Swale winner and classic contender Sharp Humor dies in South Korea
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Sharp Humor, 2003-2015 (Photo courtesy Horseracing in Korea)
by Sarah Mace
Let’s Run Stud Farm on Jeju Island has reported that New York-bred sire Sharp Humor, who relocated to Korea from WinStar Farm in February 2011, died at age 12 as the result of an accident on March 18.
Bred in New York by Patricia S. Purdy, Sharp Humor was a son of Distorted Humor and one of two winners out of the unraced Kentucky-bred Hansel mare Bellona (Hansel). Trained by Dale Romans, Sharp Humor raced for a partnership of Purdedel Stable and WinStar Farm, who acquired an interest in the horse when he was a classic contender in late April 2006.
Sharp Humor won four of ten career starts, including three stakes. At two he followed up 2005 victories in the Bertram F. Bongard and Sleepy Hollow with a third in the New York Breeders’ Futurity. The following year he won the Grade 2 Swale at Gulfstream Park and ran second to Barbaro in the 2006 Florida Derby. After fracturing a knee in the Kentucky Derby a month later, he ran twice more later in the year, when he finished second in the Hudson Handicap facing older horses.
Sharp Humor’s final start came in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile. Having aggravated his knee injury, he was retired at the end of his three-year old season with earnings of $490,410 and entered stud for $12,500 in 2007 at WinStar Farm as a Taylor Made/WinStar Venture stallion.
At 12-years-old, Sharp Humor was in his third breeding season in Korea, having been purchased by the Korea Racing Authority in November 2011. He covered 97 mares in 2013 and 85 in 2014, with another full book in progress this year. His first Korean 2-year-olds are set to debut this year.
Credited with 17 black type progeny winners, Sharp Humor’s top-earning offspring include graded stakes winner Hero of Order ($747,822) and multiple graded stakes placed Angelica Zapata ($649,845).
Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Sharp-humor-2003_2015.jpg
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/31/swale-winner-sharp-humor-dies-in-korea/
International Star completes sparkling hat trick in Louisiana Derby
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Miguel Mena celebrates aboard International Star in the G2 Louisiana Derby (Photo: Alexander Barkoff / Hodges Photography)
by Sarah Mace
These days Kentucky-based Ken and Sarah Ramsey certainly have a New York-bred on their hands to write home about. On Saturday afternoon International Star, a son of 2000 Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus, completed his sweep of the three Fair Grounds preps for the Run for the Roses with another sparkling victory in the Louisiana Derby. By the end of the day he stood in first place on the Kentucky Derby points leaderboard with 171 and had pushed his purse earnings into seven-figure territory.
Breaking from the outside of the nine-horse field, International Star, who has a penchant for doing his best running down inside, made his way over into the two path by the time the field entered the clubhouse turn, and before entering the backstretch, settled comfortably at the rail in mid-pack about five lengths off pacesetter Stanford, a sharp Pletcher-trainee who broke from the inside gate.
Moving up closer to the pace midway in backstretch, the bay colt advanced further at the rail in the far turn, scooted to the inside of his rivals when a hole opened up just before the quarter pole, then angled out in upper stretch to set his sights on the frontrunner.
Latching on to Stanford in the final furlong, the bay colt had enough determination and enough left in the tank to get in front by a neck in the final sixteenth for the victory. After an opening half-mile that went in 48.59 and a mile in 1:37.27, International Star stopped the clock after nine furlongs at 1:50.67. [VIDEO from Equibase America’s Best Racing[2]]
Ken Ramsey reacted with characteristic ebullience: “That’s back-to-back wins for us here in the Louisiana Derby and we swept all three this year. Last year [with Vicar’s in Trouble] we missed out on the Risen Star. Next stop: Kentucky!”
Miguel Mena, International Star’s pilot for all three Fair Grounds victories, said, “We got another good trip, had a clean run. He was the best horse in the race again today and I thank the connections for giving me the chance to ride him.”
Mike Maker, who trains the colt for the Ramseys, believes International Star is one of his best chances at a Kentucky Derby: “Definitely. He’s a special horse.” As to the colt’s affinity for Fair Grounds, Maker quipped, “I don’t know [why he is so good at this racetrack], but I think I might take some of the dirt from Fair Grounds up to Kentucky with us.”
In the immediate future, Maker said, “We will see how he comes out of the race and decide if we’ll train him like we did before this. I haven’t worked him until three weeks after his races.”
From five firsts and two seconds in nine starts, International Star has earned $1,010,979 to become the latest New York-bred millionaire[3]. His points total of 171, which sets him atop the Kentucky Derby points leaderboard, derives from four victories and a third: 100 points the Louisiana Derby, 50 points for the Grade 2 Risen Star, 10 for the Grade 3 LeComte, 10 points for the Grey Stakes at Woodbine last October and one point for his show finish in the Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs.
Bred by longtime Maryland breeders and owners Katharine M. Voss and Robert T. Manfuso and foaled at Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains, International Star was purchased by the Ramseys as a yearling for $85,000 out of the Fasig Tipton select yearling sale in September in Timonium.
International Star’s dam Parlez is a multiple winner by French Deputy Parlez and a granddaughter of Halory (Halo), the dam of five graded stakes winners, including Blue Grass Stakes winner Halory Hunter.
Parlez has produced five winners in all, including stakes winners Fools in Love by Not For Love, who earned $240,746 and D C Dancer by the same sire, a $228,065-earner. She has a yearling colt by Not for Love, was barren in 2015 and bred back to Fusaichi Pegasus this year.
Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/International-Star-J-3-28-2015.jpg
- VIDEO from Equibase America’s Best Racing: http://www.equibase.com/yearbook/Result.cfm?tk=FG&rd=2015-03-28&rn=11&de=D&cy=USA
- New York-bred millionaire: http://www.nytbreeders.org/racing/millionaires-club.cfm
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/28/international-star-louisiana-derby/
New York breeders continue to up the ante with 2015 foals from top-flight first crop sires
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Orb / Black Escort (Photo: Kelly McCombs)
As the snow recedes from the landscape in upstate New York, this year’s crop of foals is taking its place. Even on the heels of a benchmark year for the New York State breeding and racing program in 2014, it is clear that New York breeders are continuing to up the ante with each cohort of foals, and the 2015 crop is no exception. A review of The Jockey Club’s “Report of Mares Bred” for 2014, which flags the home state of mares when that information is available, shows scores of matings by state-based breeders between high-quality mares and top-flight first crop sires.
New York breeders of course jumped at the chance to take advantage of multiple opportunities to breed to accomplished first crop sires with deep pedigrees close to home. They account for the vast majority of mares bred to the state’s five first crop stallions: Darley’s Grade 1 Forego winner Emcee[2] (Sequel Stallions New York[3]), multiple Grade 2 winning sprinter Forty Tales[4] (Sequel Stallions New York[3]), Heavy Breathing[5] (Dutchess Views Farm[6]), who is the graded placed full brother to smashing young New York sire Frost Giant, multiple graded stakes winner and 2012 New York-bred Horse of the Year The Lumber Guy[7] (Keane Stud[8]) and champion sprinter Trinniberg[9] (Rockridge Stud[10]).
The Jockey Club “Mares Bred” reports also show that New York breeders did not hesitate to go further afield to explore racetrack achievers who retired to stud in 2014 elsewhere. To single out a few headliners, last year mares reported to be New York-owned were bred to: Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup winner Animal Kingdom (5), Grade 1 winner Graydar (4), triple Grade 1 winner Flat Out (8), triple Grade 1 winner Fort Larned (4), Grade 1 Wood Memorial winner and morning line favorite for the 2009 Kentucky Derby I Want Revenge (1), Kentucky Derby winner Orb (2) and five-time grade winner and turf star Point Of Entry (4). Especially popular with New Yorkers were juvenile phenom Shanghai Bobby (16) and Take Charge Indy, a Grade 1 winning millionaire and son of three-time Grade 1 winner and 2013 broodmare of the year Take Charge Lady (17).
Obviously not all of these matings of New York-owned mares will necessarily produce New York-bred foals on the ground. By the same token, other mares not flagged in these reports as New York-owned may have been bred to top-flight first crop sires and be preparing to drop New York-bred eligible foals. Taken as a whole, however, the reports paint a broad picture of New York breeders looking for fresh blood and quality both at home and out-of-state.
Two prime examples can be seen from a visit to Questroyal North[11] near Stillwater, which already has foals on the ground by Kentucky Derby heroes Orb and Animal Kingdom, both out of well-bred mares owned by Questroyal’s majority owner Barry R. Ostrager. Orb, a $2.6 million dollar earner and winner of the 2013 Grade 1 Kentucky Derby, Grade 1 Florida Derby and Grade 2 Fountain of Youth bred 122 mares last year according to The Jockey Club. Champion Animal Kingdom, an extraordinarily versatile son of Leroidesanimaux out of a Grade 3 winning German mare, won the Kentucky Derby his dirt debut and came back from injury to capture second in the Breeders’ Cup Mile and win the Grade 1 Dubai World Cup on synthetic. He earned over $8.3 million before retiring to stud and in 2014 he bred 148 mares.
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Orb / Black Escort (Photo: Kelly McCombs)
The Questroyal Orb foal is a bay colt with a small star born March 16 out of Black Escort, a daughter of Southern Halo out of a Nureyev mare. Black Escort was a juvenile stakes winner and Grade 2 placed on turf in France. The pedigree of the new foal runs deep. The colt’s third dam Sigy (FR) was a champion 2-year-old filly and champion sprinter in France as well as a graded stakes producer. Black Escort has produced three winners, including Black Snowflake, a multiple stakes placed runner by Elusive Quality. Her Orb foal, who is bred on the same cross as Kauai Katie, is given an A+ rating by TrueNicks.
Questroyal Stud was not alone in selecting the 2013 Kentucky Derby winner for a mating. SF Bloodstock’s Charlie’s Legacy, an unraced Virginia-bred by Indian Charlie from the family of multiple champion Indian Blessing, whom they purchased for $245,000 at the 2011 Fasig-Tipton winter mixed sale, was also bred to Orb last year. No foal is reported to date.
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Animal Kingdom / Dynamite Cocktail (Photo: Kelly McCombs)
Another well-bred foal on the ground at Questroyal is a filly by Animal Kingdom born March 11 with distinctive facial markings and a white half stocking on her left hind. Her color has yet to be determined. The filly’s dam is Dynamite Cocktail, a Kentucky-bred multiple winner of over $100,000 by Dynaformer who has produced three winners. Her top foal is Hollinger by Black Minnaloushe, multiple stakes winner, champion 2-year-old colt in Canada (2009) and earner of over $700,000. The filly’s third dam is stakes placed Luck’s Fancy, who is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes placed stakes winner Fancy ‘N Fabulous and two other stakes winners. The new filly, an outcross, receives an A++ TrueNicks rating.
In the many decades of the New York breeding program, 2014 saw unprecedented racetrack achievements by products of that program: Derby contenders, Grade 1 winners, a record number of Breeders’ Cup participants and an Eclipse champion. The year before set its own milestones. Breeders seem determined, however, not to rest on their laurels. As they push the ceiling higher for the program year by year, it would seem to be only be a matter of time before the foal crop of 2015 manages to set new benchmarks of its own, perhaps only to be superseded by the crop of the following year.
Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Orb_Black-Esccort-15a-2.jpg
- Emcee: http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/nytb/stallion/167154/emcee
- Sequel Stallions New York: http://www.sequelnewyork.com/
- Forty Tales: http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/nytb/stallion/167344/forty-tales
- Heavy Breathing: http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/nytb/stallion/166768/heavy-breathing
- Dutchess Views Farm: http://www.dutchessviewsfarm.com/
- The Lumber Guy: http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/nytb/stallion/167472/the-lumber-guy
- Keane Stud: http://www.keanestud.com/
- Trinniberg: http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/nytb/stallion/167242/trinniberg
- Rockridge Stud: http://www.rockridgestud.com/
- Questroyal North: http://www.questroyalnorth.com/
- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Orb_Black-Esccort-15b.jpg
- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Animal-Kingdom_Dynamite-Cocktail-15b.jpg
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/25/ny-breeders-up-ante-2015/
N. F.’s Destiny romps in inaugural Kelly Kip
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NYRA/Adam Coglianese
N. F.’s Destiny, got to the front first and never looked back on his way to an open-length victory in the inaugural running of the $50,000 Kelly Kip, a six-furlong dash for 4-year-olds and up that have started for a claiming price of $12,500 or less.
The Kelly Kip, one of 10 stakes races worth a total of $710,000 on Aqueduct’s first New York Claiming Championships card Saturday, was named for a multiple stakes winning Florida-bred trained by the late H. Allen Jerkens, whose passing last week has left a void in the life and hearts of horsemen across the country.
N. F.’s Destiny never had an anxious moment from the bell forward. Scooting to the front of the competitive 11-horse field from post two, the 6-year-old Cuvee gelding carved out fractions of 23.20, 46.32 and 58.54 on an uncontested lead under Irad Ortiz, Jr.
Leading by more than four lengths with a furlong to go, the 5-2 favorite carried on with good momentum to the wire, where he stopped the clock at 1:11.75 with a 3 1/2-length margin of victory. Dan’s Gold got up from mid-pack for second to complete a New York-bred exacta. Cho Time chased the leader throughout and remained on the scene to get the show. [VIDEO[2]]
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NYRA/Joe Labozzette
Trained by Gustavo Rodriguez for Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables LLC and Gary Aisquith, who claimed the horse last December for $20,000, N. F.’s Destiny has now won five of 10 races over Aqueduct’s inner oval and eight of 23 lifetime. He became eligible for the Kelly Kip when he ran for $10,000 in a conditioned claimer at Finger Lakes last August. His career earnings now total $335,670.
Bred by Eklektikos Stable, the winner is one of three winners from three foals to start out of Noble Fire (Hook and Ladder), a stakes-placed runner bred by Chester and Mary Broman. Noble Fire, whose progeny have earned over $1.2 million, is most familiar as the dam of graded stakes winner and star New York-bred sprinter La Verdad, by Yes It’s True ($780,700). Another foal, sophomore Hot City Girl (City Zip), has placed in two stakes.
Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/nfs-destiny.jpg
- VIDEO: http://www.nytbreeders.org/includes/video-player.cfm?date=20150321&track=AQD&race=5
- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/nfs-destiny4-credit-joe-labozzetta.jpg
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/21/n-f-s-destiny-kelly-kip/
Last New York-bred through the ring at OBS March brings $560,000
by Sarah Mace
The very last New York-bred to pass through the OBS March auction ring during the sale’s two-day run this Tuesday and Wednesday turned out to be the most successful, when Hip 610[1], a colt by Sidney’s Candy, who leads freshman sires by 2-year-old in training sales average, sold to L. E. B. for $560,000. Empire-breds fared well at the sale overall, with four of the 22 who changed hands bringing at least $270,000 and 16 individuals commanding six-figures.
Hip 610[1], who turned in an eighth of a mile breeze in :10 1/5 in the under tack show, was consigned by Hartley / DeRenzo Thoroughbreds, LLC, agent, who purchased him for $160,000 at last summer’s Fasig-Tipton preferred New York-bred sale in Saratoga. He sold previously as a weanling to Gino Antonio for $140,000 at the 2013 Keeneland November Sale.
Bred by SF Racing, LLC, and foaled on March 10 2013 at Vinery NY at Sugar Maple in Poughquag, the chestnut colt is the second foal out of Broadway Hennessey (Hennessy), a Kentucky-bred juvenile stakes winner of nearly $100,000 and new track record setter for 4 1/2 furlongs at Golden Gate Fields (51.70). Purchased by SF Bloodstock for $70,000 at the 2010 Keeneland November sale, the mare is also a half sister to graded stakes placed stakes winner Courageous Act. Broadway Hennessey’s first foal is a registered New York-bred 3-year-old gelding by Super Saver, named Super Show, who has not started.
Also well received on Wednesday was Hip 496[2], a gray or roan colt by Bellamy Road purchased by Little Red Feather Racing for $415,000 after working an eighth in :10 1/5 for Becky Thomas and Justin Casse’s consignment. The colt RNA’d for Sequel Stallions for $95,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton sale of selected yearlings in Saratoga.
Bred by Sequel Thoroughbreds / JMJ Racing and foaled at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson, the Bellamy Road colt is out of Throbbin’ Heart, a stakes winner by Smoke Glacken who has produced three winners from three foals to start, including multiple stakes placed juvenile Roaming by Quality Road. Throbbin’ Heart was purchased with the sale colt in utero by Wrangler Stable for $82,000 at the 2012 Keeneland November sale.
The top filly in sale, and top New York-bred in Tuesday’s first session was a juvenile by Majestic Warrior bred by Sequel Thoroughbreds / Twin Creeks Racing (Hip 225[3]) who drew a winning bid of $300,000. Read more[4].
A pair of successful New York-bred OBS sellers sired by current or former New York stallions are also worth noting. Hip 509[5], a bay March 20, 2013 colt by former New York sire Noonmark (now relocated to the Philippines) went to J C Company Ltd for $270,000 after having garnered considerable pre-sale attention by turning in a bullet quarter-mile breeze in :20 2/5.
Bred by Sequel Thoroughbreds, Hidden Lake Farm, and Elena Ahlschwede, foaled at River Valley Farm in Germantown and consigned by Eddie Woods, the Noonmark colt, who is named Bernie’s Prize, is the first foal out of the unraced Friends Lake mare Truss. His dam is a half sister to New York-bred graded winner Khancord Kid and he issues from the family of champion Shared Belief, Grade 2 winner and sire Half Ours and stakes-placed sire Yankee Gentleman. Previously the colt brought $60,000 at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale.
The top-selling OBS New York-bred by a current New York sire was Hip 607[6]. The bay filly from the first crop of Courageous Cat[7] turned in a sharp furlong breeze for consignor Jimmy Miranda in :9 4/5 and ended up going to Michael Dubb for $150,000. The filly sold previously for $30,000 as a weanling to Very Unstable at the Fasig-Tipton New York fall mixed sale last October.
Bred by W.S. Farish, Inwood Stable & BCWT, LTD., the January 29, 2013 filly is the second foal out of Bridesmaid, a Texas-bred juvenile stakes winner and half sister to Grade 2 Peter Pan winner Postponed. The sale filly’s second dam is multiple graded winner Chapel of Dreams. Her sire Courageous Cat stands at Questroyal North[8] near Stillwater, where she was foaled, and will have his first runners in 2015.
The cumulative numbers for New York-breds at the sale were very good. Of 31 juveniles offered, 22 sold for an average of $161,682, not far off the cumulative average for the general population of the sale, which was $170,804. The New York-bred median price of $132,500 well outperformed the sale median of $105,000.
Endnotes:- Hip 610: http://obssales.com/marcatalog/2015/610.PDF
- Hip 496: http://obssales.com/marcatalog/2015/496.PDF
- Hip 225: http://obssales.com/marcatalog/2015/225.PDF
- Read more: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/18/majestic-warrior-filly-300k-obs-march/
- Hip 509: http://obssales.com/marcatalog/2015/509.PDF
- Hip 607: http://obssales.com/marcatalog/2015/607.PDF
- Courageous Cat: http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/nytb/stallion/127350/courageous-cat
- Questroyal North: http://www.questroyalnorth.com/
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/19/ny-bred-obs-march-560000/
Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens dies at 85
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Photo courtesy Gulfstream Park
(Courtesy NYRA Communications)
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens, who trained hundreds of stakes winners on the New York Racing Association circuit and engineered some of the biggest upsets in racing history, died late Wednesday afternoon in a South Florida hospital after a brief illness. He was 85.
Jerkens, known reverently by the racetrack community as “The Chief,” was born on April 21, 1929 in Islip, New York, the son of a former Austrian cavalry captain who owned a riding academy. Jerkens’ father enjoyed rehabilitating injured race horses and sending them back to the track, a hobby that influenced Allen to pursue a career as a thoroughbred trainer, although he started out as a steeplechase jockey.
Once he grew too big to continue riding professionally, Jerkens began training thoroughbreds, and at the age of 21, Jerkens saddled his first winner on July 4, 1950 at Aqueduct Racetrack with Populace. Two owners who helped launch his career were Eddie Seinfeld, who claimed Admiral Vee for $12,500, and Al Meser, who owned War Command, Jerkens’ first stakes winner. Jerkens also was a longtime trainer for Jack Dreyfus’ Hobeau Farm, for which he developed Beau Purple, Prove Out, Duck Dance and Handsome Boy.
Although he rarely ventured outside New York, Jerkens’ national reputation soared during the 1970’s, when he twice defeated Secretariat: first with Onion in the 1973 Whitney Handicap, and then later that same year with Prove Out in the Woodward Stakes. The monumental upsets solidified Jerkens’ moniker as “the Giant Killer,” which had seen its genesis a decade earlier when he sent out Beau Purple to defeat five-time Horse of the Year Kelso on three separate occasions. Other champions his horses defeated include Cicada, Buckpasser, Riva Ridge and Forego.
Overall, he trained 3,859 winners of nearly $104 million, placing him 11th and 14th, respectively, among trainers all-time.
“The men and women of the New York Racing Association mourn the passing of Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens, not only one of the most revered horsemen of our time, but one of the finest people our industry has ever known,” said Christopher Kay, CEO and President of the New York Racing Association. “‘The Chief’ leaves behind a lasting legacy both on and off the track. We were humbled and proud to have honored him at Saratoga Race Course last summer in our second annual Red Jacket ceremony for achievement and excellence inn our sport. Our deepest sympathies go out to his children and grandchildren.”
Due in large part to twice vanquishing the immortal Secretariat, Jerkens earned the Eclipse Award for outstanding North American trainer in 1973. Two years later, he became the youngest trainer ever inducted into the National Racing Hall of Fame at the age of 45, despite not yet having trained a champion.
Jerkens’ first champion finally came in 1994, when Sky Beauty won the Eclipse Award for Top Older Female.
Other notable Jerkens-trained runners include multiple Grade 1 winner Devil His Due, who won the Gotham and Wood in 1992, to go along with the 1993 edition of the Pimlico Special, Suburban, and Excelsior; Believe The Queen, who won the 1984 Tom Fool; Missy’s Mirage, who won the First Flight in 1991, and the Shuvee and Hempstead in 1992; and Emma’s Encore, who won the Victory Ride and Prioress in 2012.
Jerkens won many of the major stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course, except the one that mattered most to him: the Travers, also known as the Mid-Summer Derby, which was won in 2010 and 2014 by his son, Jimmy, also a trainer. His best finish in five Travers starts came with his first entrant, Devil His Due, who was second to Thunder Rumble in 1992.
Although Jerkens sent several horses to the Kentucky Derby, he never came close to winning, with his best finish coming with Sensitive Prince, who was sixth in 1978. He also never won a Breeders’ Cup race, with his best finish in 11 starts a second with Society Selection in the 2005 Distaff.
Despite his renown as a trainer, those who knew him best say his greatest success came with people, not horses. Among the trainers he mentored are Thomas Bush, Leah Gyarmati, Mike Hushion, and his two sons, Jimmy and Steven.
Jerkens, who was predeceased by his wife, Elisabeth, is survived by three sons, Allen, Steven and Jimmy, a daughter, Julie, and several grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Endnotes:- [Image]: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jerkens-Allen-H.-001.jpg
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/19/hall-of-fame-trainer-allen-jerkens-dead-at-85/
Majestic Warrior filly brings $300,000 in opening session of OBS March
by Sarah Mace
A Majestic Warrior filly bred by Sequel Thoroughbreds / Twin Creeks Racing (Hip 225[1]) drew a winning bid of $300,000 from Speedway Stable to top the New York-bred offerings in the opening session of the new larger-format OBS March sale of 2-year-olds in training on Tuesday.
Consigned by Cary Frommer, who purchased the filly for $140,000 from Sequel Stallions New York at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred sale, the bay filly breezed an eighth of a mile in :10 1/5 seconds in the under tack show.
Foaled on May 3, 2013 at Sequel Stallions New York in Hudson, the sale filly is the fifth foal out of Kettle’s Sister (More than Ready), the dam of Vinceremos (Pioneerof the Nile), winner of the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis Stakes and second in the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby. The mare’s first foal Dr. Chase (Tiz Wonderful) is also a winner.
The filly’s second dam is stakes placed Safe at the Plate, who is a half-sister to champion sprinter and $2.1 million dollar earner Safely Kept. Kettle’s Sister currently has a yearling filly by Mission Impazible, to whom she was bred back in 2014.
The top New York-bred colt on Tuesday was Hip 131[2], dark bay or brown individual by Super Saver purchased for $180,000 from Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation, the buyer of four lots in the session including the session-topping Bernardini colt, for $1.4-million.
Bred by Carl Bennett and foaled on May 11, 2013 at Hilltop Stable in Deposit, the sale colt worked an eighth of a mile in :10 2/5 in the under tack show and came into the ring with plenty of auction experience under his belt. Secured by Damien Farms as a weanling at the 2013 Keeneland November sale, he RNA’d at $145,000 as a Keeneland September yearling before selling to Boomer Investments for $100,000 at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale. His consignor at OBS was Hartley / De Renzo Thoroughbreds.
The colt’s dam is Fly the Colors (Giant’s Causeway), who was purchased by Carl Bennett at the 2010 Keeneland November sale for $40,000. The producer of two winners, including six-figure earner Twin Engine by Mr. Greeley, Fly the Colors is out of Grade 1 winner Runup the Colors (A.P, Indy) and a half-sister to talented Louisiana Derby winner and millionaire Revolutionary by War Pass. Last year Fly the Colors was bred to Lonhro (AUS).
Nine New York-bred juveniles sold in in the sale’s opening session of 15 offered for an average price of $121,333 and $120,000 median. The sale concludes on Wednesday, March 18 with hips 305-610. Click here[3] to view New York-bred hips.
Endnotes:- Hip 225: http://obssales.com/marcatalog/2015/225.PDF
- Hip 131: http://obssales.com/marcatalog/2015/131.PDF
- Click here: http://www.nytbreeders.org/sales/auction-hips.cfm
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/18/majestic-warrior-filly-300k-obs-march/
Glowing Ember wins City of Aiken Trophy for Dogwood Stables
by Sarah Mace
Glowing Ember, a 5-year-old Bernstein gelding bred by Gallagher’s Stud[1] and owned by Cot Campbell’s Dogwood Stables, won the featured City of Aiken Trophy at the 73rd annual Aiken Trials which took place on Saturday at the Aiken Training Track in Columbia, S.C.
Trained by Brad Stauffer, Glowing Ember romped to a six-length victory in the 4 1/2-furlong event, completing the distance in 53 seconds flat over a track that had taken nearly three-quarters of an inch of rain. He was followed across the line by Bubuzela and St. Tahaddeus.
Glowing Ember’s jockey Gene Tucker told Dede Biles reporting for the Aiken Standard, “He stood really good in the starting gate, and he left the gate really hard. I rode him a little bit until the quarter pole, and then just kind of wrapped up on him. When I checked, there was nobody close behind me.”
Said trainer Stauffer, “I was a little bit worried about him before the race because he was pacing in his stall at the barn. I knew he was on edge. When he broke and got in front, I was just hoping he would stay there. Gene has been telling me that if somebody came to him, Glowing Ember wouldn’t give up easily, and he didn’t give up at all. He kept on running. He is a nice horse, and Gene rode him perfectly.”
Relishing his first Aiken Trophy victory, Cot Campbell exclaimed, “This is great! We came here 29 years ago, and we had been struggling to win it. But now we’ve got it, and we’re delighted.” Campbell added that Glowing Ember will leave for New York with some other Dogwood horses around the first of April.
Glowing Ember is a fourth-generation product of Gallagher’s Stud breeding. His third dam Felicita produced three stakes winners, led by multiple Grade 1 winner and $2.4 million dollar earner Take Charge Lady, a horse bred by William Schettine, who purchased Felicita for $42,000 at the 1998 Keeneland November Sale. For Gallagher’s Stud Felicita produced Glowing Ember’s second dam Eventail, a multiple stakes winner by Lear Fan. Eventail is the dam of five winners including multiple graded stakes winner Straight Story by Giant’s Causeway. Her placed daughter Fanfire by Elusive Quality produced Glowing Ember.
Dogwood Stable purchased Glowing Ember for $53,000 at the 2010 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale in Saratoga. The gelding has earned $155,130 from four victories, including two wins on the grass, plus a second and a third in 11 starts.
Endnotes:- Gallagher’s Stud: http://www.gallaghersstud.com/home.html
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/16/glowing-ember-city-of-aiken-trophy/
Saratoga economic impact study puts breeding industry at center of economic growth
by Sarah Mace
A recently-released study of the economic impact made by the annual summer meet at Saratoga Race Course on the greater capital region focuses on the expansion of the area’s breeding industry as a key factor in a nine-percent growth rate seen since 2011, and an increase in jobs of more than 30 percent. Specifically, last year the Saratoga meet generated $237 million in economic activity and was responsible for nearly 2,600 jobs across the greater capital region. The meet also generated as much as $14.2 million in tax revenue for city, county and New York State.
Commissioned by the Saratoga County Industrial Development Agency (IDA), the study was conducted by Camoin Associates, who used 2014 figures to update economic data generated from prior reports in 2006 and 2011. The group looked at various sectors of the regional economy within the nine-county region of Albany, Columbia, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren and Washington.
The key factor in this growth was identified as the expansion of the thoroughbred breeding industry in New York, which the study links directly to the infusion of VLT revenue into restricted purses and incentives. Raymond F. Callanan, Chairman of the Saratoga County Industrial Development Agency, said,
We conducted extensive interviews with owners, trainers and breeders and it is clear that the State’s investment of VLT revenues has had a significant and far reaching economic impact on New York’s 2 billion dollar racing and breeding industry. Simply put, the VLT enhanced purse structure and breeders’ awards program has revitalized the industry and made the New York Breeding program the envy of the country.”
Added Callanan, “The results of the [study] give us a real sense of optimism that the future of the racing and breeding industry in New York State, which is such an integral part of the economy of our city, county and region, is finally, after many troubled years, on a sound financial path to success.”
The study also highlights the important role of the breeding sector in expanding much-needed greenspace in the surrounding area, citing a 14 percent increase in the number of horse farm properties in Saratoga County between 2010 and 2013. Horse farms account for 3.7 percent of agricultural parcels in the nine-county study area in comparison to only 2 percent in New York State.
Jeffrey Cannizzo, Executive Director of New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc., said, “This study underscores the positive impact of VLT money not only on the breeding industry directly but on the whole region, in terms of greenspace, employment and tax revenues. This this kind of economic growth is exactly what upstate New York needs, and breeders should be proud to be such an important of it.”
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/13/stga-economic-impact-breeding/
Centennial Farm loses Alex’s Pal to colic
Alex’s Pal by Valid Expectations out of the winning Fortunate Prospect mare Successful Dancer was euthanized March 11 due to colic at age 16. A half-brother to Grade 2 winner and successful stallion Successful Appeal, he stood at Centennial Farm of New York near Gilbertsville, where his 2014 fee was $2,500.
Alex’s Pal, who won six of 19 races and earned $163,680, began his career at stud in Florida and stood in Pennsylvania and New Jersey before relocating to New York in 2013.
The progeny of Alex’s Pal, have earned more than $3.9 million to date, led by multiple Grade 2 winner C C’s Pal.
Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/03/12/alexs-pal-euthanized-colic/
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