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THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE FOR THE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE THOROUGHBRED

WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGProfiles on leading

Triple Crown contenders

COMPRESSION SUITSA fad or do they have real benefits?

BREAKING THE SILENCEHow hearing can impact performance

EDDIEPLESA Jr.Will he have his lucky day this summer?

THEOFFICIAL

MAGAZINE OF THE

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GILES ANDERSON

O the Triple Crown season is upon us. Eddie Plesa Jr.graces the cover of our magazine and through FrancesKaron’s profile we learn much about what makes Plesathe man he is. Happy to call Florida his home, Plesa, itwould be fair to say, has never had the ammunition tofire at the highest echelons of the game, but his results

and steady flow of winners over the years make him anincredibly consistent trainer. This year, with Itsmyluckyday inhis care he will undoubtedly gain the recognition he so deserveson a wider scale.

Itsmyluckyday has certainly been a consistent performerthrough the winter and spring against what could be consideredhigher profile horses, and the colt will hopefully take his rightfulplace in the starting gate at Churchill Downs come the firstSaturday in May.

The formula for getting horses to the Kentucky Derby haschanged for the better this year. The points system has, in myeyes, made a difference by captivating a fan base and givingdefinition to the early season. The heightened interest with

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national TV coverage is a good thing but the new format surelypresents the industry with a new set of goals to aim for.

Personally, I would start the whole promotion of the prepseries earlier. First off, I would introduce an even earliernomination date to the Triple Crown at the end of August of thehorses’ two-year-old careers – before the point earning racesbegin.

Then, more can be done to market prep races as a definedgroup with a clear set of objectives and consistent style for these races. This would give a greater opportunity to attractpackaged sponsorship and heightened fan interest withopportunities like fantasy league-style games building towardsthe big races.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the average person onthe street who doesn’t follow racing will tell you that the one racethey have heard of or even watch is the Kentucky Derby.

In today’s world it’s these people we want to inspire to becomeinvolved as true fans and owners of tomorrow.

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

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MAGINE a lush, healthy pasture sharedby a few herdsmen. There is more thanenough land for all of their livestock tograze upon and the livestock, being well-fed and well-managed by their herdsmen,naturally grow in number. Life is good.

Year after year, the demands of the herd growas the size of the herd grows. The scenario issustainable only until the amount of herdsmenand their livestock need more land to grazeupon than exists in the pasture. But before thattipping point, there is a critical moment whereineach herdsman awakens to an awareness of thefinite resources. And once aware, he must makea decision.

The herdsman can act in his own self-interestand pursue aggressive breeding and grazing,maximizing his profits. Or he can be restrainedin his breeding and grazing and be assured thathe, as well as the entire community of herdsmen,will all have a bountiful year, year after year.How will he manage his herd?

This parable was used to introduce theconcept of “The Tragedy of the Commons” in theearly 19th Century. The author argues that arational herdsman is always motivated toaggressively graze his own herd even thoughrestraint would benefit both himself and allothers.

One of the strongest persuasions made uponeach herdsman for overgrazing or overbreedingis that his own wellbeing is provisional uponevery herdsman making the same decision. Thetendency to believe that at least one of his fellowherdsmen will act in his own selfish interestentices the herdsman to preemptively act in

pursuit of his own best interest. The systemcompels each man to try to outpace each othertoward complete ruin for all.

Of course there is no structured governmentin this parable. There is no set of laws thatgoverns real estate, or a court to impart justice.And so in the 200 years since the original articlewas published, “The Tragedy of the Commons”has been relevant to such topics as the arms race,overpopulation, and overfishing of the oceans:societal areas of interplay with weak regulation,if even momentarily. Like Thoroughbred racing.

What is our healthy pasture, our “commons?” The healthy pasture, our common ground, is

a clean sport that celebrates the contest of thebest of athletic and mental abilities.

But our thrashing, desperate, currentcondition, dependent on “good trainers” or“good owners” to “do the right thing” andlacking penalties for cheaters, only proves thatwe are living in that moment where eachindividual or individually minded group mustmake the choice to have restraint or tosinglehandedly ruin the commons.

Sport is, by nature, a “commons.” Challengeswithin sport, such as poor sportsmanship,doping, cheating, and violence, are likeindividual herdsmen letting their livestockovergraze.

There are countless examples withinThoroughbred racing of how individuals orindividually minded groups are enacting “TheTragedy of the Commons.” As an Ohio StateRacing Commissioner, I am reminded of itduring current negotiations with track owners.Of course, by track owner, I mean gaming

corporation. They are investing hundreds ofmillions of dollars in building big box VLT(video lottery terminal) parlors. But when it istime to spend a dime on Thoroughbred racing,there is no room in the budget. This has becomea tragedy for the racing fan and horseman.

The Ohio State Racing Commission is a bi-partisan commission appointed by the Governorto protect the interests of horseracing. One of thelargest gaming companies/track owners in thecountry recently told us that it is in the bestinterest of horseracing to have a track with noclubhouse and less than 1,000 seats. More thantwo-thirds of those seats, 650 to be exact, arebleachers, outside with no weather cover.

It is a winter race meet. Youngstown, Ohio’s,average monthly temperature during the meet is26.3 degrees Fahrenheit with 14.8 inches ofsnow. The 650 outdoor bleachers inYoungstown, Ohio, during a winter meet withno cover will make it quite hard to be a racingfan in Ohio. The 50 percent reduction in thenumber of stalls of current facilities will make itquite hard to be a horseman in Ohio.

Clearly, the gaming companies areovergrazing.

If this is the business model for Thoroughbredracing, the sport will die. There may be mangledand broken pieces that are still designated as“Thoroughbred racing,” but only when it servesa purpose, such as when gaming corporationsmust have racing to expand gamblingoperations. But the sport, the common good thatcelebrates the best of athletic and mental ability,will wither and die. This is a modern day parablefor any who care to heed it. n


The views of William Koester

Our common ground

WILL’S WAY

II 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.

“One of the largest gaming companies/track owners told us it is in the best interestof horseracing to have a track with no clubhouse and less than 1,000 seats”

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Itsmyluckyday poses

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Issue 28

CONTENTS...


2 Photo of the quarterA magical moment, by Frances J. Karon

4 Will’s WayThe views of William Koester.

10 California Thoroughbred TrainersAlan Balch on Californian investment; Jorge Gutierrez and his moment in the spotlight, by Steve Schuelein

16 TRM trainer of the quarterGraham Motion and Animal Kingdom’s Dubai World Cup win, by Bill Heller.

18 Eddie PlesaThe conditioner of Classic hopeful Itsmyluckyday hopes that good fortune will be on his horse’s side, by Frances J. Karon

28 Compression suitsAn introduction to the compression suitmade famous by Black Caviar and Hay List, by David Marlin.

34 Relative valuesThe Schosberg family in profile, by Bill Heller.

42 HearingHow a horse’s sense of sound can be affect its performance, by Stacey Oke.

48 Frank AngrinsoniKen Snyder on Churchill Downs’ well-respected activities director.

54 Condylar fracturesCelia Marr discusses how the MRI can help prevent condylar fractures.

58 When they were youngBill Heller looks at the early life and timessome of the leading Classic contenders based on the new Kentucky Derby points system.

70 BufferingDr Catherine Dunnett examines dietary effects on and the horse’s ability to manage lactic acid.

76 Stakes SchedulesForthcoming stakes races from North America and around the world.

88 Sid Fernando columnNorth America can still hold its own on the international stage – with or without Lasix

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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. He remains volunteer president of USA EquestrianTrust, 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 ThoroughbredConsultants, Inc. He is theformer bloodstock editor of DailyRacing Form and also blogsabout racing and breeding.

Bill Heller, Eclipse Award winnerBill Heller, an author of 25 booksincluding biographies of Hall ofFame jockeys Ron Turcotte,Randy Romero, and Jose Santos,is a member of the HarnessRacing Hall of Fame

Communications Corner. He and his wife Anna livejust 30 miles south of Saratoga Race Course inAlbany, where their 24-year-old son Benjamin alsoresides.

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.

Professor Celia Marr is anequine clinician at Rossdales,Newmarket. She is a RCVS andEuropean Specialist in EquineMedicine and HonoraryProfessor at the GlasgowUniversity Veterinary School. She

has previously worked at veterinary schools inGlasgow, Pennsylvania, Cambridge and Londonand in racehorse practice in Lambourn. She isChairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board’sThoroughbred Research & Consultation Group andEditor-in-Chief of Equine Veterinary Journal.

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.

Steve Schuelein is theSouthern California correspondentfor Thoroughbred Times. A nativeof upstate New York, Steve wasintroduced to racing as a sportswriter for the Syracuse Herald-Journal and Buffalo News before

moving to California in 1982.

Ken Snyder is a Louisville,Kentucky based freelance writer.He is a regular contributor toseveral other racingpublications, a feature writer andessayist for some non-racingmagazines, 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.

Publisher & Editorial DirectorGiles Anderson

EditorFrances J. Karon

Executives Suzy Crossman, Harriet Scott

Design/ProductionNeil Randon

Advertising SalesGiles Anderson, Scott Rion

Photo CreditsHelen Alexander, Benoit Photo, Carrie Brogden,Claiborne Farm, Bob Coglianese, Dan Dry, FernwoodStudios, Hidez, Gillian Higgins, Horsephotos.com,Frances J Karon, Liesl King, Mark Knight, Lane’s End,Jeff Lautenberger, Steven Martine, Sarah Powell,Rosecrest Farm, Alexandra Snyder, Frank Sorge

Cover PhotographSteven Martine

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themselves included race meetings and horseshows.Not everything was peaceful and

harmonious. It couldn’t be within such anelaborate and politically governed structure.But the incentives were all in the properdirections, and the regulatory authorities werefar, far better informed, experienced, andsophisticated than they would be in laterdecades, when the fundamental structure ofseparate and independent operations erodedand the underlying rationale for it becameclouded and largely forgotten.Thinking back to those days, I am struck by

how much time and effort back then we spentunderstanding the term “return oninvestment.” Any public company – and I wasan officer of the organization that operatedSanta Anita – struggles with issues of earnings-per-share-this-quarter vs. long-rangeperformance; we were no different. Since itsfounding in 1934, fortunes had been made onSanta Anita stock. Retirees depended on ourhandsome dividends. Yet the Strub family, ourleaders, had always been future and

investment oriented, not to mention firmlycommitted to racing as a sport and enterprise. Many horsemen were outraged when about

110 acres of Santa Anita’s original 440 weredeveloped for a shopping center on theperimeter of the track property in the early’70s. The Strubs patiently explained that theproject was to ensure the future of racing, toprovide year-round income from the property,and that what threatened racing was not theintelligent development of propertyunessential to the racing program, but insteadlack of a proper return on the overall SantaAnita investment in the property! In thoseyears, the debate in Southern California racingwas which track would have to be developedfirst: Santa Anita or Hollywood Park? It seemslaughable now, in a sad way, but much of therivalry between the two was based oncomparative stock prices, real estate values,and management acumen. Each organization,however, was irrevocably and fundamentallycommitted to the future of racing, andrelentlessly invested in it.

Now, that negative “race” has apparentlybeen “won” by Hollywood Park, which isexpected to close forever after its fall 2013meeting, following its most recent owner’ssimilar closing of Bay Meadows fordevelopment a few years ago. The resultantturmoil is disheartening and even frightening,especially for the professional horsemen whosevery lives depend on racing, most of whom arelong-time Californians. With a very fewexceptions, owners come and they go – theydon’t depend on racing for their quality of life.An owner can transfer his interest to anynumber of sporting or recreational pursuits,but for a professional horseman, racing is hisexpertise, his passion, and his livelihood.The leadership and planning vacuum

California racing now faces conjures images ofa widening sinkhole. Instead of involvingprofessional horsemen in serious and objectiveconsideration of what’s to come, months ofprivate meetings among a few owners andconnected (some would say conflicted)stakeholders have passed, with little reliableinformation available and even less objectiveexpertise at hand. The California Legislature’s prohibition

against simultaneous financial interests inmore than one track and racing enterprise inthe state has been largely ignored. Contrary tothe law and without careful consideration ofthe consequences of exemptions to it, oneprivate entity now controls Santa Anita,Golden Gate Fields, a major training centernear Del Mar, and a critical gaming andtelevision enterprise. Financial returns on

By Alan F. BalchCTT Executive Director

PRINGTIME and racing . . . theseason of hope and expectation andnew beginnings. But in California,it’s still a very cold and miserablewinter of discontent.Forty years ago, four of

California’s five major tracks were operated bycompeting public companies: Santa Anita andHollywood Park in the south, and BayMeadows and Golden Gate Fields in thenorth. Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, theforerunner of today’s lessee of the track at theSan Diego County Fairgrounds, operated thetraditional seven-week resort meeting there.Additionally, though not a major track, LosAlamitos was founded on the Vessels quarterhorse farm, and was family operated.By the early 1970s, following expansion of

the overlapping north and southThoroughbred calendars, Harness andQuarter Horse meetings occupied the nightcalendars in both ends of the state. In 1969,Oak Tree Racing Association had conductedits first Thoroughbred meeting at Santa Anita,a tiny four-week affair in the fall.Looking all that way back and even to the

1930s, separate ownership and operation ofrace meetings was the model prescribed by theCalifornia Legislature. Within this statutoryframework, strong competition and rivalriesabounded; the market and the sport wereflourishing beneficiaries. By the early 1980s,Santa Anita’s two meetings dominated nationalracing business in terms of daily averageattendance and handle, with Saratoga,Hollywood Park, Oaklawn, and Del Marfollowing.California breeding of Thoroughbreds

(and other breeds), along with its ancillaryfarming and agriculture, grew apace. After all, the California Legislature had legalizedpari-mutuel betting in the state only in orderto stimulate agriculture and horse breeding,with proceeds from racing also supporting asystem of agricultural districts which operatedfairs throughout the state, many of which

Return on investment?CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS


“Instead of involving professional horsemen,months of private meetingsamong a few owners andconnected stakeholdershave passed, with little reliable information available and even lessobjective expertise at hand”

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ORGE Gutierrez trained in relativeobscurity during the past decade inSouthern California, a reservedindividual who enjoyed moderatesuccess with a stable of mostlyCalifornia-breds.

A name virtually unknown outside theGolden State, Gutierrez had established areputation among followers of the circuit as ahard worker, whose highest accomplishmentswere a handful of Cal-bred stakes scores.That image was elevated dramatically this

winter with the meteoric ascent of BrightThought, a four-year-old colt that promises tobe his breakthrough horse.Bright Thought shocked the racing world on

March 16 at Santa Anita Park when he won the$150,000 Grade 2 San Luis Rey Stakes on turfin 2:22.72, the fastest 1½ miles ever recordedin racing! The San Luis Rey climaxed a string of

three consecutive eye-opening victories on the Santa Anita turf and a rare training triple for Gutierrez with his first gradedtriumph.“It’s exciting,” said Gutierrez between races

at Santa Anita a few weeks after the scintillatingwin. “I’ve been around a lot of nice horses, likeSangue, when I first started working for HenryMoreno, and Bien Bien, when I was with PacoGonzalez.“It’s kind of the same feeling with this horse,

although it’s a lot different because this one isunder my care,” continued Gutierrez inadapting to a newly discovered prominence.“I’ve had a lot of texts and calls and have beenon a few radio shows.“Bright Thought caught the eye of a lot of

people,” added the appreciative Gutierrez.“That’s important for me. It’s getting me moreexposure.”Gutierrez, the 47-year-old son of a former

jockey, credited being around the stable sincehe was five in providing the foundation to offermany bright thoughts in properly training aThoroughbred.Those decades of experience helped

Gutierrez recognize the potential of BrightThought when he arrived in his barn as anunraced three-year-old early last year.

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“Turf had always been the plan,” saidGutierrez of the Kentucky-bred colt. “The wayhe traveled, he looked like a turf horse.”Gutierrez said his pedigree supported theobservation, being by the Sunday Silencestallion Hat Trick out of the Smart Strike mareSmart Thought.

Bright Thought was sent to him by co-owner and co-breeder Alex Venneri, a LaCañada resident who had horses withGutierrez when he first took out his license andco-owns Blackhorse Farm in Kentucky. Thehorse is also co-owned by Marjorie Post Dye,who co-bred him under her Postum Farmstable name.

Bright Thought took a long and circuitousroute to begin strutting his stuff on grass. “Hecould run on dirt, too, so to give him atightener, I shipped him to Hollywood Park forhis first start last July,” said Gutierrez of hisdebut in a six-furlong maiden special weightrace on Cushion Track.

Bright Thought broke slowly and finished


seventh, beaten by 11½ lengths. “It was not theideal spot, and he hurt his shoulder a little afterbreaking awkwardly,” said Gutierrez.

“He was ready to run again at the end of DelMar, but races did not fill and Alex did notwant to race such a big horse around the tightturns at Fairplex Park, so he sent him back toKentucky,” explained Gutierrez.

From there, the colt was shipped to trainerStephanie Beattie at Penn National. BrightThought returned to break his maiden by 11lengths in a $25,000 maiden claiming race atsix furlongs at Laurel Park in November.

Following a pair of allowance races on dirtin Pennsylvania, Bright Thought was returnedto Gutierrez in January.

“He really blossomed when he came back,”said Gutierrez. “He was more professional andalso more aggressive, but in a good way. He’sthe toughest horse in the barn, but he won’t tryto savage you. He’s happy. He stands out on thetrack, a big black horse, on the muscle,kicking, a hotshot.”

Anxious to put the hotshot on turf,Gutierrez found an overnight handicap at onemile on February 3. Bright Thought led all theway after an early duel and won by 2½ lengths.He returned in an allowance race at 1¼ mileson February 21, set all the pace and drew off toa 5¼-length win in 1:57.86, flirting with thecourse record.

Gutierrez was beginning to feel his pulsequicken. “His first win in 1:33 and change wasa nice race, but when he came back the secondtime to win the way he did showed he was forreal,” said the trainer.

Gutierrez was optimistic that BrightThought was ready for bigger game. Thepublic thought so, too, sending the lightlyraced colt off as the 2.70-to-1 second choice ina San Luis Rey lineup that included major turfstakes winners Slim Shadey, Interaction, andBourbon Bay.

Bright Thought did not disappoint, breakingon top, yielding the lead to Slim Shadey,reclaiming it on the far turn and drawing off in


Bright Thought set a world record time when winning the G2 San Luis Rey Stakes at Santa Anita last month


deep stretch under a hand ride for a 3¼-lengthvictory.“Victor told me how the race was going to go

and that was exactly how it went,” saidGutierrez of winning jockey Victor Espinoza.(Bright Thought’s record was lowered oneweek later when Twilight Eclipse won the PanAmerican Stakes on turf at Gulfstream Park in2:22.63.)Bright Thought’s victory highlighted the

most memorable day of Gutierrez’s career. Hesandwiched the victory between scores byWarren’s Morgan and Warren’s Flasher, a pairof Cal-bred claimers, in the first and last races,respectively. “The race set up perfectly for myfilly in the first race, and when she cleared offand won, I had a feeling it was going to be agreat day,” said Gutierrez.Gutierrez traces his racing roots to Mexico.

“My dad, Juan, started riding in Mexico City,”said Gutierrez. “My grandfather, Narcicio, firststarted working at the track there. My uncle,Silviano, trained there.“My father came to this country under

contract to Laz Barrera when I was two yearsold,” said the Mexican-born Gutierrez. “Laztook him to New York, where we moved to afarm near Albany. “When his three-year contract ended, my

father moved to California with trainer J.J.Pletcher because he wanted to be closer to hisrelatives in Mexico,” explained Gutierrez.“When Pletcher left for Florida, he stayed andwent to work for Henry Moreno.”Gutierrez’s father remained with Moreno for

42 years, exercising horses and rising to stableforeman. “I started coming out to Henry’s barnwhen I was five and he put me on the payrollwhen I turned 12,” said Gutierrez of the juniorcontract. “I started walking hots on weekends.”

During his teen years, Gutierrez became theonly student at Duarte High School to carry aracing form with his textbooks as he continuedto hone his equine degree while workingunder Moreno and his father in his spare time. He marveled at the emergence of such major

stakes winners as Sangue, Lite Light, BastoneraII, Tizna, Lucky Spell, Sam Who, and TimelyAssertion – rubbing some of them – and couldonly dream of one day training one on his own.“At 16, I started to travel with horses I

groomed,” said Gutierrez, who remained with

Moreno and his father for another decaderubbing horses. “Then I got married and wentto work for Paco Gonzalez, where I becameassistant and stayed for seven years.”From there, Gutierrez worked for one year

with Ben Cecil and two with Marty Jonesbefore going on his own. He thanked all histeachers for different lessons learned.“My dad taught me how to horseback,” said

Gutierrez of the primary influence in his lifeand career. “He was a very smart horseman andcould really see a horse physically. Henry saidhe was the best exercise rider he had ever seen.(D. Wayne) Lukas would ask Henry if he couldcome over and gallop his problem horses.”Gutierrez hired his father, who remains a

reliable consultant in his barn. “He retired threeyears ago – for six months,” said Gutierrez,

unable to keep a good man away from horses.“He’s 76, but comes to the barn five days a weekto walk hots and keep an eye on everything.”Gutierrez also took good notes from his

former employers. “Henry had a way withfillies,” said Gutierrez of Moreno’s long list offemale stakes stars. “Paco was brilliant with theway he treated each horse as an individual. Ilearned a lot from Ben on the business side andhow he handled himself professionally withclients.”After training privately for Ben Warren for

six years, Gutierrez broadened his stable toother owners last year. Warren remains hisprimary owner with about 75 per cent of his42-horse stable.Gutierrez annexed his first training title at

Fairplex Park last autumn and was in positionfor his first top ten finish at Santa Anitaheading into the final days of the meet. Hecredited his rising fortunes to a strong crew,

headed by chief assistant Enrique Galindo andforeman Miguel Vasquez. Gutierrez also tippedhis hat to groom Pedro Perez and exercise riderJuan Landeros for their work with BrightThought. Gutierrez made most of his early noise with

California-bred stakes wins by such horses asWarren’s Jitterbug, Warren’s Amber, and SipOne For Mom for Warren and Jack’s Wild, Mr.Wolverine, and Seminole Native for Venneriand partnerships.“Sip One For Mom was the first horse I

bought for Ben,” recalled Gutierrez of the fillywho upset millionaire Moscow Burning in the2006 Solana Beach Handicap at Del Mar. “I saw James Cassidy, Moscow Burning’s

trainer, after nominations for the Solana Beachcame out,” said Gutierrez. “I told him my horsewas training great, and he said MoscowBurning was probably going in a Grade 2, tomy relief. When he changed his mind, Ithought ‘Oh, God!’ but the outcome was prettygood.”Gutierrez said that Jack’s Wild was also the

first horse he bought for Venneri, an earlydecision that inspired the confidence forVenneri to later entrust him with BrightThought. Gutierrez has lofty goals for Bright Thought

and does not want to squeeze the lemon dry.“I’m freshening him for the Arlington Million,”said Gutierrez of the prestigious Grade 1 test inChicago on August 17. “He will get a little timeand prep once for that.”Gutierrez has never shipped a horse out of

state, but is looking forward to an auspiciousshowing in Arlington. “Bright Thought couldput me on the map,” concluded Gutierrezoptimistically. “I’ve been doing well with Cal-breds, but want to reach another level.”Gutierrez lives east of Santa Anita in Fontana

with his wife, Arlynn, and their sons Jonathan,19, and Kevin, 15. Baseball is the second mostpopular sport in the household. Jonathan, asophomore at Cal State Fullerton, coachesduring the summer. Kevin, a high schoolsophomore, plays on the junior varsity.Gutierrez could be a catcher, built short andstocky in the Pudge Rodriguez mold. Thissummer they will be cheering for the Dodgersand trying to hit a home run with BrightThought.n



these investments have fallen precipitouslysince 2000, with all-sources handle at SantaAnita alone declining at least 40% beforeconsidering adjustments for inflation. It ishard to contend that this ongoingconcentration of assets has best served thepublic interest, the state’s agriculture, and thesport. Nor can such a situation long endure.The implications are obvious. If California

racing is to have any realistic long-term future,it must invest seriously in public facilitieswhich are not so subject to the vagaries of realestate exploitation and the control of oneoperator. Among those are Barretts at FairplexPark in Pomona in the south, and Pleasanton’sAlameda County grounds in the north, alongwith Del Mar. California’s serious breeders,attuned as they must be to the long-term, withtheir enormous agricultural investments, mustimmediately awaken and engage in the

decision-making process, or there will be nolong term. Regulators, finally, must do their duty for

the true public interest and the sport itself,and insist that what treasure remains beinvested for appropriate long-term returns.Permitting any more consolidation ofCalifornia’s racing interests than isdemonstrably and objectively necessary is notonly violative of the spirit of California law, itendangers the future of our sport. n

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Graham Motion (right) with daughter Jane, son Marcus “Chappy”, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed, and Barry Irwin after his Dubai World Cup win

The TRM Trainer of the Quarter award has been won by Graham Motion. Motion and his team will

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S 2011 KentuckyDerby winnerAnimal Kingdomopened a gapinglead in the stretchin the $10 million

Dubai World Cup on March 13th, trainerGraham Motion’s first thought was surprising:“This would be the cruelest thing if some horsecame and beat him at the wire.”No one did. Instead, Animal Kingdom

won the world’s richest race by two lengths, a remarkable accomplishment for a trainer andhis horse who had only made three starts since being injured in the 2011 BelmontStakes.“It was the result of a year’s work of

worth for me and the crew,” Motion said. “I’llnever train another horse as exceptional as him. He was the horse of a lifetime.”Yet just six days later, Animal Kingdom’s

owner, Barry Irwin’s Team Valor, announced ithad hired Rick Mettee to become the stable’sprivate trainer, although Motion would beallowed to train Animal Kingdom, who maymake his final start in England. Motion turneddown the private job because he wasn’t about toabandon his other owners. “Our arrangementwas set up so I could walk away some day, and

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Kingdom returned to win an allowance grassrace at Gulfstream on February 10, 2012. Thegame plan was to send him to the 2012 DubaiWorld Cup, but Animal Kingdom sufferedanother injury, a stress fracture in the same leg.

Again, Animal Kingdom was given time torecover. He returned to the races in the

that’s what I decided to do,” Motion said.The 49-year-old native of Cambridge,

England, who worked for Hall of Fame trainerJonathan Sheppard for five years before openinghis own stable, has had other successful horses,including multiple graded stakes winner BetterTalk Now and Breeders’ Cup Filly and MareTurf winner Shared Account.

But Animal Kingdom took him to a place Motion never envisioned visiting: The winner’s circle at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday of May. “I felt shock and disbelief at the same time,” Motion said. “It was never something I planned ondoing.”

The fact that Animal Kingdom had neverraced on dirt and was only making his fifthlifetime start only make his Kentucky Derbyvictory even more special.

Then, following a game second by half alength to Shackleford in the Preakness, AnimalKingdom stumbled badly coming out of thestarting gate in the Belmont. “I was sick,”Motion said.

It got worse. Animal Kingdom rallied from12th to finish sixth, but came out of the racewith a hairline fracture of his left hock.

Given ample time to recover, Animal

Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita, where hefinished a fast-closing second to Horse of theYear Wise Dan.

To prepare for the 2013 World Cup, Motionraced Animal Kingdom in the Grade 1Gulfstream Park Handicap on turf under JoelRosario, the seventh different jockey in AnimalKingdom’s tenth career start. “That’s absurd,” fora horse of his caliber, Motion said.

Rosario’s ride that day was also absurd as herushed Animal Kingdom on the backstretch tofight on the lead, which he made before tiring tosecond behind grass superstar Point of Entry. “Iwas disappointed for the horse, frankly,” Motionsaid. “He was asked to do somethingimpossible.

Rosario, though, kept the mount in theWorld Cup. “I’ve never been a believer ofyanking a rider after one mistake,” Motion said.“We decided to stick with Joel.”

Great decision. Rosario rode AnimalKingdom flawlessly, stalking Royal Delta on thelead, taking command on the final turn andstorming home in a powerful performance. Heis the best horse in the world. “I always wantedto prove the Derby wasn’t a fluke,” Motion said.“There are always skeptics.”

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Yes, Eddie Plesa Jr.’s current star among his 50-horse stableis named Itsmyluckyday. And yes, if that colt makes it intothe starting gate for Kentucky Derby 139 on May 4th, luckwill need to be on his side to successfully maneuver theten-furlong, 20-horse scrum.WORDS: FRANCES J. KARON PHOTOS: STEVEN MARTINE PHOTOGRAPHY, FRANCES J.KARON

they are friends, I want this dream to continuefor them, because that’s why they’ve been in itall these years. They deserve it.”

Two days before this year’s Florida Derby, anNBC camera crew arrives at Plesa’s barn to filmfootage of Itsmyluckyday for the network’supcoming race telecast. The trainer spendsover half an hour dealing with apologetic butunyielding Calder security, which will allowNBC to record Itsmyluckyday at the barn butnot galloping on the track. “They’re saying it’sChurchill’s policy,” Plesa says, frustrated.Calder has been owned by Churchill Downs’parent company, Churchill DownsIncorporated (CDI), since January of 1999.

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UT the reality is built on so muchmore than good fortune, andcertainly for a racehorse trainer it’snot the result of a single “day’s”anything. The reality evolvesconstantly, yet at the core of its

foundation are men and women whose liveshave been dedicated to interacting with anddeveloping racehorses. Early mornings at thetrack, seven days a week, three hundred andsixty-five days a year, with no vacations, thepotential for injury and disappointmentlurking in every stall outweighed only by thehope of a little luck coming their way. This is aracehorse trainer’s reality.

And as is most often the case, not all the luck is of the good variety. Plesa’s previousKentucky Derby starter, the filly Three Ring,ran last – the only time she was ever out of the top three – after a horrible trip. “After aneighth of a mile, it was like, ‘Stop the race! Letme take her out so she doesn’t get damagedanymore!’” he says. “The disheartening thingwas – and not only for this race but any kind ofa race – losing all chance. I just wanted achance.”

The Kentucky Derby was the low point ofneither her nor her trainer’s career. Three Ring,whose dam Plesa had trained and who hepicked out and purchased as a two-year-old for$70,000, rebounded from the Derby with awin as the favorite in the Grade 1 Acorn Stakesat Belmont Park. But three weeks after theAcorn, Plesa was putting blinkers on her for theGrade 1 Mother Goose when she flipped over,fractured her skull, and died in the Belmontpaddock.

Plesa used to go to church prior to each ofThree Ring’s races: “She’s the only horse I ever did that for. I’ve never done it before and I’ve never done it since. I wasn’t sayingprayers that she would win. I did it that she’d have a safe trip. So, you know…” Hepauses. “It is what it is. That’s what buildscharacter, they say.” As luck – bad luck – wouldhave it, there was a wedding in the church onthe day of the Mother Goose, and Plesa didn’tgo inside. This incident happened in 1999, butit wasn’t so very long ago, to hear him talkabout it. Calder Race Course honored ThreeRing with a Listed stakes race, which Plesa won

in 2005 – with a filly called, of all things, StolenPrayer.

A photo of Three Ring hangs beside the desk in his Calder office, from where Plesa can often see his Grade 3 Holy Bull winner Itsmyluckyday peering around theshedrow from the corner stall. “He’s veryinquisitive,” he says. “You walk him up to the [office] door there, the glass, and he looks around [at his reflection] like, ‘Is thatme?’ He’s got a personality.” On the right side of the colt’s halter is a shiny new St. Francismedal, recently given to Plesa’s wife Laurie by friends specifically for this colt; the patron saint of animals watches overItsmyluckyday.

A son of Lawyer Ron, Itsmyluckyday was a$47,000 yearling purchase by agent Nick J.“Sarge” Hines before Plesa bought him, alreadynamed, out of the OBS March sale of two-year-olds in training for $110,000 on behalf ofowners Trilogy Stable (David Melin and MarionMontanari) and Laurie Plesa.

“For them,” says the trainer, “and not for theriches or the money, I just want them toexperience this. I don’t want to disappointthem. Hopefully we won’t. They’ll bedisappointed if he doesn’t win. Of course they’llbe disappointed. I’ll be disappointed. But is itgoing to be devastatingly disappointing? No. It’sjust that because they’re such great people and

Itsmyluckyday – Plesa’s big

hope for Kentucky Derby

success – with assistant

Frankie Perez

B“The people that workfor me deserve it. Theowners deserve it, and Ihope everybody gets to experience this, becauseit’s different. Going intothe Derby being one ofthe top choices is different”


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Eventually, Plesa concedes defeat to securityand pedals his red Gary Fisher Capitola bicycleto the frontside, where he’s surrounded on theapron by NBC analysts Jerry Bailey – who rodeThree Ring in the Acorn – and Randy Moss.The group’s attention is fixed on Itsmyluckydaytaking a spin around the mile oval, while at therail, a few men are instead watching Plesa froma distance. “Oh Eddie, he’s just a rock star!” oneof them is overheard saying.

“Yeah, that’s me, the rock star!” Plesa sayswith a laugh later. “Ah listen, it’s good. Thepeople that work for me deserve it. The ownersdeserve it, and I hope everybody gets toexperience this, because it’s different. Going

into the Derby being one of the top choices isdifferent.”

Even more “different” considering that thehome base of this particular Classic contender,who finished second to Orb in the FloridaDerby, is Calder, where El Palacio Hotel looms,bold and very pink, over the racetrack’s finalturn. The hotel’s dated style adds to the illusionof the track as frozen in time, yet Calder’scasino is just as a stark of a reminder of themodern era of horseracing. Plesa has beenaround Calder in some capacity pretty muchsince it opened in 1971 – before the backside,and our industry, had begun to crumble.

Plesa’s mother, Marion, who passed away in

2004, was the track’s first bookkeeper, andwhen his now-retired father Eddie Sr. saddledhis final runner, on November 28, 2011, it wasat Calder. Plesa himself has trained the winnersof 90 Calder stakes races. The family history isdeeply rooted at this Miami Gardensracecourse, where Plesa is among the all-timewinning trainers and a member of its Hall ofFame.

Eddie Plesa Jr. was born in Seattle,Washington, to a Nebraska-born father whowas at the time a jockey at Longacres, and hespent some of his youth in Detroit andCleveland, where Eddie Sr. also rode prior totaking out his trainer’s license. Among his


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father’s clients was Fred Hooper, for whom heconditioned an Ohio string of the owner’s“worst horses.” Hooper was ultimatelyresponsible for the Plesa family settling downpermanently in Florida when Calder was built.“We picked up the Form one day and it wastalking about the new racetrack and it said,‘Fred Hooper is sending a division down toEdward Plesa.’ He hadn’t called my dad to tellhim. We already had a home here – I went toschool for kindergarten and right through highschool here, so it was like a home run for myparents that they didn’t have to moveanymore.”

After graduating from high school andworking under his dad for a spell, Plesa brieflyoperated a stable in his name. “The first year Iwas out on my own, I was second leadingtrainer at Tampa and I needed a place to gobecause my ultimate goal was to go toRockingham. I shipped into Beulah with about25 horses, and within a 30-day meet, 21 or 22of them were claimed. I had three or fourhorses left and couldn't go on to Rockingham.You couldn’t claim a horse at Beulah Park,because they were all ten, eleven years old. SoI came back to Calder and I was offered a jobby Gary Smith, the racing secretary, to work inthe office. One of the big things was that I’d geta day off, and I was thinking, ‘This soundsgood to me!’”

He spent four years in the racing office atCalder, where he met wife Laurie (née Servis)

“One of the reasons I still stay here,” he says,“is because of some of the people who work forme.” Among his 27 employees is assistantFrankie Perez. “He’s my right-hand person, noquestion about it. I think of him as a memberof my family. He’s with me going on 22 years.He’s got two small kids in school, so he’s notlooking to relocate up to the northeast sixmonths out of the year. I’m lucky to have him;lucky to have a lot of these people, and I feelI’ve got a responsibility to them.”

From behind the steering wheel of the golfcart in which he shuttles his visitors aroundduring training hours, Plesa says, “Sometimeswe kid amongst ourselves that if they end upnot having horseracing here we can have golfcart races.” He zips around the empty parkinglot and through to the frontside deftly, a manfamiliar with every bump and with every crackin the road at Calder.

“They have put nothing into the backside foryears,” says Plesa. “The bottom line is: It’s acorporation. They look to make money,whether it be charge $5 a day for a room tosleep in that none of us would want to sleep in,to $10 a day for stall rent that they’ve neverever charged. And of all the people, of all theracetracks that I go to, these people are the leastthat can afford it. If they would’ve put a gun toeverybody’s head that was a trainer and say,‘$10 a day or I’m going to shoot you,’ 50% ofthem would have had to say, ‘You know what?You’ve gotta shoot me, because I can’t pay it.’”

“One of the reasons I stillstay here is because ofsome of the people whowork for me. [FrankPerez] is my right-handperson...I think of him asa member of my family”

the day she started a job as Smith’s secretary.“We’ve been together ever since,” he says.Laurie’s father used to be a jockey, and he wasa state steward in West Virginia for about 35years; her brothers Jason and John aresuccessful trainers: John trained championSmarty Jones to win the 2004 Kentucky Derbyand Preakness.

Plesa then became an assistant to trainer StanHough, handling Hough’s string at MonmouthPark, before training privately for Hooper onthe East Coast. He conditioned three horses,including Plesa’s first stakes winner Shuttle Jet– who ran second in the Grade 1 Futurity atBelmont – weighted on the 1983 ExperimentalFree Handicap. In 1986, Plesa opened a publicstable, based primarily at Calder whilemaintaining a string at Monmouth during thesummer and early fall months.


On the other side of the corporations are the horse owners. “They’re patrons of thisgame, and they love it. They’re not looking to make money, though they’d like to and there is an opportunity. They don’t expect it. Tome it’s a business, but I don’t train for a single person that this is a business for them.They might have a business plan but no ownerowns horses because they’ve been told thatthey can make money to support their family.So when you have opposed views on it – one’s

profit-motivated, one is benevolent – theyclash.”

Unlike the Plesas, their own children – Luke,Kyle, and Kelsey – didn’t follow their familyinto the industry. “Are they into horses? Theyare, as far as they root for me,” Plesa says.“Kelsey really wanted to be part of the businessand I really pushed her away from it, for lots ofreasons. It’s a tough business, and it’s tough forwomen to be back here.” Luke is a policedetective in Florida; Kyle works for a logistics

company – his boss Ralph Nabavi (HardwayFarms) campaigns the barn’s stakes-winningSpeak Logistics, who placed in the Grade 2Fountain of Youth Stakes and the Calder Derbyin his last two starts; and Kelsey is finishingcollege in Florida.

“Listen,” Plesa says in response to a queryabout the problems in our industry, “our game is on such a defense. We have no offense. We’re not out there combating these thoughts. Why, I don’t know. We do a


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Itsmyluckyday, wearing his St. Francis

medal, looks at the reflection of himself

through the office window (left) “He’s very

inquisitive,” says Plesa. Plesa oversees

operations (below)


poor job of communicating. Everything –medication, casinos, breakdowns – is killingour business. Knee-jerk reactions…we bring it upon ourselves. What we need we’ll neverhave, and that would be a czar, a commissionerof racing to decide things. It’ll never happen.How’s it going to happen? We can’t get together on medication, something as simple asthat.”

And to the observation that perhaps theindustry isn’t as much fun as it used to be, he

replies, “It’s not. I’m sure it isn’t. I don’t know ifit’s because I’m older now and I’ve done this forso long, or because it’s not fun.”

Plesa, of course, does still enjoy training and,most especially, winning. “It’s very gratifyingwhen a horse wins. It’s gratifying when you pickout a horse and they turn out to be somethingout of the ordinary.” He should know just howgratifying, having spotted and acquired many ofhis trainees at auction, including Three Ring forCalvin Klein’s business partner Barry K.Schwartz; Itsmyluckyday; and Speak Logistics,a $62,000 juvenile who has earned over$300,000 to date.

He does well with homebreds, too. Lastseason’s Grade 3 Sapling winner Brave Davewas bred by Plesa with Melin and another long-time Plesa client, Bea Oxenberg, who diedwhen that colt was a weanling; he races forMelin and Laurie Plesa. Oxenberg bred andraced Best of the Rest, winner of 13 stakes racesand $1.4 million and who won his last gradedstakes at the age of eight. Fittingly, Plesa wonthe 2011 Bea Oxenberg Memorial Stakes atCalder, with the mare Successful Song, a LiveOak Stud homebred who was third in theGrade 3 Rampart at six in March. Triple Grade3 stakes winner Gottcha Gold, an earner ofover $930,000, was a homebred for VernonHeath’s Centaur Farms.

“What we need we’llnever have, and thatwould be a czar, a commissioner of racingto decide things. It’llnever happen”


Plesa with his wife Laurie who he met at the Calder racing office


“It’s a great business because you meet people that you would nevermeet otherwise, and listen to their stories, what made them successful.What happened in their lives that made them who they are today?” hewonders. “To me, life is a path and you come to certain forks in the road,and you might make the right turn and it takes you to another fork, youmake the left turn. What would’ve happened if you’d have taken theother turn? What would’ve happened to me and my family if I’d havestayed working in the racing office as opposed to going out as a trainer?Working in the office was a benefit to me cause I learned other things.So that’s part of my resume. But what if I’d have stayed there? Wherewould I be now? Would it have been as gratifying? Probably not.

“Listen. GeorgeHandy [who trainedParisto to a win in theGrade 3 Illinois Derbyand a third-place finishin the 1981 Preakness]is driving around[Calder] every day.He’ll be up on theapron every day. Ithink he’s got fivehorses. He’s almost 90.The longevity in thisgame is unbelievable.Are there certain thingsthat have changed?Absolutely. My father isone who says that. Hecomments every oncein a while, ‘The gamehas passed me by.’ Andin some ways it has,but it’s something youcan keep doing. Aslong as I have Frankie.We might be down to four or five horses; I’ll be the hotwalker, he’ll bethe groom. And I’ll get up every morning and come to work.”

Until that happens, Plesa has a pretty good handle on things. Hecounts 137 black-type stakes among his 2,071 wins, having won his2000th race in April of 2012, a few weeks shy of his birthday. The horsewas Salt Water Cowboy, owned by the same partnership that campaignsItsmyluckyday. This year’s Kentucky Derby is nine days after Plesa’sbirthday, and wouldn’t that make for a nice belated 64th birthdaypresent?

When the preparations are behind him and Itsmyluckyday loads intothe starting gate this Classic season, Plesa is open to good fortuneintersecting with his stable’s hard work. “I hope it is my lucky day. I’mhoping!” n

Grade 1 winners Owner

Three Ring Barry K. Schwartz

Grade 3 winners

Best of the Rest Beatrice Oxenberg

*Brave Dave David Melin

and Laurie Plesa

Electrify Padua Stables

Gottcha Gold Centaur Farms, Inc.

Hey Byrn Beatrice Oxenberg

J J’sdream John Franks

*Itsmyluckyday Trilogy Stable

and Laurie Plesa

Successful Mission Live Oak Plantation

Vaguely Double Betty Sessa

Wander Mom Jaime S. Carrion

Yesbyjimminy Trilogy Stable

*still in training

Graded stakes winners trained

by eddie PLesa

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Black Caviar, wearing a

compression suit, prior to

being transported to Britain

for her Royal Ascot

engagement last year


advertorial testimonials. However, Snaith’sexperience contradicted this. He reported thatduring hot weather travel, the suit caused anincrease in sweating, and consequently hishorses only wear it when traveling in cold orcool conditions.

On the other hand, Black Caviar’s bodytemperature was monitored on her three-leggedjourney from Melbourne to London and it didnot alter significantly throughout.

She also only lost 8kg (about 17½ pounds) inweight – an acceptable amount for such a longjourney – and her distal limbs had no evidenceof swelling and were cool on palpation. Her


HE use of compression suits inracehorses is in its infancy andalmost all of the reports so far havebeen positive, although most ofthem are within advertorials.

Two racehorse trainers in SouthAfrica, Justin Snaith and Brett Crawford, havebought compression suits chiefly for longdistance travel. There is solid evidence that thesuits are medically useful to humans in thisregard.

One manufacturer claims that its suit keepsmuscle temperature warm in cold weather andcool in hot weather, and this is backed up by

Black Caviar was one of the first Thoroughbreds to wear acompression suit, which was designed to correlate withequivalent worn by humans. Anecdotally, compressiongarments appear to have been of benefit to sportsmen;scientifically, the studies on the subject have been limited andhave sometimes contradicted each other. However, onecertainty is that they do no harm, except in terms of expense,and there is also a likelihood that their usage is of some benefit.WORDS: DAVID THISELTON PHOTOS: HIDEZ, LIESL KING CARTOON: MARK KNIGHT

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chiropractor Michael Bryant, who traveled withher, reported no sign of sweating in atestimonial within a compression suitadvertorial article.

Black Caviar also wears her compression suitimmediately after exercise, as there have beengood reports that the suit aids in recovery,injury prevention, and fatigue management.Her trainer Peter Moody has reportedly saidthat she visibly relaxes after it has been zippedon.

The first racehorse to ever wear acompression suit was the Australian sprinterHay List, winner of three Group 1s and runner-up to Black Caviar in four Group 1s. TrainerJohn McNair bought the suit due to Hay List’sinjury problems and the horse wore it for thefirst time two weeks before the Group 1Newmarket Handicap, which was his secondrun after a long injury-enforced layoff. He dulywon under top weight and the public witnessedhim in the suit after the race.

McNair said the suit’s greatest advantage is fortravel, as the horse “recovers from the journeyso much quicker.”

Ed Dunlop used a compression suit onMelbourne Cup runner-up Red Cadeaux’sreturn trip to England. Dunlop added, "We'vebeen using it pre-exercise and it seems to helpwarm him up and get his muscles more suppleas a result."

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evidence even in this regard was still mainlyanecdotal.

The long-term benefit of the post-match useof compression garments is to maintain orimprove subsequent performance.

Marnie Oberer, a nutrionist, athlete, andtelevision presenter in New Zealand, pointedout, “Recovery is a key component for anyathlete wanting to make gains in theirperformance, yet - despite the popularity of

various recovery interventions - it is an arealacking scientific evidence. This is not to say therecovery practices of elite athletes areunwarranted, it’s possible that their anecdotalreports supersede future scientific verification.”

Racehorses, if they could talk, might supportthis notion as all reports, although, again,chiefly advertorial, suggest that they “love” theirsuits.

There have been no reports of horsesbecoming agitated after they have been zippedon.

Dr. Manfred Rohwer, who works for aThoroughbred veterinarian practice in SouthAfrica, reckoned a compression suit would be oflittle use as a performance enhancer for an eventas short as a horse race, pointing out that evenrugby players only wear them after a game.

Today’s racehorse, whose natural prowess asa creature of flight has been enhanced by yearsof select breeding, possesses a sophisticatedmechanism for transporting oxygen to muscle

“Black Caviar alsowears her compressionsuit immediately afterexercise, as there havebeen good reports thatthe suit aids in recovery”

devices for humans. Graduated medicalcompression garments place the greatestpressure on the part of the limb farthest fromthe heart, with gradually reduced pressureclosest to the heart. They have been shown toimprove peripheral circulation, increase venousreturn (blood flow from the veins back to theheart), and reduce swelling.

Garments of varying types are used post-surgery to encourage resolution of swelling andbruising, to facilitate skin retraction, and toflush the body of potentially harmful fluids.They are also used to aid in the healing of burnsand to prevent or treat muscle strains and lowblood pressure, and can be worn on long haulflights to prevent deep vein thrombosis.

Perceived advantages of compressionsportswear are that it speeds recovery fromfatigue; reduces muscle soreness; improvesability to maintain performance levels whenworn between exercise; removes post-exercisemetabolic waste products from the blood, suchas lactate, more quickly; encourages a morerapid return to pre-exercise creatine kinase (CK)levels (CK is a marker of muscle damage); aswell as improves performance and maintainscorrect body temperature.

The theory is that when compression isapplied to specific body parts in a balanced way,it accelerates blood flow and this gets moreoxygen to the working muscles, therebyboosting performance. Better blood flow also

helps rid the system of lactic acid and othermetabolic waste products, which helps anathlete work at a higher rate for longer.Furthermore, improved oxygenation reducesthe effects of delayed onset muscle soreness andaccelerates muscle repair.

The way it works is explained well by AdamTrewin, a Bachelor of Science honors graduatein Exercise Science. He said, “The circulatorysystem is comprised of both arterial and venousblood flow. Arterial blood is pumped from theheart/lungs, is oxygenated and flows at a highpressure. Correct fitting compression garmentswill not significantly impede this arterial bloodflow. However, venous blood, which isdeoxygenated having done its metabolic job ofpassing through the capillaries and offloadingoxygen and nutrients to the active muscle, flowsat a much lower pressure. These veins havespecial venous ‘one-way’ valves built in whichallows blood to go back towards the heart, butnot the other way. Muscle contractions squeezethe blood back to the heart and this is the mainmechanism for venous return. Compressiongarments utilize this same mechanism.”

Studies done on whether compressiongarments can enhance performance have beeninconclusive, while evidence showing that theyenhance recovery is more substantial. The useof compression suits in the Sharks Rugby team,a major professional franchise who plays out ofDurban in South Africa, provides a practicalguideline, for at this level no quarter is spared ingetting the best out of each player.

Dr. Glen Hagemann, the managing directorof Sharks Medical and the President of theSouth African Sports Medicine Association,revealed that the majority of players only woretheir compression garments after exercise. Hereckoned the chief benefit of wearing the suitduring play would probably be as an anti-chafemeasure, as it wicks away sweat.

He confirmed that the reason for use after thegame was for recovery, injury prevention, andfatigue management, although he admitted that

Black Caviar (nearside) holds on to win

the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal

Ascot from Moonlight Cloud


tissue. On top of this, a third of the total redblood cells are held in reserve in the spleen andcan be mobilized during the excitement phaseof competition. It seems unlikely that acompression garment would enhance thisprocess.

However, there is little doubt that there issignificant lactate build-up in a horse duringany race. The administration of bicarbonates,otherwise known as “milkshaking,” began inthe 1980s in horseracing as a method ofneutralizing lactate acid build-up. This hascaused much controversy, and bicarbonatelevels are now subject to screening limits onraceday.

An American study performed on six humansubjects using treadmills and bicycle ergometersshowed a decrease in post-exercise lactateconcentration when compression stockings hadbeen worn during exercise. The investigatorsconcluded that the compression stockings wereincreasing the lactate retained in the muscles,thereby reducing the amount released into theblood, which is contrary to other claims that theincreased blood flow carries the lactate away.

This was not the only study done on humansthat showed reductions in post-exercise bloodlactate when compression garments were usedduring exercise or afterwards.

However, studies invariably show thatcompression garments cause a reduction inperceived post-exercise muscular soreness and adecreased level of creatine kinase. Studies onsportsmen have been limited by the fact thatnone appeared to have measured the level ofcompressive forces applied by the garment, andinvariably there was no evidence to suggest theclothing exerted graduated compression.Furthermore, to date , there is little evidence tosuggest that wearing compression clothing ismore effective than other recoveryinterventions.

A study by Gill and colleagues in 2008 tested

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were not affected but average hip angle wasreduced. Although not measured as part of thestudy, this suggested that stride frequency wasincreased.

The investigators concluded that augmentedproprioception (the sense of the relativeposition of neighboring parts of the body andstrength of effort being employed in movement)may have provided an improvement intechnique, while the reported reduction in theoscillatory displacement of the muscle mayhave promoted enhanced neurotransmissionand mechanics at the cellular and molecularlevel.

A similar study done on six athletes on a 200meter track suggested a reduction in themetabolic cost of running at a specific speed.The investigators suggested that the positiveeffect of wearing the compression clothing mayarise due to an enhancement of the motionpattern brought about by an increase inproprioception and muscle coordination. Theyalso speculated that a reduction in muscleoscillation enhanced performance and went onto suggest that wearing a lower-bodycompressive garment may reduce musclefatigue by supporting more active muscles andapplying pressure in such a way as to supportmuscle fibers in their contraction direction.

Of course, there have been no studiesperformed yet on the effects of compressiongarments on racehorses, but the evidencegathered, both anecdotally and scientifically, ontheir benefit to humans provides plenty of foodfor thought.

They certainly appear to cause no harm andthe words of Dr. Phil Conway, the director ofvarious sports injury clinics and a runner’s clinicin Calgary, might be the best advice forracehorse trainers at this stage: “The bottom lineis if you feel that compression clothing ishelping your game and performance, stick withit.” n

professional rugby players with four differentrecovery methods after a match.

They either did nothing after the match,performed light exercise on a stationary bike,immersed themselves to the hip in cold water,or wore compression garments. It was foundthat the latter three recovery methods wereequally effective and that doing nothingresulted in greater levels of lactic acid, greaterlevels of creatine kinase, and greater levels ofmuscle soreness.

Applied to racehorses, the compression suitwould be the easiest and least time-consumingof the three recovery options, although moreexpensive than the light exercise option.

One study done on university volleyballathletes showed that when wearing custom-fitcompression shorts they were better able tomaintain power output during repeated verticaljumps. The investigators concluded that theshorts increased the athlete’s ability to resistfatigue.

In a further study done on university trackathletes specializing in jump events, thosewearing custom-fit compression shorts showedsignificant increases in countermovement jumpheight, plus significant reduction in muscleoscillation during landing.

In this same group, 60-meter sprint times

“Studies invariably showthat compression garments cause a reduction in perceivedpost-exercise muscularsoreness and a decreasedlevel of creatine kinase”

Two racehorse trainers in South Africa, Justin Snaith (left) and Brett Crawford (above), use

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RELATIVE VALUESThe Schosbergs

A commitment to racing thatcontinues into a fifth decade

THE SCHOSBERGS

Rick Schosberg opened his

own stable in 1988, winning

with his first starter, Three

Chopt Road, at Belmont


Unlike families in horseracing who pass their equine passionfrom generation to generation, the Schosbergs – Paul andJane and their children Rick and Jill – plunged into the horseworld simultaneously. “It’s my perpetual warning to peoplewho are inclined to give their kids a pony for Christmas,”Paul said. “You never know where that’s going to lead. In ourfamily, when you commit, you commit to your eyeballs.”WORDS: BILL HELLER PHOTOS: HORSEPHOTOS.COM, BOB COGLIANESE

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HAT commitment to horses isstill there four and a half decadeslater. But it wouldn’t have startedwithout Rick and Jill, whosemutual love of horses precededtheir tenth birthday. “I think it’s

the DNA,” their father said. “This is a familywho always loved animals.”First, there were German Shepherds. Back in

the ’60s, the Schosbergs bred and showed them.“My kids were surrounded by dogs,” Paul said.Horses would be next. Eventually, elephants

would work their way into Paul and Jane’s lives.These high school sweethearts from

Scarsdale, N.Y., met in 1953 and dated throughhigh school and college before marrying. Theywill celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary inDecember. “It worked out terrific,” Paul said.“I’m the luckiest guy in the world.”

He may also be the busiest guy in the world,having carved out several successful careers,mixing journalism, politics, and finance whilesimultaneously working with horses andrepresenting horses’ best interests as thepresident and member of the Board of Directorsof the New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc.(NYTB).“He’s a dynamic guy,” Rick said of his dad. So

is Rick’s mom, who managed theThoroughbreds they owned and bred whilefinding her niche as a successful pinhooker.“They are dedicated to racing,” said owner

and breeder Al Fried Jr., whose best horse,Affirmed Success, was trained by Rick. “Theyspend a lot of time and effort improving racingin New York. I was on the Breeders’ Board withPaul. He was dedicated to making racing andbreeding in New York as superlative at it couldbe. I think he did a fantastic job.”

But Paul and Jane might have had much

different jobs and different lives had their twochildren not intervened. “They started takingriding lessons in 1967,” Paul said. “In 1968, thekids started pestering us to get a horse of theirown. We insisted that they had to do everything– cleaning up, taking care of the horse. Janesaid, `You’ve got to be willing to do that part ofit.’ They spent a year learning that. We felt theymet that test pretty well, so we bought them anArab/Welsh pony. We got her for $150,including her tack. Her name was My Fair Lady.That was 1969. They were enthralled.”A decade later, Jane, who’d been riding since

she was ten years old, let it be known that shewould like her own horse, too. “Jane lovedhorses and dropped hints, some subtle, somenot,” Paul said. “In 1980, I bought her a three-year-old filly, Dot in Spot, who had been

racing in West Virginia. In those days, there wasno winter racing. Her owners didn’t want tocontinue paying bills over the winter.”Nearly 30 years later, that mare’s daughter,

Tim’s Lady, who had success on the racetrackand produced New York bred-championMellow Roll, remains at Paul and Jane’s PineLane Farm in Katonah, in Westchester County,New York.All you need to know about Jane and her

horsemanship is covered by her reaction tofalling off a horse and breaking her backwhen she was 12. “I couldn’t wait to getback on a horse,” she said. “It didn’t scareme at all. You can ride with a brace.”

When Jill and Rick began riding, Jillwas superior and wound up doing wellin many shows. “We’d get up at five inthe morning and drive two-and-a-half

hours to a show,” Paul said. “It

Grade 1 winnerAffirmed Success

topped $2.2million inearnings during aseven-year career

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became a very boring practice for Rick. Heloved working on horses.”Rick put it this way: “My sister was good at

riding. She was excellent. I wasn’t. She wasjumping and doing very well. I don’t think I hadthe passion for it. I remember working inVirginia, mucking out stalls at a ridingacademy.”But it was Rick who has become one of the

best trainers in New York, while Jill became apediatrician.Both of them could have wound up in

another world: politics. Paul, who had beeneditor and bureau chief for the White PlainsReporter Dispatch, left the newspaper businessto run Richard Ottinger’s campaign for the U.S.Congress in 1964. Ottinger won and Paulserved as Ottinger’s chief of staff. Later on, Paulran Herman Badillo’s successful campaign forthe U.S. Congress in 1970 and served as hischief of staff. Paul also ran Badillo’s campaignwhen he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of NewYork City in 1972.“Politics and horses do have some things in

common,” Paul said. “They’ll certainly test youremotional durability.”

Rick has fond memories of that time in hislife. “We were the kids with the hats andbumper stickers. I can remember a lot of it. Itwas fun at the time. Interesting times backthen.”

In 1975, Paul and Jane left Capitol Hill andmoved from Virginia back to New York. “I tooka job with American Banking, and thatcoincided with the first time we were breedingone or two horses a year, and they were NewYork-breds,” Paul said.Paul served two terms as president of the

NYTB and was on its Board of Directors for 12years. “Then I became Director Emeritus,” Paulsaid. “John Nerud and I are the only DirectorsEmeritus. Jane and John Nerud are the twogeniuses that I have the pleasure of being intheir company.”He maintained his pleasure of being in his

horses’ company at the family farm, which theyhad purchased in March, 1975. “It was animportant part of my day, to work on the horses,even it was only for one hour,” he said. “I’d getJane up, bring her a cup of coffee, walk the dogs,feed the horses, shower, and go to work (a 35-minute commute). Jane did everything

else. Then I’d come home at the end of the day, have dinner, change my clothes, and go out and do whatever needed doing, as long as itgot me close to the horses, just being withthem.”

At 11 p.m. each night, Paul, Jane, Rick or Jillwould do one final check on their horses tomake sure they had water and hay. “We’d rotatethe 11 p.m. call,” Rick said.Jane, of course, was insanely busy taking care

of the horses when Paul was at work. “It’s 24hours, seven days a week,” she said. “You neverget away from it.”Of course, she never wanted to get away from

it, and still doesn’t. She remains fascinated withpinhooking, which she’s been doingsuccessfully for 30 years and counting. “She has an uncanny ability,” Paul said. Jane’s had great success, including with a Woodmanfilly she bought as a foal for $175,000 and re-sold at the 1995 Keeneland July yearling sale for $425,000. “I really love doing it, justseeing them progress,” she said. “We followthem very closely after they’re sold. You see if you’ve made the right decision to let them go when they were six months old.”

When asked what he learned from hisparents, Rick replied, “It’s an endless list.Certainly, the proper way to treat people atevery level. Helping people that need it andletting people help themselves when that’sindicated. The work ethic with horses isintrinsic. They still get up at five in morning,and they’re in their mid ’70s, and this is whatkeeps them going. She insists on riding in thevan when her horses ship. She’ll ride with otherhorses one-way if she has to, so she can be withher horse if he’s shipping back to the farm.That’s the kind of work ethic and passion shehas for horses.”It’s a passion that Rick shares. After working

for Walter Kelley, Sidney Watters Jr., and TomSkiffington, Rick opened his own stable inSeptember, 1988. He won with his first starter,Three Chopt Road, at Belmont Park onSeptember 14th. “He was the first horse Isaddled,” Rick said. “Jerry Bailey rode him. Ihave a big 20x10 poster of him in the winner’scircle.”While As Indicated was Rick’s first multiple

major stakes winner, capturing the 1993 Grade 2 Gotham and the 1994 Grade 1 Pimlico


“We’ve had some reallynice horses, but it’s prettyhard not to put him onthe top. He was an amazing horse, a coolhorse”Rick Schosberg on Affirmed Success


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Special, Grade 3 Aqueduct Handicap, andGrade 3 Assault Handicap, the horse who reallydisplayed Rick’s talent was Catienus, a horseclaimed by Ken and Sarah Ramsey for $50,000off a close second at Aqueduct on April 25th,1999. “When he first came to New York, Mr.Ramsey wanted to stand a son of Storm Cat,”Rick said. All Catienus did was win a stakes inDelaware in his first start off the claim, thenfinish second in the Grade 2 Suburban, third inthe Grade 1 Whitney and second in the Grade2 Saratoga Breeders’ Cup Handicap whiletrained by Schosberg.By then, Rick’s resume included Maria’s Mon,

who won the 1995 Grade 2 Sanford, Grade 1Futurity, and Grade 1 Champagne and waschampion two-year-old male. In 1998,Mossflower won the Grade 1 Hempstead.But the winner’s circle pictures stretching the

length of Rick’s upstairs hallway at his LongIsland home all feature Affirmed Success. AlFried Jr.’s homebred gelding by Affirmed tookRick and Fried on quite a ride.“We’ve had some really nice horses, but it’s

pretty hard not to put him on the top,” Ricksaid. “His versatility was unmatched. He was anamazing horse, a cool horse.”Unraced at two, Affirmed Success won his

maiden debut, then two allowance races in1997. Asked to step up and stretch out to a mileand an eighth in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy,Affirmed Success led most of the way beforetiring to third behind Awesome Again, just oneof the great horses Affirmed Success wouldroutinely battle. When Affirmed Success cameout of the Jim Dandy okay, Rick and Al took ashot in the mile-and-a-quarter, Grade 1 Travers.Affirmed Success led briefly before tiring toseventh. “He had distance limitations,” Ricksaid.

Affirmed Success never raced farther than a

mile-and-a-sixteenth for the rest of his trulyremarkable career.At four, he won the Grade 2 Forego and the

Grade 1 Vosburgh before finishing sixth by 3½lengths as the 5-2 favorite in the Grade 1Breeders’ Cup Sprint. The next year, he won theGrade 1 Cigar Mile by five lengths. At six, hewon his turf debut in the Grade 3 PokerHandicap, then was beaten just a neck when hefinished fourth to War Chant in the Grade 1Breeders’ Cup Mile. Still going strong at the ageof seven, he won the Poker again and finished

second by a neck in the Grade 1 Atto Mile atWoodbine. He was good enough at eight tocapture the Grade 1 Carter again, and at ninewon the Grade 3 Toboggan Handicap.He finished his career with a record of

11-for-29 on dry dirt with eight seconds, fourthirds, and earnings topping $1.2 million. Hewon three of five starts on wet tracks, earning$434,475. And on turf, he was three-for-eight,earning just under $600,000. His careernumbers were 17 wins, 10 seconds, and sixthirds in 42 starts and earnings of $2,285,315.Affirmed Success now lives at Michael Blowen’sOld Friends Farm in Georgetown, Kentucky.More recently, Rick won five stakes,

including the 2008 Grade 3 Count Fleet and the2009 Grade 3 Excelsior, with Fried’s homebredGiant Moon.Rick, who was elected to the New York

Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association’s Boardof Directors last year, continues to operate amanageable stable of 20 to 30 horses. “I alwayswanted to keep a modest-sized outfit so that Icould be hands-on every day,” he said. “I’drather have the final say in what is going on. Isplit horses in 1985 in New York and Florida,and we did well at Aqueduct, but took afinancial hit in Florida. Most of my owners don’thave more than three horses. Some have onehorse, and that’s fine with me. I’m a family type.I like to spend time with my wife and my son.”

Rick met his wife Dawn in Barn 24 atBelmont Park in 1987. “She came in with anoutfit, and I was working for Tom Skiffington,”Rick said. “We got married in 1989.”Their one son, Ryan, is a student at Boston

University. And though Ryan worked lastsummer as a bartender in Siro’s just off thegrounds of Saratoga Race Course, he is notplanning on a life with horses. “He’s in marineand environmental studies,” Rick said. “He’slooking to clean up what we mess up.”In 1988, Paul and Jane made their first trip to

East Africa. Paul became a member of the Boardof Directors of the African Wildlife Foundation,and he and Jane added elephants to their list ofanimals they have loved. “We’ve gone on ninesafaris,” Paul said. “It’s a deep, emotional pull.It’s like eating peanuts. You can’t stop with one.”Jane named an elephant Dorothea, the “D”

for Dot in Spot, after that mare died, andanother elephant for the great grass mareDahlia. “We go back to see the elephants,” Jane said. “We go find them in the wild withhelp.”Getting together with their own family is

much simpler. And they are very proud of thetwo children they raised. “We feel that wayabout both our kids,” Paul said. “We love themdeeply. We’re enormously proud of them, notonly for what they accomplished in theirprofessions, but also for their families. Jill hastwo sons, and Rick one.”Jane pointed this out about her son: “Family

is very important to Richard.”We don’t have to wonder where that came

from. n

“Most of my owners don’thave more than threehorses. Some have onehorse, and that’s fine withme. I’m a family type. Ilike to spend time withmy wife and my son”

Mellow Roll, winner of the Empire Classic at Belmont, was bred by Jane Schosberg



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Breaking the silence:the impact of sound

and hearing

ONSIDERING how importanta horse’s sense of hearing is andhow commonly earplugs areused in various athletic events,there is remarkably littleresearch in this field.

Nonetheless, this article provides the most up-to-date information on the form and functionof the equine ear and how hearing and soundimpact performance.

How horses hearJust like most other parts of the horse’s body,the ear has been fine-tuned over the pastseveral million years to help horses evade theirnatural predators. “A horse’s sense of hearing is exquisite,” says

Camie Heleski, PhD, Instructor/Coordinatorof the two-year Ag Tech Horse ManagementProgram at Michigan State University’sDepartment of Animal Science and a councilmember for the International Society forEquitation Science. This is because a horse’s ear is a funnel-

shaped structure designed to corral soundwaves to the inner ear where they areperceived by the brain. The outer ear, calledthe pinna, has ten separate muscles that workin concert to rotate each ear up to 180°. As aresult, a horse can effectively achieve 360°

C author of the book, Equine Behavior: A Guidefor Veterinarians and Equine Scientists, horsesare able to locate the source of a sound withinan arc of approximately 25°, and horses canrespond to sounds from up to 4,400 metresaway, which is just over 21 furlongs.” Some other interesting facts about what

horses hear that Heleski summarised fromMcGreevy’s book is that horses have a muchlarger range of sound and can hear higher-pitched sounds than humans. Specifically, thesound range in humans is quite narrow, froma lowly 20 hertz (Hz) to a mere 20,000 Hz. Incontrast, horses have a much larger range ofsound: 55–33,500 Hz.What does this translate to? Lynne

McCurdy, a doctor of audiology in WellingtonCounty, Ontario, Canada, explains: “250 Hz isthe rumbly middle C on the piano, 20 Hz is areally low drum, and human speech soundsdon’t exceed 8,000 Hz.” This means that horses can hear sounds

that we can’t even fathom. “There is nothing in speech that occurs in

the extreme sound ranges that horses canhear,” notes McCurdy. She adds, “They canhear ‘environmental’ sounds that we don’thear, like insects.” Once the sound waves reach the pinnae,

they are funneled through the ear canal to the

worth of hearing without having to move hishead. In contrast, humans only have threemuscles associated with each of our small, flat,essentially immobile pinnae, effectivelylimiting what and how much we hear.Additionally, unlike horses, our ears are notable to move independently.Not only can horses hear noises farther

away than humans and perceive a largervariety of noises but horses also beat humansin the category of sound localization.Heleski says, “According to Paul McGreevy,

“There is nothing inspeech that occurs in theextreme sound rangesthat horses can hear.They can hear ‘environmental’ soundsthat we don’t hear, likeinsects”

Lynne McCurdy

What your horses do (or don’t) hear might impact their performance and overallhealth. We all know that as prey animals horses rely heavily on their senses of

sound, smell, and sight to survive, and many trainers attempt to manipulate thosesenses to help their horses perform maximally. Blinkers, hoods, visors, eyecovers,and other so-called “appliances” are all designed to help racehorses concentrateduring a race. Even Zenyatta, 2010 Horse of the Year, apparently benefitted fromthe use of earplugs during her 20-race career (of which she won the first 19).

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and preparedness to flee; their uber quick timebetween their perception of danger and theirphysical response; a rapid desensitization tofrightening stimuli compared to other species;and their ability to learn and remember. Hearing and sound perception are therefore

important for trainers to consider, but giventhat horses have been evolving for about 45million years yet domesticated for only about5,000 years, it is no wonder that we haven’tbeen able to “temper” some of those naturalbehaviors/senses, such as responding to soundand attempting to flee. One method that hashelped performance horses “fight” theirnatural instincts and concentrate on the task athand is the use of earplugs.

Shutting out the noiseWhy use earplugs in Thoroughbreds?According to Kim Kelly, Hong Kong JockeyClub’s Chief Stipendiary Steward, “…the useof earplugs in races conducted by the [HongKong Jockey] Club is aimed at allowing for theattenuation or dampening of some of theauditory stimuli for nervous/flighty horses soas to enable them to focus during the race,whilst not completely blocking out allenvironmental noise/stimuli. Given the large,often vocal crowds which attend racing in thisjurisdiction, the use of earplugs can result inotherwise flighty horses remaining calm,which may have a positive effect on theirracing performance.” Earplugs are far more common in

Standardbred racehorses, but according toGreg Maltby from Maltby Stables in Ontario,Canada, and a member of the Industry CodeCommittee for Equine Welfare Code inCanada, earplugs play an important role inThoroughbreds as well.“Earplugs help eliminate noises in the

starting gate, especially the echoes that seemto drive the horses nuts,” explains Maltby. “Inhorseracing, we can’t wait 1.5 years to makesure the horse is used to all the sounds on thetrack, so earplugs help with a horse’s flightresponse, to deaden it a bit. They make thehorse more useful and make their experiencebetter.”

Earplug ethics?Earplugs are apparently fairly innocuous butare not permitted by certain equineassociations. For example, Equine Canadastates that “Horses must be shown withoutartificial appliances.” The British HorseracingAuthority does permit earplugs; however, they stipulate: “When any horse runs in a race with earplugs of any type, such plugsmust not be removed during the course of therace.” Similarly, the Hong Kong Jockey Clubs

states, “Only earplugs of a design approved bythe Stewards and the Veterinary Officer shallbe permitted to be used on horses in races.When a horse is declared to race withearplugs, such earplugs must not be removed

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A horse’s ear is funnel-shaped,

designed to corral sound waves to

the inner ear where they are

perceived by the brain. The outer ear,

called the pinna, has ten separate

muscles that work in concert to

rotate each ear up to 180°.

A horse can achieve 360°

worth of hearing without

having to move its head

eardrum, middle ear, and then inner ear.When sound waves “strike” the eardrum, thethin membrane vibrates, amplifying/intensifying the sounds waves that

subsequently causes the three small bones(malleus, inca, and stapes) in the middle earand the structures in the inner ear to vibrate.Ultimately, those vibrations aremetamorphosed into electric signals thatstimulate the auditory (“hearing”) nerve thathelps the brain interpret the electrical signalsas sound…all in the blink of an eye.

Speed of sound: does noise impactbehaviour and performance? Does what a horse hear on the track impacttheir racing performance? For most horses,absolutely.According to equine behaviorist Robert M.

Miller, DVM, no horse/trainer pair can reachits full potential unless the trainer understandsten specific traits that every horse inherits.Those traits include (but are not limited to)their inbred nature for flight; their perception


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Musician Ray Charles once said, “I was bornwith music inside me. Music was one of myparts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a forcealready within me when I arrived on thescene. It was a necessity for me, like food orwater.”

Thoroughbreds also have the music insideof them, but two studies suggest that somesounds, such as music, can have a negativeimpact on horses.

The first study, “Risk Factors for GastricUlceration in Thoroughbred Racehorses”(available at https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/downloads/08-061) reported that playing aradio in the barn increased the risk of gastriculcers.

In that study, the author, AssociateProfessor Guy D. Lester from the School ofVeterinary and Biomedical Sciences,Murdoch University in Western Australia,collected data from 402 racehorses underthe care of 37 different trainers. Thosehorses were sedated and scoped to assessthe stomach for ulcer disease and data were collected from each trainer and horseto try to identify risk factors for gastriculceration.

Lester wrote, “There were a large numberof factors that significantly impacted onulcer disease when examined… There werea number of environmental factors that werealso significantly associated with gastriculceration… Playing of a radio within thebarn increased risk [of gastric ulceration].”

He concluded, “These results indicate thatboth physiological and psychological stressmay be important determinants of ulcerdisease in this population.”

The study author did note, however, that“Ulcer disease is clearly a multi-factorialproblem. The results of this study providetrainers, owners, and veterinarians withimportant information regarding theprevalence and likely clinical signs of ulcerdisease.”

Thus, reducing environmental stress,

including excessive noise, would likely bebeneficial to Thoroughbreds.

Not all music has a detrimental impact onThoroughbreds, reports the second study(available at http://www.thehorse.com/articles/31229/music-genres-effect-on-horse-behavior-evaluated).

According to the study authors, "Thebehaviors that horses showed while listeningto classical (Beethoven) and country music(Hank Williams Jr.) suggested that the musichad an enriching effect on the environmentof the stabled horse.

“Neither jazz (New Stories) nor rockmusic (Green Day) had the same, soothingeffect. In fact, jazz and rock caused horses toshow frequent, stressful behaviors –stamping, head tossing, snorting, andvocalizing (whinnying) – more frequentlythan when no music was being played.Interestingly, none of the Thoroughbredsincluded in the study displayed thosestressful behaviors when either classical orcountry music was played or when therewas no music. Although the horsescontinued to eat when listening to jazz orrock, the horses were ‘snatching at food inshort bursts.’"

Although it seems that Green Day won’tbe “Hitchin’ a Ride” anytime soon, Heleskipoints out that those study results must beinterpreted with caution and says, “Thehigher rate of ulcers was associated withradio playing but not necessarily caused byradio playing. The study points out thatstables that played the radio were far lesslikely to turn horses out or let them havedirect contact with other horses (either ofwhich might have been the far moreimportant factor).”

Relative to the second study, Heleskiexplains that only eight Thoroughbredgeldings were included and “we are not toldwhat background exposure they have todifferent types of music, and they were onlyobserved during a 30 minute exposure toeach type of music.”

SOUNDS LIKE AN ULCER TO ME, DOC during the course of the race and must remainin place until after the horse has beenunsaddled following the race. Earplugs shallnot be used by horses wearing a hood.”

Why such stringent rules regarding a simpleplug of cotton (or foam or sponge)?

“One reason is that certain horses, such asdressage horses, are judged on behavior issuesin addition to performance. InThoroughbreds, it simply boils down towhoever crosses the finish line first,” suggestsRick Arthur, DVM, Equine Medical Director ofthe California Horseracing Board.

Kelly takes another stance and adds, “If ahorse were to be permitted to wear a hood inconjunction with earplugs, this may result inan almost complete removal of auditorysenses.”

“Although there are bigger fish to fry whenit comes to ethical issues in the horse industry,earplugs do effectively strip away one of ahorse’s most important senses,” says Heleski.

Other reasons for the different rules createdby different organizations are not overt, whichof course begs the question, do earplugs evenwork?

“Barry Abrams [a multiple graded stakeswinning trainer whose horses have earnedover $27 million to date] claimed a difficultfilly one year but as soon as he put theearplugs in she turned into a stakes winner,”recalls Arthur.

Of course not all horses will turn aroundand become stakes winners, but Heleski notes,“There is lots of anecdotal evidence that they[earplugs] do work based on the few blogsand forums.”

Even if earplugs played only a small role inZenyatta’s career, her success story certainlysuggests that they are worth trying.

The final noteThoroughbred trainers don’t necessarily wantto “calm their savage beasts” either in the gateor during the race, but the available data onhearing and earplugs suggests that whathorses hear can impact their health,performance, and quality of life, even whenwe either aren’t paying attention or are unableto sense what our horses do. n

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Frank Agrinsoni on the

backside at Churchill Downs


There is rich irony in the location at Churchill Downsof Activities Director Frank Agrinsoni’s office. Off thelaundry room and next to the pool room for backsideworkers in the Recreation Hall, at opposite ends ofthe activities spectrum for grooms, hotwalkers, andothers on the backside at Churchill, he is in themiddle of practically everything concerning theworkers. WORDS: KEN SNYDER PHOTOS: AlExANDRA SNYDER, DAN DRY, JEff lAuTENbERgER

FEW minutes with Agrinsonireveals just how active thisactivities director is. His phoneconversations range fromfundraising for workers’childrens’ day camps this

summer to what to do about the now-closedsubstance abuse program, interrupted by amother seeking help with daycare costs or ayoung man wanting to know about the track’ssoccer league, of which Frank is founder,commissioner, ball boy, and supervisor ofgrounds-keeping.

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and Guatemalan workers in this backsidecommunity. “She’s the ‘Mother of all mothers’to Mexicans and Guatemalans. She’severything,” explains Agrinsoni. Three-to-fourhundred workers gather for mass at HolyName Catholic Church near Churchill on thelast Sunday in September. (Agrinsonischedules it then, rather than in January – thetraditional annual date for commemoration –to reach as many workers as possible). Afterthe mass, young men carry a statue of the“Virgincita Mexicana” from the church to agrotto outside the chapel at Churchill, whereit remains until the next feast day. Theprocession ends with a feast outside thechapel.

Agrinsoni’s connection to the backside isnot surprising considering he began walkinghots for his father, Jose, a trainer at New Yorkand other East Coast racetracks, when he waseight years old. He earned his trainer’s licenseat 19, and the depth of feeling in his heart

comes from intimate experience of the life ofbacksiders.

“You’re up at 4:30, then feeding or racing inthe afternoon seven days a week, and it can bedepressing.

“I’ve done it. I’ve slept in tack rooms andstayed in racetrack dorms, places where theydidn’t have a hoop to shoot a basketballthrough,” he says. “I used to call myself avampire because Garden State Park was nightracing, Atlantic City was night racing, and theMeadowlands was night racing. I never sawdaylight. It’s a hard life.”

The work ethic and love of horseracing thattook Agrinsoni from cooling outThoroughbreds as a child to training in his20s and 30s came from watching his father,

FRANK AGRINSONI


Frank Agronsini in his

Churchill Downs office

“He just caught on fire,” is what retiredtrainer Bob DeSensi says admiringly of

Agrinsoni, who took the job in 2005 afterbeing DeSensi’s assistant trainer. WhenDeSensi left training he successfullyrecommended Agrinsoni, a transplanted NewYorker and third-generation horsemen, to theracing committee at Churchill Downs.

“Nobody really knew how to develop thebackside community. He developed it almostfrom scratch into what it is today,” DeSensisays.

Asked if he might be the best backside

activities director in Thoroughbred racing – aspeople like DeSensi; Marty Maline, executivedirector of the Kentucky Horsemen’sBenevolence and Protective Association(HBPA); and others suggest – Agrinsonilaughs and gives a reply that is part modestyand, perhaps unfortunately, all truth: “I thinkI’m the only one.”

Recreation for any backside communitymost commonly falls to chaplaincy programsat racetracks and is of secondaryconsideration to spiritual matters; FrankAgrinsoni’s aim is to lift the spirit of theworkers. As he sees it, counseling andministry is often needed but activity is equallynecessary, if not more vital.

DeSensi is blunt in assessing Agrinsoni’srole and success: “He gives these peoplesomething to do besides lay up in a tack roomand get drunk every night. The grooms andhotwalkers will go to him with problemsbefore they’ll go to anybody else, includingthe chaplain or the HBPA director.” It is a keyadvantage to Agrinsoni that he is the son ofPuerto Rican natives and is bilingual.

Agrinsoni sees another advantage in notbeing limited to only spiritual matters. “I’mindependent,” Agrinsoni says. “I don’t haveanyone lurking over me. I’m not hamstrungby a board.”

He does, however, admit that he has a lot ofbosses: Churchill Downs; the ChurchillDowns Racing Committee; the KentuckyThoroughbred Association; and the KentuckyHBPA. While these groups do not constitute aboard, the circumstances are unique. “Youthink Obama has trouble trying to getsomething passed, try to get a bunch ofracetrackers in one room together to approvesomething,” he says with a laugh. Thesegroups pay his salary and fund an annualbudget of approximately $95,000 for “mylittle programs here,” as Agrinsoni calls them.

In truth, they are anything but little. “Itwould take me two days to explain everythinghe does back here,” says DeSensi.

The programs include, in no particularorder, two free health clinics that serve asmany as 200 people in the spring and 300 inthe fall; a huge infield picnic forapproximately 900 workers during ChurchillDowns’ summer meet; a 12-team soccerleague that has outgrown the racetrack infieldand now plays at a nearby park; a six-weeklong Texas Hold‘em poker tournament whichbenefits a college scholarship fund;administration of a program that reimbursesmothers 30% of daycare expenses; and anevent of which Agrinsoni is most proud: anannual procession honoring Our Lady ofGuadalupe.

It is not just any procession but one of themost important days of the year for Mexican

“He gives these peoplesomething to do besideslay up in a tack roomand get drunk everynight. The grooms andhotwalkers will go tohim with problemsbefore they’ll go to anybody else, includingthe chaplain or theHBPA director”

Bob DeSensi on Frank Agrinsoni


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who worked tough hours as a baker for manyyears after immigrating to the U.S. “As soon ashe got out of third shift he’d go straight to thebarns.

“That was the only time I got to seehim…working with him,” says Agrinsoni.

His lifetime on the backside was seeminglypre-ordained from their early relationship. “Ijust wanted to do what he was doing.”

The experience of backside life andempathy for those who live it translates intoprograms, certainly, but also a personalconcern for the workers. He walks throughthe barns every day, according to DeSensi. “Heknows 90 percent of the people on thebackside. Among those workers, the greatestname recognition of anybody at ChurchillDowns will be Frank,” DeSensi adds.

What may seem like small touches andpleasures to us are anything but to thebackside workers. The statue of Our Lady ofGuadalupe, for example, is much more thanan annual mass and procession for Hispanicsthousands of miles from home. At any hour ofthe day or night, Agrinsoni says, you can findsomeone praying at the statue.

The soccer league is another example.“There’s one guy named Oscar. He works for[trainer] Vickie Foley,” recounts Agrinsoni.“He’s from Honduras and is one of my bestcaptains and he had bad teams for years. Buthe finally got a great team and it won it all. Hecried afterwards.”

Agrinsoni wrote an article on the annualchampionship, with a picture of Oscar’s teamwith the trophy, for a Spanish-languagenewspaper. “He went to the supermarketwhere they have the newspaper, bought tencopies and mailed them to whatever town he’sfrom in Honduras. When he went home hewas like a hero. It made his year...not his weekor month, but his year.”

The league, which runs from the end ofMay through June before workers disperse toSaratoga or Ellis Park in Kentucky, brings outintense interest and competitiveness, to saythe least. Agrinsoni has to check racetracklicenses to sift out ringers. “I’ve had guys getbadges just to play, and they don’t work withhorses. You have to watch out for that, too.

“Everybody wants that cup.”While soccer is big, it is not the most

anticipated thing on the activities calendar. Ata recent free pancake breakfast at the trackkitchen to welcome workers coming in for thespring meet, the question most asked ofAgrinsoni was the date for the summer picnic.It is the biggest event for him and backsideworkers, and the most expensive, consumingapproximately $11,000 of his budget to feedand entertain 900 workers and their children,and produce prizes like flat-screen televisionsand digital cameras.

If the picnic is a favorite event, the healthclinics are the most needed. Doctors, dentists,and nurses work pro bono to serve workers.There are free flu shots at the fall clinic andmammograms both at the fall and springevents. Immigration attorneys and even banks also attend, to help with both basicsocial services and complicated issues likevisas.

A new service debuted at Agrinsoni’s mostrecent health clinic: AIDS testing. “I got the

Department of Public Health this past fall tobring out their mobile unit. They said out inthe city they don’t see that many people come in and take the test. They were busy thewhole day. I’m very proud of that,” saysAgrinsoni.

A cancer organization, Friend for Life, wasalso part of recent health clinics. It helps outthose without a family who have just foundout they have cancer or are going throughchemo. “They’ll take you to the bank. They’lltake you shopping. They’ll take you for yourchemo appointments,” says Agrinsoni.

Pinballing from one facet of the healthclinics to another Agrinsoni, talks about anorganization that one year donated “everytype of shoe – sneakers, boots, childrens’shoes – thousands of shoes.

“I have expanded it a lot. There’s alwayssomething new,” Agrinsoni adds.

There would seem to be no limit to newthings Agrinsoni would want to add to life onthe backside. When an Indiana Universitysurvey showed that 78% of backside workerswant something better for their children –“after-school programs, something for thekids to do in the summer,” in Agrinsoni’swords, he went to work on fundraisers,finding a location for the camps and solvingliability issues. The departure of the directorof the Klein Learning Center at ChurchillDowns, a key constituent in making campshappen, has created an obstacle. It’s a safe bet, however, summer day camps will happenfor the workers’ children because ofAgrinsoni.

One thing up and running due toAgrinsoni’s fundraising ability is a collegescholarship honoring late trainer William“Blackie” Huffman and awarded to the son or daughter of a backside worker. Whenfriends of the much-loved trainer came upwith the idea of a scholarship, “theyimmediately gravitated to Frank to helporganize the effort,” says Maline. A portion ofproceeds from the Texas Hold‘em tournamentbenefits the scholarship, which is in its fourthyear.

It was one evening of the tournament inJune of 2011 that provided Maline with apoignant demonstration of Agrinsoni’scommitment to the community. It was thenight a tornado ripped through the backsidedamaging nine barns. Soon after reports of apossible tornado made their way into theroom where the tournament was being held,“Somebody said, where’s Frank?” recallsMaline. “Everybody thought he ran for homeor something. It wasn’t ten minutes later theyfinally had to close the game down because ofthe danger involved. I went to the backsideand there’s Frank, running around, walkingand talking to people. He was right in themiddle of it.”

It is just as you would expect from a man inthe middle of everything on the backside atChurchill Downs. n

Backside workers hard at work. Agrinsoni

is the man they all turn to in a crisis



HIS important study which buildson a programme of orthopaedicresearch developed by the HBLBover the last two decades hasprovided much needed evidenceto underpin the interpretation of

MRI images and may help trainers identifyhorses at risk before a full fracture occurs.

The HBLB’s Liverpool bone andfracture studiesOne of the Horserace Betting Levy Board’s five key strategic research priorities is toimprove methods of identification,management, and prevention ofmusculoskeletal disease and injury inracehorses. The HBLB has recently launchedwebsite at racehorsehealth.hblb.org.uk toprovide trainers with up-to-date informationon their wide-ranging research onThoroughbred health and disease. Although

leading to invaluable conclusions on thecauses and prevention of racing injuries. Theresearchers identified all cases of fracturesoccurring at U.K. racecourses in this periodand collected bone samples from both theaffected and unaffected opposite limbs forfurther analysis. The studies not only provideda wealth of information on racing injures at thetime but also an archive of specimens wascreated and is still being used for cutting edgeresearch today.

Which fractures are most common?In England, flat turf racing is the safest with anestimated 0.4 fatal fractures for every 1000starts while National Hunt flat racing has beenassociated with the highest risk for fatalfracture at a rate of 2.2 per 1000 starts. Lateralcondylar fracture is the most common typeoverall, accounting for 45% of all fatal limbfractures in the U.K. and this is the most

Lateral condylar fracture, a specific type of cannon bone fracture, is acommon and potentially devastating racing injury that ended the racingcareers of Mill Reef, Manduro, Dubai Millennium, and many others. A

recent research study funded by the Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB)in the United Kingdom and published in the Equine Veterinary Journal has

shown that the microdamage that occurs in the cannon bone prior tofracture can be detected using MRI before fracture occurs.

WORDS: Celia M MaRR PHOTOS: SaRaH POWell, ROSSDaleS equine HOSPiTal, DiagnOSTiC CenTRe, neWMaRkeT

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research on equine veterinary science isconducted in numerous centres across theglobe, a substantial amount of the informationabout racing injuries has been collected in theU.K. as a direct result of research funding fromthe HBLB. Data on racecourse fatalities has been

collected in the UK since the 1970s.Musculoskeletal injuries, in particular bonefractures, are the leading causes of racecoursedeath. To better understand the causes of theseinjuries, two large consecutive studies wereperformed at the University of Liverpoolbetween 1998 and 2003 investigating riskfactors for fatal distal limb fractures duringracing. This involved incredible logistical

challenges and the cooperation of largenumbers of racecourse vets and staff togetherwith trainers and owners. But it proved to bean extremely worthwhile collaborative effort

LATERALCONDYLARFRACTURES

Preventative measuresusing MRI scanning

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common fracture type across National Huntracing. In flat racing, lateral condylar fracturesare also all too common but pastern fractureson turf and proximal sesamoid bone fractureson all weather surfaces are more prevalent. Theexact reasons why different racing formats,surfaces, and distances lead to different formsof fracture are still being teased apart. For lateral condylar fractures specifically,

risk factors include a lack of fast work, first year of training, and racing first as three- or four-year-olds compared to two-year-olds.When the circumstances of the race in whichthe lateral condylar fracture occurs have beenexamined, firm going, longer distances, largerfields, and taking part in amateur jockey raceshave all been linked to a higher prevalence ofthis fracture type.

Precursors to fractureThe condyles are the round prominences at theend of a bone that form part of the joint withthe adjacent bone. In the cannon bones, thereare two condyles, one on either side and thusthey are named the lateral (outer) and medial(inner) condyles. Both lateral and medial condylar factures can

occur and they can affect both the fore andhind limbs. Lateral condylar fractures form in aspecific area of the bone and it has been shownthat in this site, prior to fracture, bone canbecome very dense and hypermineralized. As a result, calcium crystals are deposited in

the bone and there is a loss of collagen.Collagen is a key component of bone and othertissues that provides bendiness and the abilityto withstand impact. Loss of collagen andbuild-up of dense and brittle tissue puts thisarea of the bone at risk of fracture. In somehorses the fracture is so catastrophic thateuthanasia is necessary. Fortunately, in many affected horses, the

fractures can be repaired by placing screwsacross the fracture line either under anesthesiaor, for the least complex configurations, understanding sedation (Stand and deliver – Animportant step forwards in equine fracture,Issue 26 – Autumn 2012). Nevertheless, even inthe least severe cases, lateral condylar fracturescan be career threatening.

CONDYLAR FRACTURES

A Thoroughbred undergoing

an MRI examination while

standing quietly with sedation

“Lateral condylar fractures form in a specific area of the boneand it has been shownthat in this site, prior tofracture, bone canbecome very dense andhypermineralized”


Equine MRIMRI, or more correctly magnetic resonanceimaging, is an imaging technique withimportant differences from traditional x-ray.MRI does not use radiation but rather a strongmagnet aligned with the body that causesatoms within the body’s cells to move subtly,and this change in orientation of the atoms isdetected by the scanner and analyzed to createa two-dimensional image as though the bodywas being cut into slices. From one scan,multiple images are reconstructed to showboth the long and short axes of the regionunder examination and multiple very fineslices are created. In this way, MRI revealsincredible detail of the internal structure ofbone and soft tissues. For humans, an MRI study generally

involves a session in a claustrophobia-inducingtunnel-shaped machine. This sort of MRIequipment can be used in horses but requiresa general anesthetic. The development of openmagnets that can be fitted around the lowerlimbs of a horse has brought MRI technologyinto the hands of equine veterinarians, and thetechnique can now be performed very easily inthe standing horse, albeit usually with the aidof sedative drugs.

MRI and lateral condylar fracturesThe MRI study on lateral condylar fractureswas performed by an international consortiumof researchers from U.K. Veterinary Schools inGlasgow and Liverpool, Newmarket’s AnimalHealth Trust, and scientists from ColoradoState University. Using archived materialcollected previously on U.K. racecoursesduring the HBLB Liverpool Bone and

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Fracture study, Dr. Tim Parkin of theUniversity of Glasgow coordinated theresearch team. The objectives were twofold: firstly the

features of bone shape and internal structure incannon bones from horses that had fractured ina race were compared to normal cannon bonesfrom racehorses that died for other unrelatedreasons. Secondly, the researchers sought todetermine if there were inherent differences inthe affected and unaffected bones, predisposingthe bone to fracture, which could be measuredin the living horse and used as a marker to ‘flagup’ any individual horse at being at risk offracture.The results proved to be extremely

important. By comparing normal cannonbones with fractured cannon bones andcannon bones from the horses’ uninjuredopposite limbs, it was established that areas ofsuper-dense bone were forming in the cannonbones prior to the occurrence of fracture.These areas of microdamage were oftentriangular in shape and when fracturesoccurred these typically ran across the trianglesof brittle bone.Carolyne Tranquille, author of the recent

report in Equine Veterinary Journal, concludedthat MRI is able to detect cartilage and bonechanges associated with lateral condylarfractures and that the results of the study might in future allow at-risk horses to beidentified.There were some important caveats: the

bones were examined after death and in somecases had been in storage for some time. Thestorage process might have enhanced thechanges visible with MRI. Also, the study

provided a simple snapshot in time and, by itsnature, could not demonstrate the pathway ofprogression of microdamage towardscatastrophic fracture. Finally, although thelargest of its kind, the study involved only 49horses with fractures and much more work isneeded to fully understand how the cannonbone can become weakened and remodeledand more importantly, how this process can bearrested to reduce the risk of fracture inracehorses.

Can this study help racehorsestoday?Some, but not all, horses that sustain a lateralcondylar fracture will have episodes ofdetectable unsoundness prior to fracture.Tranquille and Parkin’s HBLB-funded studyshows that in individuals in which lamenesscan be localized to the fetlock and lowercannon bone region, consideration should begiven to adding MRI to the conventionalinvestigations such as fetlock x-rays that areused routinely in equine veterinary practicetoday. MRI is available at numerous specialist

centers and there is no doubt that it has showngreat potential for early diagnosis of bone andsoft tissue conditions in horses. It is importantto note, however, that although lateralcondylar fractures are common they are by nomeans the only form of fracture thatracehorses suffer, and for some horses inwhich incipient fracture is suspected a morecomprehensive whole body scintigraphic bonescan (The challenging diagnosis of bonebruising, Issue 19 – February 2011) is moreappropriate. n

An MRI image showing the internal

structure of the lower part of the cannon

bone. The condyles are the bugles at the

end of the bone (arrows). In this healthy

bone, the condyles have a fairly uniform

gray appearance

An MRI image of a non-fractured cannon

bone from a horse that had a lateral

condylar fracture in its opposite leg. The

dark triangle indicates that the bone in this

region is undergoing remodeling and

microdamage.

This MRI image shows the path of a lateral

condylar fracture from the bone surface at

the fetlock joint, through the area of black,

super-dense, damaged bone


When they were youngFrom conception to contention –how the leading runners began theirjourney towards the Triple CrownWORDS: BILL HELLER

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ORB (KY) 150 Malibu Moon Spendthrift Farm - Lady Liberty

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VERRAZANO (KY) 150 More Than Ready WinStar Farm - Enchanted Rock


GOLDENCENTS (KY) 129 Into Mischief Spendthrift Farm - Golden Works


JAVA'S WAR (KY) 122 War Pass Died Java (GB)

REVOLUTIONARY (KY) 110 War Pass Died Runup the Colors

OVERANALYZE (KY) 110 Dixie Union Died Unacloud

LINES OF BATTLE (KY) 100 War Front Claiborne Farm, Black Speck

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WILL TAKE CHARGE (KY) 60 Unbridled's Song Taylor Made Stallions, Inc. Take Charge Lady

- Nicholasville, KY - $60,000

ITSMYLUCKYDAY (KY) 50 Lawyer Ron Died Viva La Slew

GOVENOR CHARLIE (KY) 50 Midnight Lute Hill 'n Dale - Lexington, Silverbulletway

KY - $15,000

BLACK ONYX (KY) 50 Rock Hard Ten Republic of Korea Kalahari Cat

PALACE MALICE (KY) 50 Curlin Lane's End - Versailles, Palace Rumor

KY - $25,000

NORMANDY INVASION (KY) 44 Tapit Gainesway, Lexington, Boston Lady

KY - $125000

FRAC DADDY (KY) 44 Scat Daddy Coolmore, Versailles, Skippers Mate Eaton Sales, agent $20,000 - Kee Nov

KY - $30,000

MYLUTE (KY) 42 Midnight Lute Hill 'n' Dale Farms - Stage Stop


OXBOW (KY) 36 Awesome Again Adena Springs - Paris, Tizamazing

KY - $75,000

FALLING SKY (PA) 30 Lion Heart Turkey Sea Dragoness Brookdale Sales, agent $16,000 - Kee Nov

TIZ A MINISTER (CA) 20 Ministers Wild Cat Tommy Town Thoroughbreds Tiz a Mistress

- Santa Ynez, CA $3500

CHARMING KITTEN (KY) 20 Kitten's Joy Ramsey Farm, Nicholasville, Iteration

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VERRAZANO (KY) 150 More Than Ready WinStar Farm - Enchanted Rock Middlebrook Farm $250,000 - Kee Sept Emory A. Hamilton Let's Go Stable Todd A. Pletcher


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JAVA'S WAR (KY) 122 War Pass Died Java (GB) Charles Fipke Charles E. Fipke Kenneth G. McPeek

REVOLUTIONARY (KY) 110 War Pass Died Runup the Colors Lane's End, agent $80,000 - Kee Sept Niall Brennan Stables $235,000 - W. S. Farish WinStar Farm LLC Todd A. Pletcher

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May 4. The Kentucky Derby field has been limited to 20 starters




T’S difficult enough to get your handson one Derby contender, let alonethree. But Niall and StephanieBrennan, who run Niall Brennan

Stables in Ocala, Florida, did just that. With alittle help, they helped raise and break threecolts who, through early April, ranked amongthe Derby point leaders.Who helped the Brennans? A “mutt” named

Rugby whom Stephanie saved from slaughterin North Dakota several years earlier; a showhorse who helped the dam of one of the coltsrecover from a near-death experience; and aminiature donkey who became that colt’s bestfriend.“It’s quite a cast of characters, isn’t it?”

Stephanie asked.If either Orb or Revolutionary wins the

Kentucky Derby, Rugby should get an assist.Rogue was a Premarin foal headed for slaughterin Canada before Stephanie stepped in. Nowseven, he served as a saddle pony for both Orband Revolutionary. “He was their companionand their babysitter,” Stephanie said. “It’s verycommon in two-year-olds to have a pony. It

ORB, REVOLUTIONARYAND DEN’S LEGACY

Ithey win. It’s like they’re your children. You’rewith them every day of their lives.”Niall appreciates the horses that Phipps and

Janney send him because he knows they willnot be sold commercially. “The ones that gointo yearling sales are put into commercialprep,” Niall said. “This whole operation, thePhipps’, the Janneys and Shug (Hall of Fametrainer McGaughey), are very patient and verywilling to give their horses time if they havetalent. And that’s important. They allow themto develop naturally. Orb had great balance. Hewas a nice, smooth mover. He was athletic. Youcould tell he was a horse who would get betterwith time.“Any athlete, any sport … for example,

LeBron James was brilliant when he was 15. Hehad that athletic ability. It was always aquestion of how good will he become. Horsesare no different. Orb had more scope. You cansee these big, growthy horses, at the end oftheir training is when they’re strongest. Theydon’t want to pull up. They want to go longer.”Revolutionary was one of three top Derby

contenders bred by Will Farish. “He was agrand colt conformation-wise,” Farish toldBlood-Horse. Farish’s Lane’s End sells most ofits yearlings, including Revolutionary, who waspurchased for $80,000 by Valera Stable at theKeeneland September Sale and sent to theBrennans, who would re-sell him as a two-year-old.“Revolutionary was a little different,” Niall

said. “He’s not as big or strong as Orb, but he’sa very athletic, lightly-framed horse. As we sawin the Withers, he’s got a beautiful stride. Nowasted action. Revolutionary is more like awide receiver than a linebacker. He a naturalathlete. Everything came to him easily. He hasa good mind. He did everything right. Horseslike that, they’re easy to train. The only thingwe have to do is keep out of their way.”Revolutionary was entered into the Ocala

Breeders’ Sales Company’s March Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale and was purchased for$235,000 by WinStar Farm.“At the sale, he breezed okay without being

spectacular,” WinStar CEO and President ElliotWalden told Blood-Horse. “But because I’dseen him and liked the way he went at NiallBrennan’s farm, it gave me more confidence togo ahead and buy him.”

makes it so much easier.”There was nothing easy about Rugby’s early

life. Premarin mares are pregnant maresliterally milked for their urine, which can thenbe used to produce a female hormonereplacement. When the mare foals, she and herfoal are expendable. Many times both are sentto slaughter. Stephanie purchased Rugby for$500. “He was wild,” she said. “He’d neverbeen handled. It took about four hours to gethim off the van. It’s hard to believe. He came along way very quickly.”Orb’s story began at historic Claiborne Farm

on February 24th, 2010, when he was born. “Isaw him at 5:30 the next morning,” ClaiborneFarm Manager Bradley Purcell said. “He was anice foal. The mare was doing fine. He wasplayful, always good to look at.” Purcell saidthat Orb was raised with seven other mares andfoals. “He had a body that stood out,” Purcellsaid.The foals were eventually moved to a

yearling field. “He led the group out,” Purcellsaid. “He walked with a look in his eye that hecould turn into something good. He carriedhimself with a lot of presence.”Yearlings owned by the Phipps Stable and

Stuart Janney III are sent to Brennan’s farm tobe broken. Purcell continues to monitor Orb’scareer with delight: “You see them on TV and

Orb as a foal (left) and Revolutionary

(below)

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VERRAZANO

Verrazano with Enchanted Rock

Java’s War with Richard Eramia before the Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland last October



UNDEFEATED Verrazano’s story is aboutfathers and sons.Verrazano is by More Than Ready, a

multiple graded stakes winner who finishedfourth in the 2000 Kentucky Derby. He wasowned by Jim Scatuorchio. Verrazano isowned by Let’s Go Stable, which includes

Scatuorchio, his 32-year-old son Kevin, andKevin’s brother-in-law Bryan Sullivan, plusSusan Magnier, Michael Tabor and DerrickSmith of Coolmore, who purchased intoVerrazano after he won his maiden debut.Verrazano, like More Than Ready, was

broken by Jake Pletcher and trained by Jake’sson, Todd. Verrazano will likely be the favoritefor the Kentucky Derby. “The main thing isI’m happy for Todd,” Jake said. “I’m 75. Myexcitement is over. I just want to give Todd agood horse.”He gave Todd More Than Ready, who was

way better than “good.” “More Than Readywas a great racehorse and a great sire,” Jakesaid. “More Than Ready never had a pimpleon him.”Verrazano, a half-brother to Pletcher-

trained stakes winner El Padrino, waspurchased for $200,000 at the Keeneland

September Yearling Sale and sent to Jake’sfarm in Ocala, Florida.“He was just like a kid,” Jake said. “My

grandson Payton could have broken him, and he’s 14. He was a big-boned horse who had shin problems. With these bighorses, you just can’t put the heat on themright away.”Todd visited Verrazano in December, 2011,

and liked what he saw. “He was a good-sizedhose. One of our concerns was he was goingto be too big, but he leveled off nicely. He’sjust the right size now. I talked to my dadperiodically afterwards. My dad was prettyhigh on him.”He still is. “He did everything right from

Day One,” Jake said. “We brought him to thepaddock for a while to try and teach himmanners. He got very well-mannered.Everything went very well.”

JAVA’S WARCHARLES “Chuck” Fipke felt he had threehomebred Derby contenders in March: Java’sWar, Indy’s Illusion and Golden Soul, but theone most likely to make the starting gate atChurchill Downs is Java’s War. “He was a littlebit small, so he wasn’t really a candidate forselling, but I liked his bottom female line,”Fipke said of the colt whose dam, by RainbowQuest, is a full sister to Grade 1 winner Fiji.“He was very well bred. I liked the way hemoved. He flowed over the surface.”Java’s War was one of two dozen yearlings

Fipke sent to J.B. McKathan Brothers Farm inOcala, Florida, to be broken. “There’s nobodywho loves horses more than Chuck,” J.B. said.“He’s a scientist. I don’t think peopleunderstand the amount of work he puts intothese matings. Chuck is like a bulldog, a verydriven guy. With him, it’s an intellectualexperience. He knows the pedigrees of horsesfor ten generations. I’ve been doing businesswith him for 20 years. I just let him do all that stuff. I just deal with the horse in front ofme.”It didn’t take J.B. long to like one of the

horses in front of him, Java’s War. “Very early, itwas obvious that he was really fast,” J.B. said.“All we ever did was try to slow him down.When he was young, he was very aggressive.When they’re young, and you think they haveability, you have to get them to settle. We tookhim out of training in company to settle himdown. I’ve been doing this for a long time.When you have a horse that’s talented, youwant him to be able to relax. When we trained

him by himself, he settled down. We also tookhim out into a big turf field by himself. Thathelped settle him down. You try to get a horselike that to not be so aggressive. You’ve got torealize the personality and the talent of thehorse. The most important thing to do with ayoung horse is identify the ones that are

talented and try not to get them hurt.”The last three years, McKathan graduates

have finished second in the Kentucky Derby:Pioneerof the Nile, Nehro, and Bodemeister.“We also had the horse that won the Haskell,Paynter; Silver Charm; and Real Quiet,” J.B.said. “We’ve been very fortunate.”


GOLDENCENTSGOLDENCENTS has an advantage over otherDerby contenders: one of his owners,University of Louisville Basketball Coach RickPitino, is on an incredible roll. In the span offive days, Pitino’s son Richard was hired as thehead basketball coach at the University ofMinnesota; Goldencents won the Grade ISanta Anita Derby; and on the same day helearned he had been elected to the Basketball

Goldencents as a foal

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Hall of Fame, his Cardinals won the nationalchampionship, making Pitino the only headcoach to win a national title with two differentteams after a title with University of Kentuckyin 1996.Goldencents has his own mojo going. The

$5,500 yearling sold as a $62,000 two-year-old and has blossomed into a topcontender for the Derby, where trainer Doug

O’Neill will be looking for his secondconsecutive victory following I’ll HaveAnother’s success last year.Partners Karyn Pirrello and Charles and

Lyra Miller’s Rosecrest Farm bredGoldencents. Charles Miller said, “Mosthorses hang out with their mom. He walkedaway. He wanted to explore. He was anoutgoing, gregarious foal.”


The son of Into Mischief ’s pedigree wasn’t exceptional, but Webb Carroll liked the way Goldencents walked when he sawhim at the 2011 October Kentucky FallYearling Sale. “I thought this horse wouldbring $15,000 to $25,000,” Carroll said. “Iwas shocked that we got him for what we did,$5,500.”After developing typical two-year-old shin

problems, Goldencents progressed rapidlyand was entered in the Fasig-TiptonTimonium Two-Year-Olds-in-Training Sale inMay, 2012. Carroll sent Goldencents to GregDodd at Southern Chase Farm in Florida to beprepped. He impressed veteran exercise riderSusan Montanye, who said, “I prepped himand I breezed him at the sale. I really, reallyliked the colt. He’s smart. He’s also class.There’s something about him.”Goldencents breezed a quarter-mile in :21

1/5 for the sale, which prompted Montanye totell O’Neill’s brother Dennis to check him out.“I dragged him over there,” she said.The O’Neills got him for $62,000 for a

partnership of Pitino’s RAP Racing, DaveKenney, and the W.C. Racing Stable of JoshKaplan and Glen Sorgenstein.They’ve been cheering ever since.

Goldencents as a two-year-old at the barn of Webb Carroll




ITSMYLUCKYDAY

UNLIKE most of the Derby contenders,Normandy Invasion won’t actually turn three until May. “He was a little immature,compared to the January/February foals, and a little light-framed,” co-breeder Bill Betz of Betz Thoroughbreds said, “but he was always a very attractive, athleticindividual. We thought he had a

tremendous amount of potential.”Betz was co-breeder of 2009 Kentucky

Derby winner Mine That Bird.Normandy Invasion was entered in the

2011 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, buthe was led out unsold for $145,000. “Wethought we’d be better off letting him grow upa bit and taking him back to Keeneland for the

HAVING worked with human athletes givesPam Robinson of Brandywine Farm, the co-breeder of Itsmyluckyday, a uniqueperspective on equines. She spent 25 yearsworking with Olympic athletes at the

University of North Carolina in sportsmedicine. “Some of that carries over in termsof their stride and fluidity,” she said.Robinson, her husband Jim, and Rob

Whiteley’s Liberation Farm bred 2012

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April two-year-old sale,” Betz said. He wassent to Eddie Woods in Ocala, Florida, forbreaking and training.

“We had him for seven or eight months,”Woods said. “He was a lovely, big colt, elegantand high class.”Woods consigned the son of Tapit to the

April sale, where he breezed well. Rick Porter’sFox Hill Farm has raced such stars as 2011Horse of the Year Havre de Grace, 2009champion sprinter Kodiak Kowboy, andKentucky Derby runners-up Hard Spun in2007 and ill-fated Eight Belles the year after.He purchased Normandy Invasion for$230,000 and sent him to trainer ChadBrown.Betz continues to monitor Normandy

Invasion’s career. “Chad Brown was alwayshigh on him,” Betz said. “He said he knew hecan run. He’s just now coming into himself ashe matures. He filled out. He got stronger andstronger. I think he’s really just learning.”Could he win the Derby? “A lot has to go

right,” Betz said. “An awful lot of luck has tohappen. But I think he deserves to be there,and I think he’ll make a good accounting ofhimself. The longer he goes, the more he’sgoing to like it. At this time of year, everybodydares to hope.”

Normany Invasion showing at Eddie Woods’ April sale consignment at Keeneland last year

Itsmyluckyday wins his first stakes race, the Fasig Tipton Turf Dash S. at Calder last August

Belmont Stakes winner Ruler On Ice. “He wasthe exact opposite of Itsmyluckydaymentally,” she said. “Itsmyluckyday was a verykind foal, very intelligent. He was the type offoal who would walk up you. He likedattention. He liked to be scratched on hisneck. He wouldn’t mind if you put your armsaround him to play with him.”Robinson said that Itsmyluckyday was very

correct in his conformation, but notphysically striking. “He wasn’t one you’d walkup to at the yearling sale and say, `Wow!’”Robinson said. “He was a little bit of a latebloomer. I would always say he was going tobe an athlete. He moved fluidly.”Itsmyluckyday loved working on the

Robinson’s underwater treadmill. “He’d walkright down the ramp and play and blowbubbles and really enjoy it,” Robinson said.Itsmyluckday was sold for $47,000 as a

yearling, then for $110,000 as a two-year-oldat the 2012 Ocala Breeders’ Sale Company’sMarch Sale. Trainer Eddie Plesa, his wifeLaurie, and Trilogy Stable boughtItsmyluckyday. Trilogy Stable is composed of85-year-old David Melin, his wife Olga, andOcala breeder Marion Montanari.


BLACK ONYXMORE than 20 years after Sam Herzberg, aMiami Beach real estate dealer, racedThoroughbreds, he decided to attend the2011 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select YearlingSale. “I still had a passion for it,” he said.One of the reasons may have been his

friendship with jockey Joe Bravo. They usedto attend Miami Heat basketball games andplay poker together when Bravo wintered inFlorida.The last yearling Herzberg, who races

under the name of Sterling Stables, examinedthat night at Saratoga was the first one hebought: Black Onyx, for $125,000.“He was a beautiful looking horse and very

well proportioned, like his dad (Rock HardTen),” Herzberg said. “He was calm. Nicepersonality. Good walk. He vetted out realwell. Beautiful coat, almost black. We reallyliked him. I also liked the breeder of the horse(Cloverleaf Farms, which has since morphedinto Woodford Thoroughbreds). They ownthe mare.”Matt Lyons, the general manager of

Woodford Thoroughbreds, said, “I was a hugeBlack Onyx after the Cincinnati Spiral

Stakes (G3) at Turfway in March

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fan of the horse. He was a tremendous foal.He was one of our best yearlings. That’s whywe sent him to Saratoga. He was a big,correct-looking individual.”Herzberg sent Black Onyx to Jim Scott, the

farm manager of Kinsman Farm in Ocala,Florida. Scott was impressed the minute hesaw him. “He shipped him to me directly afterthe sale,” Scott said. “I thought he was anabsolutely gorgeous horse. He was big, tall,rangy, very attractive, very athletic. He nevermissed a beat. He never had a problem. It waslike he had already been broken when we gothim. He always looked forward to his work.He enjoyed it.”Every four to six weeks, Herzberg would go

up to Ocala to see Black Onyx and anotheryearling, a son of Unbridled’s Song he hadpurchased at the Keeneland September sale.“The other horse had a lot more pedigree, butBlack Onyx was doing better,” Scott said.Herzberg was very impressed with Black

Onyx’s progress and his demeanor. “He lovedpeople.” Herzberg said. “He was just a happyhorse.” n

“TECHNICALLY, he should not have beenborn,” Vyjack’s co-breeder, Carrie Brogden ofMachmer Hall Farm in Kentucky, said. “She(Vyjack’s dam) was supposed to be bred toBernstein. It was just fate.”Fate has a sense of humor. Vyjack’s dam is

Life Happened, and if not for a last-minutechange of plans, Vyjack wouldn’t havehappened. Life Happened was booked to

Bernstein, but on the day she was ready to bebred, she couldn’t get in to Bernstein, whosebreeding sessions at Castleton Lyons Farm werefull that day. So Brogden called an audible.She called Spendthrift Farm and asked if any

of its stallions had a free afternoon. “We calledKen (stallion director Ken Wilkins) atSpendthrift,” she said. “He said Into Mischiefwas open.”

VYJACKLife Happened was bred to Into Mischief

and foaled Vyjack on February 11th, 2010. “Hewas such a beautiful colt,” Brogden said. “Weused him as our ad horse on our website. He was just very forward, mature, strong. He was very headstrong, built like an ox. Hewasn’t mean-spirited. He was just veryuncomplicated.”That changed. Vyjack was sold at the 2011

Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale for $45,000 toPike Racing. That’s when he discovered theopposite sex. “The yearling sale was the firsttime we saw him interested in the ladies,”Brogden said. “At our farm, fillies arecompletely separated. He got to the point wherethat was all he wanted to do. When thehormones kicked in, that was all he wanted todo.”Vyjack was then sold at the 2012 Fasig-

Tipton Mid-Atlantic Two-Year-Olds in Trainingfor $100,000 to David Wilkenfield’s Pick SixRacing. Wilkenfield had had a major life-changewhen he cashed a $3.3 million Pick Six Ticketat Santa Anita in 2008. He named his new horsefor his parents, Vivienne and Jack.Brogden is certain that Vyjack would not

have developed into one of his crop’s top three-year-olds if not for one thing: “This horsewould not have broken his maiden claimer for$5,000 if he hadn’t been gelded,” she said.“Because of proper management, he is where heis now. We’re very delighted.”

Vyjack as a yearling



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LACTICACIDA necessary evil?

Low level of lactic acid in thehindgut can be deleteriousIn the digestive tract, certain types of bacteria,residing predominantly in the hindgut, arecapable of producing lactic acid. These ‘lactateproducers’ rapidly ferment carbohydrates,particularly starch that reaches the hindguthaving escaped digestion in the smallintestine. High starch diets of horses intraining will result in more hindgut lactic acidproduction compared with a high fiber diet. Excess production of lactic acid within the

hindgut is undesirable, as it alters the finebalance of essential bacteria and therefore thepattern of fermentation, movement of water inand out of the gut, and also ultimately theintegrity of the gut mucosa, potentiallyallowing undesirable substances to beabsorbed into the horse’s circulation. Loosedroppings, colic, sub-clinical or clinicallaminitis, colitis, or inflammation of the colonand insulin resistance are all potential

Lactic acid, often known simply as lactate, is somethingthat many trainers will be familiar with, althoughmisconceptions might exist as to whether its production isgood, bad, or indifferent. Lactic acid is produced in muscle,as an end product of anaerobic energy production and as aconsequence of fermentation in the digestive tract. Indiscussing the significance of lactic acid, we can explore thehorse’s inherent mechanisms for managing it, as well asdietary strategies to manipulate its effects.WORDS: DR CATHERINE DUNNETT, DVM, MSc

PHOTO: GIllIAN HIGGINS – ANATOMy II WWW.HORSESINSIDEOUT.COM

speed distance plasma lactate

(metres/sec) (metres) (mmol/l)

6 720 3.5

8 960 7.9

10 1200 13.6

12 1440 23.8

~15.5 1400 30.2

~15.0 2000 33.1

~14.5 2800 30.0

~11.0 3800 37.6

Adapted from Harris et al 1991 and

Sewell et al 1992

Table 1 – Comparison of plasma

laCTaTe following Treadmill

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Efficient buffering of lactic acid iscrucial to intense exercise

Blood Buffering Once lactic acid has been formed in muscle itwill be transported out into the blood, wherethe H+ can be buffered or rendered harmlessby the bicarbonate system below. This allowsmore H+ and lactate to pass from muscle toblood helping to attenuate the fall in musclepH. Plasma lactic acid can reachconcentrations of over 30mMol/l as a result ofintense exercise. ‘Milkshaking’ involves the invasive

administration of large quantities ofbicarbonate via nasogastric tube on race day,giving an acute but transient increase in thebuffering capacity of blood. Whilemilkshaking has been shown to be effective inhorses, it is strictly against the rules of racingall over the world. The telltale increase in theconcentration of carbon dioxide in bloodprovides a highly effective testing procedurefor regulators to eliminate its use. Whileunlikely to trigger a post-race positive result,small additions of bicarbonate to the diet on adaily basis will not improve bicarbonatebuffering appreciably and larger amounts mayresult in loose droppings.

Tackling the source – musclebufferingThere are a number of processes or elementsthat contribute to buffering of lactic acid inmuscle by reducing the free H+ including: l Export of H+ from muscle to bloodl Conversion of phosphocreatine to creatinel Ammonium production l Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) breakdownl Presence of bicarbonate, hydrogenphosphate, histidine, and carnosine.One of the most interesting aspects of

muscle buffering, learned from the significantresearch carried out in horses, is the presenceof carnosine. Carnosine, not to be confusedwith carnitine, is an important peptide-like (a‘small protein’) compound found in muscle ata high level in horses, man, and other athleticanimals. Due to its structure, carnosine helpsbuffer hydrogen ions (H+) released from lacticacid to stabilize muscle pH.

Variation in muscle carnosineCarnosine concentration is highest in fasttwitch muscle fibers (IIb and IIa) and lowestin slow twitch type 1 fibers. Considerablevariation in muscle carnosine concentrationexists which contributes to the innate talent ofindividual horses. Muscle carnosine increaseswith age until maturity and then slowly

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outcomes from an acute or chronicallyacidotic hindgut. The level of lactic acid that is deleterious for

the hindgut is very low, typically less than2mMol/liter (millimoles per liter). There arenumerous feed practices and supplementsthat can help combat hindgut acidosis. Goodquality forage reduces the requirement forexcessive amounts of high starch-containingconcentrates. Fiber fermentation also sustainsthe level of desirable ‘lactate utilizers,’ whichare bacteria capable of feeding on lactic acid toreduce the overall lactic acid load. Smallmeals, fed little and often, using cookedcereals will promote starch digestion in thesmall intestine, leaving less for hindgutfermentation. Live yeast supplements will alsohelp to maintain a healthy balance betweenlactate-producing and lactate-utilizingbacteria. Kentucky Equine Research recentlydeveloped a supplement that ameliorateshindgut lactic acid levels by deliveringbicarbonate to the hindgut to buffer the lacticacid.The level of lactic acid produced in the gut

pales into insignificance when contrasted withthat generated in the horse’s skeletal musclesduring exercise.

Lactic acid in muscle is biochemicalnecessity for intense exerciseThe scope for lactic acid production in horsemuscles is enormous, with levels in excess of200mMol/kg (dry muscle) being attainableduring sustained maximal exercise as

encountered during racing. In this scenario,lactic acid is produced as a consequence ofanaerobic metabolism of glucose and allhorses produce lactic acid, whether they aresprinters, stayers, hurdlers, or chasers. Bloodlactic acid represents the difference betweenmuscle production and clearance from theblood predominantly by the liver. Low levels of lactic acid are produced inmuscles constantly, contributing to the lowbasal blood lactic acid level (<1mMol/l).Increased muscle lactic acid production isnecessary to deliver the increasing speed andpower required to win races of varyingdistances but there is a negative impact (Table1). Significant lactic acid accumulation in

muscle ultimately contributes to fatigue, asmuscle acidity increases (pH declines) to alevel that interferes with normal musclecontraction. This actually results from thedisassociation of lactic acid to lactate andhydrogen ions (H+). Practically, horses willslow down, or where jumping is involved theymay make mistakes. We have all felt that ‘lactic acid burn,’ even

if it was only running for the train rather thanaround the track. Periods of high lactic acidaccumulation in muscle also contribute tomuscle damage, which can prolong recoveryfrom harder training days and racing. Natureis, however, a clever architect and has givenhorses, like humans, various mechanisms toreduce the negative effect of lactic acid onmuscle.

inCrease in laCTiC aCid buffering wiTh inCreasing musCle Carnosine ConTenT

blood buffering



declines. Research in humans indicates thatmuscle carnosine is lower in females thanmales. A small adaptive increase in musclecarnosine content is seen with anaerobictraining in horses.

Building blocks for carnosine Carnosine is made from two key amino acids,namely histidine and -alanine, both of whichare found in the horse’s diet naturally. Incommon with other nutrients such asselenium, the level of -alanine in the horse’sdiet is very low but -alanine is highlighted asbeing the rate-limiting amino acid forcarnosine synthesis. At this point in the article, I feel the need to

make a declaration of interest. It was myhusband Dr. Mark Dunnett who uncoveredthe muscle carnosine story in horses for hisPhD and went on to show how the synthesisof muscle carnosine can be optimized throughdiet. Interestingly, in this area of research,horses led and humans followed. While we

muscle, an elevated and steady level in bloodneeds to be achieved through appropriateformulation and feeding. The use of -alanineas an ingredient in sports supplements, inboth humans and animals including horses, isprotected by global patents.Although a number of other ingredients are

available to potentially modify lactic acidproduction or buffering such as creatine,citrate, or DMG (dimethylglycine), nocredible evidence has been published tosupport beneficial effects in horses.In summary, while lactic acid may be

viewed as a metabolic pariah, its formation inmuscle represents an essential biochemicalstep to facilitate high intensity exerciseperformance. This should not be confused,however, with the undesirable excessproduction of lactic acid within the hindgut. In both cases, there are usefulnutritional strategies that can be used toameliorate the negative impact of lactic acidformation. n

have a commercial interest in this areathrough the dietary supplement STORM®developed by us specifically for horses, it doesnot reduce the interest value or relevance ofthis topic for trainers.Studies in horses show that muscle

carnosine is increased significantly followingsupplementation with an available source of �-alanine above what is present in their normaldiet. This research initiated an explosion ofstudies in humans and the beneficial effect of increasing muscle carnosine in humansports is widely reported in the scientificliterature. Unlike some other functional ingredients in

horse nutrition, -alanine has been shown tobe absorbed from the digestive tract and istaken up into muscle where it is then availablefor carnosine synthesis. However, carnosinesynthesis is slow to respond, taking 4-8 weeksof supplementation to affect the level ofcarnosine in muscle. To optimize carnosine production in

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Charles Town Webb Snyder Charles Town Dash 20-Apr-13 $50,000 3+ D 900 4.5 10-Apr-13USA Charles Town Fancy Buckles St S 25-May-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 900 4.5 15-May-13USA SunRay Park C.O. Ken Kendrick Memorial St S 08-Jun-13 $65,000 2 F D 900 4.5 01-Jun-13USA SunRay Park Totah St S 18-Jun-13 $65,000 2 CG (NM Bred) D 900 4.5 11-Jun-13USA Charles Town It’s Binn Too Long S 22-Jun-13 $50,000 3 F D 900 4.5 12-Jun-13USA Charles Town Coin Collector St S 29-Jun-13 $50,000 3 D 900 4.5 19-Jun-13USA Mountaineer West Virginia Legislature Chairman’s Cup 03-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ D 900 4.5 22-Jul-13USA Charles Town Henry Mercer Memorial S 21-Sep-13 $50,000 2 D 900 4.5 11-Sep-13USA Charles Town Rachel’s Turn St S 21-Sep-13 $50,000 2 F D 900 4.5 11-Sep-13USA Charles Town Its Only Money S 21-Sep-13 $50,000 3 + D 900 4.5 11-Sep-13

USA Churchill Downs Twin Spires Turf Sprint St Gr 3 04-May-13 $125,000 3+ T 1000 5 10-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Cool Frenchy 04-May-13 $70,000 3+ AWT 1000 5 25-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Time to Leave 05-May-13 $70,000 3+ F&M AWT 1000 5 25-Apr-13USA Evangeline Downs Need for Speed St S 17-May-13 $50,000 3+ T 1000 5 07-May-13USA Pimlico The Very One St 17-May-13 $100,000 3+ FM T 1000 5 07-May-13USA Pimlico Jim McKay Turf Sprint 17-May-13 $100,000 3+ T 1000 5 07-May-13USA Evangeline Downs Tellike St 18-May-13 $50,000 3+ FM T 1000 5 07-May-13USA Pimlico The Rollickung Stakes 18-May-13 $100,000 2 D 1000 5 07-May-13USA Canterbury Honor the Hero St 27-May-13 $50,000 3+ T 1000 5 16-May-13USA Penn National Pennsylvania Governor’s Cup 01-Jun-13 $150,000 3+ T 1000 5 22-May-13USA Lone Star Park TTA Sales Futurity - C&G Div R 06-Jun-13 $100,000 2 CG D 1000 5 15-Apr-13USA Golden Gate Fields Lost in the Fog St 15-Jun-13 $50,000 2 AWT 1000 5 06-Jun-13GB Royal Ascot King’s Stand St Gp 1 18-Jun-13 £350,000 3+ T 1000 5 23-Apr-13CAN Woodbine Victoria S 22-Jun-13 CAN150,000+ 2 AWT 1000 5 05-Jun-13USA Ruidoso Downs Mountain Top Futurity S 22-Jun-13 $150,000 2 D 1000 5 25-May-13USA Parx Racing PARX Dash gr 3 05-Jul-13 $200,000 3+ T 1000 5 14-Jun-13CAN Woodbine My Dear S 06-Jul-13 CAN150,000+ 2 F AWT 1000 5 19-Jun-13USA Lone Star Park TTA Sales Futurity - Filly Div R 06-Jul-13 $100,000 2 F D 1000 5 15-Apr-13USA Colonial Downs Punch Line St S 06-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ (VA Bred) T 1000 5 27-Jun-13USA Calder Bob Umphrey Turf Sprint H’cap 06-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ T 1000 5 22-Jun-13USA Parx Racing Power By Far S S 27-Jul-13 $75,000 3+FM D 1000 5 13-Jul-13JPN Niigata Ibis Summer Dash Gr 3 28-Jul-13 $985,000 3+ T 1000 5 18-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Tyro St 04-Aug-13 $60,000 2 D 1000 5 26-Jul-13USA Del Mar Daisycutter H’cap 09-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ F&M T 1000 5 01-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Colleen St 11-Aug-13 $60,000 2 F T 1000 5 02-Aug-13USA Del Mar Green Flash H’cap 14-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ T 1000 5 08-Aug-13GB York Nunthorpe St (Coolmore) Gp 1 23-Aug-13 £250,000 2+ T 1000 5 25-Jun-13USA Calder Catcharisingstar St 24-Aug-13 $75,000 2 F T 1000 5 10-Aug-13USA Calder Fasig-Tipton Turf Dash 24-Aug-13 $75,000 2 T 1000 5 10-Aug-13USA Parx Racing Turf Monster H’cap Gr 3 02-Sep-13 $350,000 3+ T 1000 5 05-Aug-13USA Parx Racing Turf Amazon H’cap 02-Sep-13 $350,000 3+ FM T 1000 5 05-Aug-13USA Parx Racing Mr. Jenney H’cap S 07-Sep-13 $75,000 3+ T 1000 5 20-Jul-13FR Longchamp Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (Qatar) Gp 1 06-Oct-13 € 350,000 2+ T 1000 5 28-Aug-13

USA Evangeline Downs Hallowed Dreams St S 20-Apr-13 $50,000 3 F D 1100 5.5 09-Apr-13USA Keeneland Giant’s Causeway St 20-Apr-13 $100,000 4+ FM T 1100 5.5 03-Apr-13USA Belmont Park Dancing Renee 01-Jun-13 $100,000 3+FM D 1100 5.5 18-May-13USA Monmouth Park Fort Monmouth St 08-Jun-13 $60,000 3+FM T 1100 5.5 31-May-13USA Monmouth Park John McSorley St 09-Jun-13 $60,000 3+ T 1100 5.5 31-May-13USA Presque Isle Downs Satin & Lace S 09-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ F&M AWT 1100 5.5 29-May-13USA Presque Isle Downs Karl Boyes Mem S 10-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ AWT 1100 5.5 29-May-13USA Hollywood Park Willard L Proctor Memorial St 15-Jun-13 100000 2 AWT 1100 5.5 06-Jun-13USA Hollywood Park Cinderella St 15-Jun-13 $100,000 2 F AWT 1100 5.5 06-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Crank It Up St 15-Jun-13 $60,000 3 F T 1100 5.5 07-Jun-13USA Calder Frank Gomez Memorial St 22-Jun-13 $100,000 2 D 1100 5.5 08-Jun-13USA Calder J J’s Dream St 22-Jun-13 $100,000 2 F D 1100 5.5 08-Jun-13USA Colonial Downs Buckland St 29-Jun-13 $75,000 3+ F&M T 1100 5.5 20-Jun-13USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Stallion Futurity R 05-Jul-13 $60,000 2 D 1100 5.5USA Colonial Downs Oakley St S 06-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ F&M (VA Bred) T 1100 5.5 27-Jun-13USA Colonial Downs Jamestown St S 06-Jul-13 $50,000 2 T 1100 5.5 27-Jun-13USA Evangeline Downs Louisiana Legends Ladies Sprint S 06-Jul-13 $100,000 3 + FM T 1100 5.5 22-Jun-13USA Evangeline Downs Louisiana Legends Sprint - La Bred S 06-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ D 1100 5.5 22-Jun-13USA Arlington Park Arlington Sprint 06-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ T 1100 5.5 26-Jun-13CAN Woodbine Clarendon S S 07-Jul-13 CAN150,000 2 AWT 1100 5.5 19-Jun-13USA Colonial Downs Chenery St 13-Jul-13 $75,000 2 T 1100 5.5 13-Jul-13USA Colonial Downs Tippett St 13-Jul-13 $75,000 2 F T 1100 5.5 13-Jul-13USA River Downs (@ BEU) Hoover St S 14-Jul-13 $50,000 2 D 1100 5.5 03-Jul-13USA Monmouth Park Klassy Briefcase St 14-Jul-13 $60,000 3+ FM T 1100 5.5 05-Jul-13USA Del Mar CTBA St S 19-Jul-13 $100,000 2 F AWT 1100 5.5 11-Jul-13USA Prairie Meadows Prairie Gold Juvenile 20-Jul-13 $75,000 2 D 1100 5.5 11-Jul-13USA Prairie Meadows Prairie Gold Lassie 20-Jul-13 $75,000 2 F D 1100 5.5 11-Jul-13USA Saratoga Quick Call 25-Jul-13 $100,000 3 T 1100 5.5 18-Jul-13USA Evangeline Downs D.S. Shine Young Memorial Futurity - La Bred S 27-Jul-13 $100,000 2 F D 1100 5.5 01-May-13USA Evangeline Downs D.S. Shine Young Memorial Futurity - La Bred S 27-Jul-13 $100,000 2 CG D 1100 5.5 01-May-13USA Ruidoso Downs Road Runner H’cap S 28-Jul-13 $50,000 3 CG D 1100 5.5 20-Jul-13USA Ruidoso Downs Sierra Starlet H’cap S 28-Jul-13 $50,000 3 F D 1100 5.5 20-Jul-13

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RACES

Races 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 DATES

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

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Ruidoso Downs Rio Grande Senor Futurity S 28-Jul-13 $200,000 2 D 1100 5.5 20-Jul-13USA Ruidoso Downs Rio Grande Senorita Futurity S 28-Jul-13 $200,000 2 F D 1100 5.5 20-Jul-13USA Del Mar Graduation St S 31-Jul-13 $100,000 2 AWT 1100 5.5 25-Jul-13USA Saratoga Caress 02-Aug-13 $100,000 3 + FM T 1100 5.5 26-Jul-13USA Monmouth Park My Frenchman St 03-Aug-13 $60,000 3+ T 1100 5.5 26-Jul-13USA Saratoga Coronation Cup 12-Aug-13 $100,000 3 F T 1100 5.5 05-Aug-13USA Saratoga Troy St 14-Aug-13 $100,000 3 + T 1100 5.5 07-Aug-13USA Evangeline Downs John Franks Memorial Sales St (Filly Div) R 07-Sep-13 $60,000 2 F D 1100 5.5 17-Jul-13

CAN Woodbine Star Shoot S 20-Apr-13 CAN150,000+ 3 F AWT 1200 6 03-Apr-13USA Beulah Park Howard B. Noonan St S 20-Apr-13 $50,000 3 D 1200 6 10-Apr-13USA Pimlico The Primonetta Stakes 20-Apr-13 $100,000 3 + FM D 1200 6 12-Apr-13USA Prairie Meadows Golden Circle 20-Apr-13 $60,000 3 D 1200 6 11-Apr-13CAN Woodbine Woodstock S 21-Apr-13 CAN150,000+ 3 AWT 1200 6 03-Apr-13USA Will Rogers Downs Clem McSpadden Memorial Route 66 St 23-Apr-13 $50,000 3+ CG D 1200 6 12-Apr-13USA Will Rogers Downs Wilma Mankiller St 24-Apr-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 12-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Harry Henson St 25-Apr-13 $70,000 3 T 1200 6 18-Apr-13CAN Woodbine Jacques Cartier S 27-Apr-13 CAN150,000+ 4+ AWT 1200 6 10-Apr-13USA Hawthorne Racecourse Land of Lincoln St S 27-Apr-13 $100,000 3 D 1200 6USA Hawthorne Racecourse Pretty Jenny St S 27-Apr-13 $100,000 3 F D 1200 6USA Hawthorne Racecourse Robert S. Molaro H’cap S 27-Apr-13 $100,000 4+ D 1200 6USA Prairie Meadows Goldfinch 27-Apr-13 $60,000 3 F D 1200 6 18-Apr-13USA Hawthorne Racecourse The Third Chance H’cap 27-Apr-13 $100,000 4+FM D 1200 6CAN Woodbine Whimsical S Gr 3 28-Apr-13 CAN150,000+ 4+ F&M AWT 1200 6 10-Apr-13USA Beulah Park Babst/Palacios Memorial H’cap S 04-May-13 $50,000 3+ (OH Reg) D 1200 6 24-Apr-13USA Oaklawn Park Bachelor 06-May-13 $75,000 3 D 1200 6USA Tampa Bay Downs Hilton Garden Inn Sprint 06-May-13 $75,000 4+ D 1200 6 23-Mar-13USA Prairie Meadows Mamie Eisenhower S 10-May-13 $70,000 4+ F&M (IA Bred) D 1200 6 01-May-13USA Prairie Meadows John Wayne S 11-May-13 $70,000 4+ C&G (IA Bred) D 1200 6 02-May-13USA Monmouth Park Decathlon St 11-May-13 $75,000 3+ D 1200 6 03-May-13USA Emerald Downs Hastings H’cap 12-May-13 $50,000 3+ D 1200 6USA Presque Isle Downs Inaugural St 12-May-13 $100,000 3 F AWT 1200 6 01-May-13USA Presque Isle Downs Tom Ridge S 13-May-13 $100,000 3 AWT 1200 6 01-May-13USA Pimlico Miss Preakness S 17-May-13 $100,000 3 F D 1200 6 07-May-13USA Pimlico Skipat St 17-May-13 $100,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 07-May-13USA Canterbury Ladys Slipper St 17-May-13 $50,000 3+F&M D 1200 6 10-May-13CAN Woodbine Ballade St R 18-May-13 CAN125,000 3+ F&M AWT 1200 6 01-May-13USA Prairie Meadows Bob Bryant S 18-May-13 $60,000 3 F (IA Bred) D 1200 6 01-Mar-12USA Prairie Meadows Gray’s Lake S 18-May-13 $60,000 3 C&G (IA Bred) D 1200 6 15-May-13USA Canterbury 10,000 Lakes St 18-May-13 $50,000 3+ D 1200 6 10-May-13USA Pimlico Chick Lang St 18-May-13 $100,000 3 D 1200 6 07-May-13USA Pimlico The Maryland Sprint Handicap 18-May-13 $150,000 3 + D 1200 6 07-May-13CAN Woodbine New Providence S R 20-May-13 CAN125,000 3+ AWT 1200 6 01-May-13USA Prairie Meadows Prairie Express 24-May-13 $60,000 3+ D 1200 6 15-May-13USA Prairie Meadows Prairie Rose 24-May-13 $60,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 15-May-13USA Parx Racing My Juliet St 25-May-13 $75,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 11-May-13USA Hollywood Park Great Lady M 26-May-13 $70,000 3+ F&M T 1200 6 16-May-13USA Churchill Downs Winning Colors St Gr 3 27-May-13 $100,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 11-May-13USA Hollywood Park Los Angeles H’cap Gr 3 27-May-13 $100,000 3+ AWT 1200 6 16-May-13USA Finger Lakes George W Barker H’cap S 27-May-13 $50,000 3+ D 1200 6 13-May-13USA Monmouth Park Red Cross St 27-May-13 $60,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 17-May-13USA Churchill Downs Aristides St Gr 3 01-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ D 1200 6 18-May-13USA Ruidoso Downs The Free Spirit H’Cap S 01-Jun-13 $50,000 3+ D 1200 6 25-May-13USA Monmouth Park John J Reilly H’cap 01-Jun-13 $60,000 3+ (NJ Bred) D 1200 6 24-May-13USA Monmouth Park Open Mind H’cap 02-Jun-13 $60,000 3+ FM (NJ Bred) D 1200 6 17-May-13USA Indiana Downs Shelby County S R 05-Jun-13 $85,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 25-May-13USA Indiana Downs William Henry Harrison R 05-Jun-13 $85,000 3+ D 1200 6 25-May-13CAN Woodbine Highlander S Gr 2 07-Jun-13 CAN200,000+ 3+ T 1200 6 19-Jun-13CAN Northlands Park Wild Rose 07-Jun-13 CAN 50,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 28-May-13CAN Woodbine Bold Ruckus S R 08-Jun-13 CAN125,000 3 T 1200 6 22-May-13CAN Northlands Park The Journal 08-Jun-13 CAN 50,000 3 + D 1200 6 29-May-13USA Belmont Park True North H’cap Gr 2 08-Jun-13 $400,000 3+ D 1200 6 24-May-13USA Arlington Park Isaac Murphy St S 08-Jun-13 $125,000 3+ FM AWT 1200 6 29-May-13USA Finger Lakes Susan B Anthony H’cap S 08-Jun-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 25-May-13USA Calder Leave Me Alone St 08-Jun-13 $75,000 3 F D 1200 6 25-May-13USA Calder Ponche H’cap 08-Jun-13 $75,000 3+ D 1200 6 25-May-13USA Calder U Can Do It H’cap 08-Jun-13 $75,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 25-May-13USA Calder Unbridled St 08-Jun-13 $75,000 3 D 1200 6 25-May-13USA Hollywood Park Manhattan Beach St 08-Jun-13 $70,000 3 F T 1200 6 30-May-13USA Arlington Park Addison Cammack S 08-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ AWT 1200 6 29-May-13CAN Northlands Park Chariot Chaser 15-Jun-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1200 6 05-Jun-13CAN Northlands Park The Western Canada 15-Jun-13 CAN 50,000 3 D 1200 6 05-Jun-13JPN Hakodate Hakodate Sprint St Gr 3 16-Jun-13 $985,000 3+ T 1200 6 07-May-13USA Hollywood Park Desert Stormer H’cap 16-Jun-13 $70,000 3+ FM AWT 1200 6 06-Jun-13GB Royal Ascot Diamond Jubilee St Gp 1 22-Jun-13 £500,000 3+ T 1200 6 23-Apr-13USA Churchill Downs Debutante Gr 3 22-Jun-13 $100,000 2 F D 1200 6 08-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Blue Sparkler St 22-Jun-13 $60,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 14-Jun-13USA Emerald Downs Emerald Express 28-Jun-13 $50,000 2 C&G D 1200 6USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Sprint H’cap 28-Jun-13 $125,000 3+ D 1200 6 16-Jun-13USA Prairie Meadows Saylorville 28-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 16-Jun-13CAN Woodbine Achievement S S 29-Jun-13 CAN150,000 3 AWT 1200 6 12-Jun-13USA Belmont Park Victory Ride St Gr 3 29-Jun-13 $150,000 3 F D 1200 6 15-Jun-13USA Churchill Downs Bashford Manor St Gr 3 29-Jun-13 $100,000 2 D 1200 6 15-Jun-13USA Finger Lakes Ontario County St S 29-Jun-13 $50,000 3 D 1200 6 15-Jun-13JPN Chukyo CBC Sho Gr 3 30-Jun-13 $985,000 3+ T 1200 6 21-May-13USA Hollywood Park Robert K Kerlan Memorial H’cap 30-Jun-13 $70,000 3+ T 1200 6 20-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Jersey Shore St Gr 3 04-Jul-13 $100,000 3 D 1200 6 22-Jun-13USA Finger Lakes Niagara St S 04-Jul-13 $50,000 3 F D 1200 6 20-Jun-13USA Canterbury Victor Myers St 04-Jul-13 $50,000 3 + CG D 1200 6 20-Jun-13USA Canterbury Frances Genter 04-Jul-13 $50,000 3 F (Min Bred) D 1200 6 20-Jun-13USA Calder Princess Rooney H’cap Gr 1 06-Jul-13 $350,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 22-Jun-13USA Calder Smile Sprint H’cap Gr 2 06-Jul-13 $350,000 3+ D 1200 6 22-Jun-13USA Calder Carry Back St Gr 3 06-Jul-13 $150,000 3 D 1200 6 22-Jun-13USA Calder Azalea St Gr 3 06-Jul-13 $150,000 3 F D 1200 6 22-Jun-13USA Lone Star Park Valor Farms St S 06-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ FM (TX Bred) D 1200 6 27-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Mr. Prospector St 07-Jul-13 $75,000 3+ D 1200 6 28-Jun-13GB Newmarket July Cup (Darley) Gp 1 13-Jul-13 £500,000 3 + T 1200 6 07-May-13USA Hollywood Park Hollywood Juvenile Championship Gr 3 13-Jul-13 $150,000 2 AWT 1200 6 04-Jul-13

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Hollywood Park Landaluce St 13-Jul-13 $150,000 2 F AWT 1200 6 04-Jul-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Boulevard Casino (AlsW) 14-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3F D 1200 6 06-Jul-13CAN Hastings Racecourse New Westminster (AlwS) 14-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 2 D 1200 6 06-Jul-13USA Saratoga Schuylerville St Gr 3 19-Jul-13 $150,000 2 F D 1200 6 06-Jul-13USA Calder Florida Stallion St - Desert Vixen Division R 20-Jul-13 $75,000 2 F D 1200 6 CLOSEDUSA Calder Florida Stallion St - Dr. Fager Division R 20-Jul-13 $75,000 2 D 1200 6 CLOSEDUSA Finger Lakes Arctic Queen H’cap S 20-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 06-Jul-13USA Delaware Park Sweet N Sassy St 20-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 08-Jul-13JPN Hakodate Hakodate Nisai St Gr 3 21-Jul-13 $780,000 2 T 1200 6 04-Jun-13USA Saratoga Sanford St Gr 2 21-Jul-13 $200,000 2 D 1200 6 06-Jul-13USA Suffolk Downs Rise Jim St S 21-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ MA bred D 1200 6USA Monmouth Park Just Smashing St 21-Jul-13 $60,000 3 F D 1200 6 12-Jul-13CAN Northlands Park Princess Margaret 27-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1200 6 19-Jul-13CAN Northlands Park Edmonton Juv 27-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 2 C&G D 1200 6 19-Jul-13USA Belmont Park Prioress St Gr 1 27-Jul-13 $300,000 3 F D 1200 6 13-Jul-13USA Monmouth Park Regret St 27-Jul-13 $75,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 19-Jul-13USA Saratoga Prioress Gr 1 27-Jul-13 $300,000 3 F D 1200 6 13-Jul-13USA Del Mar Bing Crosby S Gr 1 28-Jul-13 $300,000 3+ AWT 1200 6 18-Jul-13USA Ruidoso Downs Lincoln H’cap S 28-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 20-Jul-13USA Monmouth Park Teddy Drone St 28-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ D 1200 6 19-Jul-13USA Saratoga Honorable Miss H’cap Gr 2 29-Jul-13 $200,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 13-Jul-13USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Classic Sprint S 03-Aug-13 $60,000 3+ (IA Bred) D 1200 6 25-Jul-13USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Cradle S S 03-Aug-13 $75,000 2 C&G (IA bred) D 1200 6USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Sorority S 03-Aug-13 $75,000 2 F D 1200 6USA Mountaineer The Senator Robert C Byrd Memorial St 03-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ D 1200 6 22-Jul-13USA Mountaineer Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies St 03-Aug-13 $100,000 2 F D 1200 6 22-Jul-13USA Mountaineer Mountaineer Juvenile St 03-Aug-13 $100,000 2 D 1200 6 22-Jul-13USA Mountaineer West Virginia Secretary of State St 03-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 22-Jul-13USA Saratoga Alfred G Vanderbilt H’cap Gr 1 04-Aug-13 $400,000 3+ D 1200 6 20-Jul-13USA Emerald Downs Angie C St R 04-Aug-13 $50,000 2 F D 1200 6USA Suffolk Downs Isadorable St S 04-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ FM MA bred D 1200 6USA Ruidoso Downs Aspen Cup S 10-Aug-13 $50,000 3 F D 1200 6 27-Jul-13IRE Curragh Phoenix St (Keeneland) Gp 1 11-Aug-13 € 190,000 2 CF T 1200 6 17-Apr-13USA Finger Lakes Leon Reed Memorial H’cap S 17-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ D 1200 6 03-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Filly and Mare Sprint S 17-Aug-13 $60,000 3+ F&M (LA Bred) D 1200 6 03-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Sprint S 17-Aug-13 $60,000 3+ ( LA Bred) D 1200 6 03-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Juvenile S 17-Aug-13 $50,000 2 (LA Bred) D 1200 6 03-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Juvenile Fillies S 17-Aug-13 $50,000 2 F (LA Bred) D 1200 6 03-Aug-13USA Canterbury Hoist Her Flag St 17-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 08-Aug-13FR Deauville Prix Morny (Darley) Gp 1 18-Aug-13 € 350,000 2 CF T 1200 6 31-Jul-13JPN Kokura TV Nishinippon Corp Sho Kitakyushu Kinen Gr 3 18-Aug-13 $985,000 3+ T 1200 6 02-Jul-13USA Saratoga Union Avenue St S 19-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ FM (NY bred) D 1200 6 12-Aug-13JPN Hakodate Keeneland Cup G3 25-Aug-13 $985,000 3+ T 1200 6 16-Jul-13USA Del Mar Generous Portion St S 28-Aug-13 $150,000 2 F AWT 1200 6 22-Aug-13USA Indiana Downs Merrillville S S 28-Aug-13 $85,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 17-Aug-13USA Indiana Downs Brickyard S S 28-Aug-13 $85,000 3+ D 1200 6 17-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Miss Woodford St 31-Aug-13 $60,000 3 F D 1200 6 23-Aug-13JPN Kokura Kokura Nisai St Gr 3 01-Sep-13 $780,000 2 T 1200 6 16-Jul-13USA Monmouth Park Sapling St Gr 3 01-Sep-13 $100,000 2 D 1200 6 18-Aug-13USA Canterbury MN Distaff Sprint Championship S 01-Sep-13 $55,000 3 FM D 1200 6 22-Aug-13USA Canterbury MN Sprint Championship S 01-Sep-13 $50,000 3 D 1200 6 22-Aug-13USA Canterbury Northern Lights Debutante St S 01-Sep-13 $55,000 2 F D 1200 6 01-Apr-13USA Canterbury Northern Lights Futurity St S 01-Sep-13 $55,000 2 D 1200 6 01-Apr-13USA River Downs (@ BEU) Tah Dah St S 01-Sep-13 $50,000 2 F D 1200 6 21-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Sorority St 01-Sep-13 $100,000 2 F D 1200 6 23-Aug-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Derby Bar and Grill Ladies Express 02-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3+FM D 1200 6 24-Aug-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Derby Bar and Grill Express 02-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1200 6 24-Aug-13USA Del Mar I’m Smokin St S 02-Sep-13 $150,000 2 AWT 1200 6 22-Aug-13USA Finger Lakes Aspirant St S 02-Sep-13 $100,000 2 C&G D 1200 6 01-Apr-13USA Finger Lakes Lady Fingers St S 02-Sep-13 $100,000 2 F D 1200 6 01-Apr-13USA Monmouth Park Icecapade St 02-Sep-13 $75,000 3+ D 1200 6 23-Aug-13USA Del Mar C.E.R.F. St R 04-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ F&M AWT 1200 6 29-Aug-13USA Del Mar Pirate’s Bounty S R 04-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ AWT 1200 6 29-Aug-13CAN Assiniboia Downs Winnipeg Futurity 07-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 2 D 1200 6 28-Aug-13GB Haydock Park Sprint Cup (Betfred) Gp 1 07-Sep-13 £250,000 3+ T 1200 6 09-Jul-13USA Parx Racing Dr Theresa Garofalo Mem S 07-Sep-13 $75,000 3 F D 1200 6 20-Jul-13USA Parx Racing Banjo Picker Sprint S 07-Sep-13 $75,000 3+ D 1200 6 20-Jul-13USA Louisiana Downs Temperence Hill 07-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ D 1200 6 24-Aug-13JPN Hanshin Centaur St Gr 2 08-Sep-13 $1,433,000 3+ T 1200 6 30-Jul-13USA Presque Isle Downs The Mark Mcdermott St S 08-Sep-13 $75,000 2 AWT 1200 6 28-Aug-13USA Suffolk Downs Louise Kimball St S 08-Sep-13 $50,000 3 F D 1200 6USA Fairmount Park All Sold Out S S 10-Sep-13 $50,000 2 F D 1200 6 31-Aug-13USA Fairmount Park Tex’s Zing S S 10-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ D 1200 6 31-Aug-13USA Fairmount Park Troy Our Boy S S 10-Sep-13 $50,000 2 C&G D 1200 6 31-Aug-13USA Fairmount Park Lady Riss S S 10-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 31-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Eleven North H’cap 14-Sep-13 $60,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 06-Sep-13USA Monmouth Park New Jersey Breeders H’Cap 14-Sep-13 $60,000 3+ D 1200 6 06-Sep-13USA Parx Racing Gallant Bob H’cap Gr 3 21-Sep-13 $300,000 3 D 1200 6 06-Jul-13USA Suffolk Downs African Prince S 22-Sep-13 $50,000 3 1200 6USA Indiana Downs Indiana Stallion S S 25-Sep-13 $85,000 2 F D 1200 6 14-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs The Crown Ambassador S S 25-Sep-13 $85,000 2 D 1200 6 14-Sep-13USA Presque Isle Downs Presque Isle Debutante S 26-Sep-13 $100,000 2 F AWT 1200 6 16-Sep-13GB Newmarket Cheveley Park St Gp 1 27-Sep-13 £170,000 2 F T 1200 6 23-Jul-13USA Belmont Park Vosburgh Invitational Gr 1 28-Sep-13 $400,000 3+ D 1200 6 14-Sep-13USA Finger Lakes Tin Cup Chalice S S 28-Sep-13 $50,000 2 C&G D 1200 6 14-Sep-13USA Finger Lakes New York Breeders’ Futurity S 28-Sep-13 $200,000 2 D 1200 6 01-Apr-13USA Finger Lakes Shesastonecoldfox S S 28-Sep-13 $50,000 2 F D 1200 6 14-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs City of Anderson S S 28-Sep-13 $85,000 2 F D 1200 6 18-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs Hillsdale S S 28-Sep-13 $85,000 2 D 1200 6 18-Sep-13USA Calder Birdonthewire St 28-Sep-13 $100,000 2 D 1200 6 14-Sep-13USA Calder Cassidy St 28-Sep-13 $100,000 2 F D 1200 6 14-Sep-13JPN Nakayama Sprinters St Gr 1 29-Sep-13 $2,470,000 3+ T 1200 6 13-Aug-13USA Belmont Park Futurity St Gr 2 29-Sep-13 $200,000 2 D 1200 6 14-Sep-13USA Belmont Park Matron St Gr 2 29-Sep-13 $200,000 2 F D 1200 6 14-Sep-13USA Emerald Downs NWSS Cahill Road Stakes 29-Sep-13 $50,000 2 WA D 1200 6USA Monmouth Park Jersey Juvenile S 05-Oct-13 $60,000 2 (NJ bred) D 1200 6 27-Sep-13GB Newmarket Middle Park St (Emaar) Gp 1 12-Oct-13 £170,000 2 C T 1200 6 30-Jul-13USA Belmont Park Hudson H’cap S 19-Oct-13 $150,000 3+ (NY bred) D 1200 6 05-Oct-13USA Suffolk Downs Norman Hall S 27-Oct-13 $50,000 2 D 1200 6

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Beulah Park Glacial Princess St R 02-Nov-13 $50,000 2 F (OH Acc) D 1200 6 23-Oct-13USA Calder Jack Dudley Sprint H’cap S 09-Nov-13 $125,000 3+ (FL Breds) D 1200 6 26-Oct-13USA Mountaineer Sophomore Sprint Championship St 12-Nov-13 $85,000 3 D 1200 6 29-Oct-13USA Beulah Park Ohio Freshman St R 16-Nov-13 $50,000 2 (OH Acc) D 1200 6 06-Nov-13JPN Kyoto Keihan Hai Gr 3 23-Nov-13 $985,000 3+ T 1200 6 08-Oct-13USA Aqueduct New York Stallion Series - Fifth Avenue Division S 23-Nov-13 $125,000 2 F D 1200 6 CLOSEDUSA Aqueduct New York Stallion Series - Great White Way Division S 23-Nov-13 $125,000 2 D 1200 6 CLOSEDUSA Penn National Fabulous Strike H 27-Nov-13 $250,000 3+ D 1200 6 15-Nov-13USA Penn National Lady in Waiting 27-Nov-13 $150,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 15-Nov-13USA Penn National Lady in Waiting 27-Nov-13 $150,000 3+ F&M D 1200 6 15-Nov-13USA Penn National The Fabulous Strike H’Cap 27-Nov-13 $250,000 3+ D 1200 6 15-Nov-13USA Aqueduct Fall Highweight H’cap Gr 3 28-Nov-13 $150,000 3+ D 1200 6 16-Nov-13USA Aqueduct Garland of Roses 07-Dec-13 $75,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 23-Nov-13JPN Nakayama Capella St Gr 3 08-Dec-13 $911,000 3+ D 1200 6 22-Oct-13USA Aqueduct Gravesend 21-Dec-13 $75,000 3+ D 1200 6 07-Dec-13USA Parx Racing Mistletoe Starter Hcap 24-Dec-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1200 6 10-Dec-13

USA Santa Anita San Simeon St Gr 3 20-Apr-13 $100,000 4+ T 1300 6.5 11-Apr-13USA SunRay Park Russell and Helen Foutz Distaff H’cap S 20-Apr-13 $65,000 3+ FM D 1300 6.5 13-Apr-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Brighouse Belles (AlwS) 27-Apr-13 CAN 50,000 3+ FM D 1300 6.5 20-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Alphabet Kisses St S 27-Apr-13 $60,000 3+ F&M AWT 1300 6.5 05-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park NTRA St S 27-Apr-13 $60,000 3+ CG CA Bred AWT 1300 6.5 05-Apr-13CAN Hastings Racecourse George Royal (AlwS) 28-Apr-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 20-Apr-13USA Belmont Park New York Stallion - Park Avenue Division 05-May-13 $100,000 3 F 1300 6.5 CLOSEDUSA Belmont Park New York Stallion - Times Square Division 05-May-13 $100,000 3 D 1300 6.5 CLOSEDCAN Hastings Racecourse Ross Mcleod s 11-May-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1300 6.5 04-May-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Jim Coleman Province (AlwS) 12-May-13 CAN 50,000 3 D 1300 6.5 04-May-13USA Belmont Park Vagrancy H’cap Gr 2 18-May-13 $200,000 3+ FM D 1300 6.5 04-May-13USA Emerald Downs Governor’s H’cap 19-May-13 $50,000 3+ D 1300 6.5CAN Hastings Racecourse The John Longden 6000 20-May-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 11-May-13USA SunRay Park Aztec Oaks S 25-May-13 $65,000 3 F (NM Bred) D 1300 6.5 18-May-13USA SunRay Park Dine St S 26-May-13 $65,000 3 CG (NM Bred) D 1300 6.5 19-May-13USA Emerald Downs Seattle H’cap 26-May-13 $50,000 3 F D 1300 6.5CAN Woodbine Hendrie S Gr 3 01-Jun-13 CAN150,000+ 4+ F&M AWT 1300 6.5 15-May-13USA Emerald Downs Auburn H’cap 02-Jun-13 $50,000 3 CG D 1300 6.5USA Canterbury Dark Star Cup 08-Jun-13 $50,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 30-May-13USA Parx Racing Jostle St 08-Jun-13 $75,000 3 F D 1300 6.5 25-May-13CAN Woodbine Alywow S 09-Jun-13 CAN125,000 3 T 1300 6.5 22-May-13USA Emerald Downs WA State Legislators Stakes 09-Jun-13 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1300 6.5CAN Northlands Park Sales Stakes (fillies) 19-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3 & 4 F D 1300 6.5 10-Jul-13CAN Northlands Park Sales Stakes 20-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3&4 C&G D 1300 6.5 10-Jul-13USA Saratoga Amsterdam St Gr 2 28-Jul-13 $200,000 3 D 1300 6.5 13-Jul-13USA Saratoga John Morrissey St S 01-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ (NY bred) D 1300 6.5 25-Jul-13FR Deauville Prix Maurice de Gheest Gp 1 04-Aug-13 € 250,000 3+ T 1300 6.5 10-Jul-12USA Del Mar Best Pal St Gr 2 04-Aug-13 $150,000 2 AWT 1300 6.5 25-Jul-13CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Debutante (AlwS) S 05-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 24-Mar-13CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Nursery (AlwS) S 05-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 2 CG (BC Bred) D 1300 6.5 24-Mar-13USA Del Mar Sorrento St Gr 2 07-Aug-13 $150,000 2 F AWT 1300 6.5 01-Aug-13CAN Northlands Park 2-Year-Old Sale St R 10-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 2 C&G D 1300 6.5 02-Aug-13CAN Northlands Park 2-Year-Old Sale St (Fillies) R 10-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 02-Aug-13USA Saratoga Adirondack St Gr 2 11-Aug-13 $200,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 27-Jul-13USA Saratoga Saratoga Special Gr 2 11-Aug-13 $200,000 2 D 1300 6.5 27-Jul-13USA Emerald Downs WTBOA Lads St 17-Aug-13 $50,000 2 CG D 1300 6.5USA Del Mar Rancho Bernardo H’cap Gr 3 18-Aug-13 $150,000 3+ F&M AWT 1300 6.5 08-Aug-13CAN Hastings Racecourse CTHS Sales S 23-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 24-Mar-13CAN Hastings Racecourse CTHS Sales S 23-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 2CG D 1300 6.5 24-Mar-13CAN Northlands Park Bird of Pay St 24-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 16-Aug-13CAN Northlands Park Birdcatcher St 24-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 2 C&G D 1300 6.5 16-Aug-13USA Emerald Downs Barbara Shinpoch St 25-Aug-13 $50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5CAN Northlands Park Sun Sprint St 07-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 28-Aug-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Jack Diamond S 08-Sep-13 CAN 100,000 2 CG D 1300 6.5 15-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Sadie Diamond S 08-Sep-13 CAN 100,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 15-Jun-13USA Emerald Downs Dennis Dodge St S 08-Sep-13 $35,000 2 CG WA bred D 1300 6.5USA Emerald Downs Diane Kem St S 08-Sep-13 $35,000 2 F WA bred D 1300 6.5USA Presque Isle Downs Presque Isle Downs Masters S Gr 2 09-Sep-13 $400,000 3+ F&M AWT 1300 6.5 28-Aug-13CAN Northlands Park Red Diamond St S 21-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 11-Sep-13CAN Northlands Park Premier’s Futurity S 21-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 2 D 1300 6.5 11-Sep-13CAN Northlands Park Sturgeon River St S 21-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 11-Sep-13USA Belmont Park Gallant Bloom H’cap Gr 2 21-Sep-13 $200,000 3+ F&M D 1300 6.5 07-Sep-13USA Presque Isle Downs Fitz Dixon Mem S 26-Sep-13 $100,000 2 AWT 1300 6.5 16-Sep-13USA Parx Racing Donna Fryer SC Residence Race (F) R 17-Nov-13 $75,000 2 F D 1300 6.5 30-Jun-13USA Parx Racing Christopher Elser Mem SC Residence (C & G) R 17-Nov-13 $75,000 2 CG D 1300 6.5 30-Jun-13USA Calder Kenny Noe Jr H’cap 14-Dec-13 $75,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 30-Nov-13USA Ellis Park Don Bernhardt 7/17/2010 $50,000 3+ D 1300 6.5 03-Jul-10

USA Charles Town Confucius Say St S 20-Apr-13 $50,000 3+ D 1400 7 10-Apr-13USA Charles Town Original Gold St S 20-Apr-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1400 7 10-Apr-13USA Charles Town Robert Hilton Memorial 20-Apr-13 $85,000 3 D 1400 7 10-Apr-13USA Charles Town Sugar Maple St 20-Apr-13 $200,000 4+ FM D 1400 7 10-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Grey Memo St S 27-Apr-13 $70,000 3+ AWT 1400 7 05-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Warren’s Thoroughbred St 27-Apr-13 $70,000 3+ FM CA Bred AWT 1400 7 05-Apr-13USA Churchill Downs Eight Belles St Gr 3 03-May-13 $150,000 3 F D 1400 7 10-Apr-13CAN Woodbine Fury S S 04-May-13 CAN150,000 3 F AWT 1400 7 17-Apr-13USA Churchill Downs Humana Distaff Gr 1 04-May-13 $300,000 4+ FM D 1400 7 10-Apr-13USA Churchill Downs Churchill Downs St Gr 2 04-May-13 $400,000 4+ D 1400 7 10-Apr-13USA Tampa Bay Downs Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore St 06-May-13 $75,000 3 D 1400 7 23-Mar-13USA Tampa Bay Downs Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies St 06-May-13 $75,000 3 F D 1400 7 23-Mar-13CAN Woodbine Queenston S S 11-May-13 CAN150,000 3 AWT 1400 7 24-Apr-13JPN Tokyo Keio Hai Spring Cup Gr 2 11-May-13 $1,433,000 4+ T 1400 7 26-Mar-13USA Hollywood Park Came Home S 11-May-13 $70,000 3 AWT 1400 7 02-May-13USA Hollywood Park Railbird St Gr 3 19-May-13 $70,000 3 F AWT 1400 7 09-May-13CAN Woodbine Lady Angela S R 25-May-13 CAN125,000 3 F AWT 1400 7 08-May-13CAN Woodbine Connaught Cup S Gr 2 26-May-13 CAN200,000+ 4+ T 1400 7 08-May-13USA Evangeline Downs The Acadiana St - La Bred 31-May-13 $50,000 3 F D 1400 7 21-May-13USA Belmont Park Bouwerie St S 01-Jun-13 $125,000 3 F (NY bred) D 1400 7 18-May-13USA Belmont Park Mike Lee St S 01-Jun-13 $125,000 3 (NY bred) D 1400 7 18-May-13USA Belmont Park Affirmed Success 01-Jun-13 $100,000 3 + (NY Bred) D 1400 7 18-May-13

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Evangeline Downs The Ragin Cajun St - La Bred 01-Jun-13 $50,000 3 D 1400 7 21-May-13USA Belmont Park Jaipur St Gr 3 07-Jun-13 $150,000 3+ T 1400 7 25-May-13USA Belmont Park Woody Stephens St Gr 2 08-Jun-13 $400,000 3 D 1400 7 25-May-13CAN Woodbine Zadracarta S S 15-Jun-13 CAN125,000 3+ F&M T 1400 7 29-May-13USA Belmont Park Bed o’ Roses (H’cap) Gr 3 15-Jun-13 $150,000 3+ F&M D 1400 7 01-Jun-13USA Parx Racing Donald LeVine Memorial H’cap 22-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ D 1400 7 08-Jun-13USA Hollywood Park Triple Bend H’cap Gr 1 29-Jun-13 $250,000 3+ AWT 1400 7 20-Jun-13USA Arlington Park Chicago H’cap Gr 3 29-Jun-13 $150,000 3+ FM AWT 1400 7 19-Jun-13USA Belmont Park New York Stallion Series - Cupecoy’s Joy Division R 30-Jun-13 $75,000 3 F T 1400 7 CLOSEDUSA Belmont Park New York Stallion Series - Spectacular Bid Division R 30-Jun-13 $75,000 3 T 1400 7 CLOSEDCAN Woodbine Sweet Briar Too S 06-Jul-13 CAN125,000 3+ F&M AWT 1400 7 19-Jun-13JPN Chukyo Tokai TV Hai Procyon St Gr 3 07-Jul-13 $911,000 3+ D 1400 7 21-May-13USA Hollywood Park A Gleam H’cap Gr 2 13-Jul-13 $200,000 3+ FM AWT 1400 7 04-Jul-13USA Evangeline Downs Oak Hall St 13-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ D 1400 7 02-Jul-13USA Saratoga James Marvin Gr 3 19-Jul-13 $150,000 3+ D 1400 7 06-Jul-13USA Del Mar Fleet Treat St S 27-Jul-13 $200,000 3 F AWT 1400 7 18-Jul-13USA Del Mar Real Good Deal St S 02-Aug-13 $200,000 3 AWT 1400 7 25-Jul-13USA Charles Town Robert G Leavitt St S 03-Aug-13 $50,000 3 D 1400 7 24-Jul-13USA Charles Town Sadie Hawkins St S 10-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1400 7 31-Jul-13USA Charles Town Sylvia Bishop Memorial S 17-Aug-13 $50,000 3 F D 1400 7 14-Aug-13USA Charles Town Frank Gall Memorial S 17-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ D 1400 7 07-Aug-13USA Saratoga Ballerina St Gr 1 23-Aug-13 $500,000 3+ FM D 1400 7 10-Aug-13USA Saratoga Test Gr 1 24-Aug-13 $500,000 3 F D 1400 7 10-Aug-13USA Saratoga Foxwoods King’s Bishop Gr 1 24-Aug-13 $500,000 3 D 1400 7 10-Aug-13USA Calder Florida Stallion St - Affirmed Division R 24-Aug-13 $125,000 2 D 1400 7 ClosedUSA Calder Florida Stallion St - Susan’s Girl Division R 24-Aug-13 $125,000 2 F D 1400 7 ClosedUSA Del Mar Pat O’Brien H’cap Gr 2 25-Aug-13 $250,000 3+ AWT 1400 7 15-Aug-13USA Del Mar Del Mar Debutante Gr 1 31-Aug-13 $300,000 2 F AWT 1400 7 07-Jun-13USA Saratoga Forego Gr 1 31-Aug-13 $500,000 3+ D 1400 7 17-Aug-13IRE Curragh Moyglare Stud St Gp 1 01-Sep-13 € 225,000 2 F T 1400 7 29-May-13USA Saratoga Spinaway St Gr 1 01-Sep-13 $300,000 2 F D 1400 7 17-Aug-13USA Saratoga Three Chimneys Hopeful St Gr 1 02-Sep-13 $300,000 2 D 1400 7 17-Aug-13USA Del Mar Del Mar Futurity Gr 1 04-Sep-13 $300,000 2 AWT 1400 7 07-Jun-13IRE Curragh Vincent O’Brien National St Gp 1 15-Sep-13 € 200,000 2 CF T 1400 7 29-May-13USA Louisiana Downs LA Stallions S S 21-Sep-13 $100,000 2 C&G (LA Bred) D 1400 7 CLOSEDUSA Louisiana Downs LA Stallions S S 21-Sep-13 $100,000 2 F (LA Bred) D 1400 7 CLOSEDUSA Charles Town Pink Ribbon St 21-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1400 7 11-Sep-13USA Charles Town Charles Town Oaks 21-Sep-13 $400,000 3 F D 1400 7 07-Sep-13USA Charles Town Wild and Wonderful St 21-Sep-13 $85,000 3+ D 1400 7 11-Sep-13USA Charles Town Researcher S 21-Sep-13 $400,000 3 F D 1400 7 07-Sep-13FR Longchamp Prix de la Foret (Total) Gp 1 06-Oct-13 € 300,000 3+ T 1400 7 28-Aug-13FR Longchamp Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium Gp 1 06-Oct-13 € 350,000 2 CF T 1400 7 28-Aug-12GB Newmarket Dewhurst St Gp 1 12-Oct-13 350000 2 C&F T 1400 7 30-Jul-13USA Belmont Park Iroquois S 19-Oct-13 $150,000 3+ F&M (NY bred) D 1400 7 05-Oct-13USA Belmont Park Bertram F Bongard St 19-Oct-13 $125,000 2 D 1400 7 05-Oct-13USA Belmont Park Joseph A Gimma St 19-Oct-13 $125,000 2 F D 1400 7 05-Oct-13JPN Kyoto Mainichi Broadcast Swan St Gr 2 26-Oct-13 $1,433,000 3+ T 1400 7 10-Sep-13USA Belmont Park Bold Ruler Gr 3 26-Oct-13 $150,000 3+ D 1400 7 12-Oct-13JPN Tokyo Keio Hai Nisai St Gr 2 09-Nov-13 $931,000 2 T 1400 7 24-Sep-13JPN Kyoto KBS Kyoto Sho Fantasy St Gr 3 09-Nov-13 $725,000 2 F T 1400 7 24-Sep-13USA Charles Town Tri-State Futurity R 09-Nov-13 $100,000 2 D 1400 7USA Calder Jack Price Juvenile S 09-Nov-13 $125,000 2 (FL Breds) D 1400 7 27-Oct-12USA Calder Joe O’Farrell Juvenile Fillies S 09-Nov-13 $125,000 2 F (Fl breds) D 1400 7 26-Oct-13USA Aqueduct New York Stallion Series - Staten Island Division S 23-Nov-13 $100,000 3+ FM D 1400 7 CLOSEDUSA Aqueduct New York Stallion Series - Thunder Rumble Division S 23-Nov-13 $100,000 3+ D 1400 7 CLOSEDUSA Charles Town West Virginia Futurity (WV) 30-Nov-13 $50,000 2 D 1400 7 20-Nov-13USA Parx Racing Pennsylvania Nursery St S 07-Dec-13 $75,000 2 C&G D 1400 7 07-Sep-13USA Charles Town Eleanor Casey Memorial S 21-Dec-13 $50,000 2 F D 1400 7 11-Dec-13JPN Hanshin Hanshin Cup Gr 2 23-Dec-13 $1,687,000 3+ T 1400 7 05-Nov-13USA Parx Racing Valley Forge St 31-Dec-13 $75,000 3+ D 1400 7 17-Dec-13USA Parx Racing Auld Lang Syne St 31-Dec-13 $75,000 3+ D 1400 7 17-Dec-13CAN Woodbine Vigil S Gr 3 02-Jun-03 CAN150,000+ 4+ AWT 1400 7 15-May-13

USA Calder Hollywood Wildcap H’Cap 06-Jul-13 $100,000 3 + FM T 1450 7.32 22-Jun-13

USA Hollywood Park B. Thoughtful St S 27-Apr-13 $125,000 4+ FM CA bred AWT 1500 7.5 05-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Tiznow St S 27-Apr-13 $125,000 4+ CA bred AWT 1500 7.5 05-Apr-13USA Lone Star Park Lane’s End Stallion Scholarship St R 11-May-13 $50,000 3+ T 1500 7.5 02-May-13USA Canterbury Brooks Fields St 16-Jun-13 $50,000 3+ T 1500 7.5 06-Jun-13USA Evangeline Downs Louisiana Showcase Starter St (10,000 or less in 2012-13) R 06-Jul-13 $75,000 3+ (La Bred) T 1500 7.5 22-Jun-13USA Ruidoso Downs Land of Enchantment H’cap S 28-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ D 1500 7.5 20-Jul-13USA Calder Naked Greed (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘11 pref) 03-Aug-13 $75,000 3 T 1500 7.5 20-Jul-13USA Calder Crystal Rail (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘11 pref) 03-Aug-13 $75,000 3 F T 1500 7.5 20-Jul-13USA Louisiana Downs Donnie Wilhite Memorial S 03-Aug-13 $50,000 2 F T 1500 7.5 20-Jul-13USA Louisiana Downs Sunny’s Halo S 03-Aug-13 $50,000 2 T 1500 7.5 20-Jul-13USA Canterbury Shakopee Juvenile Stakes 03-Aug-13 $100,000 2 T 1500 7.5 25-Jul-13USA Del Mar Oak Tree Juvenile Fillies S 02-Sep-13 $100,000 2 F T 1500 7.5 22-Aug-13USA Del Mar Oak Tree Juvenile S 04-Sep-13 $100,000 2 T 1500 7.5 29-Aug-13

USA Calder Miami Mile H’cap Gr 3 20-Apr-13 $100,000 3+ T 1600 8 06-Apr-13USA Pimlico Henry S Clark St 20-Apr-13 $100,000 3+ T 1600 8 12-Apr-13USA Belmont Park Westchester H’cap Gr 3 27-Apr-13 $150,000 3+ D 1600 8 13-Apr-13USA Golden Gate Fields San Francisco Mile Gr 3 27-Apr-13 $100,000 3+ T 1600 8 18-Apr-13USA Lone Star Park Texas Mile Gr 3 27-Apr-13 $200,000 3+ D 1600 8 18-Apr-13USA SunRay Park Jack Cole H’cap S 27-Apr-13 $65,000 3+ D 1600 8 20-Apr-13USA Churchill Downs Derby Trial Gr 3 27-Apr-13 $175,000 3 D 1600 8 10-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Wilshire H’cap Gr 3 28-Apr-13 $100,000 3+ FM T 1600 8 25-Apr-13USA Prairie Meadows Prairie Mile 01-May-13 $60,000 3 D 1600 8 23-May-13GB Newmarket 2000 Guineas St (Qipco) Gp 1 04-May-13 £400,000 3 C&F T 1600 8 05-Mar-13USA Churchill Downs Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Gr 2 04-May-13 $250,000 4+ FM T 1600 8 10-Apr-13USA Will Rogers Downs Oklahoma Stallion Colts & Geldings Division S 04-May-13 $50,000 3 CG D 1600 8 23-Apr-13USA Will Rogers Downs Oklahoma Stallion Fillies Division S 04-May-13 $50,000 3 F D 1600 8 23-Apr-13GB Newmarket 1000 Guineas St (Qipco) Gp 1 05-May-13 £400,000 3 F T 1600 8 05-Mar-13JPN Tokyo NHK Mile Cup Gr 1 05-May-13 $2,397,000 3 No G T 1600 8 26-Mar-13USA Hollywood Park Senorita St Gr 3 11-May-13 $100,000 3 F T 1600 8 02-May-13USA Lone Star Park Texas Stallion St - Got Koko Division R 11-May-13 $75,000 3 F D 1600 8





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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingFR Longchamp Poule d’Essai des Poulains Gp 1 12-May-13 € 450,000 3 C T 1600 8 20-Feb-13FR Longchamp Poule d’Essai des Pouliches Gp 1 12-May-13 € 450,000 3 F T 1600 8 20-Feb-13JPN Tokyo Victoria Mile Gr 1 12-May-13 $2,352,000 4+ F&M T 1600 8 12-May-13GB Newbury Lockinge St (Jlt) Gp 1 18-May-13 £180,000 4+ T 1600 8 02-Apr-13USA Monmouth Park Red Bank St Gr 3 18-May-13 $100,000 3+ T 1600 8 06-May-13USA Hollywood Park Fran’s Valentine St S 18-May-13 $100,000 3+ FM CA bred T 1600 8 09-May-13USA Will Rogers Downs RPDC Classic Distaff S 18-May-13 $55,000 3+ FM D 1600 8 07-May-13USA Will Rogers Downs Cherokee Nation Classic Cup S 18-May-13 $55,000 3+ D 1600 8 07-May-13USA Delaware Park Our Mims Overnight 18-May-13 $50,000 3 F D 1600 8 08-May-13USA Pimlico James W Murphy S 18-May-13 $100,000 3 T 1600 8 07-May-13USA River Downs (@ BEU) Tomboy St S 19-May-13 $50,000 3 F D 1600 8 09-May-13CAN Woodbine Nassau S Gr 2 25-May-13 CAN200,000+ 3+ F&M T 1600 8 08-May-13IRE Curragh Irish 2000 Guineas (Tattersalls) Gp 1 25-May-13 € 300,000 3 CF T 1600 8 CLOSEDUSA Hollywood Park American Hcap Gr 2 25-May-13 $150,000 3+ T 1600 8 16-May-13USA Arlington Park Hanshin Cup Gr 3 25-May-13 $150,000 3+ AWT 1600 8 15-May-13USA Evangeline Downs Opelousas St S 25-May-13 $50,000 3 + FM T 1600 8 14-May-13IRE Curragh Irish 1000 Guineas (Etihad Airways) Gp 1 26-May-13 € 300,000 3 F T 1600 8 CLOSEDUSA Belmont Park Metropolitan H’Cap Gr 1 27-May-13 $750,000 3+ FM D 1600 8 11-May-13USA Belmont Park Acorn St Gr 1 27-May-13 $300,000 3 F D 1600 8 11-May-13USA Monmouth Park Little Silver St 27-May-13 $60,000 3 F T 1600 8 17-May-13USA Delaware Park The Grover Buddy Delp Memorial Overnight Stakes S 29-May-13 $50,000 3 D 1600 8 18-May-13USA Arlington Park Purple Violet St S 01-Jun-13 $100,000 3 F AWT 1600 8 22-May-13USA Arlington Park Springfield St S 01-Jun-13 $100,000 3 AWT 1600 8 22-May-13USA Belmont Park Kingston H’cap S 01-Jun-13 $125,000 3+ (NY Bred) T 1600 8 18-May-13USA Belmont Park Mount Vernon H’cap S 01-Jun-13 $125,000 3+ FM (NY Bred) T 1600 8 18-May-13USA Golden Gate Fields Campanile St S 01-Jun-13 $100,000 3 F (CA Bred) T 1600 8 23-May-13USA Louisiana Downs Honey Moon S 01-Jun-13 $50,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 18-May-13USA Louisiana Downs John Franks Mem S 01-Jun-13 $50,000 3+ T 1600 8 18-May-13USA Penn National Penn Mile 01-Jun-13 $500,000 3 T 1600 8 22-May-13USA Prairie Meadows Panthers 01-Jun-13 $60,000 3 F D 1600 8 23-May-13USA Penn National Penn Mile 01-Jun-13 $50,000 3 T 1600 8 02-Jan-00JPN Tokyo Yasuda Kinen Gr 1 02-Jun-13 $2,600,000 3+ T 1600 8 23-Apr-13USA River Downs (@ BEU) Green Carpet St S 02-Jun-13 $50,000 3 D 1600 8 22-May-13USA Belmont Park Just a Game St Gr 1 08-Jun-13 $500,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 25-May-13USA Golden Gate Fields Silky Sullivan St S 09-Jun-13 $100,000 3 (CA Bred) T 1600 8 30-May-13USA Hollywood Park Redondo Beach St 09-Jun-13 $70,000 3+ FM T 1600 8 30-May-13USA Canterbury Mystic Lake Mile 13-Jun-13 $125,000 3 T 1600 8 27-Jun-13USA Belmont Park Hill Prince St Gr 3 15-Jun-13 $150,000 3 T 1600 8 01-Jun-13USA Indiana Downs Shelby County Boys & Girls Club S S 15-Jun-13 $100,000 4+ T 1600 8 05-Jun-13USA Indiana Downs Girls, Inc. Shelby County S 15-Jun-13 $100,000 4+ F&M T 1600 8 05-Jun-13USA Indiana Downs Oliver S (Centaur S) S 15-Jun-13 $200,000 3 T 1600 8 05-Jun-13JPN Tokyo Unicorn St Gr 3 16-Jun-13 $889,000 3 D 1600 8 07-May-13USA Emerald Downs Budweiser H’cap 16-Jun-13 $50,000 3+ D 1600 8USA Monmouth Park The Dan Horn H’Cap 16-Jun-13 $60,000 3+ T 1600 8 07-Jun-13CAN Northlands Park John Patrick H 18-Jun-13 CAN 50,000 3+ F&M D 1600 8 18-Jun-13GB Royal Ascot Queen Anne St Gp 1 18-Jun-13 £350,000 4+ T 1600 8 23-Apr-13GB Royal Ascot Coronation St Gp 1 21-Jun-13 £250,000 3 F T 1600 8 23-Apr-13USA Colonial Downs Da Hoss St 22-Jun-13 $75,000 3+ T 1600 8 13-Jun-13CAN Woodbine King Edward S - presented by TVG Gr 2 23-Jun-13 CAN200,000 3+ T 1600 8 05-Jun-13USA Emerald Downs Coca-Cola H’cap 23-Jun-13 $50,000 3 CG D 1600 8USA Emerald Downs Irish Day H’cap 23-Jun-13 $50,000 3 F D 1600 8USA Hollywood Park Tsunami Slew Stakes 23-Jun-13 $70,000 3 T 1600 8 13-Jun-13USA Indiana Downs Ellen’s Lucky Star R 26-Jun-13 $85,000 3 F T 1600 8 15-Jun-13USA Indiana Downs Snack St R 26-Jun-13 $85,000 3 F T 1600 8 15-Jun-13CAN Northlands Park Spangled Jimmy H 29-Jun-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1600 8 19-Jun-13USA Hollywood Park Shoemaker Mile Gr 1 29-Jun-13 $300,000 3+ T 1600 8 20-Jun-13USA Churchill Downs Firecracker H’cap Gr 2 29-Jun-13 $150,000 3+ T 1600 8 15-Jun-13FR Chantilly Prix Jean Prat Gp 1 30-Jun-13 € 400,000 3 CF T 1600 8 12-Jun-13USA Presque Isle Downs Windward S 30-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ F&M AWT 1600 8 19-Jun-13USA Mountaineer Independence Day St 02-Jul-13 $75,000 3+ T 1600 8 18-Jun-13USA Mountaineer Firecracker St 02-Jul-13 $75,000 3+ FM T 1600 8 18-Jun-13USA Belmont Park Poker H’cap Gr 3 04-Jul-13 $150,000 3+ T 1600 8 22-Jun-13CAN Northlands Park Red Smith 05-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1600 8 25-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Elkwood St 05-Jul-13 $75,000 3+ T 1600 8 28-Jun-13CAN Northlands Park Ky Alta H 06-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3 D 1600 8 26-Jun-13CAN Woodbine Charlie Barley S 06-Jul-13 CAN125,000 3 T 1600 8 19-Jun-13USA Hollywood Park Royal Heroine Mile Gr 2 06-Jul-13 $150,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 27-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Salvator Mile Gr 3 06-Jul-13 $150,000 3+ D 1600 8 22-Jun-13USA Lone Star Park Assault St R 06-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ (TX Bred) D 1600 8 27-Jun-13USA Evangeline Downs Louisiana Legends Distaff S 06-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ F&M D 1600 8 22-Jun-13USA Evangeline Downs Louisiana Legends Mile - La Bred Fillies S 06-Jul-13 $100,000 3 F D 1600 8 22-Jun-13USA Evangeline Downs Louisiana Legends Mile - La Bred C&G S 06-Jul-13 $100,000 3 D 1600 8 22-Jun-13USA Presque Isle Downs Leematt S S 07-Jul-13 $75,000 3+ AWT 1600 8 26-Jun-13USA Presque Isle Downs Northern Fling S S 07-Jul-13 $75,000 3+ F&M AWT 1600 8 26-Jun-13USA Emerald Downs Boeing H’cap 07-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1600 8USA Hollywood Park Le Cle St 07-Jul-13 $70,000 3 F T 1600 8 27-Jun-13GB Newmarket Falmouth (Etihad Airways) Gp 1 12-Jul-13 £160,000 3+ F T 1600 8 18-Jun-13CAN Assiniboia Downs RC Anderson St R 13-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1600 8 14-May-13USA Canterbury Lady Canterbury St 13-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ FM T 1600 8 27-Jun-13USA River Downs (@ BEU) Cincinnatian St S 14-Jul-13 $50,000 3 F D 1600 8 03-Jul-13USA Del Mar Oceanside St R 17-Jul-13 $50,000 3 T 1600 8 11-Jul-13USA Indiana Downs Indiana First Lady R 17-Jul-13 $150,000 3 F D 1600 8 06-Jul—13USA Indiana Downs Governor’s St R 17-Jul-13 $150,000 3 D 1600 8 06-Jul-13USA Belmont Park Shuvee H’cap Gr 2 20-Jul-13 $200,000 3+ FM D 1600 8 06-Jul-13USA Indiana Downs Distaff S (Indiana Grand) S 20-Jul-13 $125,000 3 F T 1600 8 10-Jul-13USA Evangeline Downs Matron St 20-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ FM T 1600 8 09-Jul-13JPN Chukyo Toyoto Sho Chukyo Kinen Gr 3 21-Jul-13 $985,000 3+ T 1600 8 04-Jun-13USA Del Mar San Clemente H’cap Gr 2 21-Jul-13 $150,000 3 F T 1600 8 11-Jul-13USA Del Mar Wickerr St R 24-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ T 1600 8 18-Jul-13CAN Northlands Park Northlands Oaks 27-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1600 8 17-Jul-13FR Deauville Prix de Rothschild Gp 1 28-Jul-13 € 300,000 3+ F T 1600 8 10-Jul-13GB Goodwood Sussex (Quipco) Gp 1 31-Jul-13 £300,000 3+ T 1600 8 28-May-13USA Canterbury Northbound Pride Oaks 03-Aug-13 $100,000 3 F T 1600 8 25-Jul-13USA Louisiana Downs Barksdale 03-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ T 1600 8 20-Jul-13USA Saratoga De La Rose St 03-Aug-13 $100,000 3 + FM T 1600 8 27-Jul-13USA Canterbury Mystic Lake Derby 03-Aug-13 $100,000 3 T 1600 8 25-Jul-13CAN Assiniboia Downs Assiniboia Oaks 05-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1600 8 24-Jul-13USA Saratoga New York Stallion Series - Cab Calloway Division R 07-Aug-13 $100,000 3 T 1600 8 CLOSEDUSA Saratoga New York Stallion Series - Statue of Liberty Division R 08-Aug-13 $100,000 3 F T 1600 8 CLOSED

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Saratoga Fourstardave H’cap Gr 2 10-Aug-13 $500,000 3+ T 1600 8 27-Jul-13USA Evangeline Downs Evangeline Mile 10-Aug-13 $125,000 3+ D 1600 8 30-Jul-13USA Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Juvenile Mile 10-Aug-13 $60,000 2 D 1600 8 01-Aug-13FR Deauville Prix Jacques le Marois (Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard) Gp 1 11-Aug-13 € 600,000 3+ CF T 1600 8 24-Jul-13JPN Niigata Sekiya Kinen Gr 3 11-Aug-13 $985,000 3+ T 1600 8 02-Jul-13USA River Downs (@ BEU) Horizon St S 11-Aug-13 $50,000 3 D 1600 8 31-Jul-13USA Del Mar Sandy Blue H’cap 14-Aug-13 $50,000 3 F T 1600 8 09-Aug-12CAN Assiniboia Downs Distaff St R 17-Aug-13 CAN 30,000 3+ FM D 1600 8 14-May-13CAN Assiniboia Downs Agassiz St S 17-Aug-13 CAN 30,000 3+ C&G D 1600 8 14-May-13USA Del Mar Solana Beach H’cap S 18-Aug-13 $150,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 08-Aug-13USA Saratoga Riskaverse 20-Aug-13 $100,000 3 F T 1600 8 23-Aug-13USA Calder Lindsay Frolic St 24-Aug-13 $75,000 2 F D 1600 8 10-Aug-13USA Calder Seacliff St 24-Aug-13 $75,000 2 D 1600 8 10-Aug-13JPN Niigata Niigata Nisai St Gr 3 25-Aug-13 $780,000 2 T 1600 8 16-Jul-13USA Del Mar Del Mar Mile Gr 2 25-Aug-13 $200,000 3+ T 1600 8 15-Aug-13USA Emerald Downs Longacres Mile H’cap Gr 3 25-Aug-13 $200,000 3+ D 1600 8USA Saratoga P.G. Johnson St 28-Aug-13 $100,000 2 F T 1600 8 21-Aug-13USA Saratoga With Anticipation St Gr 2 29-Aug-13 $200,000 2 T 1600 8 17-Aug-13USA Del Mar El Cajon St 30-Aug-13 $100,000 3 AWT 1600 8 22-Aug-13USA Del Mar Adoration S R 01-Sep-13 £50,000 3+ F&M AWT 1600 8 22-Aug-13USA Del Mar Torrey Pines St 01-Sep-13 $100,000 3 F AWT 1600 8 22-Aug-13USA Del Mar Yellow Ribbon Handicap Gr 2 02-Sep-13 $150,000 3+ FM T 1600 8 22-Aug-13IRE Leopardstown Matron St (Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus) Gp 1 07-Sep-13 € 190,000 3+ F T 1600 8 03-Jul-13USA Arlington Park Arlington-Washington Lassie Gr 3 07-Sep-13 $100,000 2 F AWT 1600 8 28-Aug-13USA Arlington Park Arlington-Washington Futurity Gr 3 07-Sep-13 $150,000 2 AWT 1600 8 28-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Happy Ticket 07-Sep-13 $100,000 2 F T 1600 8 24-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Sunday Silence 07-Sep-13 $100,000 2 T 1600 8 24-Aug-13JPN Nakayama Keisei Hai Autumn H’cap Gr 3 08-Sep-13 $985,000 3+ T 1600 8 30-Jul-13USA Emerald Downs Chinook Pass Stakes S 08-Sep-13 $35,000 3 CG WA bred D 1600 8USA Emerald Downs John & Kitty Fletcher St S 08-Sep-13 $35,000 3 F WA bred D 1600 8USA Presque Isle Downs Presque Isle BC Mile 08-Sep-13 $250,000 3+ AWT 1600 8 28-Aug-13USA Belmont Park Noble Damsel Gr 3 14-Sep-13 $150,000 3+ F&M T 1600 8 31-Aug-13FR Longchamp Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Gp 1 15-Sep-13 € 450,000 3 + CF T 1600 8 28-Aug-13CAN Northlands Park Alberta Oaks S 21-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1600 8 11-Sep-13USA Louisiana Downs A L Red Erwin S R / S 21-Sep-13 $150,000 3 (LA Bred) T 1600 8 CLOSEDUSA Louisiana Downs Elge Rasberry S R / S 21-Sep-13 $150,000 3 F (LA Bred) T 1600 8 CLOSEDCAN Assiniboia Downs Buffalo St R 22-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 2 D 1600 8 CLOSEDGB Newmarket Fillies’ Mile (Shadwell) Gp 1 27-Sep-13 £170,000 2 F T 1600 8 23-Jul-13GB Newmarket Sun Chariot St (Kingdom of Bahrain) Gp 1 28-Sep-13 £160,000 3+ F T 1600 8 23-Jul-13USA Belmont Park Kelso H’cap Gr 2 28-Sep-13 $400,000 3+ D 1600 8 14-Sep-13ITY Milan Premio Vittorio di Capua Gp 1 29-Sep-13 € 209,000 3+ T 1600 8 29-Aug-13JPN Kyoto Daily Hai Nisai St Gr 2 05-Oct-13 $931,000 2 T 1600 8 27-Aug-13USA Belmont Park Frizette St Gr 1 05-Oct-13 $400,000 2 F D 1600 8 21-Sep-13USA Belmont Park Foxwoods Champagne Gr 1 05-Oct-13 $400,000 2 D 1600 8 21-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs Michael G. Schaefer Mile St S 05-Oct-13 $100,000 3+ D 1600 8 18-Sep-13FR Longchamp Prix Marcel Boussac (Total) Gp 1 06-Oct-13 € 300,000 2 F T 1600 8 28-Aug-13CAN Northlands Park Freedom of the City St 11-Oct-13 CAN 50,000 2 F D 1600 8 02-Oct-13CAN Northlands Park Canadian Juvenile St 12-Oct-13 CAN 50,000 2 D 1600 8 02-Oct-13USA Calder Frances Genter 12-Oct-13 $75,000 3 F T 1600 8 28-Sep-13ITY Milan Gran Criterium Gp 1 13-Oct-13 € 209,000 2 C&F T 1600 8 12-Sep-13USA Suffolk Downs John Kirby S 13-Oct-13 $50,000 3 1600 8USA Belmont Park Pebbles St 14-Oct-13 $200,000 3 F T 1600 8 28-Sep-13GB Ascot Queen Elizabeth II St (Quipco) Gp 1 19-Oct-13 £1,000,000 3+ T 1600 8 06-Oct-13JPN Tokyo Saudi Arabia Royal Cup Fuji St Gr 3 19-Oct-13 $985,000 3+ T 1600 8 10-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs Indiana Futurity S 19-Oct-13 $85,000 2 C&G D 1600 8 09-Oct-13USA Indiana Downs Miss Indiana S S 19-Oct-13 $85,000 2 F (IN Bred) D 1600 8 09-Oct-13GB Doncaster Trophy (Racing Post) Gp 1 26-Oct-13 £200,000 2 C&F T 1600 8 13-Aug-13FR Saint-Cloud Criterium International Gp 1 01-Nov-13 € 250,000 2 CF T 1600 8 16-Oct-13JPN Tokyo Artemis S 02-Nov-13 $725,000 2 F T 1600 8 24-Sep-13USA Mountaineer Mountaineer Mile H’cap 02-Nov-13 $130,000 3+ D 1600 8 21-Oct-13USA Belmont Park Nashua St Gr 2 03-Nov-13 $200,000 2 D 1600 8 19-Oct-13USA Belmont Park Tempted St Gr 3 03-Nov-13 $150,000 2 F D 1600 8 19-Oct-13JPN Tokyo Tokyo Chunichi Sports Hai Musashino St Gr 3 10-Nov-13 $911,000 3+ D 1600 8 24-Sep-13JPN Kyoto Mile Championship Gr 1 17-Nov-13 $2,600,000 3+ T 1600 8 01-Oct-13USA Aqueduct Go For Wand Hcap Gr 2 29-Nov-13 $250,000 3+ FM D 1600 8 16-Nov-13USA Aqueduct Cigar Mile H’cap Gr 1 30-Nov-13 $400,000 3+ D 1600 8 16-Nov-13JPN Hanshin Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Gr 1 08-Dec-13 $1,687,000 2 F T 1600 8 22-Oct-13JPN Nakayama Asahi Hai Futurity St Gr 1 15-Dec-13 $1,832,000 2 No G T 1600 8 05-Nov-13

USA Monmouth Park Monmouth Beach St 26-May-13 $75,000 3+ FM D 1625 8.32 17-May-13USA Monmouth Park Serena’s Song St 13-Jul-13 $750,000 3 F D 1625 8.32 05-Jul-13USA Mountaineer West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker’s Cup 03-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ T 1625 8.32 22-Jul-13USA Mountaineer West Virginia Senate President’s Breeders’ Cup St 03-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ FM T 1625 8.32 22-Jul-13USA Suffolk Downs Last Dance St S 11-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ D 1625 8.32USA Suffolk Downs First Episode St S 25-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1625 8.32USA Calder Brave Raj St 14-Sep-13 $100,000 2 F D 1625 8.32 31-Aug-13USA Calder Foolish Pleasure St 14-Sep-13 $100,000 2 D 1625 8.32 31-Aug-13

USA Fairmount Park Bungalow H S 10-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1644 8.32 31-Aug-13USA Fairmount Park Pete Condellone S S 10-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ D 1644 8.32 31-Aug-13

USA Presque Isle Downs HBPA S 26-Sep-13 $100,000 3+ F&M AWT 1650 8.32 16-Sep-13

USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Breeders’ Oaks S 03-Aug-13 $75,000 3 F (IA bred) D 1664 8.32USA Canterbury Minnesota Derby S 10-Aug-13 $75,000 3 CG D 1664 8.32 01-Apr-13USA Canterbury Minnesota Oaks S 10-Aug-13 $75,000 3 F D 1664 8.32 01-Apr-13USA Aqueduct East View St S 15-Dec-13 $80,000 2 F N.Y. Bred D 1664 8.32 30-Nov-13USA Aqueduct Damon Runyon St S 15-Dec-13 $75,000 2 (NY Bred) D 1664 8.32 30-Nov-13

USA Keeneland Coolmore Lexington St Gr 3 20-Apr-13 $200,000 3 T 1700 8.5 03-Apr-13USA Pimlico Shine Again St R 27-Apr-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 19-Apr-13USA Evangeline Downs John Henry St S 27-Apr-13 $50,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 16-Apr-13USA Hawthorne Racecourse Milwaukee Avenue H’cap S 27-Apr-13 $100,000 3+ D 1700 8.5USA Hawthorne Racecourse Peach Of It H’cap S 27-Apr-13 $100,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Pimlico Federico Tesio St 27-Apr-13 $100,000 3 D 1700 8.5 19-Apr-13USA Turf Paradise Gene Fleming Breeders Derby 27-Apr-13 $50,000 3 (AZ Bred) T 1700 8.5 EARLY CLOSINGUSA Churchill Downs La Troienne St Gr 2 03-May-13 $300,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 10-Apr-13USA Churchill Downs Alysheba St Gr 2 03-May-13 $300,000 4+ D 1700 8.5 10-Apr-13USA Churchill Downs American Turf St Gr 2 03-May-13 $200,000 3 T 1700 8.5 10-Apr-13USA Churchill Downs Edgewood St 03-May-13 $150,000 3 F T 1700 8.5 10-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Mervyn LeRoy H’cap Gr 2 04-May-13 $150,000 3+ AWT 1700 8.5USA Belmont Park Beaugay Gr 3 04-May-13 $150,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 20-Apr-13USA Belmont Park Fort Marcy Gr 3 04-May-13 $150,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 20-Apr-13USA Lone Star Park Texas Stallion St - Stymie Division R 11-May-13 $75,000 3 CG D 1700 8.5CAN Woodbine Eclipse S Gr 2 12-May-13 CAN150,000+ 4+ AWT 1700 8.5 24-Apr-13USA Pimlico The Kattegat’s Pride Starter Handicap S 17-May-13 $40,000 3 + FM D 1700 8.5 07-May-13USA Pimlico Hilltop St 17-May-13 $100,000 3 F T 1700 8.5 07-May-13USA Hollywood Park Milady H’cap Gr 2 18-May-13 $150,000 3+ FM AWT 1700 8.5 09-May-13USA Pimlico Allaire DuPont Distaff St Gr 3 18-May-13 $150,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 07-May-13USA Pimlico Gallorette H’cap Gr 3 18-May-13 $150,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 07-May-13USa Pimlico The Deputed Testamony Starter H’cap S 18-May-13 $40,000 3 + D 1700 8.5 07-May-13CAN Woodbine Selene S Gr 3 19-May-13 CAN150,000 3 F AWT 1700 8.5 01-May-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Strawberry Morn H’cap 20-May-13 CAN 50,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 11-May-13USA Delaware Park The Winter Melody Overnight Stakes S 22-May-13 $50,000 3 + FM T 1700 8.5 13-Apr-12USA Arlington Park Arlington Classic 25-May-13 $150,000 3 T 1700 8.5 13-Apr-13USA Calder Memorial Day H’cap 25-May-13 $75,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 11-May-13USA Monmouth Park Majestic Light S 25-May-13 $750,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 17-May-13USA Monmouth Park Lamplighter St 25-May-13 $60,000 3 T 1700 8.5 17-May-13USA Prairie Meadows Jim Rasmussen Mem 25-May-13 $60,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 16-May-13USA Prairie Meadows Wild Rose 25-May-13 $60,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 16-May-13CAN Woodbine Marine S 26-May-13 CAN150,000+ 3 AWT 1700 8.5 08-May-13USA Monmouth Park The Miss Liberty 26-May-13 $75,000 3+FM T 1700 8.5 17-May-13USA Belmont Park Ogden Phipps H’cap Gr 1 27-May-13 $400,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 11-May-13USA Golden Gate Fields All American Gr 3 27-May-13 $100,000 3+ AWT 1700 8.5 16-May-13USA Lone Star Park Lone Star Park H’cap Gr 3 27-May-13 $300,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 16-May-13USA Delaware Park The Joseph French Memorial Overnight Stakes S 01-Jun-13 $50,000 4 + D 1700 8.5 22-May-13USA Pimlico Canonero II S 01-Jun-13 $100,000 3 D 1700 8.5 24-May-13USA Belmont Park Commentator 01-Jun-13 $150,000 3 + (NY Bred) 1700 8.5 18-May-13USA Hollywood Park Affirmed H’cap Gr 3 02-Jun-13 $100,000 3 AWT 1700 8.5 23-May-13USA Prairie Meadows Hawkeyes Handicap S 07-Jun-13 $75,000 3+ F&M (IA Bred) D 1700 8.5 29-May-13CAN Woodbine Trillium S 08-Jun-13 CAN125,000 3+ F&M AWT 1700 8.5 08-Jun-13USA Churchill Downs Early Times Mint Julep H’cap Gr 3 08-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 25-May-13USA Prairie Meadows Cyclones Handicap S 08-Jun-13 $75,000 3+ (IA Bred) D 1700 8.5 30-May-13USA Delaware Park John W Rooney St 08-Jun-13 $75,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 27-May-13CAN Hastings Racecourse River Rock Casino (AlwS) 09-Jun-13 CAN 50,000 3 D 1700 8.5 01-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Sir Winston Churchill H’cap 09-Jun-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 01-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Emerald Downs (AlwS) 09-Jun-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 01-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Vancouver Sun H’cap 09-Jun-13 CAN 50,000 FM D 1700 8.5 01-Jun-13CAN Woodbine Steady Growth S R 15-Jun-13 CAN125,000 3+ AWT 1700 8.5 29-May-13USA Churchill Downs Matt Winn St Gr 3 15-Jun-13 $100,000 3 D 1700 8.5 01-Jun-13USA Arlington Park Black Tie Affair H’cap S 15-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 05-Jun-13USA Arlington Park Lincoln Heritage H’cap S 15-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 05-Jun-13USA Delaware Park Go for Wand St 15-Jun-13 $75,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 03-Jun-12USA Monmouth Park Pegasus S Gr 3 16-Jun-13 $150,000 3 D 1700 8.5 03-Jun-13USA River Downs (@ BEU) Sydney Gendelman Memorial H’cap S 16-Jun-13 $50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 05-Jun-13USA Finger Lakes New York Derby S 20-Jun-13 $150,000 3 (NY Bred) D 1700 8.5 06-Jul-13USA Belmont Park Mother Goose St Gr 1 22-Jun-13 $300,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 08-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Revidere St 23-Jun-13 $60,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 14-Jun-13USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Distaff 28-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 16-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Eatontown St Gr 3 29-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 15-Jun-13USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Derby Gr 3 29-Jun-13 $250,000 3 D 1700 8.5 16-Jun-13USA Prairie Meadows Iowa Oaks Gr 3 29-Jun-13 $200,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 16-Jun-13CAN Woodbine Bison City S R 30-Jun-13 CAN250,000 3 F AWT 1700 8.5 12-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Lighthouse St 30-Jun-13 $750,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 21-May-13CAN Woodbine Dominion Day S Gr 3 01-Jul-13 CAN150,000 3+ AWT 1700 8.5 12-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse The Monashee 01-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 22-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Chris Loseth 01-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3 D 1700 8.5 22-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Lt Governors’ H’cap 01-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 22-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Supernaturel St 01-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 22-Jun-13USA Parx Racing Dr. James Penny Memorial H’cap gr 3 02-Jul-13 $250,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 11-Jun-13USA Colonial Downs The Bert Allen (formerly The John D Marsh St) S 06-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 27-Jun-13USA Colonial Downs Brookmeade St S 06-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ F&M (VA Bred) T 1700 8.5 27-Jun-13USA Evangeline Downs Louisiana Legends Classic - La Bred S 06-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 22-Jun-13USA Evangeline Downs The Louisiana Legends Mile - La Bred R 06-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 22-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Long Branch St 07-Jul-13 $100,000 3 D 1700 8.5 22-Jun-13USA Delaware Park Delaware Oaks Gr 2 13-Jul-13 $300,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 01-Jul-13USA Colonial Downs Kitten’s Joy St 13-Jul-13 $75,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 13-Jul-13USA Emerald Downs Kent Handicap 14-Jul-13 $50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5USA Emerald Downs Seattle Slew H’cap 14-Jul-13 $50,000 3 CG D 1700 8.5USA Indiana Downs A J Foyt R 17-Jul-13 $85,000 3 + T 1700 8.5 06-Jul-13USA Indiana Downs Florence Henderson S 17-Jul-13 $85,000 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5USA Del Mar Osunitas St R 20-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5 11-Jul-13USA Indiana Downs Golden Bear S S 20-Jul-13 $100,000 4+ D 1700 8.5 10-Jul-13USA Monmouth Park Jersey Derby 20-Jul-13 $60,000 3 T 1700 8.5 12-Jul-13USA Del Mar California Dreamin’ H’cap S 21-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 11-Jul-13USA Emerald Downs Mt Rainier H’cap 21-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5USA Saratoga Lake George St Gr 2 24-Jul-13 $200,000 3 F T 1700 8.5 13-Jul-13CAN Northlands Park Count Lathum St 27-Jul-13 CAN 50,000 3 D 1700 8.5 17-Jul-13USA Del Mar San Diego H’cap Gr 2 27-Jul-13 $200,000 3+ AWT 1700 8.5 18-Jul-13USA Parx Racing Crowd Pleaser S 27-Jul-13 $75,000 3 T 1700 8.5 13-Jul-13USA Monmouth Park Desert Vixen S 27-Jul-13 $60,000 3 F T 1700 8.5 19-Jul-13USA Monmouth Park Molly Pitcher St Gr 2 28-Jul-13 $200,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 14-Jul-13USA Monmouth Park Monmouth Cup Gr 2 28-Jul-13 $200,000 3+ D 1700 8.6 14-Jul-13USA Monmouth Park Oceanport St Gr 3 28-Jul-13 $150,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 14-Jul-13CAN Northlands Park Madamoiselle H 02-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 24-Jul-13CAN Northlands Park Fred Jones S 03-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 24-Jul-13USA Del Mar Clement L. Hirsch S Gr 1 03-Aug-13 $300,000 3+ F&M AWT 1700 8.5 25-Jul-13USA Finger Lakes Genesee Valley Breeders’ H’cap S 03-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 20-Jul-13USA Prairie Meadows Donna Reed S 03-Aug-13 $85,000 4+ F&M (IA Bred) D 1700 8.5 25-Jul-13USA Prairie Meadows Ralph Hayes S 03-Aug-13 $85,000 4+ C&G (IA Bred) D 1700 8.5 25-Jul-12USA Louisiana Downs Super Derby Prelude 03-Aug-13 $100,000 3 T 1700 8.5 20-Jul-13USA Mountaineer West Virginia Governor’s St 03-Aug-13 $200,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 22-Jul-13CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Dogwood St S 05-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 27-Jul-13



Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingCAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Stellar’s Jay St S 05-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3 CG D 1700 8.5 27-Jul-13USA Saratoga Waya St 05-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 29-Jul-13USA Del Mar La Jolla H’cap Gr 2 10-Aug-13 $150,000 3 T 1700 8.5 01-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Monmouth Oaks Gr 3 10-Aug-13 $150,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 27-Jul-13USA Presque Isle Downs Malvern Rose S S 11-Aug-13 $75,000 3 F AWT 1700 8.5 31-Jul-13USA River Downs (@ BEU) Vivacious St S 11-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 31-Jul-13USA Saratoga West Point H’cap S 15-Aug-13 $150,000 3+ (NY bred) T 1700 8.5 03-Aug-13CAN Northlands Park Sonoma St 16-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 07-Aug-13USA Saratoga Yaddo H’cap S 16-Aug-13 $150,000 3+ FM (NY bred) T 1700 8.5 03-Aug-13CAN Northlands Park Westerner St 17-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 07-Aug-13CAN Northlands Park City of Edmonton Distaff St 17-Aug-13 CAN 75,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 07-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Derby S 17-Aug-13 $75,000 3 (LA Bred) D 1700 8.5 03-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Oaks S 17-Aug-13 $75,000 3 F (LA Bred) D 1700 8.5 03-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Distaff (Walmac Farms) S 17-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ F&M (LA Bred) T 1700 8.5 03-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Louisiana Cup Turf Classic S 17-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 03-Aug-13USA Arlington Park Hatoof 17-Aug-13 $75,000 3 F T 1700 8.5 07-Aug-13USA Canterbury HBPA Distaff 17-Aug-13 $50,000 3+FM T 1700 8.5 08-Aug-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Richmond Derby Trial 18-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3 D 1700 8.5 10-Aug-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Hong Kong Jockey Club H’cap 18-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 10-Aug-13JPN Hakodate Elm St G3 24-Aug-13 $911,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 16-Jul-13USA Saratoga Ballston Spa Gr 2 24-Aug-13 $250,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 10-Aug-13USA Finger Lakes New York Oaks S 24-Aug-13 $75,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 10-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Cliff Hanger St Gr 3 25-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 11-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park The Ladys Secret St 25-Aug-13 $75,000 3+FM D 1700 8.5 16-Aug-13USA Del Mar Harry F. Brubaker H’cap R 31-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 22-Aug-13USA Ruidoso Downs Ruidoso Downs Thoroughbred Derby S 31-Aug-13 $50,000 3 D 1700 8.5 03-Aug-13USA Canterbury MN Classic Championship S 01-Sep-13 $55,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 22-Aug-13USA Canterbury MN Distaff Classic Championship S 01-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 22-Aug-13USA Parx Racing Smarty Jones Gr 3 02-Sep-13 $350,000 3 D 1700 8.5 05-Aug-13USA Ruidoso Downs Ruidoso Downs Championship 02-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 24-Aug-13USA Parx Racing Mrs. Penny St S 07-Sep-13 $75,000 3+ FM T 1700 8.5 20-Jul-13USA Parx Racing Roanoke S S 07-Sep-13 $75,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 20-Jul-13USA Louisiana Downs River Cities 07-Sep-13 $100,000 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5 24-Aug-13USA Louisiana Downs Unbridled Hcap 07-Sep-13 $100,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 24-Aug-13USA Emerald Downs Belle Roberts H’cap S 08-Sep-13 $35,000 3+ FM WA bred D 1700 8.5USA Emerald Downs Muckleshoot Tribal Classic S 08-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ WA Bred D 1700 8.5USA Finger Lakes Jack Betta Be Rite H’cap S 14-Sep-13 $50,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 31-Aug-13USA Calder Judy’s Red Shoes (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘11 pref) 14-Sep-13 $75,000 3 F T 1700 8.5 31-Aug-13USA Calder Needles S 14-Sep-13 $75,000 3 T 1700 8.5 31-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Jersey Girl H’cap 14-Sep-13 $600,000 3+ FM D 1700 8.5 06-Sep-13USA Monmouth Park Charles Hesse H’cap 14-Sep-13 $60,000 3+ D 1700 8.6 06-Sep-13CAN Northlands Park Breeders’ H’cap S 21-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 11-Sep-13CAN Northlands Park Fall Classic Distaff S 21-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 11-Sep-13CAN Northlands Park Beaufort St S 21-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3 D 1700 8.5 11-Sep-13USA Parx Racing Cotillion St Gr 1 21-Sep-13 $1,000,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 06-Jul-13USA Parx Racing Alphabet Soup H’cap S 21-Sep-13 $75,000 3+ T 1700 8.5 07-Sep-13CAN Hastings Racecourse CTHS Sales (AlwS) S 29-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 24-Mar-13CAN Hastings Racecourse CTHS Sales 29-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3 CG D 1700 8.5 24-Mar-13CAN Hastings Racecourse CTHS Sales 29-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 24-Mar-13USA Emerald Downs Gottstein Futurity R 29-Sep-13 $75,000 2 WA D 1700 8.5USA Indiana Downs Mari Hulman George S S 05-Oct-13 $100,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 18-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs The Richmond S S 05-Oct-13 $85,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 25-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs Gus Grissom S S 05-Oct-13 $85,000 3+ C&G D 1700 8.5 25-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs Indiana Derby S 05-Oct-13 $500,000 3 D 1700 8.5 18-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs Hoosier Breeders Sophomore S S 05-Oct-13 $85,000 3 D 1700 8.5 18-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs Indiana Oaks S 05-Oct-13 $200,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 18-Sep-13USA Indiana Downs Hoosier Breeders Sophomore S S 05-Oct-13 $85,000 3 F D 1700 8.5 25-Sep-13USA Belmont Park Pilgrim St Gr 3 06-Oct-13 $150,000 2 T 1700 8.5 21-Sep-13USA Calder Florida Stallion St - My Dear Girl Division R 12-Oct-13 $300,000 2 F D 1700 8.5 CLOSEDUSA Calder Florida Stallion St - In Reality Division R 12-Oct-13 $300,000 2 D 1700 8.5 CLOSEDUSA Belmont Park Athenia 12-Oct-13 $150,000 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5 28-Sep-13USA Parx Racing First Responder 12-Oct-13 $75,000 3 + T 1700 8.5 28-Sep-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Ascot Graduation St 14-Oct-13 CAN 75,000 2 D 1700 8.5 24-Mar-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Fantasy St 14-Oct-13 CAN 75,000 2 F D 1700 8.5 24-Mar-13CAN Northlands Park Duchess of York St 14-Oct-13 CAN 50,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 05-Oct-13CAN Northlands Park Harvest Gold Plate 14-Oct-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 05-Oct-13USA Belmont Park Mohawk St S 19-Oct-13 $175,000 3+ (NY bred) T 1700 8.5 05-Oct-13USA Belmont Park Ticonderoga H’cap S 19-Oct-13 $175,000 3+ F&M (NY bred) T 1700 8.5 05-Oct-13USA Indiana Downs Francis Slocum S S 19-Oct-13 $150,000 3+ F&M (IN Bred) D 1700 8.5 09-Oct-13USA Indiana Downs Too Much Coffee S S 19-Oct-13 $150,000 3+(IN Bred) D 1700 8.5 09-Oct-13USA Belmont Park Turnback the Alarm Gr 3 26-Oct-13 $150,000 3+ F&M D 1700 8.5 12-Oct-13USA Calder Arthur I Appleton Juvenile Turf S 09-Nov-13 $100,000 2 (FL Bred) T 1700 8.5 26-Oct-13USA Calder Elmer Heubeck Distaff H’cap S 09-Nov-13 $150,000 3+ FM (FL Bred) D 1700 8.5 26-Oct-13USA Calder John Franks Juvenile Fillies Turf S 09-Nov-13 $100,000 2 F (FL Bred) T 1700 8.5 26-Oct-13USA Beulah Park Bobbie Bricker Memorial H’cap R 23-Nov-13 $50,000 3+ FM (OH Acc) D 1700 8.5 13-Nov-13USA Penn National The Swatara 27-Nov-13 $150,000 3+ D 1700 8.5 15-Nov-13USA Aqueduct Alex M. Robb H’cap S 28-Dec-13 $80,000 3+ (NY Bred) D 1700 8.5 14-Dec-13USA Ellis Park Ellis Park BC Turf S 7/24/2010 $50K / $25K BC 3+ F&M T 1700 8.5 07-Oct-10

USA Charles Town Charles Town Classic Gr 2 20-Apr-13 $1,500,000 4+ D 1800 9 06-Apr-13USA Hawthorne Racecourse Illinois Derby Gr 3 20-Apr-13 $750,000 3 D 1800 9 06-Apr-13USA Hawthorne Racecourse Sixty Sails H’cap Gr 3 20-Apr-13 $200,000 3+ F&M D 1800 9 10-Apr-13USA Keeneland Ben Ali St Gr 3 21-Apr-13 $150,000 4+ AWT 1800 9 03-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Snow Chief St S 27-Apr-13 $300,000 3 CA bred AWT 1800 9 05-Apr-13USA Churchill Downs Kentucky Oaks Gr 1 03-May-13 $1,000,000 3 F D 1800 9 23-Feb-13USA Churchill Downs Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Gr 1 04-May-13 $500,000 3+ T 1800 9 10-Apr-13USA Belmont Park Peter Pan St Gr 2 11-May-13 $200,000 3 D 1800 9 27-Apr-13USA Pimlico Black-Eyed Susan St Gr 2 17-May-13 $500,000 3 F D 1800 9 07-May-13USA Pimlico Dixie St Gr 2 18-May-13 $300,000 3+ T 1800 9 07-May-13USA Arlington Park Arlington Matron Gr 3 25-May-13 $150,000 3+ FM AWT 1800 9 15-May-13USA Hollywood Park Gamely St Gr 1 27-May-13 $250,000 3+ FM T 1800 9 16-May-13USA Belmont Park Sands Point St Gr 2 27-May-13 $200,000 3 F T 1800 9 11-May-13USA Hollywood Park Californian St Gr 2 01-Jun-13 $150,000 3+ AWT 1800 9 23-May-13USA Penn National The Mountainview H’cap 01-Jun-13 $25,000 3 + D 1800 9 22-May-13USA Hollywood Park Honeymoon Hcap Gr 2 08-Jun-13 $150,000 3 F T 1800 9 30-May-13CAN Woodbine Plate Trial S R 09-Jun-13 CAN150,000 3 AWT 1800 9 22-May-13JPN Tokyo Epsom Cup Gr 3 09-Jun-13 $1,040,000 3+ T 1800 9 23-Apr-13USA Monmouth Park Monmouth St Gr 2 09-Jun-13 $200,000 3+ T 1800 9 26-May-13



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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Churchill Downs Stephen Foster H’cap Gr 1 15-Jun-13 $500,000 3+ D 1800 9 01-Jun-13USA Hollywood Park Vanity H’cap Gr 1 15-Jun-13 $250,000 3+ FM AWT 1800 9 06-Jun-13USA Churchill Downs Fleur de Lis H’cap Gr 2 15-Jun-13 $175,000 3+ FM D 1800 9 01-Jun-13USA Churchill Downs Regret St Gr 3 15-Jun-13 $100,000 3 F T 1800 9 01-Jun-13USA Delaware Park Obeah St Gr 3 15-Jun-13 $150,000 3+ FM D 1800 9 03-Jun-13CAN Woodbine Victoria Park S 16-Jun-13 CAN150,000+ 3 AWT 1800 9 29-May-13USA Colonial Downs The Edward P. Evans All Along Gr 3 22-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ F&M T 1800 9 13-Jun-13USA SunRay Park San Juan County Commissioners H’cap 23-Jun-13 $75,000 3+ D 1800 9 16-Jun-13USA Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H’cap Gr 3 29-Jun-13 $300,000 3+ D 1800 9 16-Jun-13JPN Fukushima Radio Nikkei Sho Gr 3 30-Jun-13 $965,000 3 T 1800 9 21-May-13USA Canterbury Blair’s Cove St S 03-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ CG T 1800 9 20-Jun-13USA Canterbury Princess Elaine St S 03-Jul-13 $50,000 3+ FM T 1800 9 20-Jun-13USA Hollywood Park Swaps St Gr 2 04-Jul-13 $150,000 3 AWT 1800 9 20-Jun-13CAN Woodbine Dance Smartly S Gr 2 07-Jul-13 CAN200,000+ 3+ F&M T 1800 9 19-Jun-13USA Colonial Downs Virginia Oaks Gr 3 13-Jul-13 $150,000 3 F T 1800 9 03-Jul-13USA Del Mar Eddie Read S Gr 1 20-Jul-13 $300,000 3+ T 1800 9 11-Jul-13USA Saratoga TVG Coaching Club American Oaks Gr 1 20-Jul-13 $300,000 3 F D 1800 9 06-Jul-13USA Arlington Park Arlington Oaks Gr 3 20-Jul-13 $150,000 3 F AWT 1800 9 10-Jul-13USA Saratoga Evan Shipman (NYB) 22-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ D 1800 9 06-Jul-13USA Saratoga Curlin 26-Jul-13 $100,000 3 D 1800 9 19-Jul-13USA Saratoga Diana St Gr 1 27-Jul-13 $600,000 3+ FM T 1800 9 13-Jul-13USA Saratoga Jim Dandy St Gr 2 27-Jul-13 $600,000 3 D 1800 9 13-Jul-13JPN Hakodate Hokkaido Shimbun Hai Queen St G3 28-Jul-13 $911,000 3+ F&M T 1800 9 18-Jun-13USA Monmouth Park Haskell Invitational (INV) Gr 1 28-Jul-13 $1,000,000 3 D 1800 9USA Monmouth Park Taylor Made Matchmaker Gr 3 28-Jul-13 $150,000 3+ FM T 1800 9 14-Jul-13USA River Downs (@ BEU) Norm Barron Queen City aks S 28-Jul-13 $75,000 3 F D 1800 9 17-Jul-13USA Saratoga Whitney H’cap Gr 1 03-Aug-13 $750,000 3+ D 1800 9 20-Jul-13USA Mountaineer West Virginia Derby Gr 2 03-Aug-13 $750,000 3 D 1800 9 22-Jul-13JPN Niigata Leopard St Gr 3 04-Aug-13 $1,040,000 3 D 1800 9 18-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Classic H’cap S 05-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1800 9 27-Jul-13CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Distaff H’cap S 05-Aug-13 CAN 50,000 3+FM D 1800 9 27-Jul-13CAN Assiniboia Downs Manitoba Derby 05-Aug-13 CAN 75,000 3 D 1800 9 24-Jul-13USA Saratoga National Museum Racing Hall of Fame St Gr 2 09-Aug-13 $200,000 3 T 1800 9 27-Jul-13USA Emerald Downs Washington Oaks 10-Aug-13 $65,000 3 F D 1800 9USA Del Mar John C. Mabee H’cap Gr 2 11-Aug-13 $250,000 3+ F&M T 1800 9 01-Aug-13USA Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Derby 11-Aug-13 $65,000 3 D 1800 9USA Del Mar Del Mar Oaks Gr 1 17-Aug-13 $300,000 3 F T 1800 9 08-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Restoration St 17-Aug-13 $60,000 3 T 1800 9 09-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Philip H. Iselin St Gr 3 18-Aug-13 $150,000 3+ D 1800 9 04-Aug-13USA Saratoga Woodford Reserve Lake Placid Gr 2 18-Aug-13 $200,000 3 F T 1800 9 03-Aug-13USA Emerald Downs Emerald Distaff 18-Aug-13 $65,000 3+ FM D 1800 9USA Saratoga Albany St S 21-Aug-13 $150,000 3 (NY bred) D 1800 9 10-Aug-13USA Saratoga Personal Ensign Inv St Gr 1 25-Aug-13 $600,000 3+ FM D 1800 9 10-Aug-13USA Saratoga Saratoga Dew St S 26-Aug-13 $100,000 3+ FM (NY bred) D 1800 9 19-Aug-13JPN Hakodate Sapporo Nisai St G3 31-Aug-13 $780,000 2 T 1800 9 16-Jul-13USA Saratoga The Woodward Gr 1 31-Aug-13 $750,000 3+ D 1800 9 17-Aug-13USA Saratoga Bernard Baruch H’cap Gr 2 31-Aug-13 $250,000 3+ T 1800 9 17-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Twin Light St 31-Aug-13 $60,000 3 F T 1800 9 23-Aug-13USA Del Mar Del Mar Derby Gr 2 01-Sep-13 $300,000 3 T 1800 9 22-Aug-13CAN Assiniboia Downs Matron Breeders’ Cup St 02-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3+ FM D 1800 9 13-Aug-13USA Arlington Park Pucker Up St Gr 3 04-Sep-13 $175,000 3 F T 1800 9 04-Sep-13USA Louisiana Downs Super Derby Gr 2 07-Sep-13 $500,000 3 D 1800 9 24-Aug-13CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Derby Gr 3 08-Sep-13 CAN 150,000 3 D 1800 9 15-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Delta Colleen H’cap 08-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 FM D 1800 9 31-Aug-13CAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Breeders’ Cup Oaks 08-Sep-13 CAN 100K 3 F D 1800 9 15-Jun-13CAN Hastings Racecourse SW Randall Plate H’cap 08-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3+ D 1800 9 31-Aug-13CAN Assiniboia Downs J.W. Sifton St R 13-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3 C&G D 1800 9 14-May-13CAN Assiniboia Downs Gold Cup R 14-Sep-13 CAN 50,000 3 + D 1800 9 04-Sep-13USA Belmont Park Garden City St Gr 1 14-Sep-13 $300,000 3 F T 1800 9 31-Aug-13USA Parx Racing PTHA President’s Cup 14-Sep-13 $250,000 3+ T 1800 9 31-Aug-13JPN Hanshin Kansai Telecasting Corp Sho Rose St Gr 2 15-Sep-13 $1,306,000 3 F T 1800 9 30-Jul-13USA Belmont Park Ashley T Cole H’cap S 15-Sep-13 $150,000 3+ (NY bred) T 1800 9 31-Aug-13USA Belmont Park John Hettinger 15-Sep-13 $150,000 3+ F&M T 1800 9 31-Aug-13USA Parx Racing Pennsylvania Derby Gr 2 21-Sep-13 $1,000,000 3 D 1800 9 06-Jul-13USA Parx Racing Soul Starter Handicap 21-Sep-13 $75,000 3+ T 1800 9 31-Aug-13USA Belmont Park Beldame Invitational Gr 1 28-Sep-13 $400,000 3+ F&M D 1800 9 14-Sep-13USA Aqueduct Discovery Gr 3 02-Oct-13 $150,000 3 D 1800 9 19-Oct-13USA Belmont Park Jamaica H’cap Gr 1 05-Oct-13 $400,000 3 T 1800 9 21-Sep-13JPN Tokyo Mainichi Okan Gr 2 06-Oct-13 $1,560,000 3+ T 1800 9 27-Aug-13USA Belmont Park Knickerbocker Gr 3 12-Oct-13 $150,000 3+ T 1800 9 28-Sep-13USA Calder Tropical Park Derby 12-Oct-13 $75,000 3 T 1800 9 28-Sep-13CAN Hastings Racecourse Ballerina Breeders’ Cup St Gr 3 14-Oct-13 CAN 100,000 3+FM D 1800 9 05-Oct-13JPN Tokyo Fuchu Himba St Gr 2 14-Oct-13 $1,324,000 3+ FM T 1800 9 27-Aug-13USA Belmont Park Empire Classic H’cap S 19-Oct-13 $250,000 3+ (NY bred) D 1800 9 05-Oct-13JPN Kyoto Miyako St Gr 3 03-Nov-13 $911,000 3+ D 1800 9 24-Sep-13USA Beulah Park Ruff/Kirchberg Memorial St R 09-Nov-13 $50,000 3+ (OH Acc) D 1800 9 30-Oct-13USA Calder Bonnie Heath Turf Cup S 09-Nov-13 $125,000 3+ (FL Bred) T 1800 9 26-Oct-13USA Calder Carl G Rose Classic S 09-Nov-13 $150,000 3+ (FL Bred) D 1800 9 26-Oct-13USA Charles Town My Sister Pearl S 09-Nov-13 $50,000 3+ F&M D 1800 9 30-Oct-13JPN Tokyo Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai St Gr 3 16-Nov-13 $834,000 2 T 1800 9 08-Oct-13USA Charles Town A Huevo St S 16-Nov-13 $50,000 3+ D 1800 9 06-Nov-13USA Aqueduct Demoiselle St Gr 2 30-Nov-13 $250,000 2 F D 1800 9 16-Nov-13USA Aqueduct Remsen St Gr 2 30-Nov-13 $250,000 2 D 1800 9 16-Nov-13JPN Hanshin Japan Cup Dirt Gr 1 01-Dec-13 $3,392,000 3+ D 1800 9 08-Oct-13JPN Hanshin Asahi Challenge Cup Gr 3 07-Dec-13 $1,040,000 3+ T 1800 9 22-Oct-13USA Calder My Charmer H’cap Gr 3 07-Dec-13 $100,000 3+ FM T 1800 9 23-Nov-13USA Calder Fred W Hooper H’cap Gr 3 07-Dec-13 $100,000 3+ D 1800 9 23-Nov-13USA Calder Tropical Turf H’cap Gr 3 07-Dec-13 $100,000 3+ T 1800 9 23-Nov-13USA Aqueduct Queens County H’cap Gr 3 14-Dec-13 $80,000 3+ D 1800 9 30-Nov-13

FR Longchamp Prix d’Ispahan Gp 1 26-May-13 € 250,000 4+ T 1850 9.25 01-May-13

USA Pimlico The Pimlico Special 17-May-13 $300,000 3 + D 1900 9.5 07-May-13JPN Kyoto Heian St Gr 3 18-May-13 $911,000 4+ D 1900 9.5 09-Apr-13USA Pimlico Preakness St Gr 1 18-May-13 $1,000,000 3 D 1900 9.5 23-Mar-13USA Colonial Downs Colonial Turf Cup Gr 2 22-Jun-13 $300,000 3 + T 1900 9.5 13-Jun-13USA Colonial Downs The Old Nelson H 22-Jun-13 $100,000 3+ T 1900 9.5 13-Jun-13

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Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingUSA Arlington Park Modesty H’cap Gr 3 13-Jul-13 $200,000 3+ FM T 1900 9.5 03-Jul-13USA Arlington Park American Derby Gr 3 13-Jul-13 $200,000 3 T 1900 9.5 13-Apr-13USA Arlington Park Beverly D. St Gr 1 17-Aug-13 $750,000 3+ FM T 1900 9.5 20-Apr-13USA Arlington Park Washington Park H’cap Gr 3 31-Aug-13 $150,000 3+ AWT 1900 9.5 21-Aug-13USA Saratoga Saranac St Gr 3 01-Sep-13 $150,000 3 T 1900 9.5 17-Aug-13

GB Goodwood Nassau Gp 1 03-Aug-13 £200,000 3+ F T 1970 9.85 09-Jul-13

USA Santa Anita Santa Barbara H’cap Gr 2 20-Apr-13 $150,000 4+ FM T 2000 10 11-Mar-13USA Churchill Downs Kentucky Derby Gr 1 04-May-13 $2,000,000 3 D 2000 10 23-Mar-13JPN Niigata Niigata Daishoten Gr 3 05-May-13 $1,040,000 4+ T 2000 10 26-Mar-13ITY Rome Premio Presidente della Repubblica Gp 1 12-May-13 € 297,000 4+ T 2000 10 11-Apr-13FR Longchamp Prix Saint-Alary (Pour Moi Coolmore) Gp 1 26-May-13 € 250,000 3 F T 2000 10 20-Feb-13JPN Hanshin Naruo Kinen Gr 3 01-Jun-13 $1,040,000 3+ T 2000 10 23-Apr-13CAN Woodbine The Queen’s Plate S R 07-Jun-13 CAN1,000,000 3 AWT 2000 10 01-Jun-13USA Belmont Park Woodford Reserve Manhattan H’cap Gr 1 08-Jun-13 $500,000 3+ T 2000 10 25-May-13USA Hollywood Park Charles Whittingham Memorial H’cap Gr 1 08-Jun-13 $200,000 3+ T 2000 10 30-May-13JPN Hanshin Mermaid St Gr 3 09-Jun-13 $911,000 3+ FM T 2000 10 23-Apr-13GB Royal Ascot Prince of Wales’s St (150th Anniversary) Gp 1 19-Jun-13 £500,000 4+ T 2000 10 23-Apr-13USA Belmont Park New York St Gr 2 29-Jun-13 $200,000 3+ FM T 2000 10 15-Jun-13IRE Curragh Pretty Polly St (Stobart Ireland) Gp 1 30-Jun-13 € 200,000 3+ F T 2000 10 24-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Hollywood Gold Cup Gr 1 06-Jul-13 $500,000 3+ AWT 2000 10 27-Jun-13USA Belmont Park Dwyer St Gr 2 06-Jul-13 $200,000 3 + FM D 2000 10 22-Jun-13USA Belmont Park Suburban H’cap Gr 2 06-Jul-13 $350,000 3+ D 2000 10 22-Jun-13JPN Fukushima Tanabata Sho Gr 3 07-Jul-13 $1,040,000 3+ T 2000 10 21-May-13USA Hollywood Park American Oaks Gr 1 13-Jul-13 $350,000 3 F T 2000 10 04-Jul-13USA Colonial Downs Virginia Derby Gr 2 13-Jul-13 $500,000 3 T 2000 10 03-Jul-13USA Arlington Park Arlington H’cap Gr 3 13-Jul-13 $200,000 3+ T 2000 10 03-Jul-13JPN Hakodate Hakodate Kinen Gr 3 14-Jul-13 $1,040,000 3+ T 2000 10 04-Jun-13USA Delaware Park Delaware H’cap Gr 1 20-Jul-13 $750,000 3+ FM D 2000 10 08-Jul-13USA Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows H’cap 27-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ D 2000 10 18-Jul-13GER Munich Grosser-Dallmayr Preis Gp 1 28-Jul-13 € 155,000 3+ T 2000 10 07-May-13JPN Kokura Kokura Kinen Gr 3 04-Aug-13 $1,040,000 3+ T 2000 10 18-Jun-13USA Arlington Park Arlington Million XXXI Gr 1 17-Aug-13 $1,000,000 3+ T 2000 10 20-Apr-13USA Arlington Park Armerican St Leger St Gr 1 17-Aug-13 $400,000 3+ T 2000 10 20-Apr-13USA Arlington Park Secretariat Stakes Gr 1 17-Aug-13 $500,000 3yo T 2000 10 13-Apr-13USA Saratoga Alabama Gr 1 17-Aug-13 $600,000 3 F D 2000 10 03-Aug-13FR Deauville Prix Jean Romanet (Darley) Gp 1 18-Aug-13 € 250,000 4+ F T 2000 10 31-Jul-13JPN Hakodate Sapporo Kinen G2 18-Aug-13 $1,687,000 3+ T 2000 10 02-Jul-13USA Saratoga Travers Gr 1 24-Aug-13 $1,000,000 3 D 2000 10 10-Aug-13USA Del Mar TGV Pacific Classic Gr 1 25-Aug-13 $300,000 3+ AWT 2000 10 15-Aug-13JPN Niigata Niigata Kinen Gr 3 01-Sep-13 $1,040,000 3+ T 2000 10 16-Jul-13IRE Leopardstown Irish Champion St (Red Mills) Gp 1 07-Sep-13 € 750,000 3+ T 2000 10 22-May-13JPN Hanshin Sirius St Gr 3 28-Sep-13 $911,000 3+ D 2000 10 13-Aug-13USA Belmont Park Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational St Gr 1 28-Sep-13 $1,000,000 3+ D 2000 10 14-Sep-13USA Belmont Park Flower Bowl Invitational St Gr 1 28-Sep-13 $600,000 3+ F&M T 2000 10 14-Sep-13FR Longchamp Prix de l’Opera (Longines) Gp 1 06-Oct-13 € 400,000 3+ F T 2000 10 28-Aug-13GB Ascot Champion (Quipco) Gp 1 19-Oct-13 £1,300,000 3+ T 2000 10 06-Oct-13ITY Rome Premio Lydia Tesio Gp 1 27-Oct-13 € 209,000 3+ F T 2000 10 26-Sep-13JPN Tokyo Tenno Sho (Autumn) Gr 1 27-Oct-13 $3,437,000 3+ T 2000 10 10-Sep-13ITY Rome Premier Roma Gp 1 03-Nov-13 € 209,000 3+ T 2000 10 03-Oct-13FR Saint-Cloud Criterium de Saint-Cloud Gp 1 09-Nov-13 € 250,000 2 CF T 2000 10 24-Oct-13JPN Fukushima Fukushima Kinen Gr 3 17-Nov-13 $1,040,000 3+ T 2000 10 09-Oct-12JPN Chukyo Kinko Sho Gr 2 30-Nov-13 $1,560,000 3 + T 2000 10 22-Oct-13JPN Chukyo Aichi Hai Gr 3 14-Dec-13 $911,000 3+ F&M T 2000 10 05-Nov-13JPN Hanshin Radio Nikkei Hai Nisai St Gr 3 21-Dec-13 $834,000 2 T 2000 10 05-Nov-13

GB Sandown Park Eclipse St (Coral) Gp 1 06-Jul-13 £425,000 3+ T 2010 10.05 30-Apr-13

GB York International St (Juddmonte) Gp 1 21-Aug-13 £750,000 3+ T 2080 10.4 25-Jun-13

FR Longchamp Prix Ganay Gp 1 28-Apr-13 € 300,000 4+ T 2100 10.5 10-Apr-13IRE Curragh Gold Cup (Tattersalls) Gp 1 26-May-13 € 210,000 4+ T 2100 10.5 20-Mar-13FR Chantilly Prix du Jockey Club Gp 1 02-Jun-13 € 1,500,000 3 CF T 2100 10.5 20-Feb-13FR Chantilly Prix de Diane (Longines) Gp 1 16-Jun-13 € 1,000,000 3 F T 2100 10.5 20-Feb-13

JPN Kyoto Kyoto Shimbun Hai Gr 2 04-May-13 $1,354,000 3 T 2200 11 26-Mar-13USA Belmont Park Sheepshead Bay H’cap Gr 2 25-May-13 $250,000 3+ FM T 2200 11 11-May-13JPN Hanshin Takarazuka Kinen Gr 1 23-Jun-13 $3,437,000 3+ T 2200 11 07-May-13USA Monmouth Park United Nations St Gr 1 06-Jul-13 $500,000 3+ T 2200 11 22-Jun-13USA Belmont Park Man o’ War BC St Gr 1 13-Jul-13 $600,000 3+ T 2200 11 29-Jun-13USA Delaware Park Robert G Dick BC St Gr 3 13-Jul-13 $200,000 3+ FM T 2200 11 01-Jul-13GER Dusseldorf Henkel Preis der Diana German Oaks Gp 1 04-Aug-13 € 400,000 3 F T 2200 11 CLOSEDCAN Hastings Racecourse British Columbia Cup Endurance (BC Bred) S 05-Aug-13 CAN 22,000 3+ D 2200 11 27-Jul-13CAN Northlands Park Canadian Derby Gr 3 17-Aug-13 CAN 200,000 3 D 2200 11 07-Aug-13USA Del Mar CTT & Thoroughbred Owners of California H’cap 23-Aug-13 $50,000 3+ F&M T 2200 11 15-Aug-13USA Del Mar Del Mar H’cap Gr 2 24-Aug-13 $200,000 3+ T 2200 11 15-Aug-13USA Monmouth Park Omnibus St 24-Aug-13 $60,000 3+ FM T 2200 11 16-Aug-13CAN Northlands Park Speed to Spare St 02-Sep-13 CAN 100,000 3+ D 2200 11 23-Aug-13USA Saratoga Glens Falls H’cap Gr 3 02-Sep-13 $150,000 3+ FM T 2200 11 17-Aug-13USA Belmont Park Bowling Green H’cap Gr 2 07-Sep-13 $200,000 3+ T 2200 11 24-Aug-13JPN Nakayama RF Radio Nippon Sho St Lite Kinen Gr 2 16-Sep-13 $1,354,000 3 T 2200 11 30-Jul-13JPN Nakayama Sankei Sho All Comers Gr 2 22-Sep-13 $1,560,000 3+ T 2200 11 13-Aug-13CAN Hastings Racecourse BC Premier’s H’cap Gr 3 14-Oct-13 CAN 100,000 3+ D 2200 11 05-Oct-13JPN Kyoto Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup Gr 1 10-Nov-13 $2,352,000 3+ FM T 2200 11 01-Oct-13USA Aqueduct Red Smith Gr 2 16-Nov-13 $200,000 3+ T 2200 11 02-Oct-13

USA Keeneland Bewitch Gr 3 24-Apr-13 $150,000 4 + F&M T 2400 12 03-Apr-13USA Keeneland Elkhorn St Gr 2 26-Apr-13 $150,000 4+ T 2400 12 03-Apr-13USA Hollywood Park Round Table H’cap 12-May-13 $70,000 4+ T 2400 12 02-May-13JPN Tokyo Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) Gr 1 19-May-13 $2,527,000 3 F T 2400 12 CLOSEDUSA Churchill Downs Louisville H’cap Gr 3 25-May-13 $100,000 3+ T 2400 12 11-May-13










Country Track Race Name & (Sponsor) Class Race Date Value Age Surface Metres Furlongs ClosingJPN Tokyo Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) Gr 1 26-May-13 $5,200,000 3 No G T 2400 12 CLOSEDUSA Belmont Park Brooklyn H’cap Gr 2 07-Jun-13 $200,000 3+ D 2400 12 25-May-13USA Belmont Park Belmont St Gr 1 08-Jun-13 $1,000,000 3 D 2400 12 26-Jan-13ITY Milan Gran Premio Milano Gp 1 09-Jun-13 € 209,000 3+ T 2400 12 09-May-13FR Saint-Cloud Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud Gp 1 23-Jun-13 € 400,000 4+ T 2400 12 05-Jun-13IRE Curragh Irish Derby (Dubai Duty Free) Gp 1 29-Jun-13 € 1,250,000 3 CF T 2400 12 CLOSEDCAN Woodbine Singspiel S Gr 3 07-Jul-13 CAN150,000+ 3+ T 2400 12 19-Jun-13GER Hamburg Sparda Deutsches Derby Gp 1 07-Jul-13 € 500,000 3 CF T 2400 12 CLOSEDFR Longchamp Grand Prix de Paris (Juddmonte) Gp 1 13-Jul-13 € 600,000 3 CF T 2400 12 20-Feb-13USA Hollywood Park Sunset Hcap Gr 3 14-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ T 2400 12 04-Jul-13IRE Curragh Irish Oaks (Darley) Gp 1 20-Jul-13 € 400,000 3 F T 2400 12 CLOSEDGER Hoppegarten Grosser Preis Von Berlin Gp 1 21-Jul-13 € 175,000 3+ T 2400 12 30-Apr-13USA Del Mar Cougar II H’cap Gr 3 24-Jul-13 $100,000 3+ AWT 2400 12 18-Jul-13GB Ascot King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Betfair) Gp 1 27-Jul-13 £1,000,000 3+ T 2400 12 11-Jun-13GER Munich Grosser Pries Von Bayern Gp 1 11-Aug-13 € 155,000 3+ T 2400 12 21-May-13USA Saratoga Sword Dancer Invitational St Gr 1 17-Aug-13 $600,000 3+ T 2400 12 03-Aug-13GB York Yorkshire Oaks (Darley) Gp 1 22-Aug-13 £325,000 3+ F T 2400 12 25-Jun-13GER Baden-Baden Longines Grosser Preis von Baden Gp 1 01-Sep-13 € 250,000 3+ T 2400 12 11-Jun-13USA Parx Racing Greenwood Cup gr 3 02-Sep-13 $200,000 3+ D 2400 12 05-Aug-13FR Longchamp Prix Vermeille (Qatar) Gp 1 15-Sep-13 € 350,000 3+ F T 2400 12 28-Aug-13GER Cologne Preis von Europa Gp 1 22-Sep-13 € 155,000 3+ T 2400 12 02-Jul-13JPN Hanshin Kobe Shimbun Hai Gr 2 22-Sep-13 $1,354,000 3 No G T 2400 12 13-Aug-13USA Belmont Park Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational St Gr 1 28-Sep-13 $600,000 3+ T 2400 12 14-Sep-13FR Longchamp Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Qatar) Gp 1 06-Oct-13 € 4,000,000 3+ CF T 2400 12 15-May-13JPN Kyoto Kyoto Daishoten Gr 2 06-Oct-13 $1,560,000 3+ T 2400 12 27-Aug-13ITY Milan Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro Gp 1 20-Oct-13 € 209,000 3+ T 2400 12 19-Sep-13USA Aqueduct Long Island Gr 3 09-Nov-13 $150,000 3+ FM T 2400 12 26-Oct-13JPN Tokyo Japan Cup Gr 1 24-Nov-13 $6,512,000 3+ T 2400 12 08-Oct-13USA Calder WL McKnight H’cap Gr 2 28-Dec-13 $125,000 3+ T 2400 12 14-Dec-13USA Calder La Prevoyante H’cap Gr 3 28-Dec-13 $125,000 3+ FM T 2400 12 14-Dec-13

GB Epsom Downs Oaks (Investec) Gp 1 31-May-13 £400,000 3F T 2410 12.05 12-Mar-13GB Epsom Downs Diamond Jubilee Coronation Cup Gp 1 01-Jun-13 £350,000 4+ T 2410 12.05 02-Apr-13GB Epsom Downs Derby (Investec) Gp 1 01-Jun-13 £1,325,000 3 C&F T 2410 12.05 07-Dec-10

JPN Tokyo Meguro Kinen Gr 2 26-May-13 $1,433,000 4+ T 2500 12 .5 09-Apr-13JPN Tokyo Copa Republica Argentina Gr 2 03-Nov-13 $1,433,000 3+ T 2500 12 .5 24-Sep-13JPN Nakayama Arima Kinen (The Grand Prix) Gr 1 22-Dec-13 $5,200,000 3+ T 2500 12 .5 05-Nov-13

USA Arlington Park Stars and Stripes St Gr 3 13-Jul-13 $150,000 3+ T 2600 13 03-Jul-13USA Saratoga John’s Call St 31-Jul-13 $100,000 3 + T 2600 13 24-Jul-13

USA Santa Anita San Juan Capistrano H’cap Gr 2 21-Apr-13 $150,000 4+ T 2800 14 11-Apr-13IRE Curragh St Leger (Irish) Gp 1 15-Sep-13 € 220,000 3+ T 2800 14 22-May-13

GB Doncaster St Leger (Ladbrokes) Gp 1 14-Sep-13 £600,000 3 C&F T 2920 14.6 23-Jul-13

FR Longchamp Prix Royal-Oak Gp 1 28-Oct-13 € 250,000 3+ T 3100 15.5 09-Oct-13

JPN Nakayama Sports Nippon Sho Stayers St Gr 2 30-Nov-13 $1,560,000 3+ T 3600 18 22-Oct-13

GB Royal Ascot Gold Cup Gp 1 20-Jun-13 £350,000 4+ T 4000 20 23-Apr-13FR Longchamp Prix du Cadran (Qatar) Gp 1 06-Oct-13 € 300,000 4+ T 4000 20 28-Aug-13










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SID FERNANDO

What’s the greatest accolade for a North American-basedtrainer? That’s a no brainer: Winning the Kentucky Derby,right? What about for an encore? How about winning therichest race in the world, the $10 million Dubai World Cup(DWC) in the UAE? Check. Graham Motion turned the trickjust over a month ago with 2011 Kentucky Derby winnerAnimal Kingdom.

Fact is, we do have problems here, but theyaren't all tied to the use of Lasix, and doingaway with Lasix isn’t the panacea for all that'swrong here. Fact is, racing is an internationalentity and we cannot exist in a void, either. Butwe can still breed great horses here, Lasix or noLasix, and our trainers can compete withanyone anywhere. Animal Kingdom andGraham Motion proved that by winning inDubai – and without race-day medication.

Next step for this dynamic duo is a tilt at aGroup 1 race at Royal Ascot. If they aresuccessful, they’ll be the second combination towin Grade 1/Group 1 races on three surfaces –dirt, turf, and all-weather. By the way, the firsthorse to do so was Lava Man, and he wastrained by – wait for it – Doug O’Neill.

O’Neill is back for the 2013 Derby with SantaAnita Derby winner Goldencents. His 2012Derby winner I’ll Have Another was sold toJapan for eight figures.

A majority interest in Animal Kingdom wassold last year to Arrowfield Stud of Australia,and after the DWC, 29 percent of the 2011Derby winner was acquired by Darley’s U.S.operation to stand him at its Jonabell Farm inKentucky.

Our Derby winners, despite what we hear,are still in demand internationally, and theybring money for stud duty. Perhaps it’s theNorth American trainer whose worth isquestionable? Even guys like Graham Motion.For whatever reasons, he no longer trains forTeam Valor, with the exception of AnimalKingdom. The separation was announced aboutten days following the DWC, after all theaccolades. n

tied together under the Lasix ribbon. This,apparently, was the root cause of our collectivefailure to breed and train sound racehorsescapable of competing medication-free. Can’t wejust do it like they do in Hong Kong, the NewYork Times asked us, barely mentioning thathorses aren’t bred in that country and comprisea fraction of the population here. And did youknow the Euros even called our Breeders’ Cupthe “Bleeders’ Cup” while we chuckled at theircleverness? Yes, we even made Doug O’Neill,the trainer of the 2012 Kentucky Derby winnerI’ll Have Another, the national poster bad boyfor drug excesses (yes, he has violations on hisresume, while Motion does not), and we set updetention barns at Belmont and Santa Anita justto catch him in the act, or at least to send himand his kind a message. And somehow wemanaged to equate Lasix – a legal drug – withillegal performance-enhancing drugs so thathorseracing and drugs became synonymous inthe public eye.

OB Baffert won both the Derbyand the DWC with Silver Charmback in the day when the DWCwas held on dirt at the now-defunct Nad al Sheba course, butthat was during an era when

North Americans won eight of 14 editions from1996 to 2009. The DWC has been elusive forNorth Americans since it was switched to theall-weather surface at Meydan in 2010.

Things are different now. Let’s face it, we –North Americans – have become the whippingboy of international racing; the quintessentiallyugly American. It all seemed to become obviousafter the stock market crash of 2008, when thecracks of our breeding industry and the faultlines of a rudderless national racing industrywere exposed. Enter stage left to fill theleadership void, The Jockey Club (TJC) and aconsortium of breeders’ groups (includingBreeders’ Cup Limited) that made abolishingrace-day medication – mostly banningfurosemide, or Lasix, an anti-bleedingmedication – the rallying cry for unity andreform. Some of their thinking was this: Let’s getus in line with the rest of the world where race-day meds are prohibited, and this, in turn,will bring the international markets back to ourbreeding business to inject much needed capitalinto our parched system, now shrunk by 40 or50 percent. TJC et al, however, miscalculatedthe depth of the opposition to banning Lasixand instead their plan became divisive. Breedersand some owners, mostly of the upperechelons, versus the trainers, a blue-collarmajority firmly against doing away withfurosemide. The noise of the infighting wasloud enough for the international community tohear, and they came in howling like hyenas ona wounded lion.

In the blink of an eye, the reputation of NorthAmerican Thoroughbreds was being shreddedto pieces here and abroad, by us and them. Ourhorses were drug-addled weaklings under thetutelage of clueless trainers, we were told, andwe retold this to each other. North Americanhorses and trainers are just not as good as theirforeign counterparts, we and they keptrepeating, wringing our hands, and it was all


BNorth America – the whipping boy

of international racing – fights back

“We can still breed great horses here, Lasixor no Lasix, and ourtrainers can competewith anyone anywhere.Animal Kingdom andGraham Motion provedthat”

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