

dangerous to the future of horseracing, i.e. thegulf in opinion that ranges from the extreme ofthose who are in favor of race day medicationsto the extreme of groups like PETA (People forthe Ethical Treatment of Animals), whocontinue to push the racing industry to banwhips, enforce a zero-tolerance drug policy,dump dirt tracks in favor of softer grass tracks,and wait until horses' third birthdays to usethem in competitive racing.

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Mountaineer West Virginia Legislature Chairman’s Cup 04-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ D 900 4.5 23-Jul-12USA Charles Town Henry Mercer Memorial S 22-Sep-12 $50,000 2 F D 900 4.5 12-Sep-12USA Charles Townsanta Rachel’s Turn S S 22-Sep-12 $50,000 2 F D 900 4.5 12-Sep-12USA Sunland Park Mt. Cristo Rey H’cap S 09-Mar-13 $100,000 3+ D 900 4.5 01-Mar-13USA Sunland Park Copper Top Futurity S 13-Apr-13 $60,000 2 C&G D 900 4.5 15-Oct-12USA Sunland Park Copper Top Futurity S 13-Apr-13 $60,000 2 F D 900 4.5 15-Oct-12

USA Del Mar Daisycutter H’cap 10-Aug-12 $85,000 3+ F&M T 1000 5 02-Aug-12USA Monmouth Park Colleen S 12-Aug-12 $60,000 2 F T 1000 5 03-Aug-12USA Del Mar Green Flash H’cap 15-Aug-12 $85,000 3+ T 1000 5 09-Aug-12GB York Nunthorpe St (Coolmore) Gp 1 24-Aug-12 £250,000 2+ T 1000 5 26-Jun-12USA Calder Catcharisingstar S 25-Aug-12 $75,000 2 F T 1000 5 11-Aug-12USA Calder Fasig-Tipton Turf Dash 25-Aug-12 $75,000 2 T 1000 5 11-Aug-12FR Longchamp Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (Qatar) Gp 1 07-Oct-12 €350,000 2+ T 1000 5 22-Aug-12USA Sunland Park Budweiser H 02-Feb-13 $50,000 3+ D 1000 5 25-Jan-13

USA Del Mar Graduation S S 01-Aug-12 $100,000 2 AWT 1100 5.5 26-Jul-12USA Monmouth Park My Frenchman S 04-Aug-12 $60,000 3+ T 1100 5.5 21-Jul-12USA Monmouth Park Tyro S 05-Aug-12 $60,000 2 D 1100 5.5 27-Jul-12USA River Downs Hoover S S 11-Aug-12 $50,000 2 D 1100 5.5 01-Aug-12USA Saratoga Coronation Cup 13-Aug-12 $100,000 3 F T 1100 5.5 09-Aug-12USA Saratoga Troy S 15-Aug-12 $100,000 3 + T 1100 5.5 08-Aug-12USA Evangeline Downs John Franks Memorial Sales S R 08-Sep-12 $60,000 2 F D 1100 5.5 18-May-11USA Evangeline Downs John Franks Memorial Sales S R 08-Sep-12 $60,000 2 CG D 1100 5.5 18-May-11USA Keeneland Woodford Gr 3 06-Oct-12 $150,000 3+ T 1100 5.5 26-Sep-12USA Delaware Park The First State Dash 20-Oct-12 $60,000 2 D 1100 5.5 08-Oct-12USA Delaware Park The Small Wonder 20-Oct-12 $60,000 2 F D 1100 5.5 08-Oct-12USA Sunland Park KLAQ H 08-Dec-12 $50,000 3+ D 1100 5.5 28-Nov-12USA Fair Grounds Bonapaw S 22-Dec-12 $75,000 3+ T 1100 5.5USA Sunland Park Bold Ego H 22-Dec-12 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1100 5.5 14-Dec-12USA Fair Grounds Pan Zareta St 12-Jan-13 $75,000 4+F&M D 1100 5.5USA Fair Grounds T.B.A S 26-Jan-13 $75,000 3 T 1100 5.5USA Fair Grounds Happy Ticket S S 16-Mar-13 $75,000 4+ F&M LA Bred D 1100 5.5USA Fair Grounds Colonel Power S 16-Mar-13 $75,000 4+ T 1100 5.5USA Sunland Park La Coneja S S 24-Mar-13 $100,000 4+ FM ( NM Bred) D 1100 5.5 15-Mar-13USA Fair Grounds Bayou St. John S 31-Mar-13 $60,000 4+ La Bred D 1100 5.5

USA Saratoga Honorable Miss H’cap Gr 2 03-Aug-12 $200,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 21-Jul-12USA Saratoga Prioress Gr 1 04-Aug-12 $300,000 3 F D 1200 6 21-Jul-12USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Classic Sprint S 04-Aug-12 $60,000 3+ D 1200 6 26-Jul-12USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Cradle S S 04-Aug-12 $75,000 2 C&G (IA bred) D 1200 6USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Sorority S 04-Aug-12 $75,000 2 F D 1200 6USA Mountaineer The Senator Robert C Byrd Memorial S 04-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ D 1200 6 23-Jul-12USA Mountaineer Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies S 04-Aug-12 $100,000 2 F D 1200 6 23-Jul-12USA Mountaineer Mountaineer Juvenile St 04-Aug-12 $100,000 2 D 1200 6 23-Jul-12USA Mountaineer West Virginia Secretary of State S 04-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 23-Jul-12USA Saratoga Alfred G Vanderbilt H’cap Gr 1 05-Aug-12 $400,000 3+ D 1200 6 21-Jul-12USA Emerald Downs Angie C S R 05-Aug-12 $50,000 2 F D 1200 6CAN Woodbine Nandi S R 05-Aug-12 CAN125,000 2 F AWT 1200 6 18-Jul-12USA Ruidoso Downs Aspen Cup S 11-Aug-12 $50,000 3 F D 1200 6 28-Jul-12USA Remington Park David M. Vance Sprint S 11-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ D 1200 6 02-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Ontario Debutante S 11-Aug-12 CAN150,000 2 F AWT 1200 6 25-Jul-12IRE Curragh Phoenix St (Keeneland) Gp 1 12-Aug-12 €190,000 2 CF T 1200 6 18-Jun-12USA Finger Lakes Leon Reed Memorial H’cap S 18-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ D 1200 6USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Filly and Mare Sprint S 18-Aug-12 $60,000 3+ F&M (LA Bred) D 1200 6 04-Aug-12USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Sprint S 18-Aug-12 $60,000 3+ ( LA Bred) D 1200 6 04-Aug-12USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Juvenile S 18-Aug-12 $50,000 2 (LA Bred) D 1200 6 04-Aug-12USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Juvenile Fillies S 18-Aug-12 $50,000 2 F (LA Bred) D 1200 6 04-Aug-12USA Thistledown Honey Jay S S 18-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ (OH Bred) D 1200 6 18-Aug-12FR Deauville Prix Morny (Darley) Gp 1 19-Aug-12 €350,000 2 CF T 1200 6 01-Aug-12JPN Kokura TV Nishinippon Corp Sho Kitakyushu Kinen Gr 3 19-Aug-12 $985,000 3+ T 1200 6 03-Jul-12USA Saratoga Union Avenue S S 20-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ FM (NY bred) D 1200 6 13-Aug-12CAN Northlands Park Esquirol farm Sales Stake 24-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 2 D 1200 6JPN Sapporo Keeneland Cup Gr 3 26-Aug-12 $985,000 3+ T 1200 6 17-Jul-12USA Del Mar Generous Portion S S 29-Aug-12 $150,000 2 F AWT 1200 6 23-Aug-12USA Thistledown Miss Ohio S S 31-Aug-12 $50,000 2 F (OH Bred) D 1200 6 22-Aug-12USA Monmouth Park Miss Woodford S 01-Sep-12 $60,000 3 F D 1200 6 24-Aug-12JPN Kokura Kokura Nisai S Gr 3 02-Sep-12 $780,000 2 T 1200 6 17-Jul-12USA Monmouth Park Sapling S Gr 3 02-Sep-12 $100,000 2 D 1200 6 19-Aug-12USA Canterbury MN Distaff Sprint Championship S 02-Sep-12 $50,000 3 FM D 1200 6USA Canterbury MN Sprint Championship S 02-Sep-12 $50,000 3 D 1200 6USA Canterbury Northern Lights Debutante S S 02-Sep-12 $55,000 2 F D 1200 6USA Canterbury Northern Lights Futurity S S 02-Sep-12 $55,000 2 D 1200 6USA Monmouth Park Sorority S 02-Sep-12 $100,000 2 F D 1200 6 19-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Kenora S R 03-Sep-12 CAN125,000 3+ AWT 1200 6 15-Aug-12USA Del Mar I’m Smokin S S 03-Sep-12 $100,000 2 AWT 1200 6 23-Aug-12USA Finger Lakes Aspirant S S 03-Sep-12 $100,000 2 C&G D 1200 6USA Finger Lakes Lady Fingers S S 03-Sep-12 $100,000 2 F D 1200 6CAN Hastings Racecourse Derby Bar and Grill Express 03-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1200 6 24-Aug-12

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RACESRaces are divided by distance and the relevant surface is indicated as follows:AWT - All Weather Track D - Dirt T - TurfThe indexes cover all graded races in North America over $50,000 in value, where information was available at the time of publication.

CLOSING DATESDates for Arlington Park have yet to be approved by the state racing board.

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DISCLAIMERWhilst every effort has been made to publish correct information, the publishers will not be held liable for anyomission, mistake or change to the races listed in all published indexes.

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingCAN Hastings Racecourse Derby Bar and Grill Ladies Express 03-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 FM D 1200 6 24-Aug-12USA Monmouth Park Icecapade S 03-Sep-12 $75,000 3+ D 1200 6 24-Aug-12USA Del Mar C.E.R.F. S R 05-Sep-12 $85,000 3+ F&M AWT 1200 6 20-Aug-12USA Del Mar Pirate’s Bounty H’cap R 05-Sep-12 $85,000 3+ AWT 1200 6 30-Aug-12USA Presque Isle Downs The Mark Mcdermott S 07-Sep-12 $75,000 2 D 1200 6 28-Aug-12GB Haydock Park Sprint Cup (Betfred) Gp 1 08-Sep-12 £225,000 3+ T 1200 6 10-Jul-12USA Louisiana Downs Temperence Hill 08-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ D 1200 6 25-Aug-12JPN Hanshin Centaur S Gr 2 09-Sep-12 $1,433,000 3+ T 1200 6 31-Jul-12USA Zia Park Premiere Cup H’cap 09-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ D 1200 6 31-Aug-12CAN Assiniboia Downs Winnipeg Futurity 15-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 2 D 1200 6 05-Sep-12USA Monmouth Park Jersey Breeders H’cap 15-Sep-12 $60,000 3+ D 1200 6 07-Sep-12USA Monmouth Park Eleven North S 15-Sep-12 $60,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 07-Sep-12USA Remington Park Kip Deville S 19-Sep-12 $75,000 2 D 1200 6 19-Sep-12USA Turfway Park Speightstown Kentucky Cup Sprint Gr 3 22-Sep-12 $100,000 3 AWT 1200 6 13-Sep-12USA Louisiana Downs Lady Razorback Futurity S 22-Sep-12 $50,000 2 F (AR bred) D 1200 6 19-Sep-12USA Louisiana Downs Razorback Futurity S 22-Sep-12 $50,000 2 C&G (AR bred) D 1200 6 19-Sep-12USA Penn National The Changing Times 22-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ D 1200 6 14-Sep-12GB Newmarket Cheveley Park S Gp 1 29-Sep-12 £150,000 2 F T 1200 6 24-Jul-12USA Belmont Park Vosburgh Invitational Gr 1 29-Sep-12 $400,000 3+ D 1200 6 15-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Victorian Queen S R 29-Sep-12 CAN125,000 2 F AWT 1200 6 12-Sep-12USA Finger Lakes New York Breeders’ Futurity S 29-Sep-12 $200,000 2 D 1200 6USA Calder Birdonthewire S 29-Sep-12 $100,000 2 D 1200 6 15-Sep-12USA Calder Cassidy S 29-Sep-12 $100,000 2 F D 1200 6 15-Sep-12USA Presque Isle Downs Presque Isle Debutante S 29-Sep-12 $100,000 2 F AWT 1200 6 19-Sep-12USA Belmont Park Futurity S Gr 2 30-Sep-12 $200,000 2 D 1200 6 15-Sep-12USA Belmont Park Matron S Gr 2 30-Sep-12 $200,000 2 F D 1200 6 15-Sep-12USA Remington Park Remington Park Turf Sprint S S 30-Sep-12 $200,000 3+ T 1200 6 21-Sep-12USA Keeneland Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Gr 3 05-Oct-12 $175,000 3+ AWT 1200 6 26-Sep-12USA Penn National Ligature S R 05-Oct-12 $75,000 3+ F&M (PA bred) D 1200 6 28-Sep-12USA Remington Park Flashy Lady S 05-Oct-12 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 26-Sep-12USA Santa Anita Santa Anita Sprint Championship (Ancient Title S) Gr 1 06-Oct-12 $250,000 3+ D 1200 6 18-Aug-12USA Keeneland Thoroughbred Club of America S Gr 2 06-Oct-12 $200,000 3+ F&M AWT 1200 6 10-Jun-12USA Santa Anita Tim Conway S (Jack Goodman S) 06-Oct-12 $100,000 2 D 1200 6 27-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Bull Page S R 08-Oct-12 CAN125,000 2 C&G AWT 1200 6 19-Sep-12USA Thistledown Best of Ohio Sprint H’cap S 12-Oct-12 $50,000 3+ (OH Bred) D 1200 6 03-Oct-12GB Newmarket Middle Park St (Emaar) Gp 1 13-Oct-12 £150,000 2 C T 1200 6 31-Jul-12USA Santa Anita California Cup Sprint S 13-Oct-12 $100,000 3+ (CA Bred) D 1200 6 20-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Fanfreluche S S 13-Oct-12 CAN150,000 2 F AWT 1200 6 26-Sep-12USA Delaware Park Endine S 13-Oct-12 $100,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 01-Oct-12CAN Woodbine Nearctic S Gr 1 14-Oct-12 CAN500,000+ 3+ T 1200 6 26-Sep-12USA Remington Park Oklahoma Classics Distaff Sprint S 19-Oct-12 $130,000 3+ F&M OK Bred D 1200 6USA Remington Park Oklahoma Classics Juvenile S 19-Oct-12 $90,000 2 C&G Ok Bred D 1200 6USA Remington Park Oklahoma Classics Lassie S 19-Oct-12 $90,000 2 F D 1200 6USA Remington Park Oklahoma Classics Sprint S 19-Oct-12 $130,000 3+ D 1200 6USA Belmont Park Hudson H’cap S 20-Oct-12 $150,000 3+ (NY bred) D 1200 6 06-Oct-12USA Hawthorne Racecourse Lightning Jet H’cap S 20-Oct-12 $125,000 3+ D 1200 6 10-Oct-12USA Hawthorne Racecourse Powerless H’cap S 20-Oct-12 $125,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 10-Oct-12USA Delaware Park The New Castle 20-Oct-12 $60,000 3+ D 1200 6 08-Oct-12USA Delaware Park Tax Free Distaff 20-Oct-12 $60,000 3+ FM (DE Bred) D 1200 6 08-Oct-12USA Beulah Park Scarlet & Gray H’cap S 27-Oct-12 $50,000 3+ FM (OH Reg) D 1200 6 17-Oct-12USA Delaware Park Stonewall Farm Ocala Xtra Heat Overnight 27-Oct-12 $60,000 2 F D 1200 6 15-Oct-12JPN Nakayama Sprinters S Gr 1 30-Oct-12 $2,470,000 3+ T 1200 6 14-Aug-12USA Delaware Park The Bellamy Road Overnight 01-Nov-12 $50,000 2 D 1200 6 22-Oct-12USA Beulah Park Glacial Princess S R 03-Nov-12 $50,000 2 F (OH Acc) D 1200 6 24-Oct-12CAN Woodbine Ontario Fashion S Gr III 04-Nov-12 CAN150,000+ 3+ F&M AWT 1200 6 17-Oct-12USA Calder Jack Dudley Sprint H’cap S 10-Nov-12 $125,000 3+ (FL Breds) D 1200 6 27-Oct-12USA Hawthorne Racecourse Showtime Deb S S 10-Nov-12 $125,000 2 F D 1200 6 31-Oct-12USA Hawthorne Racecourse Sun Power S S 10-Nov-12 $125,000 2 CG D 1200 6 31-Oct-12USA Aqueduct New York Stallion Series - Fifth Avenue Division S 11-Nov-12 $125,000 2 F D 1200 6 CLOSEDUSA Aqueduct New York Stallion Series - Great White Way Division S 11-Nov-12 $125,000 2 D 1200 6 CLOSEDUSA Penn National The Fabulous Strike H’Cap 12-Nov-12 $200,000 3+ D 1200 6 14-Nov-12USA Mountaineer Sophomore Sprint Championship S 13-Nov-12 $85,000 3 D 1200 6 30-Oct-12USA Beulah Park Ohio Freshman S R 17-Nov-12 $50,000 2 (OH Acc) D 1200 6 07-Nov-12USA Penn National Blue Mountain S R 21-Nov-12 $75,000 2 F D 1200 6 15-Nov-12USA Penn National The Daylily 21-Nov-12 $100,000 3+ F&M 1200 6 14-Nov-12USA Aqueduct Fall Highweight H’cap Gr 3 22-Nov-12 $150,000 3+ D 1200 6 10-Nov-12USA Fair Grounds Thanksgiving H 22-Nov-12 $100,000 3+ D 1200 6JPN Kyoto Keihan Hai Gr 3 24-Nov-12 $985,000 3+ T 1200 6 09-Oct-12CAN Woodbine Kennedy Road S Gr 3 25-Nov-12 CAN150,000+ 3+ AWT 1200 6 25-Nov-12USA Remington Park Oklahoma Stallion S S 30-Nov-12 $50,000 2 D 1200 6USA Remington Park Oklahoma Stallion S - Fillies S 30-Nov-12 $50,000 2 F D 1200 6USA Turfway Park Holiday Inaugural S S 01-Dec-12 $50,000 3+ F&M AWT 1200 6 22-Nov-12USA Aqueduct Garland of Roses H’cap 01-Dec-12 $75,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 17-Nov-12USA Fair Grounds Louisiana Champions Day Juvenile S S 08-Dec-12 $100,000 2 C&G LA Bred D 1200 6USA Fair Grounds Louisiana Champions Day Ladies Sprint S 08-Dec-12 $100,000 3+ F&M LA Bred D 1200 6USA Fair Grounds Louisiana Champions Day Lassie S S 08-Dec-12 $100,000 2 F LA Bred D 1200 6USA Fair Grounds Louisiana Champions Day Sprint S 08-Dec-12 $100,000 3+LA Bred D 1200 6JPN Nakayama Capella S Gr 3 09-Dec-12 $911,000 3+ D 1200 6 23-Oct-12USA Sunland Park New Mexico State Racing Commission H S 09-Dec-12 $100,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 29-Nov-12USA Aqueduct Gravesend H’cap 15-Dec-12 $75,000 3+ D 1200 6 01-Dec-12USA Turfway Park Gowell S S 22-Dec-12 $50,000 3+ AWT 1200 6 13-Dec-12USA Turfway Park Holiday Cheer S 29-Dec-12 $50,000 3+ AWT 1200 6 20-Dec-12USA Fair Grounds Louisiana Futurity S 31-Dec-12 $100,000 2 F LA Bred D 1200 6USA Fair Grounds Louisiana Futurity S 31-Dec-12 $100,000 2 C&G LA Bred D 1200 6USA Sunland Park La Senora S S 12-Jan-13 $100,000 3 F (NM Bred) D 1200 6 04-Jan-13USA Sunland Park Pepsi Cola S S 19-Jan-13 $100,000 3 (NM Bred) D 1200 6 11-Jan-12USA Fair Grounds F.W. 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USA Saratoga John Morrissey S S 01-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ (NY bred) D 1300 6.5 25-Jul-12FR Deauville Prix Maurice de Gheest Gp 1 05-Aug-12 €250,000 3+ T 1300 6.5 18-Jul-12USA Del Mar Best Pal S Gr 2 05-Aug-12 $150,000 2 AWT 1300 6.5 26-Jul-12CAN Woodbine Shepperton S R 06-Aug-12 CAN125,000 3+ AWT 1300 6.5 22-Jul-12CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Debutante (AlwS) S 06-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 07-May-12CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Nursery (AlwS) S 06-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 2 CG (BC Bred) D 1300 6.5 07-May-12USA Monmouth Park The Mr Prospector S 07-Aug-12 $75,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 29-Jun-12USA Del Mar Sorrento S Gr 3 08-Aug-12 $150,000 2 F AWT 1300 6.5 02-Aug-12CAN Northlands Park 3&4-Year-Old Sale S R 11-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3&4 C&G D 1300 6.5CAN Northlands Park 3&4-Year-Old Sale S (Fillies) R 11-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3&4 F D 1300 6.5USA Saratoga Adirondack S Gr 2 12-Aug-12 $200,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 28-Jul-12

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Saratoga Saratoga Special Gr 2 12-Aug-12 $200,000 2 D 1300 6.5 28-Jul-12CAN Northlands Park Sales S 18-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 2 C&G D 1300 6.5CAN Northlands Park Sales S (fillies) 18-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5USA Del Mar Rancho Bernardo H’cap Gr 3 19-Aug-12 $150,000 3+ F&M AWT 1300 6.5 09-Aug-12CAN Hastings Racecourse CTHS Sales S 24-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 24-Mar-12CAN Hastings Racecourse CTHS Sales S 24-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 2CG D 1300 6.5 24-Mar-12USA Emerald Downs Barbara Shinpoch S 26-Aug-12 $50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5CAN Northlands Park Bird of Pay S 31-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5CAN Northlands Park Birdcatcher S 01-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 2 C&G D 1300 6.5CAN Northlands Park Sun Sprint S 01-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1300 6.5CAN Hastings Racecourse The Hastings Juvenile S S 03-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 2 D 1300 6.5 31-Aug-12USA Fairplex Park Beverly J. Lewis S 07-Sep-12 $50,000 3 F D 1300 6.5 01-Sep-12USA Presque Isle Downs Presque Isle Downs Masters S Gr 2 08-Sep-12 $400,000 3+ F&M AWT 1300 6.5 29-Aug-12USA Belmont Park Foxwoods Gallant Bloom (Hdcp) Gr II 08-Sep-12 $200,000 3 + FM D 1300 6.5 08-Sep-12USA Emerald Downs Dennis Dodge S S 09-Sep-12 $35,000 2 CG WA bred D 1300 6.5USA Emerald Downs Diane Kem S S 09-Sep-12 $35,000 2 F WA bred D 1300 6.5CAN Hastings Racecourse Jack Diamond S 09-Sep-12 CAN 100,000 2 CG D 1300 6.5 24-Mar-12CAN Hastings Racecourse Sadie Diamond S 09-Sep-12 CAN 100,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 24-Mar-12USA Fairplex Park Jim Kostoff S 09-Sep-12 $50,000 3 D 1300 6.5 01-Sep-12USA Fairplex Park Barretts Debutante R 15-Sep-12 $100000 (E) 2 F D 1300 6.5 CLOSEDCAN Northlands Park Red Diamond S S 15-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1300 6.5CAN Northlands Park Premier’s Futurity S 15-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 2 D 1300 6.5CAN Northlands Park Sturgeon River S S 15-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5USA Fairplex Park Barretts Juvenile R 16-Sep-12 $100000 (E) 2 D 1300 6.5 CLOSEDUSA Fairplex Park Governor’s Cup 19-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 12-Sep-12USA Fairplex Park Bangles and Beads 21-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1300 6.5 13-Sep-12USA Charles Town Miss Shenandoah S 22-Sep-12 $75,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 12-Sep-12USA Santa Anita The Eddie D S (The Morvich S) Gr 3 28-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ T 1300 6.5 20-Sep-12USA Presque Isle Downs Fitz Dixon Mem S 29-Sep-12 $100,000 2 AWT 1300 6.5 19-Sep-12USA Calder Kenny Noe Jr H’cap 06-Oct-12 $75,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 22-Sep-12USA Santa Anita The L.A Woman St (Louis R Rowan S) 07-Oct-12 $100,000 3+ F&M D 1300 6.5 27-Sep-12USA Santa Anita California Cup Distaff S 13-Oct-12 $125,000 3+ F&M (CA Bred) T 1300 6.5 20-Sep-12USA Santa Anita The Sen. Ken Maddy H Gr 3 20-Oct-12 $100,000 3+ F&M T 1300 6.5 11-Oct-12USA Remington Park E L Gaylord Memorial S 26-Oct-12 $50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 17-Oct-12USA Remington Park Silver Goblin S S 23-Nov-12 $50,000 3+ OK Bred D 1300 6.5 14-Nov-12USA Sunland Park Johnie L Jamison S S 08-Dec-12 $100,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 29-Nov-12USA Sunland Park El Paso Times H 26-Jan-13 $50,000 3 F D 1300 6.5 18-Jan-13USA Sunland Park El Diario H 09-Feb-13 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1300 6.5 01-Feb-13

USA Sunland Park Bill Thomas Memorial S 24-Mar-13 $85,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 16-Mar-13USA Del Mar Real Good Deal S S 03-Aug-12 $200,000 3 AWT 1400 7 26-Jul-12USA Charles Town Robert G Leavitt S S 04-Aug-12 $50,000 3 D 1400 7 25-Jul-12USA Charles Town Sadie Hawkins S S 11-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1400 7 11-Aug-12USA Charles Town Frank Gall Memorial S 18-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ D 1400 7 08-Aug-12USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Derby S 18-Aug-12 $75,000 3 (LA Bred) D 1400 7 04-Aug-12USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Oaks S 18-Aug-12 $75,000 3 F (LA Bred) D 1400 7 04-Aug-12USA Saratoga Ballerina S Gr 1 24-Aug-12 $500,000 3+ FM D 1400 7 11-Aug-12USA Saratoga Test Gr 1 25-Aug-12 $500,000 3 F D 1400 7 11-Aug-12USA Saratoga Foxwoods King’s Bishop Gr 1 25-Aug-12 $500,000 3 D 1400 7 11-Aug-12USA Calder Florida Stallion S - Affirmed Division R 25-Aug-12 $125,000 2 D 1400 7USA Calder Florida Stallion S - Susan’s Girl Division R 25-Aug-12 $125,000 2 F D 1400 7USA Charles Town Sylvia Bishop Memorial S 25-Aug-12 $50,000 3 F D 1400 7 15-Aug-12USA Del Mar Pat O’Brien H’cap Gr 1 26-Aug-12 $250,000 3+ AWT 1400 7 16-Aug-22CAN Woodbine Play the King S Gr 2 26-Aug-12 CAN200,000+ 3+ T 1400 7 08-Aug-12USA Del Mar Del Mar Debutante Gr 1 01-Sep-12 $300,000 2 F AWT 1400 7 01-Jun-12USA Saratoga Forego H’cap Gr 1 01-Sep-12 $500,000 3+ D 1400 7 18-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Seaway S Gr 3 01-Sep-12 CAN150,000 3+ F&M AWT 1400 7 15-Aug-12USA Saratoga Spinaway S Gr 1 02-Sep-12 $300,000 2 F D 1400 7 18-Aug-12USA Saratoga Three Chimneys Hopeful S Gr 1 03-Sep-12 $300,000 2 D 1400 7 18-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Simcoe S R 03-Sep-12 CAN 200,000 2 C&G AWT 1400 7 15-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Muskoka S R 03-Sep-12 CAN 200,000 2 F AWT 1400 7 15-Aug-12USA Del Mar Del Mar Futurity Gr 1 05-Sep-12 $300,000 2 AWT 1400 7 01-Jun-12IRE Curragh Moyglare Stud S Gp 1 09-Sep-12 €225,000 2 F T 1400 7 30-May-12CAN Woodbine Swynford S 09-Sep-12 CAN150,000+ 2 AWT 1400 7 22-Aug-12USA Fairplex Park C.B. Afflerbaugh S 12-Sep-12 $50,000 2 D 1400 7 05-Sep-12USA Fairplex Park Phil D Shepherd S 14-Sep-12 $50,000 2 F D 1400 7 05-Sep-12IRE Curragh Vincent O’Brien National S Gp 1 15-Sep-12 €200,000 2 CF T 1400 7 30-May-02USA Remington Park Te Ata S 21-Sep-12 $50,000 3 F OK Bred D 1400 7 12-Sep-12USA Remington Park Tishomingo S 21-Sep-12 $50,000 3+C&G OK Bred D 1400 7 12-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Overskate S R 22-Sep-12 CAN125,000 3+ AWT 1400 7 05-Sep-12USA Louisiana Downs LA Stallions S S 22-Sep-12 $100,000 2 C&G (LA Bred) D 1400 7 CLOSEDUSA Louisiana Downs LA Stallions S S 22-Sep-12 $100,000 2 F (LA Bred) D 1400 7 CLOSEDUSA Charles Town Pink Ribbon S 22-Sep-12 $70,000 3+ FM D 1400 7 12-Sep-12USA Charles Town Charles Town Oaks 22-Sep-12 $400,000 3 F D 1400 7 08-Sep-12FR Longchamp Prix de la Foret (Total) Gp 1 07-Oct-12 €300,000 3+ T 1400 7 22-Aug-12FR Longchamp Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium Gp 1 07-Oct-12 €350,000 2 CF T 1400 7 22-Aug-12USA Calder Jack Price Juvenile S 11-Oct-12 $125,000 2 (FL Breds) D 1400 7 27-Oct-12GB Newmarket Dewhurst S Gp 1 13-Oct-12 £300,000 2 C&F T 1400 7 31-Jul-12USA Belmont Park Bold Ruler Gr 3 13-Oct-12 $150,000 3+ D 1400 7 13-Oct-12USA Keeneland Lexus Raven Run Gr 2 20-Oct-12 $250,000 3 F AWT 1400 7 10-Oct-12USA Churchill Downs Iroquois S Gr 3 20-Oct-12 $150,000 3 + FM (NY Bred) D 1400 7 06-Oct-12USA Belmont Park Bertram F Bongard S 20-Oct-12 $125,000 2 D 1400 7 06-Oct-12USA Belmont Park Joseph A Gimma S 20-Oct-12 $125,000 2 F D 1400 7 06-Oct-12JPN Kyoto Mainichi Broadcast Swan S Gr 2 27-Oct-12 $1,433,000 3+ T 1400 7 11-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Frost King S R 07-Nov-12 CAN125,000 2 AWT 1400 7 17-Oct-12USA Remington Park Clever Trevor S 09-Nov-12 $100,000 2 D 1400 7 31-Oct-12JPN Tokyo Keio Hai Nisai S Gr 2 10-Nov-12 $931,000 2 T 1400 7 25-Sep-12JPN Kyoto KBS Kyoto Sho Fantasy S Gr 3 10-Nov-12 $725,000 2 F T 1400 7 25-Sep-12USA Charles Town Tri-State Futurity R 10-Nov-12 $100,000 2 D 1400 7USA Calder Joe O’Farrell Juvenile Fillies S 10-Nov-12 $125,000 2 F (Fl breds) D 1400 7 27-Oct-12USA Aqueduct New York Stallion Series - Staten Island Division S 11-Nov-12 $100,000 3+ FM D 1400 7 CLOSEDUSA Aqueduct New York Stallion Series - Thunder Rumble Division S 11-Nov-12 $100,000 3+ D 1400 7 CLOSEDCAN Woodbine Glorious Song S 11-Nov-12 CAN150,000+ 2 F AWT 1400 7 24-Oct-12CAN Woodbine Jammed Lovely S S 17-Nov-12 CAN150,000 3 F AWT 1400 7 31-Oct-12CAN Woodbine Bessarabian S Gr 3 24-Nov-12 CAN150,000+ 3+ F&M AWT 1400 7 07-Nov-12USA Charles Town West Virginia Futurity (WV) 01-Dec-12 50000 2 D 1400 7 21-Nov-12USA Remington Park Jim Thorpe S S 09-Dec-12 $50,000 3 D 1400 7 30-Nov-12USA Remington Park Useeit S 09-Dec-12 $50,000 3 F OK Bred D 1400 7 30-Nov-12USA Charles Town Eleanor Casey Memorial S 15-Dec-12 $50,000 2 F D 1400 7 05-Dec-12JPN Hanshin Hanshin Cup Gr 2 24-Dec-12 $1,687,000 3+ T 1400 7 06-Oct-12

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Delaware Park Thomas Tuck Greene Mem Overnight 02-Aug-12 $50,000 F 2 T 1500 7.5 23-Jul-12USA Delaware Park Nick Shuk Memorial Overnight 04-Aug-12 $50,000 2 T 1500 7.5 23-Jul-12USA Louisiana Downs Barksdale 04-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ T 1500 7.5 21-Jul-12USA Remington Park Red Earth S S 17-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ OK Bred T 1500 7.5 08-Aug-12USA Calder Naked Greed (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘11 pref) 18-Aug-12 $75,000 3 T 1500 7.5 08-Apr-12USA Calder Crystal Rail (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘11 pref) 18-Aug-12 $75,000 3 F T 1500 7.5 08-Apr-12USA Delaware Park The Eight Thirty Overnight 18-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ T 1500 7.5 30-Jul-12USA Del Mar Oak Tree Juvenile Fillies S 03-Sep-12 $100,000 2 F T 1500 7.5 23-Aug-12USA Del Mar Oak Tree Juvenile S 05-Sep-12 $100,000 2 T 1500 7.5 23-Aug-12USA Remington Park Ladies on the Lawn S S 30-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ F&M OK Bred T 1500 7.5 21-Sep-12USA Remington Park Oklahoma Classics Distaff Turf S 19-Oct-12 $130,000 3+ F&M OK Bred T 1500 7.5USA Santa Anita Damascus S 03-Nov-12 $100,000 3 D 1500 7.5 25-Oct-12

GB Goodwood Sussex S (Quipco) Gp 1 01-Aug-12 £300,000 3+ T 1600 8 29-May-12USA Canterbury Lady Canterbury Breeders’ Cup S 04-Aug-12 $75,000 3+ FM T 1600 8USA Louisiana Downs Donnie Wilhite Memorial S 04-Aug-12 $50,000 2 F T 1600 8 21-Jul-12USA Louisiana Downs Sunny’s Halo S 04-Aug-12 $50,000 2 T 1600 8 21-Jul-12USA Saratoga De La Rose S 04-Aug-12 $100,000 3 + FM T 1600 8 28-Jul-12CAN Assiniboia Downs Assiniboia Oaks 06-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1600 8 25-Jul-12USA Evangeline Downs Evangeline Mile 11-Aug-12 $125,000 3+ D 1600 8 28-Jul-12USA Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Juvenile Mile 11-Aug-12 $60,000 2 D 1600 8 02-Aug-12FR Deauville Prix Jacques le Marois (Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard) Gp 1 12-Aug-12 €600,000 3+ CF T 1600 8 25-Jul-12JPN Niigata Sekiya Kinen Gr 3 12-Aug-12 $985,000 3+ T 1600 8 03-Jul-12USA Del Mar Sandy Blue H’cap 14-Aug-12 $85,000 3 F T 1600 8 09-Aug-12CAN Assiniboia Downs Agassiz S S 18-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3+ C&G D 1600 8 08-May-12USA Emerald Downs WTBOA Lads S 18-Aug-12 $50,000 2 CG D 1600 8USA Penn National Capital City 18-Aug-12 $100,000 3 T 1600 8 10-Aug-12USA Penn National The Dauphin Miss 18-Aug-12 $100,000 3 F T 1600 8 10-Aug-12USA Emerald Downs Longacres Mile H’cap Gr 3 19-Aug-12 $200,000 3+ D 1600 8USA Del Mar Solana Beach H’cap S 19-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 09-Aug-12USA Saratoga With Anticipation S Gr 2 20-Aug-12 $200,000 2 T 1600 8 18-Aug-12USA Delaware Park Our Mims Overnight 22-Aug-12 $50,000 2 F D 1600 8 13-Aug-12CAN Assiniboia Downs Distaff S R 24-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3+ FM D 1600 8 08-May-12CAN Woodbine Ontario Colleen S Gr 3 25-Aug-12 CAN150,000+ 3 F T 1600 8 08-Aug-12USA Calder Lindsay Frolic S 25-Aug-12 $75,000 2 F D 1600 8USA Calder Seacliff S 25-Aug-12 $75,000 2 D 1600 8 11-Aug-12USA Delaware Park Strike Your Colors Overnight S 25-Aug-12 $50,000 2 D 1600 8 13-Aug-12USA Del Mar Del Mar Mile Gr 2 26-Aug-12 $200,000 3+ T 1600 8 16-Aug-12JPN Niigata Niigata Nisai S Gr 3 26-Aug-12 $780,000 2 T 1600 8 17-Jul-12USA Saratoga P.G. Johnson S 29-Aug-12 $100,000 2 F T 1600 8 22-Aug-12USA Del Mar El Cajon St 31-Aug-12 $100,000 3 AWT 1600 8 28-Aug-12USA Remington Park Ricks Memorial S 31-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 22-Aug-12USA Saratoga Riskaverse 31-Aug-12 $100,000 3 F T 1600 8 24-Aug-12USA Monmouth Park Cliff Hanger Gr 3 01-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ T 1600 8 19-Aug-12USA Delaware Park Stonewall Farm Ocala forever together overnight 01-Sep-12 $60,000 3+ FM T 1600 8 20-Aug-12USA Del Mar Adoration H’cap R 02-Sep-12 $85,000 3+ F&M AWT 1600 8 23-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Vice Regent S R 02-Sep-12 CAN125,000 3 T 1600 8 15-Aug-12USA Del Mar Torrey Pines S 02-Sep-12 $100,000 3 F AWT 1600 8 23-Sep-12USA Del Mar Yellow Ribbon Handicap Gr II 03-Sep-12 $250,000 3+ FM T 1600 8 23-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Halton S R 03-Sep-12 CAN125,000 3+ T 1600 8 15-Aug-12USA Presque Isle Downs Presque Isle BC Mile 07-Sep-12 $250,000 3+ AWT 1600 8 29-Aug-12IRE Leopardstown Matron S (Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus) Gp 1 08-Sep-12 €190,000 3+ F T 1600 8 04-Jul-12CAN Woodbine La Prevoyante S R 08-Sep-12 CAN125,000 3 F T 1600 8 22-Aug-12USA Arlington Park Arlington-Washington Lassie Gr 3 08-Sep-12 $150,000 2 F AWT 1600 8 29-Aug-12USA Arlington Park Arlington-Washington Futurity Gr 3 08-Sep-12 $150,000 2 AWT 1600 8 29-Aug-12JPN Nakayama Keisei Hai Autumn H’cap Gr 3 09-Sep-12 $985,000 3+ T 1600 8 31-Jul-12USA Emerald Downs Chinook Pass S S 09-Sep-12 $35,000 3 CG WA bred D 1600 8USA Emerald Downs John & Kitty Fletcher St S 09-Sep-12 $35,000 3 F WA bred D 1600 8CAN Woodbine Natalma S Gr 2 15-Sep-12 CAN200,000+ 2 F T 1600 8 29-Aug-12USA Belmont Park Noble Damsel H’cap Gr 3 15-Sep-12 $150,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 01-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Summer S Gr 3 15-Sep-12 CAN250,000+ 2 T 1600 8 29-Aug-12CAN Northlands Park Alberta Oaks S 15-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1600 8FR Longchamp Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Gp 1 16-Sep-12 €450,000 3 + CF T 1600 8 22-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Ricoh Woodbine Mile Gr 1 16-Sep-12 CAN1,000,000+ 3+ T 1600 8 29-Aug-12USA Turfway Park WinStar Kentucky Cup Gr 2 22-Sep-12 $200,000 3+ AWT 1600 8 13-Sep-12USA Louisiana Downs A L Red Erwin S R / S 22-Sep-12 $150,000 3 (LA Bred) T 1600 8 CLOSEDUSA Louisiana Downs Elge Rasberry S R / S 22-Sep-12 $150,000 3 F (LA Bred) T 1600 8 CLOSEDUSA Turfway Park Tiznow Kentucky Cup Juvenile Fillies 22-Sep-12 $100,000 2 F AWT 1600 8 13-Sep-12CAN Assiniboia Downs Buffalo S R 23-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 2 D 1600 8 CLOSEDGB Newmarket Fillies’ Mile (Shadwell) Gp 1 28-Sep-12 £150,000 2 F T 1600 8 24-Jul-12GB Newmarket Sun Chariot St (Kingdom of Bahrain) Gp 1 29-Sep-12 £160,000 3+ F T 1600 8 24-Jul-12USA Belmont Park Kelso H’cap Gr 2 29-Sep-12 $400,000 3+ D 1600 8 15-Sep-12ITY Milan Premio Vittorio di Capua Gp 1 30-Sep-12 €209,000 3+ T 1600 8 30-Aug-12USA Belmont Park Champagne S Gr 1 06-Oct-12 $400,000 2 D 1600 8 22-Sep-12USA Belmont Park Frizette S Gr 1 06-Oct-12 $400,000 2 F D 1600 8 22-Sep-12USA Keeneland First Lady S Gr 1 06-Oct-12 $400,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 26-Sep-12USA Keeneland Shadwell Turf Mile Gr 1 06-Oct-12 $750,000 3+ T 1600 8 26-Sep-12JPN Kyoto Daily Hai Nisai S Gr 2 06-Oct-12 $931,000 2 T 1600 8 28-Aug-12USA Santa Anita The Arroyo Seco Mile (Oak Tree Mile) Gr 2 06-Oct-12 $150,000 3+ T 1600 8 27-Sep-12USA Santa Anita Swingtime S 06-Oct-12 $65,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 29-Sep-12FR Longchamp Prix Marcel Boussac (Total) Gp 1 07-Oct-12 €300,000 2 F T 1600 8 22-Aug-12USA Belmont Park Pebbles S 08-Oct-12 $150,000 3 F T 1600 8 22-Sep-12CAN Northlands Park Freedom of the City S 08-Oct-12 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1600 8CAN Northlands Park Canadian Juvenile S 08-Oct-12 CAN 50,000 2 D 1600 8USA Calder Frances Genter 13-Oct-12 $75,000 3 F T 1600 8 29-Sep-12ITY Milan Gran Criterium Gp 1 14-Oct-12 €209,000 2 C&F T 1600 8 13-Sep-12USA Remington Park Oklahoma Classics Turf S 19-Oct-12 $130,000 3+ T 1600 8GB Ascot Queen Elizabeth II S (Quipco) Gp 1 20-Oct-12 £1,000,000 3+ T 1600 8 07-Aug-12JPN Tokyo Saudi Arabia Royal Cup Fuji S Gr 3 20-Oct-12 $985,000 3+ T 1600 8 11-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Bunty Lawless S R 21-Oct-12 CAN125,000 3+ T 1600 8 03-Oct-12GB Doncaster Trophy (Racing Post) Gp 1 27-Oct-12 £200,000 2 C&F T 1600 8 14-Aug-12USA Santa Anita The Autumn Miss S (The Harold C Ramser Sr S) Gr 3 27-Oct-12 $100,000 3 F T 1600 8 18-Oct-12FR Saint-Cloud Criterium International Gp 1 01-Nov-12 €250,000 2 CF T 1600 8 10-Oct-12USA Mountaineer Mountaineer Mile H’cap 03-Nov-12 $130,000 3+ D 1600 8 22-Oct-12USA Belmont Park Nashua S Gr 2 04-Nov-12 $200,000 2 D 1600 8 20-Oct-12USA Santa Anita The Goldikova St (The Las Palmas S) Gr 2 04-Nov-12 $150,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 25-Oct-12USA Belmont Park Tempted S Gr 3 04-Nov-12 $150,000 2 F D 1600 8 20-Oct-12JPN Tokyo Tokyo Chunichi Sports Hai Musashino S Gr 3 11-Nov-12 $911,000 3+ D 1600 8 25-Sep-12JPN Kyoto Mile Championship Gr 1 18-Nov-12 $2,600,000 3+ T 1600 8 02-Oct-12USA Aqueduct Go For Wand Hcap Gr 2 23-Nov-12 $200,000 3+ FM D 1600 8 10-Nov-12USA Fair Grounds Woodchopper S 23-Nov-12 $75,000 3 T 1600 8USA Aqueduct Cigar Mile H’cap Gr 1 24-Nov-12 $350,000 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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Fair Grounds Pago Hop S 24-Nov-12 $75,000 3 F T 1600 8USA Fair Grounds LA Champions Day Ladies S S 08-Dec-12 $100,000 3+F&M LA Bred D 1600 8JPN Hanshin Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Gr 1 09-Dec-12 $1,687,000 2 F T 1600 8 23-Oct-12USA Remington Park Remington Springboard Mile 09-Dec-12 $300,000 2 D 1600 8 30-Nov-12JPN Nakayama Asahi Hai Futurity S Gr 1 16-Dec-12 $1,832,000 2 No G T 1600 8 06-Nov-12USA Sunland Park Enchantress S S 16-Dec-12 $100,000 2 F D 1600 8 08-Dec-12USA Sunland Park Riley Allison Futurity 23-Dec-12 $100,000 2 D 1600 8 15-Dec-12USA Sunland Park Red Hedeman Mile S 29-Dec-12 $100,000 2 D 1600 8 21-Dec-12USA Fair Grounds Dixie Poker Ace S S 05-Jan-13 $60,000 4+ LA Bred T 1600 8USA Fair Grounds Lecomte S Gr 3 19-Jan-13 $200,000 3 D 1600 8USA Fair Grounds Sarah Lane’s Oates S S 16-Feb-13 $60,000 3 F LA Bred T 1600 8USA Sunland Park Island Fashion S 24-Feb-13 $50,000 3 F D 1600 8 16-Feb-13USA Sunland Park Harry W Henson H 24-Mar-13 $85,000 3+ F&M D 1600 8 16-Mar-13USA Fair Grounds Crescent City Oaks S 30-Mar-13 $75,000 3 la. bred F D 1600 8

USA Mountaineer West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker’s Cup 04-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ T 1625 8.12 23-Jul-12USA Mountaineer West Virginia Senate President’s Breeders’ Cup S 04-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ FM T 1625 8.12 23-Jul-12USA Calder Brave Raj S 15-Sep-12 $100,000 2 F D 1625 8.12 01-Sep-12USA Calder Foolish Pleasure S 15-Sep-12 $100,000 2 D 1625 8.12 01-Sep-12

USA Presque Isle Downs HBPA S 29-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ F&M AWT 1650 8.25 19-Sep-12USA Sunland Park Mine That Bird Derby 23-Feb-13 $130,000 3 D 1650 8.25 15-Feb-13

USA Prairie Meadows Donna Reed S 04-Aug-12 $85,000 4+ F&M (IA Bred) D 1664 8.32 26-Jul-12USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Breeders’ Oaks S 04-Aug-12 $75,000 3 F (IA bred) D 1664 8.32USA Canterbury Minnesota Derby S 11-Aug-12 $60,000 3 CG D 1664 8.32USA Canterbury Minnesota Oaks S 11-Aug-12 $60,000 3 F D 1664 8.32USA Remington Park Oklahoma Classics Distaff S 19-Oct-12 $145,000 3+ F&M OK Bred D 1664 8.32USA Aqueduct East View S S 09-Dec-12 $75,000 2 F N.Y. Bred D 1664 8.32 24-Nov-12USA Aqueduct Damon Runyon S S 09-Dec-12 $75,000 2 D 1664 8.32 24-Nov-12

USA Penn National Robellino S R 03-Aug-12 $75,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 27-Jul-12USA Penn National Russian Rythm S R 03-Aug-12 $75,000 3+ F&M (PA Bred) T 1700 8.5 27-Jul-12CAN Northlands Park Northlands Oaks 03-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5USA Del Mar Clement L. Hirsch S Gr 1 04-Aug-12 $300,000 3+ F&M AWT 1700 8.5 26-Jul-12CAN Woodbine Seagram Cup S Gr 3 04-Aug-12 CAN150,000+ 3+ AWT 1700 8.5 18-Jul-12USA Finger Lakes Genesee Valley Breeders’ H’cap S 04-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5USA Prairie Meadows Ralph Hayes S 04-Aug-12 $85,000 4+ C&G D 1700 8.5 26-Jul-12USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Breeders’ Derby S 04-Aug-12 $75,000 3 D 1700 8.5USA Louisiana Downs Super Derby Prelude 04-Aug-12 $100,000 3 T 1700 8.5 21-Jul-12USA Mountaineer West Virginia Governor’s S 04-Aug-12 $200,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 23-Jul-12CAN Northlands Park Count Lathum S 04-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3 D 1700 8.5CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Dogwood S S 06-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 10-Aug-12CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Stellar’s Jay S S 06-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3 CG D 1700 8.5 28-Jul-12CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Endurance (BC Bred) S 06-Aug-12 CAN 22,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 28-Jul-12CAN Northlands Park Don Fleming H’cap 06-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5CAN Northlands Park Madamoiselle H 06-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5USA Saratoga Signature Stallions Waya S 06-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 30-Jul-12USA Saratoga New York Stallion Series - Cab Calloway Division R 08-Aug-12 $100,000 3 T 1700 8.5 CLOSEDUSA Saratoga New York Stallion Series - Statue of Liberty Division R 09-Aug-12 $100,000 3 F T 1700 8.5 CLOSEDUSA Presque Isle Downs Malvern Rose S S 10-Aug-12 $75,000 3 F AWT 1700 8.5 31-Jul-12USA Del Mar La Jolla H’cap Gr 2 11-Aug-12 $150,000 3 T 1700 8.5 02-Aug-12USA Saratoga Fourstardave H’cap Gr 2 11-Aug-12 $500,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 28-Jul-12USA Monmouth Park Monmouth Oaks Gr 3 11-Aug-12 $100,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 28-Jul-12USA Arlington Park Illinois Owners S R 11-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 01-Aug-12USA Arlington Park Illinois Owners S R 11-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 01-Aug-12USA River Downs Vivacious S S 11-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 01-Aug-12USA Remington Park Governor’s Cup 11-Aug-12 $200,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 02-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Eternal Search S R 12-Aug-12 CAN125,000 3 F AWT 1700 8.5 25-Jul-12CAN Hastings Racecourse Richmond Derby Trial 17-Aug-12 CAN 75,000 3 D 1700 8.5 10-Aug-12CAN Hastings Racecourse Hong Kong Jockey Club H’cap 17-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 24-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Victoriana S R 18-Aug-12 CAN125,000 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5 01-Aug-12USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Distaff (Walmac Farms) S 18-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ F&M (LA Bred) T 1700 8.5 04-Aug-12USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Turf Classic S 18-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 04-Aug-12USA Saratoga Ballston Spa H’cap Gr 2 25-Aug-12 $250,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 11-Aug-12JPN Sapporo Elm S Gr 3 25-Aug-12 $911,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 17-Jul-12USA Finger Lakes New York Oaks S 25-Aug-12 $75,000 3 F D 1700 8.5CAN Northlands Park Westerner S 25-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5CAN Northlands Park City of Edmonton Distaff S 25-Aug-12 CAN 75,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5CAN Northlands Park Sonoma S 25-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5USA Monmouth Park Lady’s Secret S 26-Aug-12 $750,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 17-Aug-12USA Del Mar Harry F. Brubaker H’cap R 01-Sep-12 $85,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 23-Aug-12USA Calder Darn That Alarm 01-Sep-12 $75,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 18-Aug-12USA Canterbury MN Classic Championship S 02-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5USA Canterbury MN Distaff Classic Championship S 02-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5CAN Woodbine Algoma S R 03-Sep-12 CAN125,000 3+ F&M AWT 1700 8.5 15-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Elgin S R 03-Sep-12 CAN125,000 3+ C&G AWT 1700 8.5 15-Aug-12USA Ruidoso Downs Ruidoso Downs Championship 03-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 25-Aug-12USA Fairplex Park E B Johnston S S 08-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 01-Sep-12USA Louisiana Downs Happy Ticket 08-Sep-12 $100,000 2 F T 1700 8.5 25-Aug-12USA Louisiana Downs River Cities 08-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5 25-Aug-12USA Louisiana Downs Sunday Silence 08-Sep-12 $150,000 2 T 1700 8.5 25-Aug-12USA Louisiana Downs Unbridled H’cap 08-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 25-Aug-12USA Emerald Downs Belle Roberts H’cap S 09-Sep-12 $35,000 3+ FM WA bred D 1700 8.5USA Emerald Downs Muckleshoot Tribal Classic S 09-Sep-12 $40,000 3+ WA Bred D 1700 8.5USA Finger Lakes Jack Betta Be Rite H’cap S 15-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5CAN Northlands Park Breeders’ H’cap S 15-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5CAN Northlands Park Fall Classic Distaff S 15-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5USA Calder Judy’s Red Shoes (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘11 pref) 15-Sep-12 $75,000 3 F T 1700 8.5 01-Sep-12USA Calder Needles S (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘11 pref) 15-Sep-12 $75,000 3 T 1700 8.5 01-Sep-12USA Monmouth Park Charles Hesse H’cap 15-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 07-Sep-12USA Monmouth Park Jersey Girl H’cap 15-Sep-12 $600,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 07-Sep-12CAN Northlands Park Beaufort S S 16-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3 D 1700 8.5CAN Hastings Racecourse CTHS Sales 20-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3 CG D 1700 8.5 24-Mar-12USA Parx Racing Cotillion S Gr 1 22-Sep-12 $100,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 04-Jul-12USA Delaware Park Kent BC S Gr 3 22-Sep-12 $200,000 3 T 1700 8.5 10-Sep-12USA Turfway Park Distorted Humor Kentucky Cup Distaff Gr 3 22-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ F&M AWT 1700 8.5 13-Sep-12USA Calder Stage Door Betty H’cap 22-Sep-12 $75,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 09-Sep-12USA Fairplex Park Pomona Derby 22-Sep-12 $50,000 3 D 1700 8.5 12-Sep-12


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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Fairplex Park Las Madrinas H 22-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 12-Sep-12USA Turfway Park Bluegrass Cat Kentucky Cup Juvenile 22-Sep-12 $100,000 2 AWT 1700 8.5 13-Sep-12USA Emerald Downs Gottstein Futurity R 23-Sep-12 $65,000 2 D 1700 8.5CAN Woodbine La Lorgnette S 23-Sep-12 CAN150,000+ 3 F AWT 1700 8.5 05-Sep-12USA Santa Anita FrontRunner S (Norfolk S) Gr 1 29-Sep-12 $250,000 2 D 1700 8.5 18-Aug-12USA Santa Anita Zenyatta S (Lady’s Secret) Gr 1 29-Sep-12 $250,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 18-Aug-12USA Santa Anita Chandelier S (Oak Leaf S) Gr 1 29-Sep-12 $250,000 2 F D 1700 8.5 18-Aug-12CAN Hastings Racecourse CTHS Sales 29-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 24-Mar-12CAN Woodbine Classy ‘n Smart S R 30-Sep-12 CAN125,000 3+ F&M AWT 1700 8.5 12-Sep-12USA Remington Park Remington Green S 30-Sep-12 $125,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 21-Sep-12USA Remington Park Remington Park Oaks 30-Sep-12 $250,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 21-Sep-12USA Keeneland Darley Alcibiades S Gr 1 05-Oct-12 $400,000 2 F AWT 1700 8.5 26-Sep-12USA Keeneland Dixiana Breeders’ Futurity Gr 1 06-Oct-12 $400,000 2 AWT 1700 8.5 26-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Mazarine BC S Gr 3 06-Oct-12 CAN 200,000+ 2 F AWT 1700 8.5 19-Sep-12USA Hawthorne Racecourse Robert F Carey Memorial S 06-Oct-12 $100,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 26-Sep-12USA Hawthorne Racecourse Indian Maid H’cap 06-Oct-12 $100,000 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5 26-Sep-12CAN Northlands Park Duchess of York S 06-Oct-12 CAN 50,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5USA Belmont Park Miss Grillo BC S Gr 3 07-Oct-12 $150,000 2 T 1700 8.5 22-Sep-12USA Belmont Park Pilgrim St Gr 3 07-Oct-12 $150,000 2 T 1700 8.5 22-Sep-12USA Keeneland Bourbon S Gr 3 07-Oct-12 $150,000 2 T 1700 8.5 26-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Grey BC S Gr 3 07-Oct-12 CAN 200,000+ 2 AWT 1700 8.5 19-Sep-12USA Santa Anita Surfer Girl S 08-Oct-12 $100,000 2 F T 1700 8.5 29-Sep-12USA Santa Anita Zuma Beach 08-Oct-12 $100,000 2 T 1700 8.5 29-Sep-12USA Keeneland JP Morgan Chase Jessamine S Gr 3 11-Oct-12 $150,000 2 F T 1700 8.5 03-Oct-12USA Thistledown Juvenile S S 12-Oct-12 $75,000 2 D 1700 8.5 12-Oct-12USA Thistledown John W Galbreath Memorial St S 12-Oct-12 $75,000 2 F (OH Bred) D 1700 8.5 03-Oct-12USA Belmont Park Athenia H’cap Gr 3 13-Oct-12 $150,000 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5 29-Sep-12USA Calder Spend a Buck H’cap Gr 3 13-Oct-12 $100,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 29-Sep-12USA Calder Florida Stallion S - My Dear Girl Division R 13-Oct-12 $300,000 2 F D 1700 8.5USA Calder Florida Stallion S - In Reality Division R 13-Oct-12 $300,000 2 D 1700 8.5USA Santa Anita California Cup Juvenile C&G S 13-Oct-12 $250,000 2 C&G (CA Bred) D 1700 8.5 20-Sep-12USA Santa Anita California Cup Juvenile F S 13-Oct-12 $250,000 (CA Bred) D 1700 8.5CAN Northlands Park Harvest Gold Plate 13-Oct-12 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5USA Santa Anita Lava Man California Cup Classic 13-Oct-12 $175,000 3+ (CA Bred) D 1700 8.5 20-Sep-12CAN Hastings Racecourse Ascot Graduation S 14-Oct-12 CAN 75,000 2 D 1700 8.5 24-Mar-12CAN Hastings Racecourse Fantasy S 14-Oct-12 CAN 75,000 2 F D 1700 8.5 24-Mar-12USA Keeneland Pin Oak Valley View Gr 3 19-Oct-12 $150,000 3 F T 1700 8.5 10-Oct-12USA Remington Park Oklahoma Classics Cup S 19-Oct-12 $175,000 3+ OK Bred D 1700 8.5USA Delaware Park George Rosenberger S R 20-Oct-12 $60,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 08-Oct-12CAN Woodbine Cup and Saucer S R 20-Oct-12 CAN250,000 2 T 1700 8.5 03-Oct-12USA Belmont Park Turnback the Alarm Gr 3 27-Oct-12 $150,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 13-Oct-12USA Hawthorne Racecourse Buck’s Boy H’cap S 27-Oct-12 $125,000 3+ D 1700 8.5USA Hawthorne Racecourse Illini Princess H’cap S 27-Oct-12 $125,000 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5CAN Woodbine Princess Elizabeth S R 28-Oct-12 CAN250,000 2 F AWT 1700 8.5 10-Oct-12USA Delaware Park The Crowned Overnight 03-Nov-12 $50,000 3+FM D 1700 8.5 22-Oct-12CAN Woodbine Autumn S Gr 2 10-Nov-12 CAN150,000+ 3+ AWT 1700 8.5 24-Oct-12USA Calder Arthur I Appleton Juvenile Turf S 10-Nov-12 $100,000 2 (FL Bred) T 1700 8.5 27-Oct-12USA Calder Elmer Heubeck Distaff H’cap S 10-Nov-12 $150,000 3+ FM (FL Bred) D 1700 8.5 27-Oct-12USA Calder John Franks Juvenile Fillies Turf S 10-Nov-12 $100,000 2 F (FL Bred) T 1700 8.5 27-Oct-12CAN Woodbine South Ocean S S 18-Nov-12 CAN125,000 2 F AWT 1700 8.5 31-Oct-12USA Penn National The Swatara 21-Nov-12 $75,000 3+ 1700 8.5 14-Nov-12USA Fair Grounds Mr Sulu S 22-Nov-12 $60,000 3+ LA Bred T 1700 8.5USA Beulah Park Bobbie Bricker Memorial H’cap R 24-Nov-12 $50,000 3+ FM (OH Acc) D 1700 8.5 14-Nov-12USA Hawthorne Racecourse Pat Whitworth Illinois Debutante S S 01-Dec-12 $125,000 2 F D 1700 8.5CAN Woodbine Display S 01-Dec-12 CAN150,000+ 2 AWT 1700 8.5 07-Oct-12CAN Woodbine Kingarvie S S 02-Dec-12 CAN125,000 2 AWT 1700 8.5 14-Nov-12USA Fair Grounds Louisiana Champions Day Turf S S 08-Dec-12 $100,000 3+ LA Bred T 1700 8.5USA Hawthorne Racecourse Jim Edgar Illinois Futurity S 08-Dec-12 $125,000 2 C&G D 1700 8.5USA Turfway Park My Charmer S S 08-Dec-12 $50,000 3+ F&M AWT 1700 8.5 29-Nov-12USA Fair Grounds Tenacious H 15-Dec-12 $75,000 3+ D 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Blushing K.D. H 22-Dec-12 $75,000 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Buddy Diliberto Memorial H 22-Dec-12 $75,000 3+ T 1700 8.5USA Aqueduct Alex M. Robb H’cap S 26-Dec-12 $75,000 3+ (NY Bred) D 1700 8.5 15-Dec-12USA Sunland Park Albert Dominguez Memorial H S 30-Dec-12 $100,000 4+ (NM Bred) D 1700 8.5 22-Dec-12USA Fair Grounds Col. E.R Bradley Hcp Gr 3 19-Jan-13 $125,000 4+ T 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Louisiana H 19-Jan-13 $100,000 4+ D 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Marie G Krantz Memorial H 19-Jan-13 $75,000 4 + F & M T 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Silverbulletday S 19-Jan-13 $125,000 3 F D 1700 8.5USA Sunland Park Curribot H 10-Feb-13 $50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 02-Feb-13USA Fair Grounds Risen Star S Gr 2 23-Feb-13 $400,000 3 D 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Rachel Alexandra S Gr 3 23-Feb-13 $200,000 3 F D 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Mineshaft H’cap Gr 3 23-Feb-13 $150,000 4+ D 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Bayou H’cap 23-Feb-13 $75,000 4+ FM T 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds New Orleans Ladies S 09-Mar-13 $150,000 4+ FM D 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Red Camelia S S 23-Mar-13 $60,000 4+ FM La Bred T 1700 8.5USA Sunland Park New Mexico Breeders’ Derby S 24-Mar-13 $100,000 3 D 1700 8.5 16-Mar-13USA Sunland Park New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks S 24-Mar-13 $100,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 16-Mar-13USA Sunland Park Sunland Park Oaks 24-Mar-13 $200,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 09-Mar-13USA Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Oaks Gr 2 30-Mar-13 $400,000 3 F D 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Costa Rising S S 30-Mar-13 $60,000 4+ La. Bred D 1700 8.5USA Fair Grounds Crescent City Derby S 30-Mar-13 $75,000 3 La. Bred D 1700 8.5

USA Saratoga Whitney H’cap Gr 1 04-Aug-12 $750,000 3+ D 1800 9 21-Jul-12USA Mountaineer West Virginia Derby Gr 2 04-Aug-12 $750,000 3 D 1800 9 23-Jul-12USA Canterbury Princess Elaine S S 04-Aug-12 $50,000 3+ FM T 1800 9JPN Niigata Leopard S Gr 3 05-Aug-12 $1,040,000 3+ D 1800 9 19-Jun-12CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Classic H’cap S 06-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1800 9 28-Jul-12CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Distaff H’cap S 06-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 FM D 1800 9 28-Jul-12CAN Assiniboia Downs Manitoba Derby 06-Aug-12 CAN 50,000 3 D 1800 9 25-Jul-12USA Saratoga National Museum Racing Hall of Fame S Gr 2 10-Aug-12 $200,000 3 T 1800 9 28-Jul-12USA Emerald Downs Washington Oaks 11-Aug-12 $65,000 3 F D 1800 9USA Del Mar John C. Mabee H’cap Gr 2 12-Aug-12 $250,000 3+ F&M T 1800 9 02-Aug-12USA Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Derby 12-Aug-12 $65,000 3 D 1800 9USA Saratoga West Point H’cap S 16-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ (NY bred) T 1800 9 04-Aug-12USA Saratoga Yaddo H’cap S 17-Aug-12 $150,000 3+ FM (NY bred) T 1800 9 04-Aug-12USA Del Mar Del Mar Oaks Gr 1 18-Aug-12 $300,000 3 F T 1800 9 09-Aug-12USA Monmouth Park Philip H. Iselin S Gr 3 18-Aug-12 $150,000 3+ D 1800 9 02-Aug-12USA Remington Park Edward J DeBartolo Memorial 18-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ T 1800 9 09-Aug-12USA Saratoga Lake Placid Gr 2 19-Aug-12 $200,000 3 F T 1800 9USA Saratoga Woodford Reserve Lake Placid Gr II 19-Aug-12 $200,000 3 F T 1800 9 04-Aug-12USA Emerald Downs Emerald Distaff 19-Aug-12 $65,000 3+ FM D 1800 9USA Monmouth Park Restoration S 19-Aug-12 $60,000 3 T 1800 9 10-Aug-12

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Saratoga Albany S S 22-Aug-12 $150,000 3 (NY bred) D 1800 9 11-Aug-12USA Monmouth Park Twin Light S 25-Aug-12 $60,000 3 F T 1800 9 17-Aug-12USA Saratoga Saratoga Dew S S 27-Aug-12 $100,000 3+ FM (NY bred) D 1800 9 20-Aug-12USA Saratoga Woodward S Gr 1 01-Sep-12 $750,000 3+ D 1800 9 18-Aug-12USA Saratoga Bernard Baruch H’cap Gr 2 01-Sep-12 $250,000 3+ T 1800 9 18-Aug-12JPN Sapporo Sapporo Nisai S Gr 3 01-Sep-12 $780,000 2 T 1800 9 17-Jul-12USA Thistledown Rose DeBartolo Memorial S S 01-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ FM (OH Bred) D 1800 9 22-Aug-12USA Del Mar Del Mar Derby Gr 2 02-Sep-12 $300,000 3 T 1800 9 23-Aug-12CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Derby Gr 3 09-Sep-12 CAN 200,000 3 D 1800 9 15-Jun-12USA Belmont Park Ashley T Cole H’cap S 09-Sep-12 $150,000 3+ (NY bred) T 1800 9 25-Aug-12USA Belmont Park John Hettinger 09-Sep-12 $150,000 3+ F&M T 1800 9 25-Aug-12CAN Hastings Racecourse Delta Colleen H’cap 09-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 FM D 1800 9 31-Aug-12CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Breeders’ Cup Oaks 09-Sep-12 CAN 100K 3 F D 1800 9 29-Sep-12CAN Assiniboia Downs Gold Cup R 14-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3 + D 1800 9 05-Sep-12CAN Assiniboia Downs J.W. Sifton S R 14-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3 C&G D 1800 9 08-May-12CAN Assiniboia Downs Matron Breeders’ Cup S 14-Sep-12 CAN 50,000 3+ FM D 1800 9 05-Sep-12USA Belmont Park Garden City S Gr 1 15-Sep-12 $300,000 3 F T 1800 9 01-Sep-12USA Delaware Park The Christiana Overnight 15-Sep-12 $50,000 3 F T 1800 9 03-Sep-12USA Arlington Park Pucker Up S Gr 3 15-Sep-12 $175,000 3 F T 1800 9 05-Sep-12JPN Hanshin Kansai Telecasting Corp Sho Rose S Gr 2 16-Sep-12 $1,433,000 3 F T 1800 9 31-Jul-12CAN Woodbine Canadian S Gr 2 16-Sep-12 CAN300,000+ 3+ F&M T 1800 9 29-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Ontario Derby 16-Sep-12 CAN150,000+ 3 AWT 1800 9 29-Aug-12USA Parx Racing Pennsylvania Derby Gr 2 22-Sep-12 $1,000,000 3 D 1800 9 04-Jul-12USA Fairplex Park Ralph M Hinds Pomona H 23-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ D 1800 9 15-Sep-12USA Belmont Park Beldame Invitational Gr 1 29-Sep-12 $400,000 3+ F&M D 1800 9 15-Sep-12USA Santa Anita Awesome Again S (Goodwood S) Gr 1 29-Sep-12 $250,000 3+ D 1800 9 18-Aug-12USA Remington Park Oklahoma Derby 30-Sep-12 $400,000 3 D 1800 9 21-Sep-12USA Belmont Park Jamaica H’cap Gr 1 06-Oct-12 $400,000 3 T 1800 9 22-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Carotene S S 06-Oct-12 CAN150,000 3 F T 1800 9 19-Sep-12USA Keeneland Juddmonte Spinster S Gr 1 07-Oct-12 $500,000 3+ F&M AWT 1800 9 26-Sep-12JPN Tokyo Mainichi Okan Gr 2 07-Oct-12 $1,560,000 3+ T 1800 9 28-Aug-12CAN Hastings Racecourse Ballerina Breeders’ Cup S Gr 3 08-Oct-12 CAN 100,000 FM D 1800 9 29-Sep-12USA Thistledown Best of Ohio Distaff H’cap S 12-Oct-12 $75,000 3+ FM (OH Bred) D 1800 9 03-Oct-12USA Keeneland Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S (by invitation only) Gr 1 13-Oct-12 $400,000 3 F T 1800 9USA Belmont Park Knickerbocker H’cap Gr 3 13-Oct-12 $150,000 3+ T 1800 9 29-Sep-12USA Hawthorne Racecourse Hawthorne Derby Gr 3 13-Oct-12 $200,000 3 T 1800 9 03-Oct-12JPN Tokyo Fuchu Himba S Gr 3 13-Oct-12 $1,324,000 3+ FM T 1800 9 28-Aug-12USA Calder Tropical Park Derby 13-Oct-12 $75,000 3 T 1800 9 29-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Durham Cup S Gr 3 14-Oct-12 CAN150,000+ 3+ AWT 1800 9 26-Sep-12USA Belmont Park Empire Classic H’cap S 20-Oct-12 $250,000 3+ (NY bred) D 1800 9 06-Oct-12USA Belmont Park Ticonderoga H’cap S 20-Oct-12 $175,000 3+ F&M (NY bred) T 1800 9 06-Oct-12USA Belmont Park Mohawk St S 20-Oct-12 $175,000 3+ (NY bred) T 1800 9 06-Oct-12USA Keeneland Fayette S Gr 2 27-Oct-12 $150,000 3+ AWT 1800 9 17-Oct-12USA Santa Anita Twilight Derby (Oak Tree Derby) Gr 2 02-Nov-12 $150,000 3 T 1800 9 25-Oct-12JPN Kyoto Miyako S Gr 3 04-Nov-12 $911,000 3+ D 1800 9 25-Sep-12USA Beulah Park Ruff/Kirchberg Memorial S R 10-Nov-12 $50,000 3+ (OH Acc) D 1800 9 31-Oct-11CAN Woodbine Coronation Futurity R 10-Nov-12 CAN250,000 2 AWT 1800 9 24-Oct-12USA Calder Bonnie Heath Turf Cup S 10-Nov-12 $125,000 3+ (FL Bred) T 1800 9 27-Oct-12USA Calder Carl G Rose Classic S 10-Nov-12 $150,000 3+ (FL Bred) D 1800 9 27-Oct-12USA Charles Town My Sister Pearl S 10-Nov-12 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1800 9 31-Oct-12USA Aqueduct Discovery Gr 3 17-Nov-12 $150,000 3 D 1800 9 03-Nov-12USA Charles Town A Huevo S S 17-Nov-12 $50,000 3+ D 1800 9 07-Nov-12USA Calder My Charmer H’cap Gr 3 22-Nov-12 $100,000 3+ FM T 1800 9 08-Nov-12USA Aqueduct Gazelle S Gr 1 24-Nov-12 $350,000 3 F D 1800 9 10-Nov-12USA Aqueduct Demoiselle S Gr 2 24-Nov-12 $250,000 2 F D 1800 9 10-Nov-12USA Aqueduct Remsen S Gr 2 24-Nov-12 $250,000 2 D 1800 9 10-Nov-12USA Calder Fred W Hooper H’cap Gr 3 24-Nov-12 $100,000 3+ D 1800 9 10-Nov-12USA Calder Tropical Turf H’cap Gr 3 30-Nov-12 $100,000 3+ T 1800 9 17-Nov-12JPN Hanshin Japan Cup Dirt Gr 1 02-Dec-12 $3,392,000 3+ D 1800 9 09-Oct-12JPN Hanshin Asahi Challenge Cup Gr 3 08-Dec-12 $1,040,000 3+ T 1800 9 23-Oct-12USA Fair Grounds Lay Champions Day Classic S S 08-Dec-12 $100,000 3+ LA Bred D 1800 9USA Turfway Park Prairie Bayou S S 15-Dec-12 $50,000 3+ AWT 1800 9 05-Dec-12USA Fair Grounds Fair Grounds H’cap Gr 3 23-Feb-13 $150,000 4+ T 1800 9USA Sunland Park Sunland Derby Gr 3 24-Mar-13 $800,000 3 D 1800 9 01-Feb-13USA Fair Grounds Louisiana Derby Gr 2 30-Mar-13 $1,000,000 3 D 1800 9USA Fair Grounds Mervin H Muniz Jr Memorial Gr 2 30-Mar-13 $400,000 4+ T 1800 9USA Fair Grounds New Orleans H Gr 2 30-Mar-13 $400,000 4+ D 1800 9USA Sunland Park Sunland Park H 14-Apr-13 $85,000 3+ D 1800 9 06-Apr-13

USA Arlington Park Beverly D. S Gr 1 18-Aug-12 $750,000 3+ FM T 1900 9.5 27-Apr-12USA Arlington Park Washington Park H’cap Gr 3 01-Sep-12 $100,000 3+ AWT 1900 9.5 22-Aug-12USA Saratoga Saranac S Gr 3 02-Sep-12 $150,000 3 T 1900 9.5 18-Aug-12USA Aqueduct Queens County H’cap Gr 3 08-Dec-12 $75,000 3+ D 1900 9.5 24-Nov-12

GB Goodwood Nassau Gp 1 04-Aug-12 £185,000 3+ F T 1970 9.85 10-Jul-12

JPN Kokura Kokura Kinen Gr 3 05-Aug-12 $1,040,000 3+ T 2000 10 19-Jun-12USA Arlington Park Arlington Million XXVIII Gr 1 18-Aug-12 $1,000,000 3+ T 2000 10 24-Apr-12USA Arlington Park American St Leger S Gr 1 18-Aug-12 $400,000 3+ T 2000 10 08-Aug-12USA Arlington Park Secretariat S Gr 1 18-Aug-12 $500,000 3yo T 2000 10 08-Aug-12USA Saratoga Alabama Gr 1 18-Aug-12 $600,000 3 F D 2000 10 04-Aug-12FR Deauville Prix Jean Romanet (Darley) Gp 1 19-Aug-12 €250,000 4+ F T 2000 10 01-Aug-12JPN Sapporo Sapporo Kinen Gr 2 19-Aug-12 $1,687,000 3+ T 2000 10 03-Jul-12USA Saratoga Travers S Gr 1 25-Aug-12 $1,000,000 3 D 2000 10 11-Aug-12USA Del Mar TGV Pacific Classic Gr 1 26-Aug-12 $1,000,000 3+ AWT 2000 10 16-Aug-12USA Saratoga Personal Ensign S Gr 1 26-Aug-12 $600,000 3+ FM D 2000 10 11-Aug-12JPN Niigata Niigata Kinen Gr 3 02-Sep-12 $1,040,000 3+ T 2000 10 17-Jul-12USA Thistledown Governor’s Buckeye Cup S 07-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ (OH Bred) D 2000 10 29-Aug-12IRE Leopardstown Irish Champion St (Red Mills) Gp 1 08-Sep-12 €750,000 3+ T 2000 10 23-May-12USA Delaware Park Carl Hanford Memorial Overnight 08-Sep-12 $50,000 3+ D 2000 10 27-Aug-12USA Belmont Park Flower Bowl Invitational S Gr 1 29-Sep-12 $600,000 3+ F&M T 2000 10 15-Sep-12USA Belmont Park Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational S Gr 1 29-Sep-12 $1,000,000 3+ D 2000 10 15-Sep-12USA Santa Anita Rodeo Drivel S (The Yellow Ribbon S) Gr 1 29-Sep-12 $250,000 3+ F&M T 2000 10 18-Aug-12JPN Hanshin Sirius S Gr 3 29-Sep-12 $911,000 3+ D 2000 10 14-Aug-12USA Santa Anita John Henry Turf Championship (C L Hirsch S) Gr 2 30-Sep-12 $150,000 3+ T 2000 10 21-Sep-12USA Hawthorne Racecourse Hawthorne Gold Cup H’cap Gr 2 06-Oct-12 $500,000 3+ D 2000 10 26-Sep-12FR Longchamp Prix de l’Opera (Longines) Gp 1 07-Oct-12 €400,000 3+ F T 2000 10 22-Aug-12USA Thistledown Best of Ohio Endurance H’cap S 12-Oct-12 $75,000 3+ (OH Bred) D 2000 10 03-Oct-12JPN Kyoto Shuka Sho Gr 1 14-Oct-12 $2,311,000 3 F T 2000 10 28-Aug-12CAN Woodbine E P Taylor S Gr 1 14-Oct-12 CAN1,000,000+ 3+ F&M T 2000 10 26-Sep-12

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingGB Ascot Champion (Quipco) Gp 1 20-Oct-12 £1,300,000 3+ T 2000 10 07-Aug-12ITY Rome Premio Lydia Tesio Gp 1 28-Oct-12 €209,000 3+ F T 2000 10 27-Sep-12JPN Tokyo Tenno Sho (Autumn) Gr 1 28-Oct-12 $3,437,000 3+ T 2000 10 11-Sep-12CAN Woodbine Maple Leaf S 03-Nov-12 CAN175,000+ 3+ F&M AWT 2000 10 17-Oct-12ITY Rome Premio Roma Gp 1 04-Nov-12 €209,000 3+ T 2000 10 04-Oct-12FR Saint-Cloud Criterium de Saint-Cloud Gp 1 10-Nov-12 €250,000 2 CF T 2000 10 24-Oct-12JPN Fukushima Fukushima Kinen Gr 2 18-Nov-12 $1,040,000 3+ T 2000 10 09-Oct-12JPN Chukyo Kinko Sho Gr 2 01-Dec-12 $60,000,000 3 + T 2000 10 23-Oct-12JPN Chukyo Aichi Hai Gr 3 15-Dec-12 $911,000 3+ F&M T 2000 10 06-Nov-12JPN Hanshin Radio Nikkei Hai Nisai S Gr 3 22-Dec-12 $834,000 2 T 2000 10 06-Nov-12

GB York International St (Juddmonte) Gp 1 22-Aug-12 £725,000 3+ T 2080 10.4 26-Jun-12

GER Dusseldorf 154th Henkel Preis der Diana (Deutsches Stuten-Derby) Gp 1 05-Aug-12 €400,000 3 F T 2200 11 01-Aug-11USA Del Mar CTT & Thoroughbred Owners of California H’cap 16-Aug-12 $85,000 3+ F&M T 2200 11 16-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Sky Classic S Gr 2 19-Aug-12 CAN250,000+ 3+ T 2200 11 01-Aug-12USA Del Mar Del Mar H’cap Gr 2 25-Aug-12 $200,000 3+ T 2200 11 16-Aug-12CAN Northlands Park Canadian Derby Gr 3 25-Aug-12 CAN 200,000 3 D 2200 11USA Monmouth Park Omnibus S 25-Aug-12 $60,000 3+ FM T 2200 11 17-Aug-12USA Saratoga Glens Falls H’cap Gr 3 03-Sep-12 $150,000 3+ FM T 2200 11 18-Jul-12USA Louisiana Downs Super Derby Gr 2 08-Sep-12 $500,000 3 D 2200 11 25-Aug-12JPN Nakayama Sankei Sho All Comers Gr 2 23-Sep-12 $1,570,000 3+ T 2200 11 16-Aug-11USA Belmont Park Bowling Green H’cap Gr 2 25-Sep-12 $200,000 3+ T 2200 11 25-Aug-12CAN Northlands Park Speed to Spare S 29-Sep-12 CAN 100,000 3+ D 2200 11CAN Hastings Racecourse BC Premier’s H’cap Gr 3 08-Oct-12 CAN 100,000 3+ D 2200 11 29-Sep-12USA Aqueduct Red Smith H’cap Gr 2 03-Nov-12 $200,000 3+ T 2200 11 20-Oct-12JPN Kyoto Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup Gr 1 11-Nov-12 $2,352,000 3+ FM T 2200 11 02-Oct-12

CAN Woodbine Breeders’ S R 05-Aug-12 CAN500,000 3 T 2400 12 22-Jul-12GER Munich Grosser Pries Von Baden Gp 1 12-Aug-12 €155,000 3+ T 2400 12 22-May-12USA Saratoga Sword Dancer Invitational S Gr 1 18-Aug-12 $600,000 3+ T 2400 12 04-Aug-12GB York Yorkshire Oaks (Darley) Gp 1 23-Aug-12 £310,000 3+ F T 2400 12 26-Jun-12USA Ruidoso Downs Ruidoso Downs Thoroughbred Derby S 01-Sep-12 $50,000 3 D 2400 12 02-Aug-12GER Baden-Baden Longines Grosser Preis von Baden Gp 1 02-Sep-12 €250,000 3+ T 2400 12 12-Jun-12FR Longchamp Prix Vermeille (Qatar) Gp 1 16-Sep-12 €350,000 3+ F T 2400 12 22-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Northern Dancer BC Turf Gr 1 16-Sep-12 CAN 500,000+ 3+ T 2400 12 29-Aug-12GER Cologne Preis von Europa Gp 1 23-Sep-12 €155,000 3+ T 2400 12 26-Jun-12JPN Hanshin Kobe Shimbun Hai Gr 2 23-Sep-12 $1,354,000 3 No G T 2400 12 14-Aug-12USA Belmont Park Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational S Gr 1 29-Sep-12 $600,000 3+ T 2400 12 15-Sep-12FR Longchamp Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Qatar) Gp 1 07-Oct-12 €4,000,000 3+ CF T 2400 12 09-May-12JPN Kyoto Kyoto Daishoten Gr 2 08-Oct-12 $1,560,000 3+ T 2400 12 28-Aug-12CAN Woodbine Pattison Canadian International Gr 1 14-Oct-12 CAN 1,500,000+ 3+ T 2400 12 26-Sep-12USA Keeneland Sycamore Gr 3 18-Oct-12 $100,000 3+ T 2400 12 10-Oct-12ITY Milan Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro Gp 1 21-Oct-12 €209,000 3+ T 2400 12 20-Sep-12USA Aqueduct Long Island Gr 3 10-Nov-12 $150,000 3+ FM T 2400 12 27-Oct-12USA Calder WL McKnight H’cap Gr 2 24-Nov-12 $150,000 3+ T 2400 12 10-Nov-12JPN Tokyo Japan Cup Gr 1 25-Nov-12 $6,512,000 3+ T 2400 12 08-Oct-12USA Calder La Prevoyante H’cap Gr 3 30-Nov-12 $100,000 3+ FM T 2400 12 17-Nov-12

JPN Tokyo Copa Republica Argentina Gr 2 04-Nov-12 $1,433,000 3+ T 2500 12 .5 25-Sep-12JPN Nakayama Arima Kinen (The Grand Prix) Gr 1 23-Dec-12 $5,200,000 3+ T 2500 12 .5 06-Nov-12

USA Saratoga John’s Call S 03-Aug-12 $100,000 3 + T 2600 13 27-Jul-12

IRE Curragh St Leger (Irish) Gp 1 15-Sep-12 €220,000 3+ T 2800 14 23-May-12CAN Woodbine Valedictory S Gr 3 16-Dec-12 CAN150,000+ 3+ AWT 2800 14 28-Nov-12

GB Doncaster St Leger (Ladbrokes) Gp 1 15-Sep-12 £550,000 3 C&F T 2920 14.6 24-Jul-12

JPN Kyoto Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger) Gr 1 21-Oct-12 $2,917,000 3 No G T 3000 15 CLOSED

FR Longchamp Prix Royal-Oak Gp 1 28-Oct-12 €250,000 3+ T 3100 15.5 10-Oct-12

JPN Nakayama Sports Nippon Sho Stayers S Gr 2 01-Dec-12 $1,560,000 3+ T 3600 18 23-Oct-12

FR Longchamp Prix du Cadran (Qatar) Gp 1 07-Oct-12 €300,000 4+ T 4000 20 22-Aug-12




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Until dermorphin, or “frogjuice,” took over headlinesrecently, furosemide, knownunder the brand name Salixand used legally for thetreatment of exercise-inducedpulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH),was the drug in the news.

with the best throats, clear histories of EIPH,and sound limbs are accepted. This modelcouldn’t possibly work here, where we have torace what we breed. Moreover, there is no two-year-old racing to speak of in Hong Kong, theirclassics are for four-year-olds, and racing isconducted on turf. To use Hong Kong as amodel, then, is unrealistic.With all that, though, the percentage of cases

of epistaxis, or bleeding through the nostrils, ishigher in Hong Kong than here, according tofigures supplied by a veterinarian from the HongKong Jockey Club. The reason: Salix, which hashelped to curb the problem here. EIPH, by the way, is strictly defined as

epistaxis in the numerous studies citedfrequently from South Africa. The top-classSouth African filly Val De Ra bled from thenostrils after her second career start.Nevertheless, without the use of race-dayfurosemide, her trainer managed her issuethrough three seasons and several Group 1wins. She won 11 of 13 starts before a bleedingepisode in her final start led to her retirement inMay. She’s a terrific advertisement forsuccessfully racing a bleeder without Salix –something horsemen here appear unable to do.The Australian colt Rothesay was by all

accounts a terrifically talented horse who wonfour of nine starts but never fully realized hispotential due to EIPH. After he was ruled off theAustralian turf after bleeding through thenostrils, he was considered for a campaign in theU.S. with Salix but eventually found a home atstud in his native country for the 2011 season. That Rothesay proved to be popular in the

breeding shed in a country that suspendsbleeders from racing speaks loudly for whatAustralian breeders think about the heritabilityof EIPH, which is probably more common thansome think and more manageable withoutfurosemide than others think. All of which makes the tenor and direction of

this important discussion embarrassing, becauseneither side is as knowledgeable on the issues asit is zealous. The zealotry has led to a plethora ofmisinformation and filibuster-style strong-armtactics. We need to work toward a consensus,politics aside. n

Desert Blanc proved Bradley’s intuitioncorrect by winning the Grade 1 WoodfordReserve Manhattan Handicap at ten furlongs onturf at Belmont Park on Belmont Stakes day. The horse did race on Salix when he won in

the U.S. Those insisting on the performance-enhancing angle of furosemide could point to itas a reason for the jump in class, especially asHong Kong, with its stringent veterinaryexaminations for wind and EIPH, had rejectedhim. And the anti-Salix argument that links thedrug with breakdowns could be statisticallysatisfied by Desert Blanc’s retirement fromtendon injury shortly after the Manhattan.Of course, it’s just as easy to counter the

superiority of European form at distances of tenfurlongs and more on turf as the reason forDesert Blanc’s U.S. win and to attribute bad luckfor his injury. But whatever the posturing, hisstory illuminates some differences between theU.S. and Hong Kong: for one, there is nobreeding industry in Hong Kong and everyracehorse is imported; therefore, potentialcandidates, usually sound older horses, are putthrough rigorous veterinary tests, and only those

N anti-Salix faction,headed by the JockeyClub, wants to eliminate itsrace-day use to reflectuniformity with othermajor nations that prohibit

racing on medication. Trainers and veterinarians,mostly, oppose this and advocate its use as ahumane course of therapeutic treatment for whatthey say is a very real condition. This divide inblack and white is polarizing the industry likethe partisan politics of Washington.Salix is not illegal like dermorphin – a

powerful drug that has no place in the game.But it might as well be to a general public thatviews racing as crooked as a con man’s smile.Before frog juice and its warts splashed on thescene, Salix was assailed by some in the industryand media as a performance enhancer, a causeof breakdowns, and the culprit for a weakeningbreed. The handwringing this has caused insideand outside of racing is staggering. Other countries’ policies, studies, and horses

are frequently used as exhibits to bolsterpositions on the EIPH and Salix debate here.Mostly, Hong Kong is upheld as an ideal for itsanti-Salix policy and low rate of breakdowns;Europe for its high-quality racing without Salix;South Africa for its numerous studies on EIPH;and Australia for its no-nonsense banning ofbleeders from the racetrack. For some “gray shading” to a number of

positions on both sides, consider the cases of thefollowing three horses: ex-European DesertBlanc (GB), once destined for Hong Kong; ValDe Ra from South Africa; and Rothesay fromAustralia.Desert Blanc was imported from Europe by

Pete Bradley after winning three of five starts inFrance last year, including his first two starts atten furlongs. He’d won one Listed stakes raceand had placed in a Group 3, and he wasoriginally on the market for Hong Kong.“When I inquired about him, I found out that

he made a noise when he breathes, and he hadfailed the vet on a sale for Hong Kong. It didn’tmake sense to me that a horse that finishes likea rocket in a ten-furlong race had a breathingproblem,” Bradley wrote on his website.


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