Q&A: Boyd Browning On Setting Expectations ForFasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale And Beyond In 2020

By Joe Nevills

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No other North American auction house has had to do more gymnastics with its scheduling during the COVID-19 pandemic than Fasig-Tipton.

The auction company’s juvenile sales in Florida and California were canceled for the year, three of its signature yearling sales were combined and moved to September in Kentucky, and the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale is about to be held several weeks after its originally scheduled date.

Though there are no guarantees on the roadmap as it stands today, Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning found reason for optimism in the fact that there is a road-map at all. Browning spoke with Paulick Report bloodstock editor Joe Nevills about the upcoming sale and navigating these historic times.

Q: This is a unique point in world and industry history. What has it been like for you in terms of managing Fasig-Tipton?

A: It’s been a period of time for three and a half months unlike anything we’ve experienced. It’s been difficult to plan and adapt because of the environment and the conditions changing so rapidly.

I think we’ve prided ourselves for many years on being nimble and quick, and being able to adapt to virtually any set of circumstances, and we learned that this was a set of circumstances we really hadn’t anticipated. We tried to communicate with our customers, both buyers and sellers, very openly and honestly, and we’ve just tried to adapt and make the best decisions we could under the circumstances.

Q: We have a little data to draw from now, but with so many uncertainties, how do you begin to set your expectations for the remainder of the 2020 juvenile season, and the rest of the year?

A: I think you virtually can’t have any expectations, and that sounds hard to comprehend, but that’s the truth. What we get up every day to try and do is, whether you’re recruiting horses or buyers, you make every effort to do everything possible to positively influence the quality of the catalog and the quality of buyers that you have on the sales grounds. We don’t have any control over where the market is. I think our expectation is to make a 110-percent effort, to serve the market and adapt as best we can under the circum-

stances that are in place for each and every sale, and see where it takes us.

I personally am probably more optimistic than most people. With the resumption of racing and the financial market recovering to a certain extent, I think there’s a sense of some renewed optimism in people to get back to conducting business in a more conventional fashion.

Q: How does the Midlantic catalog look different today, as opposed to how it might have looked under normal dates and cir-cumstances?

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Stallion Spotlight

WILL TAKE CHARGE

Ch. h., 2010, Unbridled’s Song x Take Charge Lady, by Dehere

Race Record: 21-7-6-1; $3,924,648Advertised Fee: $15,000

What is Will Take Charge’s stron-gest selling point as a stallion?

Hamm: Soundness, pedigree, and race record.

If I’ve got a mare that needs help from the stallion on a physical characteristic, what can Will Take Charge best contribute to the equation?

Hamm: Will Take Charge is an exceptional physical at 17 hands that would be able to contribute good size and scope with plenty of bone and substance. He is also very correct and could help improve a mare that is not conformationally correct.

Will Take Charge is one of the final sons of the late Unbridled’s Song to stand at stud. How does he fit the Unbridled’s Song profile, and what makes him stand out from the other sons in this last group?

Hamm: Like other Unbridled’s Song sons, Will Take Charge was an exceptional racehorse as a multiple Grade 1-win-ning 3-year-old champion. I think where he stands out more than other sons of Unbridled’s Song was his soundness, with seven wins in 21 starts from two to four years old.

What can a breeder expect from a Will Take Charge foal as a weanling? As a yearling?

Hamm: I think breeders can expect the foals of Will Take Charge to be correct, well balanced, with plenty of size and substance. His foals are typically athletic and very nice physicals.

What are you learning about the Will Take Charges now that his oldest crop are 4-year-olds?

Hamm: His foals are very versatile performing on both the turf and dirt. In addition, they can sprint, such as Grade 1-placed Manny Wah or stretch out around two turns as Grade 3-placed Take Charge Eh did in the G3 Mazarine Stakes.

What crosses – either physical or pedigree – seem to be the most consistent in producing winners from Will Take Charge, and which ones do you think might have potential to grow in that category?

Hamm: Mr. Prospector, A.P. Indy, and Danzig crosses have shown to work well both physically and on the race track. I believe that the Mr. Prospector cross has some good po-tential with both Manny Wah and Herrschaft coming from that cross.

What’s something about Will Take Charge that you think goes overlooked?

Hamm: The number of quality runners and graded stakes horses he has produced. He is a versatile sire with a royal pedigree. PRS

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Veterinarians at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital answer your questions about sales and health-care of Thoroughbred auction yearlings, weanlings, 2-year-olds and breeding stock.

Email us at info@paulickreport.com if you have a question for a veterinarian.

QUESTION: What is a “parrot mouth” and what can I do if my young horse has it?

DR. BRAD TANNER: Horses come in all shapes and siz-es and so do their mouths. A “parrot mouth” describes an upper lip that hangs forward and down ahead of the lower lip. This term is synonymous with overbite maloc-clusion of the incisors of a horse.

As the top jaw (maxilla) grows, if it grows at a faster rate than the lower jaw (mandible), the front teeth will be extended forward and no longer make contact with the lower incisors. This is what gives the characteristic large, goofy lip of the top jaw that we so often call parrot mouth.

While it’s cosmetically unpleasant to look at for some people, it doesn’t impact performance if managed cor-rectly. These horses will continue to eat, they will continue to grow and they will not be skinny because of this maloc-clusion. However, this can be a problem for some horses.

The question is whether the front teeth are the only ones that no longer make contact from top to bottom. If the entire top jaw has shifted forward this means that the first cheek tooth on top may no longer be grinding on the first cheek tooth on the bottom. Conversely, the last cheek tooth on the bottom may no longer be chewing in contact with the last cheek tooth on the top and the results of this will be large hooks and excessive growth of these teeth. This can cause significant problems and pain for horses, as these large hooks cause collateral damage to the soft tissues, gums, and cheeks.

This is compounded when a bit is applied to the horse’s mouth and a rider asks the horse to put the head into a frame /collection, causing increased contact of these teeth overgrowths.

While this is a permanent deformity in adult horses, it can be corrected in young growing foals. Correction should take place between four to six months of age. An orthodontic appliance can be applied with orthodontic wires to halt the growth of the maxilla, allowing the man-

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dible to catch up. Additionally, an inclined plane is applied in the form of an aluminum plate allowing the lower teeth to engage with it during each chewing motion. Once the skeletal development of the horse is complete, there is no way to effectively correct the overbite/parrot mouth malocclusion.

Long term management of these malocclusions should be focused on effectively floating and reducing the large overgrowths, usually with routine floating examinations at six-month intervals.

So long as these are managed effectively the horse will be able to have normal dentition and perform at a normal level.

Dr. Brad Tanner received his DVM from Auburn Univer-sity in 2005 and completed an internship at Rood and Riddle thereafter. He is a shareholder in the clinic, where he focuses on advanced dentistry, primary care and reproduction. Tanner became board certified in equine dentistry in 2019.

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“That one’s easy. The 1996 Dubai World Cup. I was fortu-nate enough to go be Cigar’s groom for that race. I was Bill Mott’s foreman at the time, and his groom couldn’t go, so I went as his groom. It was a huge blast.”

“John Henry’s Arlington Million. I became a John Henry fan for the rest of my life. He came from humble beginnings, was a geld-ing and tried every time, and it was a special story.”

“We won the South Florida Der-by at Hialeah Park a few years ago with a Quarter Horse we bred, and that was pretty excit-ing when you own them and have raised them. Her name was Ima Gator Fan. Me and some bud-dies chartered a little plane and flew down from Gainesville, and it was like living like rockstars.”

“I would have to say the Travers that Arrogate won. I’m just in awe of the horse. We got a nice mare to Arrogate, and you just watched him show up, shipping all over the country, and it was cool to be in his presence.”

“Jaipur and Ridan in Saratoga in the 1962 Travers was a real classic. Alydar and Affirmed was really good at Saratoga (1978 Travers). They were just out-standing matches, those four.”

“It has to be the 2012 Kentucky Derby, I’ll Have Another. It was easily the greatest racing day I’ve ever been to.”

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LESSON HORSESBloodstock Agent Chad Schumer On Worldly

By Joe NevillsQUESTION: Which horse has taught you the most about life?

CHAD SCHUMER: Worldly. He taught me about treacherous agents, the actual joy of having a horse in training because he took me to the Breeders’ Cup, and how sometimes things happen for a reason, and you don’t realize it at the time. More than any other horse, he taught me that.

At the time we bought him, it looked like it was a terrible di-saster, and then just a few months later, he took me to the Breeders’ Cup. It was an incredible story. I bought this horse for clients, and one agent lied to the people and talked them out of it, so I got stuck with him and it was very scary.

The funny thing was, in January of that year, we went to Santa Anita, and it was Beholder’s first start of the year. We were sitting there at Santa Anita and we were kind of fuming. We weren’t going to get to go to the Breeders’ Cup this year because the timing was so close [with the November sales in Kentucky], and it’s hard to come back and still be able to work the sale.

We were sitting having lunch at Santa Anita having this conversation about how bummed we were that we weren’t going to go to the Breeders’ Cup, and just a few months later, we actually have a horse in the Breeders’ Cup and we are there. It was an incredible situation.

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WORDLY2007 (A.P. Indy x Urbane, by Citidancer)

Worldly showed flashes of his talent early on, with a third in the G2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, then he spent some time on the Louisiana branch of the Kentucky Derby trail. He came back in the summer of his 3-year-old season to finish second in the G3 Northern Dancer Stakes and Ohio Derby. He won the listed Prairie Mead-ows Handicap at four.

Schumer came into possession of the horse in the sum-mer of 2013, and sent him to trainer Brendan Walsh. Worldly finished second in a pair of listed stakes at Prai-rie Meadows and Remington Park, then he ran third in the Homecoming Classic Stakes at Churchill Downs en route to a start in the Breeders’ Cup Marathon at Santa Anita, where he finished third to London Bridge.

Worldly was then sold to race in Saudi Arabia, where he became a stakes winner and successful stallion.

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A: It’s impossible for me to answer that question, since it’s essentially an open sale, and we haven’t inspected the vast majority of those horses. The composition of the consign-ing group has changed somewhat. There were some major consignors from the Ocala area who have traditionally been major supporters of the sale who made decisions not to participate in the sale this year. That’ll certainly make an impact. We’ll certainly look forward to the resumption of their activity in 2021, but recognize every person’s situations and circumstances are unique and personal. In this environment that we’re living in, everybody had to make what they believed what was the best decision for themselves and their horses.

I don’t think we’ll probably have the depth of quality that we would if the sale had been conducted as originally planned. I’ve had interesting conversations with consignors. There were horses that were sold privately off the farm that have tradition-ally gone through the public auction environment. It’s impos-sible for anyone to quantify that, but if you’re a consignor with a significant sum of money invested in horses, it’s the middle of May and you don’t know when there’s going to be another sale, and someone comes along and makes you a legitimate offer for your horse privately, you have to think about it.

I had several consignors call me and say, “Hey, what do you think? Should I take this offer? What would you do if you were in my shoes?” That’s where the relationships

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matter. I can’t make those decisions for anybody, but there comes a point in time when you have to minimize risk in order to be a long-term participant in any market, and I know of several instances of horses that would have been sold privately on the farm that would have tradition-ally been involved in the marketplace.

We’ll never get an apples-to-apples comparison for the 2020 2-year-old sales from year to year. As a matter of fact, we’re not going to compare results for June 2020 to May 2019 as a result of that, and I hope to hell we don’t have to compare results from May 2021 to June 2020, be-cause I hope we’re back to “normal conditions” in 2021, but all we can do is the best we can under the circumstances.

Q: What kind of discussions took place with the Maryland State Fairgrounds to get the sale rescheduled?

A: The Fairgrounds staff and team has been tremendous to work with. They’ve been anxious to resume activities when it was deemed appropriate by their officials, both at a state level and local level. They’ve bent over backwards to work with us, and to be in communication with us and on our behalf to make sure we create as safe an environment as possible while conducting commerce.

Read the full interview with Boyd Browning at PaulickReport.Com

FASTEST QUARTER-MILE TIMES OF UNDER-TACK SHOWHIP PEDIGREE CONSIGNOR BARN TIME

151 c. Liam’s Map x One Foxy Grey, by Big Brown All Dreams Equine G 20.4286 f. Bourbon Courage x Sunday in Malibu, by Malibu Moon Nomad Farm Training & Sales L 21.1512 c. Wicked Strong x E Classic, by E Dubai Wavertree Stables H 21.139 f. Half Ours x Illustrious Dream, by Dayjur Kirkwood Stables C-D 21.2132 f. Nyquist x Mother’s Milk, by Silver Deputy Hoby & Layna Kight A 21.2199 f. Laoban x Right Prevails, by Successful Appeal Sequel Bloodstock E 21.2 4 f. Into Mischief x Global Hottie, by Dixie Chatter Hoby & Layna Kight A 21.3127 f. Wicked Rich x Mom’s Honor, by Hold That Tiger Wes Carter F-G 21.3193 f. Tourist x Red’s Round Table, by Cuvee Wes Carter F-G 21.3328 c. Tapiture x Trisha, by Forest Camp Clary Bloodstock H 21.3415 c. Bayern x Bitter Lemon, by Lemon Drop Kid Pick View K 21.3457 f. Not This Time x Civility Pledge, by Hard Spun All Dreams Equine G 21.3558 c. Nyquist x Citiview, by Citidancer Hoby & Layna Kight A 21.3

FASTEST EIGHTH-MILE TIMES OF UNDER-TACK SHOWHIP PEDIGREE CONSIGNOR BARN TIME

51 c. Speightster x Izzy Izzy, by Mizzen Mast L.G. A 10106 c. Outwork x Marialua, by Maria’s Mon Wolf Creek Farms D 10118 c. Uncle Mo x Miss Ocean City, by Mineshaft Pike Racing E 10173 f. Upstart x Plum, by Pure Prize Cary Frommer A-B 10261 f. Speightster x Spirituality, by Gemologist L.G. A 10263 f. Goldencents x Spring Zapper, by Ghostzapper Pike Racing E 10276 f. Fed Biz x Stormin Wendy, by Ecclesiastic Golden Rock F-G 10389 f. Twirling Candy x Apple Cider, by More Than Ready Grassroots Training & Sales I 10400 f. Maclean’s Musc x Ava G, by Afternoon Deelites Scanlon Training & Sales G-H 10505 f. Fed Biz x Dream Realized, by Awesom Again Crane Thoroughred Services F-G 10518 f. Frosted x Enchante, by Bluegrass Cat SBM Training & Sales J 10552 f. Dialed In x Fall Fantasy, by Menifee SBM Training & Sales J 10

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First-Crop Sire WatchFirst 2YOs Of Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale

By Joe Nevills

Stallions whose first crops of 2-year-olds are represented in the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, including the number of horses cataloged and the farm where the stallion is currently advertised.

Air Force Blue – (5) Ashford Stud, Ky.

Anchor Down – (3) Gainesway, Ky.

Big Blue Kitten – (1) Calumet Farm, Ky.

Brody’s Cause – (5) Spendthrift Farm, Ky.

California Chrome – (8) Arrow Stud, Japan

Cinco Charlie – (3) Spendthrift Farm, Ky.

Effinex – (2) Deceased

Exaggerator – (13) WinStar Farm, Ky.

Flintshire – (2) Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms, Ky.

Free World – (1) Deceased

Frosted – (13) Darley, Ky.

Harry’s Holiday – (1) Southern Indiana Equine, Ind.

Ironicus – (3) Claiborne Farm, Ky.

Laoban – (21) Sequel New York, N.Y.

Mosler – (3) Country Life Farm, Md.

Mshawish – (5) Taylor Made Stallions, Ky.

Not This Time – (5) Taylor Made Stallions, Ky.

Nyquist – (12) Darley, Ky.

Outwork – (16) WinStar Farm, Ky.

Runhappy – (2) Claiborne Farm, Ky.

Speightster – (17) WinStar Farm, Ky.

Tamarkuz – (2) Shadwell Farm, Ky.

Texas Red – (1) Crestwood Farm, Ky.

Tourist – (4) WinStar Farm, Ky.

Uncle Lino – (2) Northview PA, Pa.

Upstart – (6) Airdrie Stud, Ky.

Vancouver – (5) Ashford Stud, Ky.

War Dancer – (6) Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions, N.Y.