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DOUG BURGE

CTBA PRESIDENT

From the EXECUTIVE CORNER

When California Chrome romped home in the $10 million Dubai World Cup, he became North Ameri-ca’s leading money-earning Toroughbred. A Califor-nia-bred has topped all others to become the richest

horse ever in U.S. racing. Tis prestigious honor is shared not only by his connections but

also by all the past and present who have tirelessly worked producing and racing horses in the Golden State. Chrome’s accomplishments over the past few years have brought not only recognition to the quality of horses bred in California, but also a sense of pride. Fur-thermore, he has helped stimulate the production and ownership of California-breds, as evidenced by the positive foal-crop trends and demand at commercial and private sales.

Yes, the more than $35 million Incentive and Racing Program is the chief reason for the positive trends. However, the accomplish-ments by Team Chrome have assisted in validating the potential suc-cesses associated with California breeding. For those of us who have helped craft all the advantages of our state-bred program (Golden State Series, Maiden Bonus, Breeder Awards, Stallion Awards, and lucrative restricted purses), this is extremely gratifying.

Before he conquered the world in the American classics and in Dubai, Chrome received his racing education and experience in Cal-bred races. California-bred maiden special weight races, as well as stakes at 2 and early in his 3-year-old season, helped prepare him to move up the ladder and compete in graded company, company that he has never left.

Tere have been some great California-breds over the years: Swaps, Native Diver, Bertrando, Snow Chief, Lava Man, Best Pal, and two-time Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Tiznow. But few have captured the hearts and imagination of the Cinderella story that has surrounded California Chrome. His following is not just centered in California; it exists throughout the country. In fact, people from all over frequently contact us requesting copies of any material or promotional items that we produce that feature Chrome. Te horse and all connections continue to be the proud face of the California breeding industry.

With that, the CTBA is pleased to include a commemorative in-sert in this edition of California Toroughbred, depicting the journey and accomplishments California Chrome recently experienced in the 2016 Dubai World Cup. Te frst Cal-bred to win the world’s richest race.

Chrome Shines a Light on CaliforniaCAL-BRED EARNERS

BY WORLDWIDE EARNINGS*

Name Starts Wins 2nd 3rd Earnings (US$)

1 California Chrome 21 12 3 1 $12,532,650

2 Tiznow 15 8 4 2 $6,427,830

3 Best Pal 47 18 11 4 $5,668,245

4 Lava Man 47 17 8 5 $5,268,706

5 Snow Chief 24 13 3 5 $3,383,210

6 Bertrando 24 9 6 2 $3,185,610

7 Free House 22 9 5 3 $3,178,971

8 General Challenge 21 9 3 1 $2,877,178

9 Budroyale 52 17 12 2 $2,840,810

10 Thor’s Echo 28 5 4 6 $2,461,490

11 Nostalgia’s Star 59 9 17 13 $2,154,827

12 Acclamation 30 11 2 6 $1,958,048

13 Amazombie 29 12 5 6 $1,920,378

14 Native Desert 74 21 13 17 $1,828,177

15 Flying Continental 51 12 15 10 $1,815,938

16 Big Jag 30 13 5 3 $1,800,329

17 Grey Memo 54 8 4 10 $1,736,683

18 Proud Tower Too 22 7 5 2 $1,735,572

19 Bold Chieftain 47 18 14 4 $1,683,181

20 Brother Derek 17 6 2 3 $1,611,138

21 The Usual Q. T. 23 8 6 5 $1,537,320

22 McCann’s Mojave 35 12 4 0 $1,513,565

23 Dancing in Silks 25 7 2 4 $1,500,401

24 Super Diamond 37 16 5 5 $1,469,233

25 Men’s Exclusive 48 11 16 4 $1,451,126

26 Moscow Burning 33 11 8 4 $1,417,800

27 Continental Red 74 8 15 16 $1,383,788

28 Fran’s Valentine 34 13 4 5 $1,375,465

29 Unusual Suspect 72 10 8 7 $1,361,898

30 Brown Bess 36 16 8 6 $1,300,920

31 Idiot Proof 17 5 5 2 $1,294,484

32 California Flag 27 11 0 2 $1,288,825

33 Silveyville 56 19 11 8 $1,282,880

34 Full Moon Madness 71 19 18 15 $1,256,553

35 Gourmet Girl 33 9 7 10 $1,255,373

36 Cavonnier 23 8 3 2 $1,254,165

37 Ancient Title 57 24 11 9 $1,252,791

38 Nashoba’s Key 10 8 1 0 $1,252,090

39 Juno Pentagon 33 4 6 2 $1,239,897

40 Texcess 22 4 5 3 $1,235,335

* Includes worldwide race results since 1980 and only horses that had a minimum of two starts in the U.S. or Canada

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18 Preview of California Gold Rush XVII

20 Golden Gate Fields’ Sam Spear

24 Golden State Series Races at Santa Anita

28 California-breds at Los Alamitos

31 Trainer Profle: Kenny Black

36 Barretts March Sale

37 Standout Employee: Jose Rubalcava

38 Barretts May Sale Preview

54 Health: Right Dorsal Colitis

PHOTOS BY ANDREW WATKINS/DUBAI RACING CLUB &

MATHEA KELLEY/DUBAI RACING CLUB

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CALIFORNIA CHROME California Chrome takes full advantage

of his moment in the desert sun, wins Dubai World Cup, the world’s richest race and becomes all-time leading North American earner

DEPARTMENTS

4 News Bits

12 CTBA News

16 CTBA Calendar

17 California Toroughbred Foundation

42 California-bred Incentive Awards: Te Cal-bred Incentive Program

44 California-bred Incentive Awards: Breeder Awards for 2015

49 California-bred Incentive Awards: Stallion Awards for 2015

52 Winners

60 Leading Breeders in California

61 Lists of Leading Sires in California

63 Leading Lifetime Sires in California

64 Stakes/Sales Calendar

66 Classifed Advertising

67 Advertising Index

COLUMNS

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The offcial magazine of California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, a non-proft corporation dedicated to the production of better Thoroughbred horses for better Thoroughbred racing, published by Blood-Horse, LLC.

Opinions expressed in signed articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily refect policies of the CTBA or this magazine. Publication of any material originating herein is expressly forbidden without frst obtaining written permission from California Thoroughbred. All advertising copy is submitted subject to approval. We reserve the right to reject any copy that is misleading or that does not meet with the standards set by the publication.

Acknowledgment: Statistics in this publicaton relating to results of races in North America are compiled by the Daily Racing Form. Charts by special arrangement with Daily Racing Form Inc., the copyright owners of said charts. Reproduction forbidden.

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Wrona Named Santa Anita AnnouncerMichael Wrona, after serving as the Golden Gate Fields announcer

for the last decade, has become Santa Anita’s full-time announcer. Santa Anita made the decision in late March following the decision late last year of longtime announcer Trevor Denman to retire from Santa Anita.

Santa Anita and Golden Gate alternated announcers during the frst part of 2016 between Wrona and Frank Mirahmadi. Craig Evans and David Fitzgerald, fnalists from a worldwide search that included more than three dozen candidates, also auditioned at Santa Anita.

“Tis was a much harder decision than anyone could have imag-ined,” said Joe Morris, senior vice president of West Coast Opera-tions for Te Stronach Group. “Te fnalists presented us with four incredible options, each a world-class announcer in his own right.”

Wrona, who originally hails from Australia, was scheduled to begin his full-time position May 5, when Santa Anita launches its spring/summer meeting.

“I’m overjoyed and humbled that Santa Anita is entrusting me with a booth occupied by so few announcers in the track’s storied history,” said Wrona. “I would also like to acknowledge the unwavering support and friendship of the Golden Gate Fields manage-ment since I frst worked there in 1992.”

When Santa Anita opened in 1934, Joe Hernandez served as its announcer until his

death in 1992. Santa Anita’s other two primary track announcers were Denman and Dave Johnson.

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Let the sun shine in: Cal-bred Sweetrayofsunshine splashes to victory in the Xtra Heat Stakes at Aqueduct

CALIFORNIA-BRED WINS

AQUEDUCT STAKESCalifornia-bred Sweetrayofsunshine captured the $70,000

Xtra Heat Stakes April 2 at Aqueduct in New York. The 7-year-old mare defeated four other older fllies and mares in the six-furlong stakes.

Black Diamond Racing bred Sweetrayofsunshine, a daugh-ter of Benchmark—Tialinga, by Cee’s Tizzy. Trainer David Jacobson claimed her on his behalf for $40,000 at Santa Anita Feb. 13.

With Jose Ortiz aboard, Sweetrayofsunshine vied with En-during Touch early, took the lead around the turn, and scored by 33⁄4 lengths in 1:12.33. She went off as the 4-5 favorite and raised her record to 11 wins in 24 starts for earnings of $276,462.

Santa Anita announcer Michael Wrona

Reddam Racing Among TOC Award Winners

Paul and Zillah Reddam’s Reddam Racing, will receive awards from the Thoroughbred Owners of California as the leading California owner of 2015 by purse earnings and by number of wins. The stable earned $2,922,316 with 49 wins, and their major runners include champion Nyquist and California-bred stakes winners Mrazek and Found Money.

Other TOC awards for 2015 will go to Karl Watson, Mike Pegram, and Paul Weitman as leading owners by number of California stakes wins with 10 and Kings River Ranch as lead-ing owner by number of California starts with 296. The TOC selected owners David and Mark Greco, Patrick Grohl, and Brent Malmstrom as Rookies of the Year.

The winners will be recognized at TOC annual meetings at Del Mar Aug. 6 and at Golden Gate Fields on Oct. 22.

IRWIN PROMISES NEW BOOK

IS A COMPELLING READ

Owner/breeder and former California Thoroughbred Turf writer Barry Irwin aims to inspire and entertain with a new book named “Derby Innovator: The Making of Animal Kingdom,” which was released in late March.

The book chronicles Irwin’s personal journey with Thoroughbred racing and his adventures with Animal Kingdom, winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum Brands (gr. I).

“There are many different roads you can take to learn about the business and fnd success,” said Irwin, who has been professionally involved in racing since 1969. “I grew up in a family that despised racing and gambling. I had no background whatsoever, but I found something about it that I gravitate to and it has been the most exciting thing in my life.”

Along the road that took him to the Derby winner’s circle, Irwin has met many characters and collected a lot of good stories. Three years before Animal Kingdom took the Derby, Irwin had compiled three chapters of his craziest stories.

Irwin stressed he has not written a tell-all book, but he said the stories he’s included are gems.

“I will guarantee to the people who read this book they will read stuff in here that they have never read or heard of anyplace else,” he said.Barry Irwin

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QUALIFYING CLAIMING LEVELSThe following claiming levels for California owners

premiums and stallion awards are currently in effect:

SANTA ANITA/$40,000

LOS ALAMITOS/$40,000

GOLDEN GATE FIELDS/$20,000

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

10 YEARS AGO

California-bred SCOTTSBLUFF initially raced at Turf Paradise in Arizona, but he returned to his home state for his fastest performance. In the $70,800 Bullet Stakes at Hollywood Park May 15, 2006, Scottsbluff set a world record of 1:00.26 for 51⁄2 furlongs on the turf. With Victor Espinoza in the irons, Scottsbluff came fying from last to win by a half-length over favored Taikun, an Australia-bred. Jeff Mullins trained 4-year-old Scottsbluff for owner Dennis Weir. Dr. Sheldon Schoneberg bred the son of Siberian Summer—Foreverina-song, by Air Forbes Won. Weir had purchased Scottsbluff as a yearling for $11,000 at the 2003 Barretts January mixed sale from the Havens Bloodstock Agency consignment.

25 YEARS AGO

Movie star GREER GARSON made an impact on racing with her husband, Buddy Fogelson, primarily through racing 1971 Horse of the Year Ack Ack. Garson bred BARGAIN DOLL in California by crossing the Ack Ack mare Ackachina with Bargain Day, another stakes winner the Fogelsons campaigned. Bargain Doll captured the $100,000 Sacra-

mento Handicap at Golden Gate Fields May 4, 1991. John Deeter owned Bargain Doll, who was trained by Jim Benedict and rid-den by Ron Warren Jr. The 4-year-old flly defeated French-bred Vieille Vigne by 31⁄2 lengths in the 11⁄8-mile Sacramento. Bargain Doll ultimately won eight of 29 races and earned $255,819.

50 YEARS AGO

NASHARCO and CHICLERO, two California-breds by the stallion Nashville, won stakes at Hollywood Park on consecutive Saturdays in May 1966. Nasharco captured the seven-furlong Los Angeles Handicap May 21, while Chiclero added the 51⁄2-furlong Hollywood Express Handicap May 28. The talented Native Div-er and Sledge were in the beat-en feld of the Los Angeles. Dr. Robert Flinn owned Nasharco, who was trained by Roy Hodges and ridden by Bobby Jennings. Joe Gheen and B.R. Bingaman owned Chiclero, ridden by Bill Mahorney and trained by Bob Roberts. G.I. Martin bred Nashar-co from the Khaled mare Twin-kling. Chiclero was out of the Mafosta mare Whirlwinder, bred by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Everett.

CURRENT CALIFORNIA

SIRESOFSTAKES WINNERS STALLION

NAMED FOALS SWs

OF RACING AGE

UNUSUAL HEAT (1990) 759 51

BENCHMARK (1991) † 757 43

TRIBAL RULE (1996) † 739 42

STORMIN FEVER (1994) 802 32

BLUEGRASS CAT (2003) 770 31

SWISS YODELER (1994) 786 29

GAME PLAN (1993) † 448 25

OLD TOPPER (1995) 551 25

KAFWAIN (2000) 603 22

SEA OF SECRETS (1995) 498 21

ROCKY BAR (1998) 160 20

MINISTERS WILD CAT (2000) 360 19

DECARCHY (1997) 367 15

WESTERN FAME (1992) † 315 15

ATTICUS (1992) 490 15

COMIC STRIP (1995) 341 14

BIRDONTHEWIRE (1989) † 294 12

† Indicates stallions who have died or have been retired from stud. ● Indicates stallions who have moved out of state but have California-bred 2-year-olds of this year. All sires will remain on the list until the year after their last foals are 2-year-olds.

Korby to Retire from CARFChris Korby will retire as the executive director of the California Authority

of Racing Fairs (CARF) Nov. 1. He has served the organization for 29 years,

16 as the executive director.

During his tenure Korby launched simulcast operations for live horse rac-

ing from fairs and helped establish California’s statewide satellite wagering

network. He worked hard for the fair circuit, including overseeing a horse

recruitment program, consolidating the purse program under a single

racing secretary, and establishing a the CARF track safety and maintenance

program.

“We’ve been fortunate to have Mr. Korby with us for so many years,”

said John Alkire, chairman of the CARF board of directors. “He’s brought

foresight, energy, and innovation to his service here.”

Korby also serves on the board of directors of Northern California Off-

Track Wagering Inc. and Southern California Off-Track Wagering Inc., the

Northern California Vanning and Stabling Committee, and the California

Marketing Committee.

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James StreetEl Prado (Ire) –

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The Only Sons of Champion 2YO EL PRADO to Stand in California

Stakes-Placed Multiple Allowance winner was on the

board in 18 of 24 career starts with 7 victories by a

combined winning margin of 24 lengths. Out of Grade

3/Group 3 Stakes winner from the foundation sire-

producing family of DAME FRITCHIE

El PRADO is a proven Sire of Sires including leading

sire, KITTENS JOY and MEDAGLIA D’ORO (Sire

of Preakness Stakes winner & Eclipse Horse of the

year RACHEL ALEXANDRA and 14 Hands Winery

Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner SONG BIRD

SequoyahBy A.P. Indy -

Chilukki by

Cherokee RunFee: $3,000-LF

· By Horse of the year and

Classic winner, A.P. INDY

· Out of Eclipse Award

Champion 2 Year Old Filly

· Multiple Graded Stakes

Winner of $1,201,828

· From 17 Starts has 11

frsts and three seconds

including the G1 Oak Leaf

· Stakes at Santa Anita, a

six length victory in the G2

· Sorrento Stakes at Del

Mar, and fnished second

in the G1 Breeders’ Cup

Juvenile Fillies

Hidden BlessingOrientate-Fast ‘n Fleet,

by Mr. Greeley

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· By champion sprinter

ORIENTATE ($1,716,950).

Out of Graded stakes-placed

producer FAST ‘N FLEET.

· A half-brother to multiple

graded stakes-placed

Remand and Graded stakes

winner KARA’S ORIENTATION.

· Retired from racing with

a career of 7-4-10 and

earnings of $178,030.

Lightnin N ThunderStorm Cat-Things

Change, by Stalwart

Fee: $3,000-LFG

Tigah (GB)Dalakhani (IRE) –

Macina (IRE), by

Platini (GER)

Complimentary

to Unusual Heat

& In Excess Mares

Fee: $5,000 -LF

· GRADED STAKES

WINNER IN USA and

STAKES-PLACED IN

FRANCE! EARNINGS

OF $369,000

· Defeated multiple

Graded Stakes winner,

SUMMER HIT and

Graded Stakes winner

GALLANT SON (SIRE)

· Colts Sold at Barretts

March 2YO Sale for

$400,000 & $120,000

· He is the sire of 8 stakes winners and five stakes-placed runners, including group I winner and two-time Korean champion BULPAE GISANG, and Graded stakes-placed CRIOLLA BONITA.

· Former #1 Stallion from both Massachusetts and Ohio regions.· Progeny have earned more than $5.4 million with average earning per starter $40,447.



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Marjorie Lambert, who with her late husband, Rene, bred and raced California-bred million-aire Sky Jack, died March 23 at her home in Los Angeles.

The Lamberts, who entered racing during the 1980s, combined their names into Ren-Mar Thoroughbreds, the name of their racing

and breeding operation. They established 44-acre Ren-Mar Thoroughbreds, their farm in Temecula, and their three sons, Ricky, Rene Jr., and Russell, also became involved.

The couple bred Sky Jack, a 1996 son of Jaklin Klugman—Sky Captive, by Skywalker, and

Doug O’Neill trained the popular gelding for them. Sky Jack raced from 1999-2003, capturing 10 of 18 races and earning $1,115,127. His victo-ries included wins in the 2002 Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I) and 2000 Wells Fargo Bank California Cup Classic Handicap. When Sky Jack fnished racing, the Lamberts retired him to their farm.

Rene died in 2007, and Marjorie continued Ren-Mar. In 2014 Ren-Mar’s homebred Danc-ingtothestars won the Fran’s Valentine Stakes on the Gold Rush card as well as the Megahertz Stakes earlier in the Santa Anita season. Danc-ingtothestars, a daughter of Good Journey and a third-generation Ren-Mar homebred, earned $477,372.

Ren-Mar also bred A Lil Dumaani from A Lil

Excess, the dam of Dancingtothestars. A Cal-bred son of Dumaani, A Lil Dumaani ran third in the 2010 Donald Valpredo California Cup Sprint.

The family has asked that any donations be made to United Pegasus Foundation in Te-hachapi or the Sweet Water Ranch in Chats-worth, both of which work to adopt racehorses into second homes.

Ogden Mills

“Dinny” Phipps

Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps, a leader in the national Thoroughbred racing and breeding in-dustry, died April 6 in New York City after a long illness. He was 75.

The Phipps family has raced Thoroughbreds for genera-tions, and Dinny Phipps con-tinued that tradition. He bred and raced champions Inside In-formation, Rhythm, Storm Flag Flying, and Smuggler; Breed-ers’ Cup Distaff (gr. I) winner Pleasant Home; and multiple grade I winner Dispute. With his cousin Stuart Janney III, Phipps won the 2013 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) with Orb.

Phipps served the industry in many capaci-ties, including as chairman of The Jockey Club and the New York Racing Association. At one time he also sat on the board of the Breeders’ Cup and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association.

He was honored with the Eclipse Award of Merit in 1978 and The Jockey Club Medal in 2015. In addition to leading The Jockey Club to many technological innovations, he also was a staunch advocate for eliminating medication in racing.

Phipps is survived by his wife, Andrea; chil-dren Kayce, Kelley, Lilly, Daisy, Samantha, and Ogden; and 24 grandchildren. The family re-quests any donations go to the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation or The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation.

Found Money

California-bred Found Money had to be euthanized after injuring himself in a workout April 4 at Santa Anita.

Paul and Zillah Reddam’s Red-dam Racing bred and raced Found Money, a 3-year-old son of Square Eddie—Chanel My Belle, by General Meeting. The colt won the 2015 Santa Anita Juvenile Stakes and King Glorious Stakes, and he fnished second in the I’m Smokin Stakes and Golden State Juvenile Stakes. He won three of nine races and earned $292,100.

Found Money “was a barn favorite with a big personality, and he will be missed by all,” trainer Doug O’Neill said on Facebook.

IN Memoriam

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Outstanding at both Two and ThreeA stakes winner at 2, he was assigned one of the top ten weights on the

Experimental Free Handicap ahead of Grade 1 SWs OXBOW, ITSMYLUCKYDAY, etc.

California Champion at three, he won Santa Anita’s $200,000 Grade 2 Sir Beaufort Stakes, besting Grade 1 stakes winner TOM’S TRIBUTE, and Del Mar’s $100,000 Oceanside Stakes.

GERVINHO earned over $420,000 and was on-the-board in EIGHT of NINE career starts, including the $250,000 Grade 1 Hollywood Derby, the $250,000 Grade 2 Del Mar Derby

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Keith Brackpool owns Gervinho, who stands at Legacy Ranch. The son of Unusual Heat—Foreverinthegame, by Out of Place, won four of nine races, including three stakes, for earnings of $422,140. His biggest victory came in the 2013 Sir Beaufort Stakes (gr. IIT) at Santa Anita.

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Keith Stucki, trainer of Hall of Fame member and two-time California-bred Horse of the Year Ancient Title, died April 5 in at his home in Brad-bury. He was 96.

Though best known for training Ancient Title, Stucki spent his life in racing and at one time galloped Seabiscuit for trainer Tom Smith.

“He lived a full 96 years, believe me,” said Shannon Hinkley, Stucki’s granddaughter. “He shared the same birthday as John Wayne, May 26, and he was always so proud of that. He met John Wayne on the backside here at Santa Anita many years ago.”

Stucki was born in Paris, Idaho, the son of a

trainer, and initially wanted to become a jockey. His career took him to Longacres racetrack near Seattle before he moved to Southern California.

William and Ethel Kirkland bred and raced Ancient Title, who won 24 of 57 races, in-cluding 20 stakes, and earned $1,252,791. The plucky Cal-bred proved adept at sprint races, but he was able to carry his speed over a distance of ground. He won such two-turn events as the Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I), Cal-ifornian (gr. I), and Saratoga’s historic Whitney

Handicap (gr. II).The California Thorough-

bred Breeders Association voted Ancient Title the Cal-bred Horse of the Year in 1974 and 1975. He also earned three consecutive titles as the champion Cal-bred older male.

Stucki is survived by his daughters Gaylord, Gol-ly, and Veronica (Charlie), and several grandchildren, including former World Champion Speedway mo-

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While Los Alamitos’ immediate future seems fairly assured, its long-term survival may be in doubt, ac-cording Dr. Ed Allred, the owner of Los Alamitos Race Course. In an April 15 letter to “participants and em-ployees,” Allred said he plans to run the track for at least 10 more years, but that the property would be unlikely to continue as a racetrack once he is gone.

In the letter, Allred said, “let’s plan on 10 years,” and added that at that time “reevaluate the status of my health and proceed as indicated.” Allred is 79.

The letter also stated that Los Alamitos plans to present a local ballot measure to develop portions of the racetrack and the now-closed Cypress Golf Course, which Allred owns.

Los Alamitos conducts nighttime Quarter Horse racing year-round. Upon the expansion of its track to nearly a mile in 2014, it also became a year-round Thoroughbred stabling facility and now conducts three short Thoroughbred meetings a year.

Allred said he continues to breed 130 Quarter Horse foals each year and that “I love what I’m doing.” However, he added, “It is unlikely that upon my passing or serous disability that another group could be found that could acquire the track for racing purposes.”

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Tense anticipation as the feld gath-ered.

Hope as Victor Espinoza skillfully maneuvered California Chrome into striking position as the feld hit the frst turn.

Jubilation as “Chrome” surged to the lead in the stretch and easily won the world’s richest race.

Fear—maybe terror, from some—as Espinoza pulled the champ up on the turn and jumped of. “Oh, my God! What’s wrong?”

Relief as word spread the issue was simply that the saddle had slipped.

Finally, humor as Espinoza described

the ride from what trainer Art Sherman described as “the rumble seat.”

But the roller coaster of this year’s World Cup pales in comparison to the year-long dramatic saga endured by California Chrome’s ownership team, which stumbled and collided with ob-stacle after obstacle through a now “lost” 2015 racing season. From the rubble, however, they regrouped and forged a new quest this year to make their star the world’s highest-earning racehorse.

Wind the clock back to June 2014. California Chrome, modestly bred—by commercial standards—and owned by small-time breeders Steve Coburn and

Perry Martin, was well on his way to hit-ting a jackpot that is a pipe dream to the average owner. He had won the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum Brands (gr. I), and the Preakness Stakes (gr. I) and was lining up to be the frst U.S. Triple crown winner in 37 years.

Famously, the wheels fell of. “Chrome” fnished fourth in the Bel-mont Stakes (gr. I), beaten on the square. He went on to fnish sixth in the Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II) and third in a wild Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I), won by Bayern.

After a win on the grass in the Hol-lywood Derby (gr. IT) at Del Mar and a second to Shared Belief in the San Antonio Invitational (gr. I) in January 2015, it was on to Dubai to begin an ambitious international campaign. He ultimately fnished second to Prince Bishop in that year’s World Cup, which was disappointing but certainly not em-barrassing.

Ten the real troubles began.California Chrome shipped not back

to California but to England, where he was to run at Royal Ascot. Didn’t happen. Next, he was to return to the grass for a swing at the Arlington Mil-lion XXXIII (gr. IT) in August. Didn’t happen.

Coburn’s interest was sold to Taylor Made Stallions, which took California Chrome to Kentucky for a long rest and some TLC. He would not return to the track for nearly 10 months. When he did resume training, the son of Lucky Pulpit was clearly a diferent—and much better—horse.

“When we initially bought in, we weren’t sure he was going to run again,” said Taylor Made’s Frank Taylor after the World Cup triumph. “And then we brought him back to Taylor Made and our team did a great job rehabbing him.”

Returned to California and to Sher-man’s care, “Chrome” gleamed. He won his comeback race at Santa Anita on Jan. 9 convincingly over Imperative and Hop-pertunity in the San Pasqual Stakes (gr. II). And it was back to the Middle East, where history shows it’s a good idea to have a race over the track before the big night.

“Chrome” got the prep race over the CAL-BRED CALIFORNIA CHROME WINS 2016 DUBAI WORLD CUP AFTER FINISHING

SECOND LAST YEAR

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BY BOB KIECKHEFER

THE “CHROMIES” ASSEMBLED at Meydan for the Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) and those watching from around the world were taken on an emotional roller-coaster ride in a span of only a few minutes.

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Meydan dirt in the Trans Gulf Electromechanical Trophy, the same program Curlin used to prepare for the World Cup he won in 2008.

Despite his victory in that prep race, the doubters continued to do what they do—doubt. California Chrome didn’t beat much. He’d been idle too long. He seemed to be getting too hot during his morning trackwork. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Some experts didn’t even see California Chrome fnishing in the top three in the big race.

Sherman and Espinoza were unfazed. As the days rolled by, they proclaimed California Chrome better than ever.

Ten came the barrier draw.From year to year, the good folks at the Dubai

Racing Club switch up the system for assigning post positions. Tis year, the name of each horse was in-scribed on a card and the deck was mixed inside an Arabian urn center stage at the Meydan Teater. As an Emirates Airline fight attendant drew the names, one by one, the owner or trainer strolled onto stage, accepted a placard with the horse’s name, and chose from the remaining gates.

Eventually there were but two names left in the urn and one of them was California Chrome. Te remaining gates—11 and 12, in a 12-horse feld that would compete on a track that had been favor-ing inside speed for months.

Te penultimate draw was “Chrome.” Sherman hung the placard at gate No. 11 and commented, “Te outside is good. If you have the horse.” Espi-noza said he was okay with the draw. What else was he going to say?

Finally the day dawned, clear and warm. A fash-ionably dressed crowd inched through the metal detectors.

California Chrome went into the gate without a problem and they were of. Only, Espinoza was more “of” than the other 11 riders.

“I wanted to bounce out of there and come out running and get a position right away,” Espinoza said. “But he broke not really quick and the second

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jump, he accelerates and at that point I feel the saddle start slipping back-ward. And I was like, ‘Oh oh!’

“Basically, the girth slipped all the way back and I was really trying not to move my body, just to sit there still and lean forward a little bit because if I move a little back, I might go out of balance and that would not be pretty. I was not really concerned about it. I was just looking forward, ‘Where’s the wire?’”

Espinoza earned his money with that ride. Hitting the frst turn quick-ly, he had California Chrome up near the leaders, just four-wide. He ba-sically held that position down the backstretch and, when he confdently asked for more, “Chrome” had plenty to give. In seconds, it was over.

Sherman, a former jockey, appreciated what had happened.“When the saddle slips, it makes you move backward on the horse and

balance…I didn’t realize it until he pulled up and I said, ‘Tat thing’s back in the rumble seat!’ ”

All’s well when it ends well.Now the quest is to use the rest of 2016 to make California Chrome

the highest-earning horse in history. Even with the Pacifc Classic (gr. I) and Breeders’ Cup Classic on the agenda, it is a steep climb to the No. 1 spot on the worldwide lists. “Chrome,” however, has secured his place as the leading earner among North American-based runners with $12,532,650. He has earned $2,030,850 more than the previous leader, Curlin.

Regardless of how the rest of the year unfolds, California Chrome al-ways will be No. 1 in the hearts of his fans, the Chromies.

“Te horse has a lot of personality and people pick up on that,” Martin said. “We get Christmas cards, Easter cards, you name it—so many that we can’t respond to all of them. So there’s a lot of fans out there.”

And, speaking for his team, Frank Taylor added: “Great horses make you look great and he’s one of those.”

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MARTIN ACCEPT THE WORLD CUP TROPHY FROM SHEIKH HAMDAN BIN

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CALIFORNIA CHROME KEEPS WINNING, TAKING

A 1 1/4-MILE PREP AT MEYDAN RACECOURSE A MONTH BEFORE THE WORLD CUP

TRAINER ART SHERMAN SAID HE DIDN’T HAVE TO

DO MUCH BEFORE THE WORLD CUP. “JUST KEEP HIM HAPPY.”

CALIFORNIA CHROME IS THE CO-TOP-RATED HORSE

ON THE LONGINES WORLD‘S BEST RACEHORSE RANKINGS

WITH HIS SADDLE STEADILY INCHING BACKWARD,

JOCKEY VICTOR ESPINOZA RIDES A MASTERFUL RACE TO STAY ABOARD

WINNING THE $10 MILLION DUBAI WORLD CUP, THE

WORD’S RICHEST RACE, BY 33⁄4 LENGTHS OVER MUBTAAHIJ

TRAINER ART SHERMAN AFTER HE SAW THE

SLIPPED SADDLE WHEN CHROME AND ESPINOZA PULLED UP: “THAT THING’S BACK IN THE RUMBLE SEAT.”

THE SPOILS OF CALIFORNIA CHROME’S

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for him was what I needed.” On California Chrome win-

ning the prep with 132 pounds: “Carrying 132 pounds was like the old days, with Kelso and Forego. Te way it turned out, it was the perfect prep. He won under wraps, I didn’t have to use him much, and he came back good. It was the perfect thing to have a mile and a quarter over the track. It was just what I wanted.” On California Chrome’s pop-

ularity: “Tey had a big party for him at the barn, and you cannot believe the people. Tey call themselves Chromies. Forty of them came to Schwanie’s restau-rant there at Los Alamitos. Tey had a cake and gave me an engraved wine decanter. I was so touched. Tey brought something for every-body at the barn. It was awfully nice. Tey just appreciate the horse and love him. Tey all had Chromie shirts on and hats. From all over the world, I get cards. And they send him cookies. Every time I turn

around I get cookies. All of the horses at the barn get them. It’s pretty nice.” On future racing plans: “We hope to go to the Pacifc

Classic (gr. I) and then the Breeders’ Cup. If Beholder and Chrome ran in the Pacifc Classic, it would be standing room only. And to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) would be phenomenal.” On California Chrome as a 5-year-old: “He’s getting a

little stronger, more relaxed. He’s gotten easier to do things with. He’s a good shipper. Other horses just can’t get on an airplane and do what he does. He fies all over the world, comes of the airplane in good shape, wanting to play. He’s a phenomenal horse. You show him the airplane, and he’s ready. Tat’s the strongest horses will ever be, as a 5-year-old. And you can tell by looking at him—he’s so muscled up. He turned out to be just a stunning horse. It’s a pleasure to have him in the barn.”

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ART SHERMAN, HIS SON ALAN,

AND THE ENTIRE TEAM at the trainer’s barn have played an integral role in Cal-ifornia Chrome’s success. Appreciated by horsemen and fans alike, Sherman always takes the time to talk about his celebrated charge.

Not long after his return from Dubai, Sher-man refected on the impact the horse and his accomplishments have had on his life, as well as the future for California Chrome. On sending California Chrome to Dubai

earlier this year and having a prep race: “After being there the frst time and watching ev-erybody train, I thought maybe it wasn’t long enough (last year), even though it was two weeks before he ran. Tis year he only had one race, at Santa Anita, and I knew it would be easy to get another race into him, which would be benefcial for the Dubai World Cup (UAE-I). Tat mile and a quarter prep that I had laid out

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2 Curlin 16 11 2 2 $10,501,800

3 Cigar 33 19 4 5 $9,999,815

4 Skip Away 38 18 10 6 $9,616,360

5 American Pharoah 11 9 1 0 $8,650,300

6 Fantastic Light 25 12 5 3 $8,486,957

7 Animal Kingdom 12 5 5 0 $8,387,500

8 St Nicholas Abbey (IRE) 21 9 2 7 $7,863,492

9 Invasor (ARG) 12 11 0 0 $7,804,070

10 Pleasantly Perfect 18 9 3 2 $7,789,880

11 Smarty Jones 9 8 1 0 $7,613,155

12 Flintshire (GB) 19 5 10 1 $7,589,910

13 Wise Dan 31 23 2 0 $7,556,160

14 Zenyatta 20 19 1 0 $7,304,580

15 Goldikova (IRE) 27 17 6 3 $7,176,551

16 Silver Charm 24 12 7 2 $6,944,369

17 Captain Steve 25 9 3 7 $6,828,356

18 Alysheba 26 11 8 2 $6,679,242

19 Dylan Thomas (IRE) 20 10 4 1 $6,620,852

20 Game On Dude 34 16 7 1 $6,498,893

21 Tiznow 15 8 4 2 $6,427,830

22 Ouija Board (GB) 22 10 3 5 $6,312,552

23 John Henry 42 26 6 4 $6,292,297

24 Gio Ponti 29 12 10 1 $6,169,800

25 Singspiel (IRE) 20 9 8 0 $5,952,825

26 Conduit (IRE) 15 7 2 3 $5,815,813

27 Americain 34 11 4 4 $5,780,679

28 Medaglia d’Oro 17 8 7 0 $5,754,720

29 Best Pal 47 18 11 4 $5,668,245

30 Mucho Macho Man 25 9 5 6 $5,625,410

31 Taiki Blizzard 23 6 8 2 $5,523,549

32 Roses in May 13 8 4 0 $5,490,187

33 Dance in the Mood (JPN) 25 6 6 1 $5,456,107

34 High Chaparral (IRE) 13 10 1 2 $5,331,231

35 English Channel 23 13 4 1 $5,319,028

36 Lava Man 47 17 8 5 $5,268,706

37 Sulamani (IRE) 17 9 3 1 $5,252,368

38 Well Armed 24 7 4 1 $5,179,803

39 Street Cry (IRE) 12 5 6 1 $5,150,837

40 Jim and Tonic (FR) 39 13 13 4 $4,975,807

41 Sunday Silence 14 9 5 0 $4,968,554

42 Utopia (JPN) 34 9 5 3 $4,913,585

43 Easy Goer 20 14 5 1 $4,873,770

44 Royal Delta 22 12 5 1 $4,811,126

45 Perfect Drift 50 11 14 7 $4,714,213

46 Daylami (IRE) 21 11 3 4 $4,614,762

47 Behrens 27 9 8 3 $4,563,500

48 Unbridled 24 8 6 6 $4,489,475

49 Fort Larned 25 10 2 1 $4,471,322

50 Saint Liam 20 9 6 1 $4,456,995


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2 Tiznow 15 8 4 2 $6,427,830

3 Best Pal 47 18 11 4 $5,668,245

4 Lava Man 47 17 8 5 $5,268,706

5 Snow Chief 24 13 3 5 $3,383,210

6 Bertrando 24 9 6 2 $3,185,610

7 Free House 22 9 5 3 $3,178,971

8 General Challenge 21 9 3 1 $2,877,178

9 Budroyale 52 17 12 2 $2,840,810

10 Thor’s Echo 28 5 4 6 $2,461,490

11 Nostalgia’s Star 59 9 17 13 $2,154,827

12 Acclamation 30 11 2 6 $1,958,048

13 Amazombie 29 12 5 6 $1,920,378

14 Native Desert 74 21 13 17 $1,828,177

15 Flying Continental 51 12 15 10 $1,815,938

16 Big Jag 30 13 5 3 $1,800,329

17 Grey Memo 54 8 4 10 $1,736,683

18 Proud Tower Too 22 7 5 2 $1,735,572

19 Bold Chieftain 47 18 14 4 $1,683,181

20 Brother Derek 17 6 2 3 $1,611,138

21 The Usual Q. T. 23 8 6 5 $1,537,320

22 McCann’s Mojave 35 12 4 0 $1,513,565

23 Dancing in Silks 25 7 2 4 $1,500,401

24 Super Diamond 37 16 5 5 $1,469,233

25 Men’s Exclusive 48 11 16 4 $1,451,126

26 Moscow Burning 33 11 8 4 $1,417,800

27 Continental Red 74 8 15 16 $1,383,788

28 Fran’s Valentine 34 13 4 5 $1,375,465

29 Unusual Suspect 72 10 8 7 $1,361,898

30 Brown Bess 36 16 8 6 $1,300,920

31 Idiot Proof 17 5 5 2 $1,294,484

32 California Flag 27 11 0 2 $1,288,825

33 Silveyville 56 19 11 8 $1,282,880

34 Full Moon Madness 71 19 18 15 $1,256,553

35 Gourmet Girl 33 9 7 10 $1,255,373

36 Cavonnier 23 8 3 2 $1,254,165

37 Ancient Title 57 24 11 9 $1,252,791

38 Nashoba’s Key 10 8 1 0 $1,252,090

39 Juno Pentagon 33 4 6 2 $1,239,897

40 Texcess 22 4 5 3 $1,235,335

41 Evening Jewel 19 7 6 2 $1,221,399

42 Dream of Summer 20 10 4 3 $1,191,150

43 King Glorious 9 8 1 0 $1,175,650

44 Cacoethes 14 4 3 3 $1,169,064

45 Luthier Fever 25 6 5 6 $1,160,852

46 Lazy Slusan 47 12 7 10 $1,150,410

47 Valentine Dancer 29 8 7 5 $1,144,126

48 Richter Scale 25 12 2 0 $1,139,958

49 Somethinaboutlaura 34 18 5 4 $1,129,365

50 Flying Paster 27 13 7 2 $1,127,460



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famed founder of the original Santa Anita Park.

Born in 1828, Lucky Baldwin embodied the American wild West. Equal parts

scoundrel and entrepreneur, he ventured to California in pursuit of gold. A mining

investment tanked, and Baldwin left for Japan and India with strict instructions

for the shares to be sold once they returned to the price he paid. However, Baldwin

neglected to leave the key to the safe holding the shares, and when he returned, the

shares had skyrocketed in value, making him one of the richest men in California.

In the early 1870s he came to the San Gabriel Valley and announced: “I’m going

to buy this country.” It was the perfect spot to raise cattle and Baldwin’s other pas-

sion, racehorses. He bought Rancho Santa Anita in 1875.

Ultimately, Baldwin became the largest landowner in Southern California with

more than 63,000 acres—most of the entire San Gabriel Valley from what is now

Pasadena to Monrovia. He incorporated the city of Arcadia, which was located in the

heart of his property holdings, and served as the town’s frst mayor.

Baldwin’s best runner was Emperor of Norfolk, who was foaled in 1885. Te

winner of 21 of 29 starts, Emperor of Norfolk was considered to be the fnest Cal-

ifornia-based runner until Swaps made his mark nearly 70 years later. Emperor of

Norfolk was elected to the National Racing Museum’s Hall of Fame in 1988.

Te Red and Black Gala will also beneft the Arcadia Historical Society, Winner’s

Foundation, and California Toroughbred Horsemen’s Foundation, and salute the

2015 and 2016 inductees to the Walk of Champions: Zenyatta, Lava Man, Chris

McCarron, Gary Jones, Ron McAnally, Mike Mitchell, Mel Stute, Buddy Johnston’s

Old English Rancho, and Joe Burnham. Triple Crown-winning jockey Victor Espi-

noza will be given a special recognition at the dinner.

Tickets and more information are available at www.arcadiachampions.org

memorial donations

The CTF accepts donations in memory of relatives and friends, with all such donations allocated to Scholarship Funds of the Foundation and to the Carleton F. Burke Memorial Library. Please remember members of our industry with a donation to the CTF memorial fund. Donations may be sent to: CTF, P.O. Box 60018, Arcadia, CA 91066-6018.

2016 OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES

PRESIDENT

Mrs. Ada Gates Patton

VICE-PRESIDENT

Gail Gregson

TREASURER

James Murphy

SECRETARY

Jane Goldstein

Mrs. Jeanne L. Canty, Ex Offcio President

Gregory L. Ferraro, DVM

Tracy Gantz

Thomas S. Robbins

John W. Sadler

Noreen Sullivan

Peter W. Tunney

Warren Williamson

Amy J. Zimmerman

Mrs. Kenneth M. Schiffer, Director Emeritus

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California Gold Rush

BY EMILY SHIELDS

As part of the Golden State’s ever evolving racing landscape, Cal-ifornia Gold Rush has not only

survived but fourished.

Te fve-race event for California bred and California-sired runners was moved in 2015 from late April to Memorial Day weekend, which is an important week-end in the sport with a host of major stakes across the country. Te move was designed to increase participation in the series and produce more handle, both of which proved successful.

“Tere were signifcant increases last year with feld size and handle,” said Doug Burge, president of the Califor-nia Toroughbred Breeders Association. “Te previous April date for the event was too close to California Cup, and the additional month and a half allowed for more of the Cal Cup participants to also

run on Gold Rush Day.”California Cup/Sunshine Millions is

another fve-race event that is worth more than $1 million to Cal-breds. Te Gold Rush stakes total $775,000, with the en-tire card’s purses topping $1 million. Te day will include maiden and condition races restricted to horses bred in the Gold-en State or sired by California stallions.

Introducing one of California’s biggest race days to Memorial Day weekend also put the spotlight on hard-knocking horses sometimes overshadowed by other stars.

“Moving to Memorial Day weekend defnitely helps with attendance as well,” Burge said, “and the million dollar-plus in purses that are ofered to Cal-breds gets more exposure both in state and across the country. Te stakes ofered on the day also fll a void in the Santa Anita stakes schedules and provide for a big three-day weekend of racing.”

Te fve stakes are the $200,000 Snow Chief Stakes, $200,000 Melair Stakes,

$150,000 Tiznow Stakes, $125,000 Fran’s Valentine Stakes, and $100,000 Lenny-fromalibu Stakes. Te latter, run at about 61⁄2 furlongs down the hillside turf course, replaced the $100,000 Spring Fever Handicap, a six-furlong dirt contest for older distafers that was previously part of the card. Te Spring Fever will now be run July 4, along with another Cal-bred stakes, the $100,000 Tor’s Echo Stakes, at six furlongs for 3-year-olds and up.

“Te date for the Lennyfromalibu was swapped with the Spring Fever to coin-cide with the turf renovation, as we want-ed to keep the downhill race during the meet,” Burge explained.

Santa Anita will be replacing its turf course starting on June 20, which means there will be no grass racing for the fnal two weeks of the spring/summer meeting. Te unique and popular downhill turf course will close even earlier, on June 6.

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Te Snow Chief Stakes is named after the brilliant Cal-bred Eclipse Award win-ner who won the Preakness Stakes (gr. I) and earned $3,383,210. Te race was run on the main track until 2013, when it switched to 11⁄8 miles on Santa Anita’s grass course. Winners include graded stakes heroes Grey Memo (an earner of $1,736,683), Compari, and Alphie’s Bet.

Te 11⁄16-mile Melair Stakes was won by grade I winner Willa B Awesome in 2012, when the race was carded at 11⁄8 miles. Eight years earlier three-time grade II winner Yearly Report found the wire frst in the race. Yearly Report went on to produce grade I winner Condo Commando.

Melair was undefeated in fve starts in 1986, and she beat Snow Chief and oth-er males in the $200,000 Silver Screen Handicap (gr. II). Te brilliant roan flly was retired after two serious bouts of colic, including one that almost took her life.

Te Tiznow Stakes over a mile was run at 71⁄2 furlongs until 2012. Te race is named for two-time Breeders’ Cup Clas-sic (gr. I) winner Tiznow, who has gone on to be an exceptional sire in Kentucky. Te Tiznow Stakes features possibly the best

winners in Gold Rush history, including Breeders’ Cup Sprint (gr. I) and Eclipse Award winner Amazombie, grade I-win-ning sprinter Greg’s Gold, and the wick-edly fast Joey Franco, who was California’s Horse of the Year in 2003.

Te Fran’s Valentine Stakes is run at a mile on the grass and has played host to winners such as grade I heroine Nashoba’s Key and graded stakes winners Moscow Burning, Halo Dolly, and Supercilious. Fran’s Valentine was best known for fn-ishing frst in the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I) but was disquali-fed for interference and placed 10th. She went on to win the Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) among her three grade I victories.

Te Lennyfromalibu is new for 2016 and is named after the multiple stakes winner Lennyfromalibu, a popular chestnut out of the Madeline Auerbach barn. Lennyfromalibu earned $442,165 with six wins in 21 starts, including the 2003 California Cup Mile Handicap by two widening lengths at shocking 25-1 odds. Te son of Unusual Heat not only set a track record at Santa Anita, but launched the stud career of his invalu-able sire, who went on to be the state’s

leading stallion six consecutive times.Te Gold Rush, which debuted in

2000 at Hollywood Park, has become an anchor for the popular Golden State Series races, which include stakes rac-es in Northern California as well. Te $100,000 Silky Sullivan Stakes and Cam-panile Stakes at Golden Gate Fields were run in June until 2015, when they moved earlier in the calendar so that the runners in those races could contest Gold Rush as well. Tose two races will be run May 1 as part of the Cal-bred Turf Extravaganza. Te entire Golden State Series is worth $5,425,000.

“It is the spring celebration of Califor-nia breeding, and is extremely important to the overall Golden State Series,” Burge said. “In California, we are fortunate to have more than one million-dollar day highlighting the state-bred program, and this has helped further increase the de-mand and value of Cal-breds.

“Te Golden State Series has had a large impact on the increases realized re-cently, with the live foal crop and num-ber of mares bred in the state. Gold Rush day is a major part of the overall stakes program.”

Left to right, Go West Marie wins the Fran’s Valentine Stakes; Motown Men ekes out a victory in the Tiznow Stakes; and Neveradoubt takes the Snow Chief Stakes in the 2015 California Gold Rush at Santa Anita

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“Sam is a very good friend,” said Glenn Dickey, the author and former longtime San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist. “I frst met him at spring training in the early ‘70s, and we’ve been friends ever since. When I was going to the racetrack, he always found interesting guys for me to interview.”

With his cherubic face and gravelly voice, Spear is probably the most recognizable—some would say legendary—local racing person-ality in the game today, regaling the San Francisco region with tales from the track on his long-running television and radio programs.

How well known? Te story goes that he once drove his car into a gas station with friend Joe DiMaggio seated next to him in the passen-ger seat. Te attendant ran up excitedly, tapped on the window, and asked for an autograph—from Spear.

Spear, 67, is director of media relations at Golden Gate Fields, op-erating alongside publicity manager Jon Forbes from a glass-walled of-fce in the press box that peeks out over the fnish line from the track’s

administrative suites. It provides Spear with not only a bird’s-eye view of the picturesque bayside track layout, but also the nev-

er-ending snarl of trafc that crawls along Interstate 80 between the cities of Albany and Berkeley.

“I grew up in Alameda; I spent my frst 29 years there,” said Spear, who now lives in the Contra Costa County city of Danville with his longtime partner, Barbara O’Neill.

By all accounts he has been a sports nut ever since he was a youngster.

Spear’s celebrity all began somewhat ac-cidentally in the mid-1970s. While work-ing at the time in publicity for the San Francisco Giants, he started his own sports program over a San Jose radio station. Tough he knew next to nothing about racing then, he would often include news segments and interviews from the local tracks in addition to the usual coverage of baseball, basketball, and football.

Te Golden Gate publicity director at the time, Ron Supinski, was impressed. In January 1977 he asked Spear to work

GOLDEN PROMOTER

NEARLY 40 YEARS IN, SAM SPEAR

IS GOING FOR THE GOLD

BY JACK SHINAR

For nearly 40 years Bay Area sports fans have turned to Golden Gate Fields’ Sam Spear for all the latest news on the local racing scene.

Wondering about the latest stars for Racing Hall of Fame members such as trainer Jerry Hollendorfer or jockey Russell Baze, or where current equine champions such as California Chrome and Nyquist are likely to turn up next? Chances are Spear will have the answers. For fans and newsmen alike, the lifetime Bay Area native is the go-to source as Golden Gate Fields celebrates its 75th anniversary season in 2016.

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for him promoting horse rac-ing on radio and television.

“He would have me come up with feature ideas (from the track) and appear on radio shows to talk about racing. I also did race re-creations,” Spear said, providing listeners with race results. His success led to a similar position at Bay Meadows, which in those days raced from July through December.

Tings escalated rapidly from there.

“I decided that we really needed to be on television,” Spear said. “At the time there were only six or seven main channels, but they were also adding some independent channels. Tere was a new channel that had been on for a couple of months, channel 26, KTSF. I saw their name and address in TV Guide, so I went ahead and bought a half-hour.”

Tough the station was pri-marily aimed at an Asian audi-ence, the race recap program, airing each day at 5 p.m., found a strong viewer base reaching into the millions. Te format was basic, Spear narrating live from a stool while the camera panned the track program for each race on the card, followed by the replay and payofs.

For many years he was in that 30-minute time slot seven days a week, flling in the non-rac-ing days at Golden Gate and Bay Meadows with harness and Quarter Horse coverage, and feature stories.

“We did all kinds of things, things like how you shoe a horse,” said Spear. “It was all new to me, so it was fresh.”

Not only did Spear produce the program but he was also responsible for creating the advertising spots and, most im-portantly, seeing that the tape of the day’s races got to the sta-tion in time to air.

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He coordinated trips to take viewers to visit international racing venues, such as Australia for the Melbourne Cup, Ireland for the Irish Derby, France’s Chantilly racecourse, and three visits to Hong Kong. He has attended Breeders’ Cup days all over North America.

And he’s had the chance to interview and befriend people such as actors John Forsythe and Jack Klugman (who bred and raced Toroughbreds in California for many years) as well as Mickey Rooney and Tel-ly Savalas; baseball luminaries such as DiMaggio, Earl Weaver, and Stan Musial; and the leg-endary California Golden Bears college basketball coach Pete Newell. He’s had the chance to hang out with many import-ant racing personalities—John Longden, Bill Shoemaker, Steve Cauthen, Laft Pincay Jr. and Lester Piggott among them.

Not bad for a sports-crazy guy who had no knowledge of horse racing or television when he started, but who wasn’t go-ing to let that stand in the way of pursuing his dreams.

“Anyway, through this little 30-minute TV show on horse racing, I’ve seen the world,” Spear said. “I’ve been very fortunate.”

In addition to the television program, Spear hosts a one-hour Sunday radio program over pow-erful station KNBR. Currently airing at 6 a.m., the show features phone interview segments from racing people as well as handi-capping insight from experts at tracks all over the country. He’s been doing that show 52 weeks a year since about 1990.

Te show got a major boost in listenership a couple of years

I have no plans for retirement. I enjoy what I’m doing, and so long as we keep racing and keep going, there’s nothing else I’d rather be doing.”

— Sam Spear

“I would get into my car and drive to the TV station. At the time they didn’t have a real TV station, just a studio, and they were up where their tower was, on the top of Mt. San Bruno. So I would drive over there and go on the air live. I did that for quite a few years, which you would never be able to do today because of the trafc.”

After thousands of miles spent making that trip each day, Spear recalled, “Fortunately, they decided that I could stay on the air there if I could do the show at the track. So what I did was get involved with a microwave, and the show would be sent via the microwave to the station.”

With the cutback in race days in recent years and the loss of some of his sponsors, “Today at the Races,” in its 38th year, now airs on weekends only.

Over the years the program has allowed Spear to follow im-portant horses all around the country to provide news reports. Tat includes hip-hop superstar M.C. Hammer’s 1991 Ken-

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ago with regular updates from trainer Art Sherman on Ken-tucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and Preakness Stakes (both gr. I) winner California Chrome as the California-bred colt made his assault on the Triple Crown. Spear hoped for a similar bump this year from Florida Derby (gr. I) winner Nyquist and trainer Doug O’Neill, whom he got to know because O’Neill often ships horses to Golden Gate from his Santa Anita stable.

“I really learned about television on the job, and the same thing with radio,” Spear noted. “I’m very fortunate to be on a high-powered station like KNBR.

“Two years ago, because Art was a trainer here for many years and I knew him very well, we had him on the show every week beginning in February. And so every week we’d get an update on California Chrome. And fortunately, everything kept going. So it turned out to be quite a deal because you’d get a report on where he’s training and where he’s going next, how he’s doing. Ten all of a sudden you’ve got the prep for the Santa Anita Derby (gr. I), then the Santa Anita Derby. Now he’s going to the Kentucky Derby, and every week Art would be on.”

Spear’s media visibility and regular appearances in the newspaper columns of the day such as Dickey’s not only kept racing in the news at a time when competition for attention was increasing but also helped cement his place as the sport’s spokesman.

Forbes, who now works with Spear after replacing Tom Fer-rell in 2015, remembers watching Spear on TV as a toddler.

Sam Spear interviews Golden Gate jockey Russell Baze, who holds the record as the winningest jockey in North America

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“I grew up in a household in which my father was really into rac-ing, so we watched that show practically every night,” said Forbes, now 30.

Forbes describes his own role in the publicity ofce as taking care of “the nuts-and bolts type stuf”—press releases, stakes race quotes and recaps, the house handicap and statistics, and social media tasks.

“I think we have complementary skill sets,” Forbes said. “Sam’s been around a long time, and he’s got a lot of contacts. He’s great at getting coverage.”

Ferrell, who worked with Spear for more than 25 years before re-locating to Southern California, agrees.

“Nobody has done more to promote horse racing in Northern California over the years than Sam,” Ferrell said. “I know he’s had to fght like hell to keep his TV show going, and it’s one of the last recap shows in the country. He’s a fghter, though, and resilient. He knows how to make reporters feel welcome and how to help them do their jobs. You have to watch him, though. He’ll deliver a few zingers. He’s got a little Don Rickles in him.”

Larry Stumes, who was covering racing for the Chronicle when Spear arrived on the scene, and still does, calls Spear “a throwback” to an earlier time, a man who works every single day to promote horse racing.

“I haven’t always agreed with him, but I have to say that every-thing he’s done since the day he got here was to beneft horse racing,” Stumes said. “He’s also one of the most fun people I’ve ever been around. He’s got an opinion about everything.”

Comparing today’s racing scene to how it was 30 years ago, Spear says the hardest things for him to get used to are the consolidation and elimination of newspapers, which has pretty much emptied out his press box, and poor on-track attendance. He notes that com-petition for decreasing newspaper space, with new sports and the additional coverage given to women’s sports, makes it all the more difcult for racing to maintain a presence.

“We’re always looking for a good story, and we get very good cov-erage in the Chronicle with our stakes races,” he said. “When I frst started, we had a stakes race every Saturday. So that’s defnitely dif-ferent. But there are things that happen, like California Chrome, like Lost in the Fog, that generate publicity.

“When California Chrome started his campaign, I treated it like he was a local horse because of Art Sherman, who was here 40 years as a jockey and a trainer. So we got as much coverage of California Chrome as they got in Southern California. Whenever something gets hot, I try to make the most of it.

“When I frst came here, we averaged more than 10,000 people on Fridays. And then it was 17,000 (to) 22,000 on the weekends, but 10,000 people here just on Fridays. But then came simulcasting and now the Internet. It’s very difcult if you try to explain to somebody who doesn’t understand why there isn’t anybody here.

“Te one thing I’ve had to adjust to is the lack of energy if you walk through the plant on a day like (a Tursday), the lack of a buzz. So you have to understand that if you borrowed $50 from someone and he’s looking for you, there’s nowhere to hide out.”

Still, Spear looks forward to every day at the track because he nev-er knows what might happen.

“I have no plans for retirement. I enjoy what I’m doing, and so long as we keep racing and keep going, there’s nothing else I’d rather be doing. I kind of look at it like each day is a diferent challenge.”

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2016 Northern California

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Golden State Series

BY TRACY GANTZ

Santa Anita took a break be-tween meetings during April, but before the action segued

to Los Alamitos, several Califor-nia-breds performed with aplomb.

On Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) day, April 9, Cal-breds demonstrated their value to the crowd. Pacifc Heat and Tough It Out captured the Golden State Series events, while What a View added still another graded victory in the grade III Tunder Road Stakes (see page 34). Two weeks pre-viously, Sheer Pleasure put another trophy on her mantel by winning the Dreaming of Summer Stakes.

PACIFIC HEAT’S

EVENING JEWEL STAKES

Pacifc Heat ran her record to a perfect four-for-four against Cal-breds and Cali-fornia-sired competition in the $200,000 Evening Jewel Stakes. Co-owner Joe Ciaglia has liked her since he picked her out at a Barretts sale with trainer Peter Eu-rton and bloodstock agent Larry Zap, and she continues to live up to her promise.

“She won at Del Mar, she won on the grass, she won on the dirt, she won short, she won long,” said Ciaglia. “It’s been some fun—she’s very versatile.”

Eight 3-year-old fllies challenged Pacif-ic Heat in the 61⁄2-furlong Evening Jewel, but bettors knew where to put their mon-ey. Tey sent her of as the 6-5 favorite.

In the slop, Pacifc Heat had the advan-tage of liking to be on or near the lead ear-ly. She came out of the gate well, grabbed a short lead, and then sat in second briefy when longshot Later My Love scooted past.

Jockey Flavien Prat let Pacifc Heat range up on the outside of Later My Love and from that point on controlled the race. Second-choice Be a Lady stayed with Pacifc Heat till early in the stretch, and

The jewel of the Pacifc: Pacifc Heat remains perfect among Cal-bred competition with a sparkling victory in the Evening Jewel Stakes at Santa Anita

Pacifc Heat’s Evening Jewel victory brings a ray of sunshine to her connections under the lowering clouds above the Santa Anita winner’s circle

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then the closers tried to test her.Despite Run for Retts and Roo’s

Valentine cutting into Pacifc Heat’s lead a bit, the result wasn’t in doubt. Pacifc Heat scored by 11⁄4 lengths in 1:17.38, with Run for Retts a neck ahead of Roo’s Valentine for second. Be a Lady hung on for fourth.

“She wasn’t really comfortable on this sloppy track today,” said Prat. “But she has so much talent that it didn’t even matter. Her talent made all the diference.”

Ciaglia owns Pacifc Heat with Sha-ron Alesia, Mike Burns, and Taylor Legan. As Ciaglia stood next to Zap in the winner’s circle, the two brought up an intriguing possible goal.

“How about this—we wait two months and we go to the Acorn (gr. I),” said Zap. “Before Del Mar starts and we have to go back to turf, wouldn’t it be a nice possibility?”

Belmont Park ofers the one-turn dirt mile Acorn on June 11, the day of the Belmont Stakes (gr. I). It’s a $700,000 event that will likely attract a host of top-fight 3-year-old fllies.

Ciaglia, Eurton, and Zap selected Pa-cifc Heat for $175,000 out of the 2014 Barretts October sale. John Harris’ Har-ris Farms and Don Valpredo bred the daughter of Unusual Heat—Hotlantic, by Stormy Atlantic. Her exploits last year earned her the title of champion Cal-bred 2-year-old flly, and she could be on her way to another championship.

TOUGH IT OUT’S

ECHO EDDIE STAKES

While Pacifc Heat is no stranger to the winner’s circle after a stakes, Tough It Out was still looking for his frst added-mon-ey victory. He had placed in stakes twice, fnishing third in last year’s King Glorious Stakes and second in the Jan. 30 Califor-nia Cup Derby.

Tough It Out brought excellent con-nections to the $200,345 Echo Eddie Stakes. Nick Alexander, whose breeding program has put his name high on the California leading breeder list, bred and owns Tough It Out. His trainer, Phil D’Amato, had already clinched his frst Santa Anita training title and ended up with 41 winners, seven more than sec-

ond-place Doug O’Neill. When Tough It Out captured the Echo Eddie, it gave D’Amato his eighth stakes victory of the meeting to lead in that category as well.

Another “tough” horse, Tough But Nice, went favored in the 61⁄2-furlong Echo Eddie, with Tough It Out the third choice under jockey Joe Talamo.

Brandothebartender and Tough But Nice vied for the early lead. Te favorite had to withstand some bumping from

Brandothebartender, according to his jockey, Fernando Perez.

“He bumped me so hard on the back-side,” said Perez. “He was four wide, and he’s still bumping me, so that took every-thing away from my horse (who ultimate-ly fnished seventh).”

It also let Gary Stevens sneak through on the rail with Gold Rush Dancer, giving them a clear lead into the stretch.

Talamo stayed well back and wide early.

Even bad weather conditions can’t keep the smiles off the faces of Echo Eddie winner Tough It Out’s entourage

Nick Alexander’s Cal homebred Tough It Out does just that with a 41⁄2-length win in the Echo Eddie Stakes in less than ideal conditions

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Tus, Tough It Out had a clear path to run down Gold Rush Dancer in the stretch. He drew away to win by 41⁄2 lengths in 1:17.60. Xingontothebone fnished third.

Alexander couldn’t be at Santa Anita because anoth-er of his good Cal-breds, multiple stakes winner Sunday Rules, competed at Keeneland in the Mad-ison Stakes (gr. I), setting the pace early before fn-ishing unplaced. Alexander produced Tough It Out by breeding his stallion Gra-zen to the Marquetry mare Mark Set Go.

“I know Grazen could run on anything, and he is out of a Marquetry mare,” said D’Amato, “so his pedigree suggested he would like the slop. He sure did.”

D’Amato said that conditions caused Tough It Out to be “a victim of circum-stances” earlier because the only spot D’Amato had to run him in March was against older horses.

“But he found his 3-year-old company again against Cal-breds, and he proved best today,” said the trainer.

Tough It Out was winning his second race in eight starts. He has fnished second once and third twice and has now earned $212,790.

SHEER PLEASURE’S

DREAM OF SUMMER STAKES

Easter Sunday may send children in search of chocolate and eggs, but it sent Sheer Pleasure in search of still another stakes victory. Te 4-year-old flly faced eight other older fllies and mares in the $101,380 Dream of Summer Stakes March 27 and came away with the trophy, also for D’Amato.

Te large and enthusiastic Little Red Feather Racing partnership owns Sheer Pleasure with Ron McMackin and John Ransom’s R/M Racing.

“We had horses in training with Mike Mitchell and Phil D’Amato,” said John Ransom. “Phil called me one day and said he had this horse Sheer Pleasure, and so we bought half of her. We’ve liked the

partnership, so we’ve done two or three other things together.”

Little Red Feather and R/M also own Kentucky-breds Riri and Bellamentary, but it’s the Cal-bred who has taken them to the winner’s circle most often.

Sheer Pleasure went of at 4-1 in against the likes of stakes winner Kiss At Midnight, the 2-1 favorite, and multiple stakes winner Singing Kitty.

“She has a lot of speed; you can put her wherever you want to,” said jockey Mar-tin Garcia of Sheer Pleasure.

Garcia chose to sit in midpack behind Swissarella’s early pace. Sheer Pleasure’s outside post left her a little wide on the frst turn of the one-mile dirt race. She was easily in the clear to come around a

couple of horses on the sec-ond turn, with only Swis-sarella in front of her in the stretch.

“Martin got good posi-tion on the frst turn,” said D’Amato. “Tat’s what won the race.”

Sheer Pleasure caught Swissarella and then held of the fast-closing Kiss At Midnight to win by a half-length in 1:36.82. Swis-sarella saved the third spot over Singing Kitty.

“We’ve had a lot of fun with her—she’s done really well,” said Ransom. “We got pretty ambitious with her last year. We ran against

(champion) Stellar Wind.”Billy Koch, founder of Little Red Feath-

er, said he felt Sheer Pleasure does better around two turns.

“She has enough tactical speed to stay close,” he said. “She lost a lot of ground today but ran a really good race. I’m just so proud of her, and I’m so happy for our partners.”

Little Red Feather purchased Sheer Pleasure privately early in her 2-year-old season. Madera Toroughbreds bred the daughter of Birdonthewire—Kathryns Birthday, by Blare of Trumpets.

Te flly has won four of 11 races for earnings of $383,030. Last year she captured the Melair and Evening Jewel stakes.

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Cal-breds at Los Alamitos

BY TRACY GANTZ

The Southern California racing calendar shaped up diferent-ly for 2016, as Los Alamitos

opened during April instead of July, breaking up the long Santa Ani-ta stand. Tat didn’t faze Califor-nia-breds, who handled the switch by capturing both stakes April 16, the frst Saturday of Los Alamitos’ April 14-May 1 meeting.

Te Bertrando Stakes is part of the Golden State Stakes series for Cal-breds and California-sired runners. Los Alami-tos also conducted the grade III Los Ange-les Stakes for the frst time, and it attracted several Cal-breds. Te result? Victories for San Onofre in the $100,000 Los Angeles and Boozer in the $100,345 Bertrando.

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San Onofre has given his trainer, Karen Headley, fts with his attitude. When he wanted to show of, he could, as his vic-tory in the Jan. 2 Midnight Lute Stakes (gr. III) at Santa Anita demonstrated. But then he regressed, fnishing fourth in the California Cup Sprint Stakes and last in the San Carlos Stakes (gr. II).

“We put blinkers on him because he didn’t pay attention last time and he fnished dead last,” Head-ley said. “We wanted him focused. He’s getting easier to train.’’

With blinkers in the Los Angeles, San Onofre sat of the early pace of Sir Kip and Yiannis. He had to go four wide to make his move in Los Alamitos’ long stretch, but he responded to the urging of jockey Edwin Maldonado.

San Onofre needed the response to hold of the closing charge of favored Wild Dude. San Onofre succeeded by a length, stop-ping the clock in 1:02.04 for the 51⁄2 furlongs. Wild Dude fnished second, a half-length ahead of Cal-bred Raised a Secret.

Maldonado was winning his fourth consecutive Los Angeles, even more signif-icant because he accom-plished the feat at three dif-ferent tracks—on Comma to the Top at Hollywood Park, Cyclometer and Dis-tinctiv Passion at Santa Ani-ta, and now San Onofre at Los Alamitos.

Hollywood Park sched-uled a 11⁄16-mile race called the Los Angeles in 1938 and 1939, and re-estab-lished it as a sprint race in 1955. It varied from six to seven furlongs there until Hollywood closed. Santa Anita carded it twice as a

six-furlong event in 2014-15.Te Headley family has also done well

in the Los Angeles. Karen’s father, Bruce, trained Cal-bred Cyclometer, having bred and owned him in partnership. Bruce also trained Los Angeles winners Street Boss in 2008, sprint champion Kona Gold in 2002, and Son of a Pistol in 1999.

San Onofre races for Karen’s moth-er, Aase, in the name of Matson Racing.

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Bruce bred the 6-year-old geld-ing from two horses he trained. Aase and Marsha Naify owned Surf Cat, a multiple stakes win-ner and San Onofre’s sire. His dam, the Native Regent mare Marrakech Gold, injured herself after only two starts.

Karen explained that her fa-ther, following years of selecting horses in Kentucky with the physical bodies he felt makes a good racehorse, is now breeding those individuals himself in Cali-fornia. Te process works.

San Onofre is Surf Cat’s frst stakes winner. A son of Sir Cat—Trust Greta, by Centrust, Surf Cat earned $1,045,420 and stands at Old English Rancho in Sanger.

San Onofre, who fnished sec-ond by a neck in the 2015 Los Angeles, was winning his sixth race in 13 starts. He raised his lifetime earnings to $402,385.

BOOZER’S BERTRANDO STAKES

Maldonado scored a stakes double when he also piloted Boozer in the one-mile Bertrando. Gary Stevens regularly

rides the 6-year-old Cal-bred son of Un-usual Heat—Kitty and Boo, by Cape Ca-naveral, but he was at Keeneland that day.

“I won with him going short when he was a 3-year-old,” said Maldonado.

Boozer and Maldonado performed as if they had never been separated. Boozer raced in second early behind pacesetter

Avanti Bello. Soi Phet, the 2014 Bertrando victor, stayed within striking distance in third, outside of the frst two horses.

Boozer ranged up outside of Avanti Bello as they turned into the stretch. Soi Phet tried to catch Boozer, but Boozer held him of and won by a half-length in 1:34.73. Soi Phet had four lengths on third-place Avanti Bello.

“Te trip worked out ex-actly the way we planned,” said Maldonado. “He was very comfortable the whole way.’’

Mark Glatt trains Boozer for owners Al and Saundra Kirkwood, who live in Wash-ington state. Tey weren’t able to come down for the

Bertrando, though they did see Boozer win the Feb. 27 Sensational Star Stakes at Santa Anita. Tey have said that Boozer is a particular favorite of theirs.

Glatt admitted that the stretch run made him a little nervous when Soi Phet came on, “but he’s a gamer.”

Boozer usually runs on the turf.“Gary Stevens has worked

him for me numerous times, and he said if the opportu-nity comes up, don’t hesitate running this horse on dirt,” said Glatt. “Tis adds another dimension and gives us other options with him.’’

Tough Unusual Heat continually leads the Cal-ifornia turf earnings sire list, he gets more than his share of dirt runners to lead or rank high on the overall California sire list as well. Madeline Auerbach bred Boozer in partnership with Barry Abrams, Vincenzo Loverso, Chris Perez, and Huston Racing.

Te Kirkwoods bought Boozer privately after he broke his maiden. He has won seven of 22 starts for earnings of $538,792.

Boozer’s trainer Mark Glatt, right, along with jockey Edwin Maldanado, who won both stakes on the Los Al card, accepts the Bertrando trophy from CTBA board member Terry Lovingier

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BY GENE WILLIAMS

Though it took him nearly 40 years in the busi-ness, Kenny Black now ranks as an overnight sensation with his immense success as the trainer

of multiple stakes winner What a View and a barnful of other Old English Rancho California-breds.

Tat could be a bit of stretch, but not out of bounds for the 52-year-old trainer whose history shows something of a hit-and-miss career as a jockey and an of-and-on run at being a trainer. His two years with the late E.W. (Buddy) Johnston’s racing operation, which includes partnerships as well single ownership by Old English Rancho, have vaulted him into a more prominent place in the busi-ness.

Black is a happy man these days. Tough John-ston is no longer around, his spirit rests with the trainer day in and day out.

After What a View’s victory in Santa Ani-ta’s Frank E. Kilroe Mile Stakes (gr. IT) in March, Black paid tribute by saying, “I was very happy for Buddy. He loved racing, and he loved his horses. He was such an enthu-siastic man. I remember him so often after a victory saying, ‘Wow, what a flly’ or ‘Wow, what a colt.’ Buddy had a huge smile and a manner that was infectious. His face would just light up after a win – sort of like a kid in a candy store.

“In my time in racing, the only person I can think of who had that same charisma was Chick Lang, the darling of Maryland racing and the ambassador for the state’s rac-ing all his life. He and Buddy led the pack in enthusiasm and love for the sport and the horses.”

Black is in charge of 15 horses bred and raced by the Johnstons and partners. Te stable’s standard-bearer is 5-year-old What a View, who was dominant in winning the Kilroe in what was an audacious graded-stakes debut. Pre-

Trainer Kenneth Black and jockey Kent Desormeaux share a celebratory hug following Cal-bred What a View’s victory in the grade I Frank E. Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita

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viously, he could be found among Cal-bred runners and prepared himself for the daunting Kilroe task by winning the California Cup Turf Classic Stakes earlier in the year. He came right back to add the grade III Tunder Road Stakes (see sidebar on page 34).

Black believes top-of-the-line Cal-breds stack up quite favorably with open-company horses and wouldn’t hesitate to test the mettle of his top Cal-breds in open company. Tough the Kilroe seemed a daring move, Black didn’t hesitate, his reason being that “I knew he was good, and I thought it was a win-nable race for him.”

Te other side of the coin in leaving Cal-bred races for open company brought this response from Black: “Sometimes it seems silly to go in open company be-cause the Cal-bred racing program ofers very good money. Why would you do that unless you have to; say, if your horse needs a race and there are no Cal-bred races that ft.”

Black’s adventures on the racetrack have been many, from riding for two years in Maryland against the likes of Mario Pino and Randy Romero, to bounc-ing around too many tracks to remember and dealing with “hot boxes” and “fipping” to keep weight under control.

Black, born in Las Vegas Nov. 28, 1963, recalls he had no trouble making weight when he broke in as a 16-year-old apprentice in Maryland.

“I weighed 86 pounds then, so I never was an over-weight when weigh-in time came,” he said. “But I grew eight inches and put on 30 pounds that frst year and tacked 116 after that.”

Tat one-year growth spurt haunted him for the

... Distant Ryder in the California Derby at Golden Gate Fields in 1984

rest of his career as weight problems piled up.Te one adventure that stands above all others occurred in a match race

near Salinas, Calif., where at 10 years old and 40 pounds Black had no way to rein in his Quarter Horse mount at the end of the race and found himself and the horse skittering onto Highway 101. Te two kept going until his father, Arden, who had jumped into his truck and pursued them, could get in front of the horse, get out of the truck, and bring him to a stop.

He spent his childhood with his father, a trainer who never took a train-ing job unless he could bring Kenny along as a gallop boy. It all started for Kenny when at age 8 he began riding in match races. Father and son traveled from track to track, living in tack rooms and getting horses ready to race.

As a rider, Black found himself fghting his weight far more often than fghting a horse. Tough he rode a while in California, most of his jockey

career came at second- and third-tier tracks, fnally leading him to leave racing and pick up work in the housing market.

However, it didn’t take long for him to return to his frst love — horses. He began breaking and training a few, and in 2006 he took out his trainer’s license and began in earnest at San Luis Rey Downs with some help from trainer John Shirrefs.

“John put me together with my frst owner, Tom Shapiro, whose grandfather owned Native Diver,” said Black. “I had about seven horses for him.”

Later he handled a string of horses for trainer Mark Glatt at Fairplex Park before joining the Old English Rancho team as an assistant to the Johnston family’s longtime train-er Don Warren. After Warren’s retirement, Black became the nominal trainer for the stable, with Buddy Johnston having the fnal say.

“Buddy was the boss, and we all knew that and were okay with it,” Black said.

Black’s riding skills aid in his training career.“I think there’s an advantage to being able to get on a

horse and feel what they’re doing,” he said. “I breeze nearly all of my horses, and I gallop a lot of them. It’s a way of get-ting a handle on what a horse is like on the track and what

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kind of training it needs. Sometimes I’ll let a jockey who is going to ride one of my frst starters breeze the horse so he can get a feel for the horse.”

Helping Kenny are his wife of 12 years, Teresa, and his younger brother Corey, who carved out quite a career for himself as a rider on the Southern California cir-cuit. Tey both gallop horses for Black, who is quick to praise his wife for the shape of his training career.

“She grew up in England and was quite an equestrienne before turning to Tor-oughbreds there,” he said. “She came to America to gallop for Charlie Whit-tingham and has brought me many fne points for training from her career.”

Black has mentioned that What a View’s talents sometimes are compromised by some quirkiness. For example, Black said, one time the horse lost when he appeared to be gawking at the Del Mar tote board when he should have been intent on run-ning to the wire for the victory.

Black said the tote-board episode ac-tually began the morning of the race. What a View was being galloped in the

dark at Del Mar, and the tote board was lit up and there was activity on it. When the gelding saw that, he stopped cold and stumbled. He was unhurt, but he re-lived

that episode that afternoon heading for the fnish line.

“Te horse has the memory of an el-ephant,” said Black. “He never forgets a thing, especially if he’s been spooked by it.”

As a precaution Black gallops What a View in blinkers. In another nod to What a View’s quirkiness, he won’t go to the track at Del Mar without accompa-niment of a pony because, Black said, he was almost struck by another horse as he approached the gap leading to the track during morning training.

Even so, What a View’s dance card is still going to be flled with the kind of races Old English hopes might prepare him for a run in a Breeders’ Cup turf race, perhaps the Mile (gr. IT) this fall at Santa Anita, where he remains unbeaten on the grass.

While he’s happy and proud of What a View’s success, Black is hopeful for the return to racing of Old English’s super-fast Acceptance, who reigned as the champion California-bred 2-year-old male of 2014. After some physical problems interrupted

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his training and then he didn’t perform up to par, Acceptance received some freshening time at Old English’s Sanger spread.

“He’s a cool horse,” Black said. “He has a great personality, but he can be a handful, too. He’s big and strong, and he’s the boss in the barn. If he doesn’t get fed frst, he lets you know.”

Tough a generation apart, Black said he shared in Johnston’s excitement and anticipation that comes with each year’s babies. “I can hardly wait each year when the babies ship to the race-track from the farm. I admit I’m not a patient man, so the constant changes in these young ones keep me interested in how they progress. Tey are changing from day to day.”

Now in its third generation of administration at the legendary and long-standing California breeding giant that was started by E.W. “Pie Man” Johnston, Old English remains frmly a Johnston operation. Buddy’s wife, Judy, contin-ues to be involved, though their grandson, Jonny Hilvers, runs much of the day-to-day operation as the farm’s manager.

“I remember the frst time I saw him at the barn,” Black said of Hilvers. “I told Buddy, ‘You can be proud of him; he’s a fne young man.’ ”

Black chuckled when he said Hilvers was “the frst foal born at the Sanger ranch” after it moved from its longstanding site in Ontario. But there’s praise instead of chuckling when Black calls Hil-vers as “an old-school horseman in a 30-year-old man.”

So it’s no surprise that the two horsemen get along well and are developing even more Old En-glish winners.

Thunder in the Rain

BY TRACY GANTZ

Maybe some Californians stayed home when rain pelted the Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) card, but What a View said bring it on. The California-bred turf runner loves a soft course, and he completed a stakes triple with a victory in the $100,000 Thunder Road Stakes (gr. IIIT), one of the stakes on the April 9 undercard.

Jockey Kent Desormeaux had already won the Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) on Exaggerator and the Providencia Stakes (gr. IIIT) on Decked Out by the time trainer Kenny Black gave him a leg up on What a

View. Instead of their usual front-funning tac-tics, Desormeaux and What a View stormed home from sixth, a strategy that worked perfectly.

“He was coming off the bridle today,” said Desormeaux. “There’s no way in the last month or two that he let me ride him like he let me ride him today. I think

the horse is starting to fgure (Kenny and me) out more than the other way around.”

As the 9-10 favorite, What a View defeated second-choice Twen-tytwentyvision by a length in 1:39.01 for the mile on yielding turf. Co-owners Judy Johnston and Rob Riccio accepted the trophy, and Judy noted that she received a boost from her late husband, E.W. (Buddy) Johnston, in watching her horse in the rain.

“I usually bring my little binoculars, but I couldn’t fnd them,” said Judy. “I brought Buddy’s big ones instead.”

Old English bred What a View in California with Patsy and Sal Berumen, and Buddy got to see the gelding’s frst few races. The 5-year-old son of Vronsky—Oceans N Mountains, by Manila, now has a four-race winning streak, following wins in an allowance op-tional claimer, the California Cup Turf Classic Stakes, and the Frank E. Kilroe Mile Stakes (gr. IT).

With the Thunder Road, What a View increased his record to six wins in 12 starts for earnings of $592,148.

What a View and jockey Kent Desormeaux win the grade III Thunder Road Stakes

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Kenny Black keeps WHAT A VIEW’S Winning Streak Alive in The Thunder Road Stakes

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Rose Toroughbreds, and Sue Greene’s Woodbridge Farm consigned him to the yearling sale.

John Brocklebank bought Snow Proof for Vern Dickman’s Dickman Legacy Ranch in Salt Lake, Utah. Brocklebank ofered the youngster at the Barretts sale, where Snow Proof previewed a furlong in :10. Tat caught the eye of trainer Bob Bafert, who bought him.

Becky Tomas’ Sequel Bloodstock consigned the other six-fgure Cal-bred, purchased by Justin Casse. Steve Bussjae-ger, Ed Gredvig, John Mendenhall, and Marko Swan bred the flly from the Tale of the Cat mare Cali Cali. Te flly also previewed in :10. Tomas had bought her for $40,000 at the 2015 Barretts select yearling sale.

Tis year marked the frst time Barretts conducted its select juvenile auction at Del Mar. Te 2015 sale was held in late February as the fnal Barretts auction at Fairplex in Pomona.

Te 2016 sale averaged $124,558 for 43 sold, a decline of 8.8% over 2015, when 45 averaged $136,622. Te sale grossed $5,356,000 in 2016, compared to $6,148,000 in 2015. A total of 21 of the 64 horses through the ring did not sell, a buy-back rate of 32.8% compared to 30.8% last year, and the median was $100,000 both years.

“We were glad to see that the sale held its own on the average,” said Lloyd. “Te median was the same. Consignors were a little nervous coming out, and they had a right to be with a new place and a new time slot. Te track played very fair and very safe, and our consignors were very pleased.”

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Yearling pinhooks made up the majority of the Barretts select sale of 2-year-olds at Del Mar March 30, with California-breds a part of the action.

Six horses previewed the fastest during the March 28 under-tack session, each zipping a furlong in :094⁄5. Tat time helped the $460,000 sale-topper, a Kentucky-bred son of Te Factor—Broadway Lullaby, by Songandaprayer. Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables consigned the colt, purchased by Emmanuel de Seroux’s Narvick International for Jap-anese client Dr. Riki Takahashi.

A Cal-bred daughter of Good Journey also previewed in :094⁄5 as part of Andy Havens’ Havens Bloodstock Agency consignment. Kirk Bell bred the flly, who is out of the Mat-ty G mare Hay Whatsamaddau and is a half sister to stakes-placed Korban. BG Stables bought the flly for $85,000, and she had previously sold for $35,000 at the 2015 Barretts October sale.

Two Cal-breds reached six fgures at the select juvenile auc-tion. Snow Proof, a son of Idiot Proof, brought $150,000, and a daughter of Adios Charlie sold for $125,000.

Snow Proof had topped the 2015 Northern California Yearling and Horses of Racing Age Sale at $72,000. Tim-othy O’Leary bred the colt, a son of the Smart Strike mare Reine des Neiges. Ellen Jackson prepped him at Victory

A Cal-bred Adios Charlie—Cali Cali flly, who worked in :10 at the under-tack show, sold for $125,000 to Justin Casse

Snow Proof, the top-priced Cal-bred to sell at Barretts select sale of 2-year-olds, brought $150,000 from trainer Bob Baffert

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Jose Rubalcava is more than just the farm manager at Victory Rose Toroughbreds. He’s also an inspi-ration to those who work beside him,

including owner Ellen Jackson.

“I can’t think of just any one instance that Jose stepped up and saved the day; there have been so very many,” Jackson said. “I think it would be harder to think of a time when he didn’t step up.”

Rubalcava, 58, is a native of Jalisco, Mexico, and comes from an expansive family of 11 children.

“It was over an hour’s walk to the schoolhouse,” Rubalcava said. “Myself and two brothers made the trek for about a year, but the other kids would throw rocks at us because we weren’t from their town. Tat was okay for us boys, but when they started throwing rocks at my sister, I refused to go to school again.”

At the tender age of 7, Rubalcava started working full time at his parents’ farm.

“It was normal where I grew up to start working at a very young age,” he said. “We had horses, cows, goats, burros, chickens, cats, and dogs.”

Rubalcava dreamed of a better life, and at age 20 he came to the United States to begin work on the racetrack.

“I (did that) for many years, but regularly returned home to the ranch life that I loved,” he recalled. “When I started working for Ellen Jackson at the

track, I saw the chance to get back to the life I really felt was right for me and my family.”

Jackson, who has now known Rubalcava for 25 years, was at frst skeptical and didn’t even have a spot available.

“I told him I didn’t really have a job opening, but we could always use a good hand at the farm and I

did have a small cottage available for him to live in,” she said. “So he went from being an excellent groom to a jack of all trades at my farm.

“At that time, racetrack grooms were mostly Hispanic people working on an H-2 work visa, which required them to re-turn to Mexico for four months every year to keep their visa cur-rent. Jose was the friend or rel-ative who flled in during these shifts so grooms were guaranteed their jobs back when they re-turned. He was also brother to

my assistant trainer, Alberto Rubal-cava. He did the fll in for my barn a couple of times before he asked me if I needed any farm help. He want-ed to settle down with his wife and

family and wanted to provide more than just a tack room at the racetrack.”

Jackson quickly realized that Rubalcava was invaluable.

“I wasn’t sure of his abilities, so he just helped with everything. It soon became obvious he had many tal-ents critical to keeping a farm running smoothly. He can confdently handle the stallions, put a new motor in a farm vehicle, repair a broken anything, halter break the weanlings, foal out a mare. Just about any sort of thing that needs doing on the farm, Jose can do.”

Despite the interruption to his education, Rubalca-va has fourished.

“My job covers all aspects of running a farm, from mechanical maintenance to handling the breeding stallions,” he said. “I never learned to read or write, but I’ve developed a shorthand that I use to keep things organized and correct. I am on call 24/7 and can do most any job required to keep the farm run-ning smoothly.”

Now, Jackson can’t imagine life without Rubalcava on the farm.

“I’m constantly amazed at how he can fgure out how to solve a problem in a practical way,” she said. “He never had a formal education, and I often think about what this man could have achieved had he had the opportunity of a good education. Even without, what he’s made of his life is quite inspiring.”

With limited educational opportunities, Victory Rose Thoroughbreds’ farm manag-er Jose Rubalcava is the epitome of experience being the best teacher

Determination and know-how coupled with an excellent work ethic were the keys to Jose Rubalcava’s rise through the ranks at Ellen Jackson’s Victory Rose Thoroughbreds

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Regional Sales Preview

BY TRACY GANTZ

With 30 California sires rep-resented in an early look at the catalog, the Barretts

May sale will showcase the great strides being made by the state’s breeding industry. Buyers will have a plethora of bloodlines to choose from, especially if they are looking for California-breds so that they can take advantage of the state’s lucra-tive incentive program.

Barretts has slated its sale for May 27 at Del Mar, with the training preview scheduled for May 25. Tough the prices in May typically don’t reach those of Bar-retts’ March select sale, this auction has seen more than its share of success from graduates on the racetrack.

Cal-bred Long Hot Summer, winner of the 2014 Generous Portion Stakes and a half sister to California champion Pacifc Heat, is a $260,000 graduate of the 2014 May sale, which also produced El Camino Real Derby (gr. III) winner Metaboss. Both are by Street Boss, who will be represented by ofspring in the catalog.

Te Factor is another graduate of the May sale, and his frst foals are proving popular. He cost $250,000 at the 2010 May sale and won such races as the Pat O’Brien Stakes (gr. I) and Malibu Stakes (gr. I). A colt by Te Factor topped this year’s Barretts March sale at $460,000, and the stallion will have a colt in the May catalog as part of California-based Bruno DeBerdt’s Excel Bloodstock consignment.

In more recent years, the May sale has produced multiple graded winner Dice Fla-vor, a graduate of the 2012 sale. Te 2013 edition produced Miesque Stakes (gr. IIIT) winner Full Ransom and Afrmed Stakes (gr. III) winner Can the Man.

Among California sires, Lucky Pulpit is far and away the leading sire this year, by virtue of California Chrome’s popular victory in the Dubai World Cup (UAE-I). Lucky Pulpit and Unusual Heat, the latter always among the California leaders and for 12 years the leader by turf earnings, will have juveniles in the consignment of California-based Kim McCarthy’s McCa-rthy Bloodstock.

Two other longtime California consign-ors, Andy Havens’ Havens Bloodstock

Agency and Sam Hendicks, will have a plethora of juveniles by California sires. Havens and Hendricks both have 2-year-olds by deceased Tribal Rule. Havens also has one by Street Hero and by Southern Image, while Hendricks’ group includes youngsters by such California stallions as Acclamation, Te Pamplemousse, Dixie Chatter, and Blazonry.

Dynamic Sales Prep has a consignment chalk full of California sires while Spencer Training Stables will have three by Cali-fornia-based sire Papa Clem. Te sires in the Dynamic group include Awesome Gambler, Grace Upon Grace, Marino Marini, and Time to Get Even.

More California sire power in the May catalog will be added through such stal-lions as Calimonco, Desert Code, Kaf-wain, Ministers Wild Cat, Old Topper, Slew’s Tiznow, and Sundarban.

Te May sale catalog will also consist of ofspring by major national stallions, including Bodemeister, City Zip, Dros-selmeyer, Empire Way, First Dude, For-estry, Ghostzapper, Hansen, More Tan Ready, Munnings, Sidney’s Candy, Sky Mesa, Speightstown, Super Saver, Tale of the Cat, and Uncle Mo.

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California-Bred Incentive Awards

THE CAL-BRED INCENTIVE PROGRAM

Questions and answers concerning California-breds and California’s lucrative incentive awards program, which was responsible for breeders, owners, and stallion owners collecting more than $10 million for 2015.

WHO QUALIFIES FOR THE AWARDS?

Te breeders and owners of registered California-bred Torough-breds and the owners of California-based stallions.

WHAT ARE BREEDERS AWARDS?

A monetary award that is paid to the breeder of a registered Cal-ifornia-bred Toroughbred fnishing frst, second, or third in any race run in California and any graded stakes races conducted within the United States. Breeders will receive 75% of the remainder of the total incentive award monies after owner awards are paid, with an individual breeder receiving a pro-rated share of this breeders fund. Te maximum purse considered earned in any qualifying race within this state shall be $330,000 for a win; $120,000 for a second; and $90,000 for a third-place fnish. Breeder awards always are paid ex-clusive of nomination, entry, and starting fees.

WHAT ARE OWNERS AWARDS?

A monetary award that is paid to the owner of a registered Califor-nia-bred Toroughbred horse that runs in qualifying races in Califor-nia. Owners can receive at least a 20% bonus on the fnisher’s share for fnishing frst through ffth in an open allowance or overnight stake race and up to a 20% bonus for fnishing frst in an open starter allowance above $15,000 and open non-maiden claiming races with a claiming price of $40,000 or greater in Southern California and $20,000 or greater in Northern California. Tese levels are purposely set high to encourage the ownership of high-quality runners and to restrict the number of qualifers so that the awards will function as a major incentive. Owner awards always are paid exclusive of nomi-nation, entry, and starting fees. Tey are listed in the racing program and will be distributed at the same time as the purse by the paymaster.

WHAT IS THE MAIDEN BONUS PROGRAM?

A Maiden Bonus award will be paid to the owner of a registered California-bred or registered California-sired foal for winning a maiden special weight race. Te bonus amount is $17,500 in South-ern California and $10,000 in Northern California and at all Fair meetings throughout the state. Tese awards are paid directly to the owner approximately 45 racing days after the win. Only races at 41⁄2 furlongs or longer will qualify.

WHAT ARE STALLION AWARDS?

In order to stimulate the acquisition in California of nationally prominent stallions, and retain high-caliber California stallions, monetary awards are paid annually to the owners of registered Cal-ifornia stallions whose California-conceived or California-bred get have won a qualifying race or have fnished, frst, second, or third in a stakes race in the state or any graded stakes race within the United States during the year. Qualifying races are any non-claiming rac-

es, including maiden allowance and starter allowance races, with a purse of at least $15,000, and open non-maiden claiming races with a claiming price of $40,000 or greater in Southern California and $20,000 or greater in Northern California also qualify. Stallion awards are exclusive of nomination, entry, and starting fees. Stallions must be registered by Feb. 15 each year to be eligible for stallion awards. Stallion owners will receive 25% of the remainder of the total incentive award monies after owners awards are paid, with an indi-vidual owner of a registered California stallion (as of Dec. 31) receiv-ing a pro-rated share of the stallion fund based on the total qualifying earnings of the get during the year. Te maximum purse considered earned in any qualifying race within this state shall be $330,000 for a win; $120,000 for a second; and $90,000 for a third-place fnish. Te stallion must be continuously present in California from Feb. 1 to July 15, inclusive, of the year 2010 or any subsequent calendar year in which he stood at stud and fathered the participant in the race. If a sire dies in this state in the year 2010 or any subsequent year and stood his last season at stud in this state, or was standing at stud in this state on the date of his death in the year 2010 or any subse-quent year, he shall thereafter continue to be considered an eligible Toroughbred stallion regarding a race participant fathered by him in that season. Te California Toroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA) will help compile data, but it is the ultimate responsibility of the stallion owner to advise that ofcial registering agency, on or before Feb. 15 of any year, of any and all purses earned during the preceding year that shall be considered in determining the amount of the stallion award to which the owner is entitled.

DOES THE PROGRAM INCLUDE RACES OUTSIDE OF

CALIFORNIA?

Yes. Te breeder of a California-bred Toroughbred fnishing frst, second, or third in a graded stakes race outside of California, but within the United States, will be paid a pro-rated share of the breeders fund. Te maximum purse considered earned in any race shall be $165,000 for a win; $60,000 for second; and $45,000 for a third-place fnish. CTBA will help compile data, but it is the ul-timate responsibility of the breeder to advise the ofcial registering agency (CTBA), on or before Feb. 15 of any year, of any and all purses earned during the preceding year in graded stakes races out-side of this state by horses bred by the breeder. Also, the owner of a registered California stallion whose California-conceived or Califor-nia-bred get fnished frst, second, or third in a graded stakes outside of California, but within the United States, will be paid a pro-rat-ed share of the Stallion fund with the maximum purse considered earned the same as the breeders above.

WHEN ARE THE PREMIUMS PAID?

Owner awards are paid at the same time as the purse by the pay-

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master. Breeder awards are paid twice a year with a conservative ad-vance payment of approximately 8-10% being paid around Sept. 1 and the fnal payment for 2016 being paid by March 31, 2017. Te stallion awards are paid prior to March 31, 2017.

ARE THERE SPECIAL RACING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CALI-

FORNIA-BREDS?

Yes. Racetracks in California are required by law to ofer one race per day that is restricted to California-breds. Last year that amounted to 270 additional racing opportunities and more than $16 million in additional purses for California-breds. In addition, the California legislature has declared its intent that at least 10% of the total stakes purses paid at any race meeting in California be paid on stakes rac-es restricted to registered California-breds. Tis amounted to almost $5 million in 2015 and will grow signifcantly through the creation of the Golden State Series. Also, in 2017, California Cup XXVII will be held at Santa Anita Park in January. Part of the funding for California Cup XXVII will come from the incentive award category, the California-bred Race Fund. Of the total incentive award mon-ies, 9.5% will be used for this category, with the monies funding the promotion of California-bred races, the supplement of purses for California-bred races, and the creation of new California-bred stakes.

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A CALIFORNIA-BRED?

Te defnition of a California-bred is as follows:A California-bred Toroughbred is a horse dropped in Califor-

nia after being conceived in California, or any Toroughbred foal dropped by a mare in California if the mare remains in California to be next bred to a Toroughbred stallion standing in the state. If the mare cannot be bred for two successive seasons but remains in California during that period, her foal will be considered a Califor-nia-bred.

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A CALIFORNIA-SIRED HORSE?

A “California-sired horse” is a Toroughbred that was conceived in California by a registered California stallion. A California-sired horse is only eligible for entry in races restricted to California-bred or California-sired horses and is not eligible for any breeder or owner awards, except the maiden bonus awards.

HOW DOES ONE REGISTER A CALIFORNIA-BRED OR CALI-

FORNIA-SIRED HORSE?

Registration applications must be fled with the CTBA. Only those horses that are both registered with Te Jockey Club and fulfll all requirements as outlined in the defnition of a California-bred are eligible. Te fees for registration are as follows:

1) $100.00 for CTBA members, $200.00 for non-members if applied for by Sept. 30 of the foal’s yearling year;

2) $125.00 for CTBA members. $250.00 for non-members if applied for after Sept. 30 of yearling but before Jan. 1 follow-ing; and

3) $750.00 if applied for after Jan. 1 of 2-year-old year.

If desired, application can be made in advance of receipt of Jock-ey Club Certifcates to escape penalty for late fling, but no actual registration will be made until certifcates are available. CTBA has representation at California tracks to help facilitate late registrations.

HOW CAN I OBTAIN MORE INFORMATION?

Contact Doug Burge or Mary Ellen Locke at the CTBA ofces across the street from the Santa Anita Park racetrack in Arcadia at the address and phone numbers listed below.

California Toroughbred Breeders Association201 Colorado Place, P.O. Box 60018,

Arcadia, Calif. 90166-6018 • www.ctba.com(626) 445-7800 or (800) 573-2822 • Fax: (626) 574-0852

Example of Owners Awards Program(with $50,000 purse in So. Cal at 30% from CTBA and TOC)

Placing % Purse Earned Purse Before Cal-Bred Bonuses Cal-Bred Bonus Cal-Bred Bonuses Total for a Cal-Bred

1 60% $50,000 $30,000 $9,000 $39,000

2 20% $50,000 $10,000 $3,000 $13,000

3 12% $50,000 $6,000 $1,800 $7,800

4 6% $50,000 $3,000 $900 $3,900

5 2% $50,000 $1,000 $300 $1,300

Qualifying Claiming Purse(CTBA only)

5 60% $50,000 $30,000 $6,000 $36,000

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TOP 20 2015 CALIFORNIA BREEDERS AWARDS RECIPIENTS

1 Reddam Racing LLC $180,045.08 2 Harris Farms $152,830.22 3 Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, LLC $136,940.49 4 Nick Alexander $116,643.77 5 Benjamin C. Warren $92,876.16 6 Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams $85,253.17 7 Terry C. Lovingier $72,389.50 8 Madera Thoroughbreds LLC $62,165.71 9 Old English Rancho, Patsy Berumen & Sal Berumen $54,197.87 10 Dr. & Mrs. William T. Gray DVM $53,585.62

11 Michael E. Pegram, Karl Watson & Paul Weitman $52,133.38 12 Old English Rancho $45,483.52 13 Jack Nakkashian, Harry Bederian & Harout Kamberian $44,943.64 14 B & B Zietz Stables, Inc. $39,495.50 15 Francoise Dupuis & Louise Julian $37,389.83 16 Revocable Trust Of Dr. Mikel C. Harrington And Patricia O. Harrington $37,319.79 17 Dahlberg Farms LLC $35,597.43 18 Estate of Alesia, Bran Jam Stables & Ciaglia Racing, LLC $34,984.44 19 Thomas W. Bachman $38,649.14 20 Thomas Newton Bell & Ross John Mcleod $32,605.05

ALPHABETICAL 2015 CALIFORNIA BREEDERS AWARDS RECIPIENTS

A & T Stock Farm .............................................$3,419.77Mike Abraham ..................................................$4,593.90Abrams & Huston Racing Stables ................$14,420.88Abrams, Huston Racing,

Matties Racing, Auerbach .........................$9,806.36Barry Abrams, Madeline Auerbach

& Marie Goda .............................................$9,315.22B. Abrams, V Loverso, C Perez,

Huston Racing & M. Auerbach .................$6,721.94Barry Abrams ....................................................$6,558.51Barry Abrams, Madeline Auerbach

& Huston Racing Stables ...........................$5,571.61Barry Abrams, Huston Racing Stables

& Jim Robbins .............................................$4,065.03Abrams, Houston Racing Stables, Loverso

& Perez .........................................................$3,520.23Abrams, Huston

& Thoroughbred Equine Mgt. ..................$2,361.50David Abrams & Madeline Auerbach ...........$1,278.18Academic Farms ...............................................$7,166.17Bill Adair & Phyllis Adair ..................................$1,991.65Linda Adair ........................................................... $792.05Linda Adair & Julie Adair Stack ......................... $272.40AJM Racing LLC ...............................................$5,154.62Estate of Alesia, Bran Jam Stables

& Ciaglia Racing, LLC ...............................$34,984.44Alesia, Ciaglia & Mellen ..................................$5,418.63Alesia, Ciaglia, Mellen & Westerlund ................. $97.96Nick Alexander .............................................$116,643.77Darwin Alfstad...................................................... $178.11Dr. Edward C. Allred ........................................$6,211,72Salah Said Al-mudarris ....................................$3,660.62Jesus Ambrosio & Graciela Ambrosio ..........$1,283.41Amerman Racing LLC ......................................... $741.76Anatolia Inc........................................................... $624.73Nadine Anderson ...........................................$32,040.68Carol A. Anderson & Jerry Anderson ............$3,060.92Jim Anderson ....................................................... $866.96Nadine Anderson

& Brazeau Thoroughbred Farms, LP .......... $314.31Angel Crest Farms, Ltd. ...................................$8,037.85Lorrie Anthony ..................................................... $320.59John Antonelli ...................................................$3,159.82Applebite Farms .............................................$19,361.14Archa Racing Inc. ..............................................$2,563.79Jorge Arias ........................................................... $163.44Laura Armstrong ...............................................$3,472.03Rick M. Arthur & Michael V. Arthur ................$2,025.17Carl Asadurian ..................................................$2,011.56

Carl Asadurian & Jason Asadurian ................... $427.46Luis Asistio ............................................................ $565.75Paul Astles .........................................................$1,193.82Wayne Atwell, Peggy Atwell

& E-racing.com ...........................................$3,159.82Wayne Atwell & Peggy Atwell ........................$2,377.73Madeline Auerbach

& Barry Abrams .........................................$24,227.97Madeline Auerbach .........................................$8,517.69Madeline Auerbach & David Abrams ...........$2,263.00Madeline Auerbach, Barry Abrams

& Rachel Pagones.......................................$9,968.53Madeline Auerbach, Barry Abrams

& Vincenzo Loverso ....................................$3,377.75Madeline Auerbach, Marsha Naify,

Barry Abrams & Onofrio Pecoraro ...........$5,125.71Madeline Auerbach, Richard Rosenberg

& Barry Abrams ...........................................$2,506.06Cherie Miller Austin .........................................$3,051.91Javier Avitia .......................................................$1,089.59Martin Bach .....................................................$10,801.23Thomas W. Bachman .....................................$38,649.14Bob Baffert ........................................................$1,458.38Baker, Beaty, Grover

and Overgaauw ........................................$14,499.96Ballena Vista Farm ..........................................$21,646.18Gary Barber .......................................................$7,329.63Rozamund Barclay ............................................$8,225.40Rozamund Barclay

& Patricia Harrington ..................................$2,120.52Rozamund Barclay

& Katherine Robertson ..............................$1,975.41Rozamund Barclay, Katherine Robertson,

Dr. Mikel Harrington, et al. ........................... $845.48Keith Barnacastle ................................................. $528.03Richard Barton Enterprises .............................$3,487.96Baseline Equine LLC ......................................$17,547.38Bay Cove Farm .................................................$2,623.93J Belford, C Carpenter, D Forristall, B McLean,

N Nicora, D Planchon & L Ross ................... $356.21Thomas Newton Bell

& Ross John Mcleod ................................$32,605.05John C. Bell

& Robert W. Theisen Jr. ...........................$13,379.80Richard A. Bell ...................................................$4,982.78Thomas Bell, Ross Mcleod

& Charles Ming ...........................................$1,332.67Dexter Bergounous..........................................$2,933.53Dexter Bergounous & Norm Hansen ............$2,191.77Dexter Bergounous & Tony Schleder............... $123.63

Charles Bernhardt & Carol Bernhardt ...........$3,291.31Berumen, Old English Rancho, Eichler,

Masry & Sherr ..............................................$1,475.66BG Stables .........................................................$6,274.58Bg Stables & Royalty Stables ..........................$3,117.92Big Brown Syndicate & Robert Harmon .......$3,637.57Cheryl L. Bigon .................................................$2,564.74Cheryl Bigon & William Delia ............................ $293.35James Biller .......................................................$3,926.73Gordon Bithell ..................................................$3,214.31Black Diamond Racing, LLC ...........................$6,494.61Van K. Blades, Jr. .................................................. $762.19Blakes Racing LLC ............................................$3,440.61Blinkers On Racing Stable...............................$2,784.75BMWZ Stables ..................................................$3,780.05Bnd Thoroughbreds & Cheryl Bigon ............$1,053.98Bnd Chase Thoroughbreds, Inc.

& Woodbridge Farm ..................................... $230.49Bnd Thoroughbreds ........................................$2,413.87Larry Bollmann & Suzanne Bollmann ............... $157.15Robert Bone ......................................................... $440.02Boone Family Trust...........................................$2,744.94Clydene Boots ..................................................... $550.04Eric Brandjes, Lou Ann Brandjes

& Neale Jensen...........................................$3,958.68Brazeel, Lynch, Novak ......................................... $474.08Carl Breton & Kim Breton ...............................$1,915.70Briere Thoroughbreds .....................................$7,725.01James Briere, Richard Briere

& Midnight Lute Syndicate .......................... $213.73Andrew Broberg & Jeff Stiefel........................... $932.44Patrick Brogan ...................................................... $717.68Joseph Brook & Joseph Negri .......................$3,256.20Joseph Brook ....................................................... $150.87Joseph Brook & Michael Stoff ........................... $110.01Richard Brown & Charlotte Brown .................... $628.61Browne Cattle Co. Inc. .....................................$1,885.84Perry Bruno ........................................................$1,728.69Gloria Buckridge & Tom O’Brien ...................... $424.94Chantal S. Burnison ............................................. $440.03Eugene G. Burnison ............................................ $323.74Peter S. Busch ...................................................$8,693.71Steve Bussjaeger, Ed Gredvig

& John Mendenhall ....................................... $754.33Merle L. Cables .................................................$1,005.77Nick Cafarchia .................................................$17,313.53Cal Poly Corporation .......................................$2,332.15Peter Calnan......................................................$3,539.09

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Calumet Farm ...................................................... $849.88Carliwood Farms LLC ......................................$7,291.90Carliwood Farms LLC, Bari Amadio

& Peter Amadio ..........................................$1,898.40Judy Carmel & Brad Carmel ...........................$1,194.36Bryan Carney .....................................................$3,782.15Don Carothers & Brian Carothers ..................... $201.16James Cassidy & Deron Pearson ...................$1,445.81James Cassidy ..................................................... $520.70George J. Castanares ......................................... $163.44Sal Catanzarite ..................................................$3,268.78Mr. & Mrs. John J. Cayer

& Old English Rancho ................................... $250.39Chaiken Family Trust ........................................$2,095.38George Chakmakian & Frank Aldrich ...........$3,277.16Chambers, Bernhardt & Macneil ...................$1,445.81Bruce Chandler .................................................$6,731.39Richard Chapin .................................................$2,485.12Jared Chappell .................................................... $825.58Michael John Cheek ........................................... $501.84David Christensen & Marion Christensen ....$9,519.29Marion Kem Christensen ................................$1,838.69Tom Clark & Nancy Clark ................................$2,291.82The Cole Ranch ..............................................$18,641.47The Cole Ranch & Edward Freeman .............$3,725.57Cole Ranch Partners LP ...................................$9,344.12Colvin & Gould .................................................$1,408.09Melody Conlon .................................................$1,760.11Dennis Conner & Wade Jacobsen ................$3,876.44Lisa Copeland ...................................................... $163.44Barbara Corey ...................................................$3,239.45C-Punch Ranch, Inc ........................................$29,095.47Pete Cristof & Bob Nugent ............................... $842.34Crystal Valley Farms Inc. ................................$13,677.55Dave Currie .......................................................$8,170.38Daehling Ranch LLC ......................................$22,993.69Daehling Ranch LLC & Victory Rose .............$2,491.40Dahlberg Farms LLC ......................................$35,597.43Philip D’Amato................................................$11,465.99Daphne A. Daphne ..........................................$1,139.88Viviene Dates ....................................................$1,198.05Pamela H. Davies .............................................$2,522.83Bob C. Davis......................................................$5,672.17Fred Davis & Charlene Davis & Running

Horse Equine Training Center ..................$1,419.62Paula Davis ........................................................$1,310.14Marsha Davis ........................................................ $649.57Bob Couzzins Davis ............................................. $576.22Paula S. Davis Revocable Trust 2009

& Harold May ................................................. $366.69Davis Cup Thoroughbreds .................................. $83.81Anita Dawson & Judi Dawson ........................$3,140.96Dan Dayton & Jackie Dayton ............................ $440.03William Deburgh, Richard Schatz

& Jack Preston................................................ $791.00William DeBurgh ................................................. $511.27Bruno DeJulio, Ron Holguin,

Arnold Hill & Bill Branch ............................... $422.74Ed Delaney ......................................................$15,522.53Rafael DeLeon ..................................................$2,450.02Bill Delia, H. C. Martin & Ray Pagano ..........$18,915.98Barbara Delima .................................................$1,215.32Clifford Delima & Barbara Delima .................... $570.99John Francis Demeo & Julia G. Demeo .......$1,277.64

Jon Denson .......................................................$3,185.94Susan Derby & Gary Folgner ..........................$3,489.33Desperado Stables, Inc. ..................................$6,987.12Desperado Stables, Inc. & Merrill Stables ....$2,209.58Mark Devereaux ...............................................$4,463.12Kevin DeVincenzi ............................................$14,727.13Diamond A Racing Corp. ................................... $308.02A. L. Diaz ............................................................$5,250.18Bruce Dillenbeck ..............................................$3,522.34Dizney Double Diamond, LLC .....................$18,326.14Doll, Kadner & Stein Stables, Inc. ..................... $146.68Caesar F. Dominguez & William Foltz ...........$6,177.17Caesar Dominguez & Joann Dominguez........ $821.91Al Dominguez ...................................................... $364.07Bill Dory & Sandy Dory ....................................$4,373.04M. A. Douzos, G. Matos & F. Matos ............$13,961.88M. A. Douzos...................................................$10,048.90M. A. Douzos & Gil Matos ..............................$4,880.12Roger P. Downes ..............................................$1,325.32Kathleen Ducasse & James Cassidy ..............$1,005.78Joseph A. Duffel .............................................$27,010.39Bill Dugan & Christine Dugan ........................$1,068.64Leonard Michael Duncan,

Charles Booth & Arnold Hill ........................... $85.39Francoise Dupuis & Louise Julian ................$37,389.83Francoise Dupuis ..............................................$3,733.96Dutko & Abrams ...............................................$5,481.49Jerry Dutton & Thomas Kessler .....................$2,489.30Marjorie Post Dye & Steven Mills ..................... $146.68Eagle Ridge Racing, LLC .................................$1,131.51Eagle Oak Ranch, LLC ...................................$28,996.99Jim Eaton .........................................................$10,770.23Terri Eaton & J.H. Gibson ................................$5,096.99Frank E. Edmunds ............................................... $424.94Don Eidson ......................................................$12,482.96John Elder .........................................................$3,348.92John W. Elick & Kathy Laine Elick ..................$1,205.89Clayton Elrod ....................................................$2,535.39Emerald Q Partners, Inc. .................................$3,834.55Emerald Creek Farms LLC ..............................$1,089.59Jerry Engelauf ...................................................... $452.60Englekirk LLC ....................................................$1,432.73E-Racing.com ....................................................$4,334.81E-Racing.com & Brian Koriner ........................$3,063.42Ronald Erickson ................................................... $586.71John Ernst & Allegra Ernst ............................$17,743.41Linda M. Espinosa & Ruth M. Hawkins .........$1,398.66Fanning Family Trust, Jerry Fanning

& Jan Harrison .............................................$3,407.08Jerry Fanning, Fanning Family Trust

& Joan Burnett ............................................$2,128.90Fast Lane Farms, Roberta Edwards

& Ron Watchorn..........................................$1,068.64David Fastow & Joyce Fastow .......................... $958.62Pete Fer ................................................................. $716.62Carole Fernandez ................................................ $238.87Stephen Ferraro..............................................$12,913.79Jerry Fialkowski .................................................... $398.12Leslie Figge .......................................................$1,812.49Filip Racing LLC ................................................... $424.94Jeff Finkel ...........................................................$3,369.87Jeff Finkel & Valerie Rhoden ...........................$2,557.40Fleming Thoroughbred Farm LLC .................$1,948.70Rich Fontana .....................................................$8,565.89

Shirley Ford & Melissa Ford ............................$6,314.42Patricia Ford ......................................................$4,025.65Geri Forrester ....................................................$1,315.90Four Quarters Corp. ......................................$13,849.58Mike Fowler .......................................................... $653.76John Fradkin & Diane Fradkin ........................$1,173.41Richard Franco & Malinda Farmer .................... $264.02Robert J. Frankel Trust .....................................$2,050.53Jim Franklin .......................................................$4,764.88Laura Ann Franklin ...........................................$1,110.54Dan Franko ........................................................... $471.46Nathaniel Friedman .........................................$1,099.02Robin Frost & Larry Frost .................................... $630.19Francisco Gabaldon .........................................$9,885.45Pete Gallegos ...................................................... $188.58Eduardo Gamez .................................................. $323.74Frank Gaunt.......................................................$1,236.27David Gentry & Jay Yoshinaga .......................$1,416.99Get It Got It Good ............................................$1,025.68Ron Giampaoli & Diana Giampaoli .................. $764.81Mark Giardino, Daryle Ann Giardino

& John Elick ...............................................$12,612.47Kullminderpal S. Gill ........................................$2,260.38Gill Brothers.......................................................$3,754.08Gilman Racing...................................................$2,095.38Russell Girvin & Shirley Girvin .........................$1,262.46Richard L. Glassman & Stuart Tempkin .........$4,864.95Marie Goda, Madeline Auerbach

& Barry Abrams .........................................$12,172.53Goda & Huttinger ............................................... $934.01Marie L. Goda ...................................................... $678.90Golden Eagle Farm ........................................$10,569.80Francisco Gomez ................................................. $654.80Ron E. Gomez ...................................................... $518.60Roberto Gonzalez, Wright Batlin

& Marc Batlin .................................................. $600.95Ron Goodman ..................................................$7,529.92Mark Gorman & Doug O’neill ......................$21,981.51Dr. Lloyd E. Grant ................................................ $251.45Granton Bloodstock Inc. .................................$3,331.65Gretchen A. Graves & Janet E. Griffn...........$2,137.28Dr. & Mrs. William T. Gray DVM ...................$53,585.62Al Graziani & Joe Russell .................................$8,012.29Steven Greco ..................................................$26,996.90John J. Greely III ...............................................$2,489.31William P. Gregory & Nancy Rubin Gregory ... $238.87Dennis Grenier & Norine Grenier ..................$5,066.61Mr. & Mrs. William T. Griffn ............................$1,093.79Stephanie Griffth & Alex Solis II ....................$2,263.00Scott Gross & Mark Devereaux ......................$4,413.27Roy Guinnane .................................................$10,425.32Jim Gustafson & Michelle Gustafson ............$4,950.54Jim Gustafson ...................................................$1,887.09H & E Ranch ......................................................$1,596.68John R. Haagsma & Wesley Ward .................$6,124.77John R. Haagsma & John D. Haagsma ........... $806.20Halo Farms ........................................................$8,456.49Halo Farms & Martin Mueller .........................$1,554.77David P. Halvorson, Fred Davis

& Charlene Davis ........................................... $789.96Mike Hanna .......................................................... $775.83Clark Hansen & Janine Hansen ......................$2,390.82Robert Harmon .................................................$8,754.46Robert Harmon & Afeet Alex Syndicate ......... $226.30

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Patrick Harney & Charles Reilly ......................... $876.91Revocable Trust Of Dr. Mikel C. Harrington

And Patricia O. Harrington ......................$37,319.79Dr. Mikel C. Harrington

& Keith Vander Houwen ............................... $855.97Harris Farms Inc, Donald Valpredo

& John Nicoletti ..........................................$1,190.17Tom Harris ............................................................ $213.73Harris Farms ..................................................$152,830.22Harris Farms & Donald Valpredo .................$20,910.77Harris Farms & Harold Chuhlantseff ..............$6,562.71Harris Farms, Gary Parker

& The Michael P. Orlando Family Trust ...$3,353.64Harris Farms & John Nicoletti ........................$2,472.54Harris Farms & Double D Farms ....................$1,659.53Harris Farms & Sheila Williams .......................$1,173.41Harris Farms & Donald Valpredo

& Michael Valpredo ....................................$1,020.97Harris Farms, Michael Tannyhill,

Richard Tannyhill & Gregory L. Weeks ....... $157.15Harris Farms & Summer Mayberry ................$5,270.91The Hat Ranch West, LLC ...............................$2,730.27Jack And Barbara Hatch

Revocable Living Trust ...............................$4,669.53Jack Hatch ............................................................ $289.16Bruce Headley ..................................................$8,707.84Bruce Headley, Irwin Molasky

& Andrew Molasky ...................................$12,506.03Bruce Headley, Irwin Molasky

& Simon C. Yu .............................................$2,975.43Headley, Lenner, I. Molasky & Yu ...................$2,144.10Bruce Headley, Ed Bernstein,

Andrew Molasky & Irwin Molasky ............$1,320.08Bruce Headley & CPL Stables ........................... $888.43Marianne Montrose Hebner

& Crystal Valley Farms ................................$2,107.43William L. Hedrick & Judy Hedrick ..............$26,888.18Kenneth Heidt & Janice Heidt .......................$2,802.56Juan Heredia ........................................................ $586.70Andres Hernandez & William Hedrick ............. $256.69Andres Hernandez & Willard Russell................ $234.68Andres Hernandez .............................................. $210.58Herrick Racing LLC ...........................................$9,253.16Amy Bissell Hess .................................................. $942.92Hidden Meadows Farm, LLC .........................$3,585.19Jerry Higman & Colleen Higman...................$2,409.68Billy Hipwell .......................................................$1,638.58Bo Hirsch ...........................................................$2,162.43Connie Ho & Chik Lin Ho ................................... $125.72Fran Hodge & Stan Hodge.............................$4,173.98Lathrop G. Hoffman .............................................. $83.81Ron Holguin, Arnold Hill & Bill Branch ..........$1,299.13Jerry Hollendorfer, Janet Hollendorfer

& George Todaro ........................................$3,867.01Jerry Hollendorfer, George Todaro,

Gallop Out Racing, LLC & John Yee........$3,469.62Jerry Hollendorfer & Janet Hollendorfer ......$1,754.87Hollendorfer & Todaro ....................................$1,110.55Vera Holloway ...................................................... $810.91Gary Howard & Marlene Howard ..................$5,364.16Leigh Ann Howard ...........................................$1,408.10James S. Huarte, Judith A. Huarte

& Mr. & Mrs. Dick Probert ............................. $966.49Kin Hui Racing Stables LLC ...........................$10,766.13Stormy B. Hull & Ginger A. Samples .............$4,224.27

Patrick J. Hurley ................................................$1,201.69J P Racing ............................................................. $748.05J. Buena Ventura Vargas ..................................... $251.43Ellen Jackson ..................................................$30,222.20Ellen Jackson & Margaret Sherr .....................$3,571.56Ellen Jackson, Kevin Nish & Kim Nish ...........$1,466.76Ellen L. Jackson & Margaret Sherr .................... $518.60Ellen Jackson, Jerry Martin

& Margaret Martin ......................................... $272.40Marie Jackson & Mary Wilkins .......................$1,320.08Will Jacobs & Dee Anne Jacobs....................... $544.80Kevin Jacobsen .................................................$1,421.71Wade Jacobsen ................................................... $965.97Greg James, Robyn James

& Roger Wynn .............................................$4,809.92Greg James & Robyn James ..........................$1,789.97Dennis January .................................................$1,575.72Randall January.................................................... $370.36Michael Jawl ......................................................$2,506.07Neale Jensen, Lou Ann Brandjes

& Eric Brandjes ............................................... $978.54Neale Jensen & Harold May ............................. $230.49Jim Ford .............................................................$2,263.00JMH Racing ............................................................ $85.39Darrell Johnson & Cindy Johnson .................... $732.33Elizabeth L. Jones .............................................$2,866.47K & J Farm .........................................................$8,004.33K & M Stables ...................................................... $833.43K & N Racing Stable.........................................$3,290.26Brian Kahn & Alfred Pais .................................... $653.76Peter Kay ............................................................$3,985.82Steve Keh .............................................................. $838.15Kyle Morgan Kehner ........................................$1,442.67Al Keshisian & Mr. & Mrs. Dick Probert .........$3,367.26Al Keshishian .....................................................$2,443.21Shirley Ann Kimball ..........................................$1,075.97King’s Canyon Farms Inc. ................................$1,830.31Al Kirkwood & Saundra Kirkwood .................$6,216.96Donna Kisela .....................................................$1,005.78KLF Ventures, LLC, Travis Burnett,

Tracey Burnett & Todd Burnett .................... $586.70Terry Knight, Jean Annuzzi & Mel Annuzzi ...$2,294.44Edward Kono ....................................................$2,251.99Shirley Koon & Mel Koon ................................... $925.11Brian Koriner .....................................................$1,843.93Steve Kramer .....................................................$1,788.40Kretz Racing LLC ..............................................$9,349.87George Krikorian ............................................$19,321.44Fred A. Krinkie and Carolyn I. Krinkie ............$8,046.23Richard Allen Kritzski ........................................$5,116.90Richard Allen Kritzski & Ed Delaney ..............$1,429.05Eric Kruljac & Nezi O. Simmons .....................$2,849.71Dr. Kim Kuhlmann DVM ..................................$4,002.27La Jolla Thoroughbred Stables ......................$5,908.96Joseph Lacombe Stables, Inc. .......................$1,877.46Patricia Cathleen Lagden ................................$1,070.73Landeros Racing LLC .......................................$4,984.88Ron Lang, Lillian Lang & D. Wayne Baker ....... $890.54Curt & Lila Lanning LLC .................................$14,146.09Dorine Lanza & John R. Lanza ........................$5,776.94Harold E. Larson ...............................................$4,735.55Mr. & Mrs. Dan La Vine ....................................... $875.86Leatherman Racing, LLC .................................$4,135.00Jerry Lee ............................................................$3,574.70

Gilman Lee ........................................................... $513.37Legacy Ranch, Inc. ..........................................$14,409.87Tom Lenner, Jeff Davenport,

Bob Waltos & Alex Solis II .........................$1,662.68Edie Leone ........................................................... $762.19Lester Family Racing Stable ............................... $605.57Leon Lewis & Billy Hipwell ..............................$1,749.64Adam Lewis & Paul Lewis................................$1,699.35Craig Lewis & Elliot Lewis ...............................$2,162.43Liberty Road Stables ......................................$19,324.39Lilley Ranch ........................................................... $717.67Linden Trust .......................................................... $350.98Line Way Farm ..................................................... $796.24Carol A. Lingenfelter ......................................$10,212.42Carol A. Lingenfelter, Craig Allen

& Katie Allen ................................................$8,375.20Carol Lingenfelter & Joe Stiglich ...................$7,932.04Joshua Litt & AJM Racing .............................$12,245.35Howard Litt ........................................................$9,575.86Litt Family Horse Trust & KMN Racing ..........$4,160.57Joshua Litt & Jason Litt ...................................$3,859.68Litt Family Horse Trust

& White Crane Thoroughbred Stable ........ $544.79Litt Family Horse Trust,

White Crane Thoroughbred Stable & Strauss Brothers LLC ..............................$2,967.05

Little Mountain Stables ....................................... $301.73Lo Hi Racing Stable & Dick Barton ................$4,397.77Lisa Long ............................................................... $289.16Omar Lopez ......................................................... $235.73Lotti Racing Stable & Dick Barton .................... $880.06Terry C. Lovingier ............................................$72,389.50Jeffery Lovinger & Monty Roberts .................$5,146.24Lucky Ladies Stable, LLC .................................... $484.03Liam Lynch & Jedd Josephson ......................$1,458.39Jane Lytle .............................................................. $150.87Larry Mabee ......................................................$8,092.32Mike Machowsky ..............................................$2,564.74Madera Thoroughbreds LLC ........................$62,165.71Madera Thoroughbreds & Cliff Naretto .......$5,002.18Madera Thoroughbreds & Glen Kjelstrom ..... $229.45Linda Madsen & Joy Seifert ..........................$13,952.57Madsen, Perez, Seifert, Smith, Savoldi,

J. Coccavo & K. Coccavo ............................. $272.40Malibu Valley Farms Inc. ................................$13,965.23Baljit K. Mangat ................................................... $817.20Dinesh Maniar .................................................$17,955.25Kendall Mann ....................................................$2,879.05Rhoda March & Cliff March .............................$1,110.55Marciana Associates ........................................... $110.01Nancy Markwell & Kenneth Markwell Jr. ......... $704.05Nancy Markwell & Judith Rogala ...................... $147.72Todd Marshall & Andrew Molasky .................$1,424.86Perry Martin & Steve Coburn .......................$11,185.10Jerry Martin & Margaret Martin .....................$2,303.03Reinaldo A. Martinez .......................................$2,293.92Carly Martinez & Jose Godinez .....................$1,455.24Lorenzo A. Martinez .........................................$1,256.71Peter Martinez...................................................... $750.15Gabriel Martinez .................................................. $586.72Silverio G. Martinez ............................................. $569.94Lloyd Mason & Robert Jones .........................$3,074.85Lloyd Mason & Carole Mason ........................$1,582.00Brett Mason .......................................................$1,510.76

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Robert Master ...................................................$3,960.26Andy Mathis ......................................................... $594.04Matties Racing, LLC .........................................$1,932.45Albert & Kathleen Mattivi, LLC .......................$7,421.83Harold May & Neale Jensen ..........................$1,978.04Harold May ........................................................... $213.73Summer Mayberry..........................................$20,331.40Jason McArdle ..................................................$2,933.51The Robert McCabe Family Trust ..................$1,433.23Sarah Mccarthy .................................................$1,950.80Ann McCurdy ....................................................$2,671.60David E. Mcglothlin ..........................................$1,791.54Warren Mcgrath................................................$2,291.29Sheila Mcleod ...................................................$7,518.20Ross Mcleod ......................................................... $736.00Ross John Mcleod & Thomas Newton Bell .... $666.33Meadowbrook Farms, Inc. ..............................$1,156.64Richard Meister & Phil Lebherz ......................$6,403.46Eddie Mendes & Carolyn Mendes ................$2,589.47Carolyn Mendes .................................................. $555.27Edward Mercaldo .............................................$4,735.54Mercedes Stables LLC ...................................$15,824.69Frank Mermenstein & Elliot Kohn ..................$1,123.12Ron Mesaros & Pamela Mesaros ...................... $141.44Mersad Metanovic ...........................................$3,042.48Tony Metaxas ....................................................... $699.86David S. Milch ...................................................$3,753.85M. Millard ...........................................................$1,123.12Barbara E. Millard ................................................ $176.01Michael J. Miller................................................... $584.09Brian Miller ........................................................... $167.63Pete Miller Racing Stable ................................... $150.34Miraleste, Inc. ....................................................$2,465.24Robert Mitchell .................................................$4,400.28Peter Moehrke & Joe MacDougall ................$3,067.63Ed Moger & Alan Eriksen ................................$4,578.19Edward Moger ..................................................... $150.87Robert J. Molinaro & Carol E. Molinaro ........$1,797.83Herb Moniz & Paradise Road Ranch .............$1,479.85Sherrie A. Monroe & Rose Marie Lewis ........$3,429.07Sherrie Monroe & Richard Scott DVM ............. $188.58Moore Racing LLC & CTR Stables LLC .........$4,232.65Robert Moreno .................................................$3,984.88Harvey B. Moreno ............................................$1,443.20Joseph P. Morey Jr. Revocable Trust ...........$30,046.52Joseph P. Morey Jr. Revocable Trust

& William E. Morey .....................................$1,282.37William J. Morey, Jr. .........................................$3,413.36Morningside Stable, Steve Heboian

& Andrea Heboian .....................................$3,268.78Morningside Stable & Steve Heboian ..........$2,652.75Gloria Morton ...................................................... $675.75Mr. & Mrs. Clifford D. Moyle .............................. $801.48Don Muldoon ...................................................... $880.06Kristin Mulhall ....................................................... $963.88Jack Nakkashian, Harry Bederian

& Harout Kamberian ................................$44,943.64Tony and Suzy Narducci ..................................... $704.05Cliff Naretto .......................................................... $234.15Michael Neumann ............................................$2,088.04Dr. & Mrs. Michael Neumann,

Francoise Dupuis & Jeffrey Susskind .......$1,445.81Lou Neve .........................................................$30,967.37David B. Newcomb ..........................................$1,546.38

Can Nguyen ......................................................$3,289.73Ted Nichols, Judy Nichols

& Samuel Nichols .......................................... $586.70Ted Nichols & Judy Nichols

& Samuel Nichols & Katherine Eley ............ $326.88John Nicoletti ...................................................$1,906.79Rocky Niles ........................................................$1,598.77Kevin Nish ..........................................................$1,389.24William Nolan ...................................................... $733.37HnR Nothhaft Horseracing LLC .....................$1,797.83Oak Hill Farm ....................................................$2,074.42Oak Valley Stables ............................................$1,377.71Oakcrest Stable ..............................................$16,753.35Duane C. Offeld ................................................. $534.95Old English Rancho, Patsy Berumen

& Sal Berumen ..........................................$54,197.87Old English Rancho .......................................$45,483.52Old English Rancho & Headley ....................$22,336.58Old English Rancho, Berumen

& Liberty Road Stables, LLC .....................$2,388.10Old English Rancho & Joe Turner .................$1,550.57Old English Rancho, Berumen & Perez ........... $502.37Timothy Francis O’leary ..................................$1,947.66Robert F. O’neil & Katy Farquharson .............$2,594.06Daniel O’Neill ...................................................$2,699.58Doug O’Neill, Martin Gardner

& Gary Margolis ............................................. $163.44Debbie Owens..................................................$2,503.97Jack B. Owens & Barbara Owens ..................$4,346.23Charley W. Pace ................................................... $176.01Pacifc Coast Thoroughbreds .............................. $82.77Packsaddle Road, LLC .....................................$6,384.61Robert Padilla ....................................................$3,345.06Philip Carlyle Paine .............................................. $110.01Palisair Place ......................................................$1,018.35Paradox Stable..................................................$2,912.57Joe F. Parker ....................................................$10,334.35Douglas L. Parker, Madison L. Parker

& Byron L. Walker .......................................... $917.78John Parker .......................................................... $817.20Judi Garf - Partridge

and Serenity Oak Farm, LLC .....................$7,278.79Pasq & Pasq Inc ................................................... $941.87Alex Paszkeicz .................................................$30,365.30Alex Paszkeicz & Patrick Brogan ....................... $735.48Steve Pavich & Maria Pavich ...........................$3,234.21Steve Pavich ......................................................... $465.16Pay Me Stables .................................................$2,709.32David J. Payne ..................................................$2,025.18Cecil Peacock ....................................................$1,189.13Deron Pearson ..................................................$1,644.86Deron Pearson & Fontana Racing, LLC ........... $660.04William R. Peeples ............................................... $146.68Michael E. Pegram, Karl Watson

& Paul Weitman ........................................$52,133.38Michael E. Pegram .............................................. $424.94James S. Perham, Ingrid A. Perham

& Jay Ar Dee Stables .................................$3,205.91Jorge Periban....................................................... $729.19Barbara J Ranck Perry ......................................$7,040.46Roberta M. Petersen ........................................... $552.14Bud Petrosian ....................................................$7,874.61Pfanner Pfarm Trust ..........................................$1,379.80Piacentino Farms, LP ........................................... $518.60Dr. John Piconi ..................................................... $213.73

Milt A. Policzer ................................................$17,784.99Milt A. Policzer, Bernie Fleming

& Michael Timchenko ................................$6,629.76Milt A. Policzer & Geri Minott .........................$2,744.94Victoria Polzin & Harris Farms.........................$6,670.85Victoria Polzin & Jeanne Bowers....................$2,327.97William J. Preston & Malibu Valley

Farms, Inc. ....................................................$3,998.49William J. Preston .............................................$1,202.74Mr. & Mrs. Dick Probert ...................................... $382.41Mrs. Dick Probert ................................................. $176.01Kjell Qvale .......................................................$17,847.36Racing Edge, Inc. ..............................................$3,200.89Rainbow Meadows Farm ................................$7,036.81Rainbow Meadows Farm

& Maggie Fincher .......................................$1,445.81Rancho De Los Aviadores .................................. $650.83Rancho San Miguel ..........................................$8,424.99Rancho San Miguel

& Eagle Ridge Racing, LLC .......................$1,034.07Rancho San Roberto Inc. .................................$1,839.75Rancho San Roberto Inc., Tom Galloway

& Genaro Vallejo .........................................$1,323.75Rancho Santa Rosa

& Roberta Petersen Et. Al............................... $96.39Randy Randazzo & Paul Conley ........................ $708.24Matthew Rasich ................................................$1,731.32Ravich,Strauss Brothers Racing LLC,

Lenner,Naftzger & Grossbard ...................$3,520.23Recabaren Stables .............................................. $398.12Red Barons Barn ...............................................$5,448.41Red Barons Barn & Shanderella Stables .......... $213.73Reddam Racing LLC ....................................$180,045.08Redding Family Trust .......................................$1,869.07Gerald E. Redman ............................................$2,303.86Scott Regner ........................................................ $712.42Remmah Racing Inc. ........................................$5,828.83Farihan Renno ...................................................$1,000.55Robert Reseigne .................................................. $539.35Rhianon Farms, Inc. & Gloria Haley Smith ....$4,224.27Rhianon Farms Inc. & Don Smith .................$11,062.54Valerie Rhoden..................................................$1,866.98Robert Richardson ............................................$1,001.07Ridgeley Farm LLC .........................................$24,562.37River View Farms ..............................................$1,401.18Beth Rivera ........................................................$7,408.00Gilberto Rivera ..................................................$6,548.06Sam Rizzo...........................................................$1,487.71RL Management, Inc. .......................................$1,520.73RLI Investment Inc. ...........................................$3,354.16Trevor Roberts ...................................................$9,656.72Tom Roberts ......................................................... $980.64Debra Robertson & Keith Pronske ................$2,640.17Jim Robinson & Robert Bone .........................$4,830.88Jim Robinson, Ron Brewer

& Jim Lyberger ............................................$4,246.28Jim Robinson & Jeff Mullins ...........................$1,553.73Jim Robinson ....................................................$1,238.36Jim Robinson, Robert Bone,

Ron Brewer & Jim Lyberger ......................... $801.48Ken Robinson ....................................................... $125.72Robomar Racing Stable & Lloyd Mason .......$3,658.53Robomar Racing Stables .................................$4,695.74Dana Lee Rocheford ........................................$2,881.13

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Dana Lee Rocheford & Barbara Corey & Rancho San Miguel ................................$1,194.36

Rod Rodriguez & Lorraine Rodriguez ...........$5,947.29Gus Rodriguez Sr & Suzanne Rodriguez ......... $904.15Bruce G. Rose, Alan Aidekman

& Christopher Whelpley ............................$4,651.73Richard Rosenberg ...........................................$2,765.89Rosoff Bailey Horse Business ..........................$1,491.37Run For The Roses, LLC ..................................$2,665.31Running Luck Ranch, LLC ..............................$13,770.91Running Horse Equine Training

& Wellness Center LLC ..............................$7,208.09Randi Sackett & Rick Sackett ..........................$4,362.57John Sadler .......................................................$4,028.57Ray Sainz, Ron Brewer & Mitchell Dutko ......... $578.32Tony Sardo .......................................................$12,752.45Herman Sarkowsky & Martin J. Wygod ........$7,108.35Herman Sarkowsky ...........................................$2,385.06Sass Bloodstock LLC ........................................... $766.90Say Racing, LLC ................................................... $238.87Frank Schipono, Sam Semkin

& Amanda Semkin......................................... $435.84George Schmitt & Mary Clare Schmitt .......$30,913.92George Schmitt ................................................$2,296.53George Schmitt, Mary Clare Schmitt

& Frederick C. Schwieger ..........................$1,173.41George Schmitt, Mary Clare Schmitt,

Robert Nugent & Nick J. Hines ................... $289.16Eric Schneider ...................................................$1,089.07Schroeder Farms, LLC ...................................$10,291.44Lee Searing & Susan Searing .......................$14,743.04Lee Searing .......................................................$1,194.36Sebold Racing, LLC ..........................................$3,174.50Seltzer Thoroughbreds, LLC .............................. $251.44Kaleem Shah, Inc. .............................................$4,720.04Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Shapiro......................$11,253.30Thomas Shapiro................................................... $465.17Todd Sheehan ...................................................... $110.01Ernest Sherman ................................................$4,282.12Scott Sherwood Blinkers On Racing ................ $797.30Shields Thoroughbreds, Inc. .............................. $493.99Shimamura Racing Stables ................................ $110.01Nicholas J. Sibilio & Debbie L. Sibilio .........$10,053.60Howard & Janet Siegel Racing LLC.............$26,953.20Jeff Siegel ..........................................................$4,061.37William Davis Simmons ...................................... $508.13Jack Sims ...........................................................$1,173.41Cliff Sise ................................................................ $993.20Skip & Zipp Racing, LLC, Gilman Racing

& Magali Farms, LLC ..................................$2,124.71Sky Chase Farm ..............................................$13,366.91Sky Chase Farm & TNIP LLC ............................. $942.92Sky Chase Farm & Harris Farms ........................ $452.60Skyline Stables, Tom Lenner, Bill Strauss

& Alex Solis II .................................................. $289.16SLU, Inc. ...........................................................$17,901.81Sommer Smith ..................................................$1,924.09Vel Smith ............................................................... $621.28Andy Smolich & Marilyn Smolich ...................$4,493.01Walther Solis ...................................................$13,820.04Glenn Sorgenstein ...........................................$3,092.77Southern Equine Stables LLC .......................$16,940.58Steve Specht .....................................................$3,268.79Special T Thoroughbreds, Inc. .......................$2,430.63Sean Speck & Barbara Speck .........................$2,189.67

Richard A. Stanford, Sr. ....................................... $783.15Larry Stein ........................................................$12,274.81Roger Stein ......................................................$14,777.08Heinz H. Steinmann .......................................$25,572.85Elizabeth Stevens .............................................$1,194.36Jeff Stiefel ..........................................................$2,349.97Megan Stiehr, Michael Stiehr & Julie Berta ..... $695.14Michael Stiehr ...................................................... $602.42Joe Stiglich & Lloyd Grant ..............................$1,258.48Joseph Stiglich .................................................... $722.90Stines Racing Corp. ..........................................$6,315.46Scott Stiteler ......................................................... $199.06Ron Stolich ........................................................... $489.79Stone Ridge Farm ............................................$6,589.00Shirley Jean Streiff & Gary Ives .......................$1,797.83Annabelle Stute ................................................$1,863.83Pablo Suarez & Michelle Suarez ........................ $272.40Sunset Stables ..................................................... $251.44Sutherland Farm, Inc. .......................................$2,296.54Jason Tackitt ......................................................$1,760.11Gene Tagliaferri ................................................$3,221.85Tailwind Racing, Inc. .........................................$1,315.90Jo Ann Talaugon ..............................................$2,612.42Joann Talaugon & Garrie Thompson ............$2,334.79Rod Tange & Danny Haramoto ......................$1,586.71Edward Tannenbaum & Bud Petrick .............$5,288.32Mark Tatch .........................................................$5,688.94Karen & Mickey Taylor LLC .............................$5,499.31Rick Taylor ............................................................. $440.03Rick Taylor & Todd M. Sheehan ........................ $146.68Louis Tejeda ......................................................... $649.57Gene Tenbrink ..................................................$1,005.78Allen Tepper ......................................................$2,514.44Joe Tevis ............................................................... $576.23William D. Thead ..............................................$1,320.08Melanie Thompson ..........................................$2,310.13Gary Thompson ................................................... $518.60Raymond G. Thompson

& Roseanna M Thompson ........................... $274.50Thor-Bred Stables LLC .....................................$2,045.61Three Cent Stables ..........................................$4,970.23Harold Tillema & Pamela Tillema ................$31,436.04John Tipton .......................................................... $474.61Tlahpsa Racing & Jim Hebert ............................ $484.55George Todaro .................................................$1,332.66Ralph Todd & Aury Todd .................................... $636.99Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, LLC ...........$136,940.49Triple AAA Ranch .............................................$7,627.15Robert Troeger, Bill Branch,

Jesse Grygorfan & Arthur & Marily ..........$1,068.64Grant S. Truman & Paul A. Truman ................$2,346.82Grant Truman ....................................................... $885.30Stuart Tsujimoto ................................................$3,956.04Tumbledown Farm Racing LLC ......................... $531.19Joe Turner ........................................................$13,534.76Roy Tyra ..............................................................$8,834.10Jimmy Ukegawa & Mike Mitchell ................$13,938.43Stan Uragami & Stuart Tsujimoto ...................$1,090.65Vadnais Family Trust .........................................$2,191.76Peter Vajda ........................................................$4,213.80Tony Valazza & Tonia Piccioni ............................ $880.06Sebastian Valente

& Tucalota Valley Farm LLC .......................$2,074.41Donald Valpredo & Martin Jones ..................$3,897.39

Donald Valpredo & Sally Valpredo ................$1,707.73Donald Valpredo Farms ................................$16,060.01Donald Valpredo & Lynn Kirkorian ................$1,194.36Carlee Van Kempen ............................................ $272.40Ruben Vasquez .................................................... $641.18Venneri Racing, Inc. & Flintridge Stables ......$2,935.62Robert J. Verchota ............................................$2,313.29Verge, English & O’ Neill .................................$3,583.09Mark Verge & Marjorie Post-Dye ...................... $832.91Vessels Stallion Farm LLC ................................$7,241.09Vessels Stallion Farm & Bill Thead .................$1,489.29Linda L. Vetter ...................................................... $534.32Paul Viskovich....................................................$7,798.97Eric M. Waller & Sharon J. Waller ................$15,174.70Peter Anthony Walski .......................................$1,736.55Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Walski .................................. $125.72Wesley Ward & John Ray Haagsma ................. $930.35Bud Warder & Peggy Stevens ........................$6,063.18Benjamin C. Warren .......................................$92,876.16Donald Warren .................................................$6,328.03Martin Waterman & Jimmy Oman ................... $426.94Thomas M Weckerle ........................................$3,192.31Gregory Weeks & Rita Bledsoe......................$1,388.19Michael Wellman, Cory Wellman

& Harris Farms, Inc. .....................................$8,425.06Michael Wellman & Cory Wellman................$6,558.51West 12 Ranch ..................................................$2,170.81Janis R. Whitham ............................................$10,599.75Ed Wiebe DVM .................................................$2,200.15Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams ..........................$85,253.17Ted Williams ......................................................... $293.35Mack Williams & Greg Payne .............................. $83.81Williamson Racing, LLC ...................................$5,111,66Willow Tree Farm, Inc. .....................................$5,707.26David W. Wilson & Holly F. Wilson ................$3,790.53Andy Wilson & Laurie Wilson .........................$1,063.40Windfall Farms ..................................................$4,690.72Janine Wineman & Todd Munson .................... $377.17Becky Winemiller ..............................................$1,043.49Winning Ways Stable

& Cardiff Farm Management Corp. ............ $444.22Cliff Wood & Richard Frank TerKeurst...........$2,353.10Woodbridge Farm

& Glen Road Racing Stable ......................$6,924.16Woodbridge Farm & Gloria Haley ................$1,206.42Woodbridge Farm & Lilley Ranch .................... $937.69Woodbridge Farm & James Eaton .................. $403.36Woodbridge Farm ...........................................$1,619.21Charlotte M. Wrather .......................................... $402.31Pam & Martin Wygod ....................................$31,624.19Roger Wynn & Greg James ............................$1,677.87W. L. Yates & Barbara Yates ............................$5,674.90Y-Lo Racing Stables, LLC .................................$9,999.95Patricia Youngman .............................................. $538.51Patricia Zacker & Ellen Hughes ......................$3,638.41John Zamora ........................................................ $544.80Pamela C. Ziebarth.........................................$14,977.00B & B Zietz Stables, Inc. .................................$39,495.50Kevin Zietz .........................................................$5,731.48B & B Zietz Stables, Inc., Bruce Henry Zietz

& Beverly Kay Zietz .....................................$2,837.14Zuer Racing, John Cadman, Michael Timcheniko

& John Shehane .........................................$1,037.20

Total = $4,574,835.67

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TOP 20 2015 CALIFORNIA STALLION AWARDS RECIPIENTS

1 Tribal Rule $149,101.78

2 Unusual Heat $126,520.05

3 Square Eddie $105,034.38

4 Decarchy $76,322.03

5 Lucky Pulpit $54,703.05

6 Vronsky $52,710.94

7 Grazen $51,144.19

8 Affrmative $43,037.38

9 Papa Clem $40,400.71

10 Desert Code $38,336.56

11 Comic Strip $35,267.56

12 Sought After $34,750.48

13 Bertrando $34,440.00

14 Ministers Wild Cat $33,748.36

15 Silic (Fr) $32,880.09

16 Stormin Fever $30,885.46

17 Southern Image $28,684.38

18 Good Journey $27,189.09

19 Idiot Proof $26,503.20

20 Game Plan $25,894.70

ALPHABETICAL 2015 CALIFORNIA STALLION AWARDS RECIPIENTS

STALLION RANK

Affrmative 8

Alymagic 77

Anziyan Royalty 89

Aragorn (Ire) 45

Atticus 55

Awesome Gambler 67

Beau Genius 49

Bedford Falls 54

Behrens 70

Benchmark 21

Bertrando 13

Birdonthewire 23

Brave Cat 84

Bushwacker 71

Capsized 91

Cee’s Tizzy 63

Cindago 60

Comic Strip 11

Council Member 74

Cyclotron 47

Decarchy 4

Desert Code 10

Dixie Chatter 25

Doc Gus 65

Don’tsellmeshort 41

Downtown Seattle 83

Flame Thrower 81

Forest Command 87

Freespool 61

Fullbridled 80

Game Plan 20

STALLION RANK

Globalize 37

Good Journey 18

Gotham City 92

Grace Upon Grace 42

Grazen 7

Heatseeker (Ire) 35

Idiot Proof 19

In Excess (Ire) 39

Informed 50

Jet West 78

Kafwain 26

Lucky J. H. 28

Lucky Pulpit 5

Many Rivers 59

Marino Marini 31

McCann’s Mojave 30

Ministers Wild Cat 14

Momentum 85

Northern Devil 76

Old Topper 22

Olmodavor 69

Olympio 75

Onebadshark 72

Papa Clem 9

Peppered Cat 32

Perfect Mandate 86

Poteen 68

Roi Charmant 33

Run Brother Ron 90

Salt Lake 56

Siberian Summer 62

STALLION RANK

Sierra Sunset 52

Silic (Fr) 15

Singletary 64

Sky Terrace 66

Slew’s Tiznow 53

Sought After 12

Southern Image 17

Square Eddie 3

Stormin Fever 16

Stormy Jack 82

Suances (GB) 88

Sundarban 48

Surf Cat 27

Swiss Yodeler 34

Tannersmyman 36

Ten Most Wanted 38

Terrell 43

The Pamplemousse 40

Thisnearlywasmine 51

Thorn Song 57

Time to Get Even 44

Tizbud 29

Tough Game 79

Trapper 46

Tribal Rule 1

Unbridled Native 58

Unusual Heat 2

Vronsky 6

Western Fame 24

Whatsthescript (Ire) 73

92 Stallions

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Total = $1,529,049.09

EARNINGS 2015 CALIFORNIA STALLION AWARDS RECIPIENTS

1 Tribal Rule Ballena Vista Farm & River Edge Operating LLC $149,101.78

2 Unusual Heat Unusual Heat Syndicate $126,520.05

3 Square Eddie Reddam Racing LLC $105,034.38

4 Decarchy Magali Farms, LLC $76,322.03

5 Lucky Pulpit Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams $54,703.05

6 Vronsky Old English Rancho & Berumen $52,710.94

7 Grazen Nick Alexander $51,144.19

8 Affrmative BG Stable or Hector Palma $43,037.38

9 Papa Clem Papa Clem Syndicate $40,400.71

10 Desert Code Desert Code Syndicate $38,336.56

11 Comic Strip Rancho San Miguel & Dr. Bill Gray DVM $35,267.56

12 Sought After Miraleste Inc. $34,750.48

13 Bertrando Bertrando Syndicate $34,440.00

14 Ministers Wild Cat Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, LLC $33,748.36

15 Silic (Fr) Davis Cup Thoroughbreds LLC $32,880.09

16 Stormin Fever Golden Eagle Farm $30,885.46

17 Southern Image Rancho San Miguel $28,684.38

18 Good Journey Magali Farms, LLC $27,189.09

19 Idiot Proof Victory Rose Thoroughbreds $26,503.20

20 Game Plan Game Plan Syndicate $25,894.70

21 Benchmark Ballena Vista Farm $25,144.73

22 Old Topper Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, LLC $25,021.22

23 Birdonthewire Madera Thoroughbreds $24,986.92

24 Western Fame Arthur E. Lemay & Mark Mariani $23,199.79

25 Dixie Chatter Dixie Chatter Syndicate $22,355.58

26 Kafwain Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, LLC $21,715.32

27 Surf Cat Aase Headley $21,649.88

28 Lucky J. H. Harris Farm $18,751.17

29 Tizbud Pamela Ziebarth $18,633.47

30 McCann’s Mojave Willman or Specht or Mandel or Padilla $14,223.16

31 Marino Marini Rancho San Miguel $13,421.40

32 Peppered Cat Alex Paszkeicz $13,124.57

33 Roi Charmant B & B Zietz Stables, Inc. $12,882.34

34 Swiss Yodeler Heinz H. Steinmann $12,793.37

35 Heatseeker (Ire) Heatseeker Syndicate $11,254.37

36 Tannersmyman Jim Eaton $11,247.21

37 Globalize Litt, Todaro, Hollendorfer or Jackson $9,432.60

38 Ten Most Wanted Magali Farms LLC and Milt Policzer $8,949.82

39 In Excess (Ire) In Excess Syndicate $8,238.29

40 The Pamplemousse The Pamplemousse Syndicate $7,310.44

41 Don’tsellmeshort Running Luck Ranch, LLC $6,912.13

42 Grace Upon Grace Terry C. Lovingier $6,392.73

43 Terrell Roger Stein $6,377.74

44 Time to Get Even Terry Lovingier, Walther Solis, Joe Lopez & Al Murrieta $6,267.37

45 Aragorn (Ire) Tommy Town Thoroughbreds $5,922.44

46 Trapper Joseph P. Morey Jr. Revocable Trust $5,813.37

47 Cyclotron Headley, I. Molasky, Greenspun & Old English Rancho $5,668.55

48 Sundarban Madsen, Seifert & Crystal Valley Farms Inc. $5,393.87

49 Beau Genius Ballena Vista Farm $5,194.09

50 Informed The Thompson Family Trust $4,894.43

51 Thisnearlywasmine Daehling Ranch LLC $4,779.57

52 Sierra Sunset George Schmitt, Phil Lebherz & Albert Mariani $4,345.05

Slew’s Tiznow Joseph Lacombe Stables, Inc. $4,345.05

54 Bedford Falls Bedford Falls Partnership $3,795.69

55 Atticus Richard Barton Ent. $3,755.74

56 Salt Lake Golden Eagle Farm $3,645.86

57 Thorn Song Harris Farms $3,496.02

58 Unbridled Native Old English Rancho, Cristof & Berumen $3,377.00

59 Many Rivers Many Rivers Partnership $3,376.16

60 Cindago Lee & Susan Searing $3,346.20

61 Freespool Desperado Stables Inc. $3,146.41

62 Siberian Summer Bobbie Kay Davis or Ellen Jackson $2,921.67

63 Cee’s Tizzy Cee’s Stable LLC $2,911.69

64 Singletary Singletary Syndicate $2,896.71

Doc Gus Benjamin C. Warren $2,896.71

Sky Terrace William L. Hedrick $2,896.71

67 Awesome Gambler Terry C. Lovingier $2,831.78

68 Poteen Poteen Syndicate $2,796.82

Olmodavor Olmodavor Syndicate $2,796.82

Behrens Behrens Partnership $2,796.82

71 Bushwacker Terry C. Lovingier $2,547.11

72 Onebadshark Jim Atwell & Harris Barton $2,510.48

73 Whatsthescript (Ire) Tommy Town Thoroughbreds $2,332.34

74 Council Member Karen & Mickey Taylor LLC $1,847.89

75 Olympio John Zamora $1,748.01

76 Northern Devil Joseph A. Duffel $1,698.06

77 Alymagic Daehling Ranch LLC $1,498.29

78 Jet West Arthur E. Lemay $1,483.31

Tough Game Jeff Finkel & Valerie Rhoden $1,483.31

80 Fullbridled Barbara Kelly $1,428.38

Flame Thrower Oak Hill Farm $1,428.38

82 Stormy Jack Brazeau Thoroughbred Farms, LP $1,398.41

Downtown Seattle Harris Farms, Inc. & Donald Valpredo $1,398.41

84 Brave Cat George Schmitt $1,373.44

85 Momentum Vessels Stallion Farm LLC & J. Paul Reddam $1,348.47

86 Perfect Mandate Perfect Mandate Syndicate $849.03

Forest Command Four Quarters Corp. $849.03

Suances (GB) Red Baron’s Barn LLC $849.03

Anziyan Royalty Nick Cafarchia $849.03

Run Brother Ron George & Mary Clare Schmitt $849.03

91 Capsized Bnd Thoroughbreds & Kris Caiati $749.15

92 Gotham City Daehling Ranch LLC $649.26

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Winners

3-YEAR-OLDS & UP

Affrmative—Elusive Rose: Warren's Nicholas (19-7), g, 7 yo, Oaklawn Park, WCL, 3/31, 1 1/16mi, 1:46.93, $15,600.

Affrmative—Pinctada: Warren's Tyler S. (19-7), g, 6 yo, Turf Paradise, STR, 4/16, about 1mi, 1:36.48, $3,149.

Benchmark—Tialinga: Sweetrayofsunshine (38-15), m, 7 yo, Aqueduct, SST, Xtra Heat S., 4/2, 6f, 1:12.33, $42,000.

Bertrando—Wild Apart: Yana (33-17), m, 5 yo, Santa Anita Park, STR, 3/26, 6 1/2f, 1:17.13, $28,800.

Bertrando—Fantasy Rocks: Bold Fantasy (33-17), g, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, AOC, 3/27, 6f, 1:10.09, $22,620.

Birdonthewire—Kathryns Birthday: Sheer Pleasure (8-5), f, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, STK, Dream of Summer S., 3/27, 1mi, 1:36.82, $60,000.

Blazonry—Stayingalive: Guy Code (10-3), g, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, AOC, 4/1, 6 1/2f, 1:15.54, $45,240.

Bushwacker—Sheila's Prospect: P Club (18-3), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, ALW, 3/26, 6f, 1:9.93, $21,060.

City Zip—Stately Belle: City State (145-48), g, 6 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, STR, 4/14, 1mi, 1:36.31, $13,200.

Comic Strip—Honoree Lady: Handfull (17-4), m, 7 yo, Santa Anita Park, SST, March Madness Starter H., 3/27, 1 1/8mi (T), 1:48.47, $28,992.

Cyclotron—Could She: He Will (18-9), c, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, STR, 3/31, 6f, 1:10.58, $21,600.

Decarchy—Storm Lamp: West Coast Storm (53-18), m, 5 yo, Santa Anita Park, AOC, 3/31, 1mi (T), 1:37.02, $34,800.

Desert Code—Ju Ju Baby: Bad Ju Ju (28-11), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, ALW, 4/2, 6f, 1:10.60, $21,060.

Desert Code—Madam General: Desert Madam (28-11), m, 5 yo, Santa Anita Park, STR, 4/3, 1 1/16mi, 1:44.12, $21,600.

Distorted Reality—Pagan Baby: Sister Hubert (29-7), f, 4 yo, Turf Paradise, STR, 3/29, about 1mi, 1:37.38, $4,464.

Emerald Creme—Just Details: Red Creme (2-2), g, 8 yo, Golden Gate Fields, WCL, 4/15, 6f, 1:10.50, $16,560.

Grazen—Mark Set Go: Tough It Out (27-11), g, 3 yo, Santa Anita Park, STK, Echo Eddie S., 4/9, 6 1/2f, 1:17.60, $110,000.

Grazen—Welken: Night Train Lane (27-11), g, 4 yo, Emerald Downs, WCL, 4/10, 5 1/2f, 1:2.46, $5,115.

Grazen—Fairway Road: Nellie Fox (27-11), c, 4 yo, Parx Racing, WCL, 4/16, 6f, 1:12.20, $12,000.

Heatseeker (IRE)—Sweet Muqtarib: Heat Me (23-7), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 4/2, 6f, 1:11.42, $11,220.

Heatseeker (IRE)—Sistine: Infosec (23-7), r, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, AOC, 4/17, 6f, 1:10.79, $22,620.

In Excess (IRE)—Impressive Miss: The Last Express (13-3), h, 5 yo, Santa Anita Park, ALW, 3/26, 1mi (T), 1:35.55, $34,800.

Kafwain—Natural Route: Aikman Jewel (36-12), m, 5 yo, Turf Paradise, ALW, 3/26, 6f, 1:10.17, $10,066.

Marino Marini—Grey Lassie: Breakaway Dixie (55-18), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 3/25, 5 1/2f, 1:5.40, $12,240.

Marino Marini—Quiet Optimism: Hazzy Gray (55-18), m, 5 yo, Turf Paradise, STR, 4/10, 1mi, 1:39.34, $4,604.

Ministers Wild Cat—You Are the Answer: Whatsthe-question (48-17), g, 6 yo, Penn National, AOC, 4/15, 1mi 70yd, 1:42.02, $18,240.

Mizzen Mast—Gone to Party: Judge Carr (75-24), g, 6 yo, Hollywood Casino At Charles Town Races, AOC, 4/13, 6 1/2f, 1:18.98, $16,200.

More Than Ready—Wild About Sonny: Tinderette (103-29), f, 3 yo, Santa Anita Park, STR, 4/1, 6f, 1:12.31, $23,100.

Old Topper—You Are the Answer: I Will Follow (21-4), g, 7 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 4/7, 6f, 1:10.75, $6,300.

Olmodavor—Local Flavor: Local Reason (16-7), g, 4 yo, Turf Paradise, SST, Turf Distance Series Final S., 3/26, 1 1/2mi (T), 2:30.97, $15,095.

Olmodavor—Bella Castagna: Nardo (16-7), g, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, AOC, 4/8, 6 1/2f, 1:15.85, $34,800.

Olmodavor—Awesome Broad: Oltimate Broad (16-7), f, 4 yo, Fonner Park, ALW, 4/9, 6f, 1:14.20, $4,800.

Orientate—Mini Skirt: Xerxes (46-12), g, 4 yo, Emerald Downs, WCL, 4/16, 5 1/2f, 1:2.44, $3,465.

Paddy O'Prado—Betar B Sharp: Dyved (52-15), g, 3 yo, Mahoning Valley Race Course, ALW, 4/6, 1mi, 1:42.34, $10,500.

Salt Lake—Quarry Hill: Queen of the Hill (11-5), m, 7 yo, Hollywood Casino At Charles Town Races, AOC, 4/1, 6 1/2f, 1:19.27, $15,190.

Sea of Secrets—Captural: Cindys Secret (16-6), m, 5 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, AOC, 4/15, 5 1/2f, 1:2.81, $27,600.

Sierra Sunset—Beau's Gem: Touched by Autism (11-2), c, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, AOC, 3/26, 1 1/16mi, 1:46.15, $21,060.

Skimming—Mahrin: Mah Gellin (12-5), g, 6 yo, Golden Gate Fields, ALW, 4/2, 6f, 1:10.04, $25,740.

Skimming—Trumping: Mary Lois (12-5), m, 7 yo, Emerald Downs, STR, 4/17, 5 1/2f, 1:2.97, $4,730.

Snorter—Birdinexcess: Inexcess Again (5-2), g, 5 yo, Emerald Downs, WCL, 4/16, 5 1/2f, 1:2.35, $9,130.

Stormin Fever—Centerofattention: Real Big Deal (37-17), g, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, ALW, 3/25, 1 1/16mi, 1:43.86, $34,800.

Sundarban—Foxy Babe: Howdy (11-5), c, 4 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, AOC, 4/14, 1mi, 1:36.12, $35,880.

Surf Cat—Marrakech Gold: San Onofre (19-4), g, 6 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, STK, Los Angeles S. (gr. III ), 4/16, 5 1/2f, 1:2.04, $60,000.

Tannersmyman—Adriftinthebay: El Huerfano (22-10), c, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, AOC, 3/31, 1mi, 1:37.05, $46,800.

Tannersmyman—Ma Ka Bet: My Friend Emma (22-10), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, ALW, 4/16, 6f, 1:9.78, $21,060.

Thorn Song—Laugh N Yodel: Yodelsong (22-3), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, STR, 4/14, 6f, 1:10.25, $20,160.

Tribal Rule—Gutsy Lady: Gutsy Ruler (94-32), g, 5 yo, Santa Anita Park, AOC, 4/1, 6f, 1:9.81, $34,800.

Truckee—Forbidden Sea: Forbidden Kee (2-1), m, 6 yo, Emerald Downs, WCL, 4/9, 6f, 1:10.14, $3,740.

Unbridled Native—Oceans N Mountains: Surf N Ski (2-1), g, 8 yo, Sunland Park, ALW, 3/29, 5f, 56.34, $16,758.

Unbridled Native—Oceans N Mountains: Surf N Ski (2-1), g, 8 yo, Sunland Park, ALW, 4/13, 6f, 1:8.55, $18,333.

Unusual Heat—Hotlantic: Pacifc Heat (71-22), f, 3 yo, Santa Anita Park, STK, Evening Jewel S., 4/9, 6 1/2f, 1:17.38, $110,000.

Unusual Heat—Kitty and Boo: Boozer (71-22), g, 6 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, STK, Bertrando S., 4/16, 1mi, 1:34.73, $60,000.

Valid Wager—Miss Kristin: Bruno's Wager (2-2), g, 9 yo, Turf Paradise, STR, 3/29, 6f, 1:9.06, $4,910.

Vronsky—Oceans N Mountains: What a View (40-19), g, 5 yo, Santa Anita Park, STK, Thunder Road S. (gr. IIIT ), 4/9, 1mi (T), 1:39.01, $60,000.

Vronsky—Vicki's Mandate: Sky Forever (40-19), m, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 4/10, 5f, 57.57, $7,800.

MAIDENS

Aragorn (IRE)—Big Easy: Oh Mercy Me (44-14), g, 3 yo, Sunland Park, MCL, 4/12, 5 1/2f, 1:4.25, $5,796.

Awesome Spirit—Pretty Kinzie: Pretty Emma (5-2), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/15, 1mi, 1:40.62, $3,850.

Bedford Falls—Penuche Royale: Regal Lady (15-6), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 3/31, 1mi, 1:41.32, $4,400.

Bertrando—Amapola's Wish: Win Wish (33-17), g, 5 yo, Parx Racing, MCL, 3/26, 5 1/2f, 1:6.52, $10,800.

BEST MINISTER

Brazeau Thoroughbred Farms L.P.(951) 201 2278

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Best Minister—Sunday's Honor: Deputy Dane (14-3), g, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 4/16, 5 1/2f, 1:5.18, $13,800.

Birdonthewire—Lady Sorceress: Jayhawker (8-5), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/10, 1mi, 1:39.75, $4,400.

Birdonthewire—Dancin Music: Wired for Fun (8-5), m, 5 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 4/17, 4 1/2f, 53.26, $3,260.

BOLD CHIEFTAIN

Victory Rose Thoroughbreds (707) 678 6580

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Bold Chieftain—Zak's Precocious: Dresscode Violator (9-4), f, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 4/15, 2f, 21.68, $15,600.

Calkins Road—Bruin Ballet: Is This Georgia (3-1), f, 4 yo, Turfway Park, MCL, 3/25, 6 1/2f, 1:19.79, $3,060.

Chhaya Dance—Waltz On Water: Dance the Waltz (10-4), c, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 3/26, 4 1/2f, 52.53, $3,200.

Chhaya Dance—Lacework: Sancy (10-4), g, 5 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 4/3, 4 1/2f, 53.46, $3,260.

CYCLOTRON

Old English Rancho(909) 947 3911

Cyclotron—Chinese Cat: The Cat's Leavin (18-9), m, 5 yo, Santa Anita Park, WMC, 3/24, 6f, 1:10.88, $18,600.

Cyclotron—Crystal Chandelier: Rocket Fuel (18-9), g, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, MSW, 4/3, 6f, 1:9.58, $33,600.

Cyclotron—Ms Hearts N Arrows: Our Love Affair (18-9), m, 6 yo, Parx Racing, MCL, 4/16, 6f, 1:12.21, $14,400.

DECARCHY

Magali Farms(805) 693 1777

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Decarchy—Foxy Jade: H R Express (53-18), g, 3 yo, Parx Racing, MCL, 3/29, 6 1/2f, 1:19.50, $24,000.

Decarchy—Dreaming of Janet: Unleash the Dream (53-18), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 4/3, 6f, 1:11.48, $20,280.

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The accompanying list includes runners that are both California-foaled and California-sired winners in 2016 of all recent North American races, except straight claiming races.

Abbreviations used for the class of race are similar to those used by Equibase: Alw–allowance; Hcp–overnight handicap; names of stakes race are spelled out, with the grade of the race, when applicable, in parentheses.

DESERT CODE

Harris Farms(800) 311 6211

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Desert Code—Plush: Conspirator (28-11), g, 5 yo, Turf Paradise, MCL, 3/22, 5 1/2f, 1:4.97, $3,789.

Desert Code—Glory Forever: Code for Glory (28-11), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/1, 5 1/2f, 1:4.65, $5,500.

Dixie Chatter—Wild Apart: Esmeralda Belle (30-5), f, 3 yo, Santa Anita Park, MCL, 4/7, 5 1/2f, 1:5.44, $13,800.

Don'tsellmeshort—Afeet Diablo: Diablo's Angel (34-10), m, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 3/27, 5 1/2f, 1:5.81, $4,950.

Einstein (BRZ)—Diva Gone Wild: Smart Idea (26-3), g, 4 yo, Turf Paradise, MCL, 4/12, 5f, 58.55, $3,750.

Elusive Warning—Ambitious Angel: Uncle Chato (6-3), g, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, MSW, 3/27, about 6 1/2f, 1:14.77, $33,600.

English Channel—Mohaka: Pacifc Channel (78-15), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/9, 1 1/16mi, 1:47.00, $7,800.

Ez Dreamer—Cappuccino Springs: Eyesadreamin (4-4), f, 3 yo, Turf Paradise, MOC, 4/16, about 1mi, 1:37.14, $7,518.

Giant's Causeway—Maralago: Native Causeway (150-40), c, 4 yo, Emerald Downs, WMC, 4/10, 5 1/2f, 1:3.59, $3,630.

GOOD JOURNEY

Magali Farms(805) 693 1777

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Good Journey—Claim the Track: Angels Journey (32-8), g, 3 yo, Santa Anita Park, MCL, 4/10, 6 1/2f, 1:16.80, $13,800.

Grazen—Fairway Road: Nellie Fox (27-11), c, 4 yo, Parx Racing, MCL, 4/10, 5f, 58.98, $10,800.

Grazen—Unsung Heroine: Enola Gray (27-11), f, 3 yo, Santa Anita Park, MSW, 4/10, 6 1/2f, 1:13.71, $33,600.

Grindstone—American Avenue: Original Avenue (34-9), f, 4 yo, Emerald Downs, WMC, 4/9, 5 1/2f, 1:4.95, $3,630.

Hat Trick (JPN)—Spirited: Guybrush (51-11), g, 4 yo, Turf Paradise, MCL, 3/21, 6 1/2f, 1:17.58, $3,789.

Heat Shield—Rocket Kitty: Hotbob (3-2), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 4/3, 6f, 1:10.68, $20,280.

Indygo Shiner—Sunshine Dreamer: Sunshine Serenade (71-22), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 3/26, 6f, 1:12.34, $4,400.

Indygo Shiner—Pat Olcott: Indygo Holiday (71-22), g, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, MCL, 4/8, 1mi, 1:37.36, $16,200.

Informed—Academy Buzz: Mrs. O P Cafe (11-3), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 4/14, 6f, 1:11.84, $11,400.

Langfuhr—Jaciro: Big Pebble (93-27), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/16, 6f, 1:11.65, $8,400.

LUCKY J.H.

Harris Farms(800) 311 6211

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Lucky J. H.—Miss Rhythmic: Jazzy J H (25-7), m, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/10, 1 1/16mi, 1:47.90, $7,800.

McCann's Mojave—Broke in Blairsden: Blazeinblairsden (31-12), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/7, 5 1/2f, 1:6.21, $3,850.

McCann's Mojave—Martinis Atmidnite: Noble Mojave (31-12), g, 5 yo, Turf Paradise, MCL, 4/11, 1mi, 1:37.26, $3,750.

Midnight Lute—Bellastrega: Taman Guard (90-36), g, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MSW, 4/17, 6f, 1:8.79, $35,100.

Ministers Wild Cat—Malibu Artiste: Malibu Rum Run (48-17), f, 3 yo, Sunland Park, MSW, 4/17, 6 1/2f, 1:18.07, $12,915.

Old Topper—Just Seventeen: Justabitunderage (21-4), g, 3 yo, Sunland Park, MSW, 4/3, 6 1/2f, 1:16.63, $12,915.

Olmodavor—Spirited: She's My Cookie (16-7), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/1, 1mi, 1:44.26, $4,400.

Paddy O'Prado—Young Ladies Day: Imagine If (52-15), f, 3 yo, Tampa Bay Downs, MCL, 4/16, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:44.26, $6,960.

Papa Clem—Smokin Tempo: Better Luck (59-23), g, 4 yo, Penn National, MCL, 4/1, 1mi 70yd, 1:46.95, $7,440.

Papa Clem—Bella Banissa: Que Chistoso (59-23), g, 3 yo, Santa Anita Park, MCL, 4/3, 1mi, 1:37.86, $18,600.

Papa Clem—Shou Win: Stir Fry (59-23), f, 3 yo, Santa Anita Park, MCL, 4/7, 5 1/2f, 1:4.75, $13,800.

Papa Clem—Tialinga: Papa Frank (59-23), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/8, 5 1/2f, 1:4.90, $3,850.

Parading—Fair Wager: Parlay (54-20), r, 3 yo, Emerald Downs, MCL, 4/16, 5 1/2f, 1:3.32, $4,400.

PEPPERED CAT

Daehling Ranch(916) 685 4965

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Peppered Cat—Crown This Lady: Crown Me Pepper (17-4), c, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 3/25, 5 1/2f, 1:6.14, $8,400.

Pioneerof the Nile—Argenta: Al Risala (67-23), g, 4 yo, Oaklawn Park, MCL, 4/8, 1 1/16mi, 1:48.15, $14,100.

Redattore (BRZ)—Southern Charm: Compratore (13-4), g, 6 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/15, 5 1/2f, 1:4.04, $4,400.

Salt Lake—Houston Crunch: Seattle Salt (11-5), m, 5 yo, Santa Anita Park, MCL, 4/10, 5 1/2f, 1:3.80, $18,600.

Siberian Summer—Run for My Life: Run for Daylight (12-4), g, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 3/25, 6f, 1:12.01, $4,400.

Siberian Summer—All Night Long (IRE): Silver Summer (12-4), g, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, MSW, 3/27, about 6 1/2f, 1:14.65, $33,600.

Siberian Summer—Foreverinasong: Foreverinsummer (12-4), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/16, 5 1/2f, 1:4.67, $4,400.

Sky Terrace—Elegant Miss: Elegant Sky (5-2), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 3/31, 1mi, 1:40.50, $4,400.

Slew's Tiznow—Silver Sting: Invertigo (7-2), c, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/10, 1mi, 1:39.87, $8,400.

Southern Africa—Hot Summer Breeze: Hotsouthern-breeze (5-2), f, 4 yo, Turf Paradise, MCL, 4/3, 6f, 1:11.49, $3,789.

Southern Image—Exceedtheprospect: Southern Justice (44-17), g, 5 yo, Fonner Park, MSW, 4/2, 6f, 1:14.40, $3,720.

Southern Image—Forest Sprite: Sierrastorm (44-17), f, 3 yo, Turf Paradise, MCL, 4/6, 6f, 1:12.10, $3,867.

Square Eddie—Categorize: Dis Smart Cat (45-19), f, 3 yo, Santa Anita Park, MCL, 3/24, 6f, 1:10.03, $18,600.

Square Eddie—Showtime Apollo: Allsquare (45-19), f, 3 yo, Santa Anita Park, MSW, 3/31, 1mi (T), 1:35.82, $33,600.

STORMY JACK

Brazeau Thoroughbred Farms L.P.(951) 201 2278

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Stormy Jack—Cowboys N Girls: Cowgirl N Thecity (15-3), m, 5 yo, Los Alamitos, WMC, 4/10, 4 1/2f, 53.03, $3,200.

SUNDARBAN

Milky Way Farm(909) 241 6600

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Sundarban—Fast Splash: Sheswildnfree (11-5), f, 4 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 4/16, 1mi, 1:37.79, $10,200.

Swiss Yodeler—Forest Miss: B K Miss (33-15), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 3/25, 4 1/2f, 53.23, $3,260.

Swiss Yodeler—Beyond Brite: Brite Echo (33-15), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MSW, 4/17, 6f, 1:10.46, $27,000.

Tenga Cat—Artistryandrhythm: Jazzie Cat (4-2), g, 4 yo, Santa Anita Park, MCL, 4/2, 6f, 1:10.32, $18,600.

Terrell—Quemar (NZ): Who Dee Knee (22-9), g, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 3/24, 1mi, 1:39.78, $5,500.

Thunder Gulch—Strawberry Tart: Strawberry Gulch (42-13), g, 3 yo, Turf Paradise, MCL, 4/10, 6f, 1:11.58, $3,828.

Time to Get Even—Twenty Questions: Even Twenty (11-3), f, 3 yo, Fonner Park, MSW, 4/1, 6f, 1:15.40, $3,720.

Tribal Rule—Just Get'er Done: She'll Get'er Done (94-32), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/3, 6f, 1:12.37, $4,950.

Triumphant Flight—Edamame: Monitization (2-1), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 4/10, 5 1/2f, 1:5.59, $4,400.

VRONSKY

Old English Rancho(909) 947 3911

Vronsky—On the Snap: Sidepocket Bet (40-19), f, 4 yo, Turf Paradise, MCL, 4/9, 1mi, 1:39.50, $3,828.

Vronsky—Mimi's Kitten: Kennedie Sky (40-19), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 4/16, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:46.04, $23,400.

Western Fame—Where's My Heart: Lookin' for Fame (9-5), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 3/26, 6f, 1:11.65, $4,950.

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BY HEATHER SMITH THOMAS

Horses occasionally develop in-fammation and ulceration of the gut lining, most common-

ly in the stomach (gastric ulcers). Colitis, or infammation of the co-lon, is rarer, but can be very serious. For some reason, this problem tends to occur more in the right dorsal colon.

Dr. Anthony Blikslager, professor of equine medicine and surgery at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, says that in his experience, right dorsal colitis is exclu-sively associated with the use of non-ste-roidal anti-infammatory drug (NSAID) administration.

“Te only cases I’ve seen have been triggered by use of phenylbutazone,” said Blikslager. “We don’t know what is pecu-liar about the right dorsal colon, versus

the rest of the colon, regarding why that site is afected. One theory is that the co-lon contents (the digested food moving through) are changing at that point, near the end of the colon. Te colon is doing less fermentation by then and more ab-sorption of water. Tis might mean it is concentrating something within the food or changing the microbial population.”

Some researchers have discussed whether there is a change in the blood circulation that supplies the colon at that location.

“Perhaps that part of the gut may be predisposed to problems because it’s a bit more sensitive to changes in circula-tion,” said Blikslager. “Te reason that this scenario might be relevant is that prostaglandin—especially prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), which is thought to be pro-tective, keeping the gut lining healthy—is inhibited by phenylbutazone.

“One of the things that PGE2 does is

dilate blood vessels, under normal cir-cumstances. Maybe the blood fow is a little bit more reduced in the right dorsal colon for some reason than in other parts of the colon. Ten if you remove pros-taglandins (by using phenylbutazone), the crucial blood circulation to that area might become compromised.”

Tis would afect blood fow to the gut lining and hinder its mucus production. “Te gut lining is very sensitive to chang-es in blood fow,” said Blikslager, “because of its high demand for oxygen—which is used to help energize the necessary en-zymes and transporters. It can’t go with-out oxygen for very long.”

Whether a horse might develop right dorsal colitis could be a combination of factors.

“If that particular horse is extreme-ly stressed for some reason (which can change things in the gut), it might be more vulnerable to this problem,” said

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Blikslager. “Each horse also has its own in-dividual microbial population. Some will have a few more ‘bad bugs’ in the gut than other horses. Ten when you add phen-ylbutazone into that mix, and it slightly reduces the blood fow to the gut, this might be enough to push that particular horse over the edge in terms of the health of the lining.”

Tis is somewhat similar to the causes of ulcers in humans.

“In people, we used to think that ulcers were purely acid-caused, related to diet,” said Blikslager. “Now we understand that it is related to individual factors, to some degree, in specifc people. It’s not just diet, although diet certainly plays a role. It’s also bacteria (particularly Helicobacter py-lori). Problems in the gut are usually due to multiple factors. Inside the gut there is always a delicate interaction with the con-tents (food) and the lining of the gut, and the overall infuence of the body on what’s going on in the gut.”

Fortunately, right dorsal colitis is a rare disease in horses. It used to be thought that this disease was due to an overdose of bute, but this is not necessarily the case because normal doses can also cause it. Many horses with arthritis that are on very low-maintenance doses to keep them comfortable do just fne, but some horses can’t tolerate long-term bute.

“We once had a horse here in the hospi-tal that had an elective orthopedic proce-dure and was put on bute pre-operatively and remained on bute post-operatively at correct dosing, and acutely developed right dorsal colitis. It was so severe that we lost that horse.”

Most cases are sub-acute (slower in pro-gression), however.

“Rather than (a horse) developing coli-tis within the frst 24 hours of being on bute, it comes on more slowly—within about a fve-day period after being started on bute,” said Blikslager. “Tere are many cases where it’s actually chronic. Te horse has been on bute for days, weeks, or even months, and then develops a problem.

“Tis problem can catch you of guard in two diferent ways. It can surprise you if it happens very quickly and you were not expecting it and haven’t even had a chance to wean the horse of bute. Or it can happen in other cases in which the

horse is seemingly okay with bute and is on it for a long period of time—and sud-denly there is some sort of change and the horse develops colitis.

“We are not telling people to stop using bute. It is the cheapest and most practical way to treat a horse with chronic arthritis, which afects a large portion of the horse population. All we can do is advise horse owners about sensible dosing. Tis means giving the horse as little as possible for as short a time period as possible.

“Te upper end of the labeled dose is approximately two grams twice a day for an average-sized horse. We may give one dose at this level but then suggest giving one gram twice a day, to start with, and

then wean down to one gram once a day as quickly as possible. For the horses that essentially stay on bute for maintenance soundness or pain control, another ap-proach is not necessarily to give it every day. Give the horse a day of from it pe-riodically. During that day of, the pros-taglandins could bounce back and restore the gut lining to health before the horse goes back on bute again.

“With gastric ulcers (in the stomach, rather than back in the colon), there are other things you can combine for treat-ment, like antacids. With the colon, how-ever, it is so far away from anything you can give the horse by mouth that it is very

difcult to protect it.”Te right dorsal colon is at the very end

of the colon, before it turns across the ab-domen as the transverse colon and then out through the small colon. Te right dorsal colon and transverse colon are the areas just before fecal balls start forming as water is withdrawn from the contents.

“Interestingly, this is the same place that sand collects in a sand impaction, or where you might fnd an enterolith,” said Blikslager. Tis part of the tract seems to catch things that might otherwise move through.

“We jokingly complain about the horse’s digestive tract being so convolut-ed, especially at about the pelvic fexure—

the area of colon with a hairpin turn. Te right dorsal colon, by contrast, is not as tight a turn but it is still a bend, like going around a corner, from the right dorsal to the transverse colon. Fortunately, this lo-cation can be imaged with ultrasound. It has a fxed location, as opposed to much of the rest of the colon, which is more variable.

“Te right dorsal colon can be consis-tently found—near the 12th intercostal space (between those two ribs), tucked in behind the liver—and readily imaged with ultrasound. Going up and down the 11th, 12th, and 13th intercostal space with the ultrasound probe, looking for

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the liver, we can then come of the back of the liver once we’ve located it and fnd the right dorsal colon. Ten we can check the thickness of its lining. Ordinarily, it should be about two millimeters thick, at that position, and anything more than that would be abnormal.”

DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

Many cases can be difcult to pick up. Most horses with right dorsal colitis tend to have subtle signs. Tey may simply eat less and look a bit depressed and dull. A subtle change in behavior might not seem signifcant, but should not be ignored.

“It is important to have the veterinar-ian examine the horse,” said Blikslager. “He/she may not notice much that’s very defnitive, so it is important to run some routine bloodwork and check the total protein. A biochemical panel will show the serum protein and also the albumen, the most important protein for normal circulatory function. In addition, a CBC (complete blood count) may show a low white blood count, specifcally neutro-phils. With these fndings, I’d ask the owner more questions, and whether the horse was on bute.”

Tis is always a very important part of the history—the medications the horse has been given. One problem, if a horse has been on bute for a long time, is a tendency for the owner or trainer to ac-tually increase the dose when the horse is not feeling as good, which would be the wrong thing to do.

“If the bloodwork came back showing low protein and low neutrophil count, then your veterinarian would come back and ultrasound the horse, or refer it to someone else to ultrasound it,” said Blik-slager. “Tis would reveal the thickened gut lining, if the cause of these changes was right dorsal colitis.

“Most veterinarians are very comfort-able using ultrasound to image the repro-

ductive tract, tendons, and some other soft tissue structures, but are not comfort-able imaging the abdomen. It’s not some-thing they would typically do for a colic, for instance. If they don’t feel comfortable doing this, they can send the horse to someone who does or call someone who knows more about that.”

If the history shows the horse being on bute, with subtle clinical signs, and then the bloodwork shows the protein is low, another option is to just start treatment.

“Te immediate thing is to get the horse of bute,” said Blikslager. “We would also replace the PGE (prostaglandin E) that is needed. Tis can be done with a drug called Misoprostol, which is synthetic PGE1, very similar to PGE2.”

It also helps to put the horse on a low-residue diet with less bulk, such as a pelleted ration that is mostly digested be-fore it reaches the right dorsal colon.

“Tis would help rest that area of the bowel. Veterinarians generally recom-mend this for up to three months. It’s a slow process, to heal the lining and get the protein level to come back up.

“Te hard ones to deal with are the horses you treat like this but they keep deteriorating. Colitis is literally an ulcer of the gut and implies infammation. Te thickening of the lining is due to a lot of infammatory cells and some scar tissue starting to form. Te vital inner lin-ing of epithelium that protects the body from what’s inside the gut is now gone. Without this protection, the horse can become endotoxemic. If a horse is not going to recover, usually it’s because of a combination of reduced protein and endotoxemia.”

With some horses, the protein just keeps dropping, which is very frustrating. Protein can be provided in the form of plasma, but that is expensive long term. At some point the horse has to stop losing protein or he won’t survive.

“Tis is similar to many other col-ic-type problems; if it comes on quickly, they are more difcult to save. If it comes on slowly, you have a much better chance of being able to get them back to health. Te rapid ones are probably due to a sud-den loss of gut mucosa, and the resulting endotoxemia. Horses with right dorsal colitis have a guarded prognosis, which

All we can do is advise horse owners about sensible dosing (with bute). Tis means giving the horse as little as possible for as short a time period as possible.”

— Dr. Anthony Blikslager

Running bloodwork and checking the protein levels can be benefcial diagnostic tools

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means less than 50% of them make it.”Serious cases that come on suddenly

might show fever and diarrhea. Others present with more subtle signs, such as behavioral changes and going of feed.

“In a horse with fever and diarrhea, my frst thought would be colitis afecting the whole colon,” said Blikslager. “Tis is absolutely a medical emergency, and these horses are frequently difcult to save because they lose so much fuid via the diarrhea. If the horse is systemically sick, there will also be some absorption of en-dotoxins into the bloodstream, and that will really complicate things. Tis would

be an acute presentation.“Some veterinarians don’t use Misopros-

tol for treatment because it can cause horses to colic a little and they don’t feel comfort-able with that. But in our hospital, in the cases we’ve treated, we’ve found that this was an important part of what enabled us to get them back to health. We felt the beneft of getting the prostaglandins back into the horse outweighed the concern about them get-ting crampy. We knew we could stop the drug or lower the dose if they did.”

SUBSTITUTES FOR BUTE

Other NSAIDs can be used as alternatives to bute if a horse is sensitive to that medication.

“The other drug labeled for osteoarthritis that is supposed to be safer for the gut is Equioxx, but it’s a lot more expensive,” said Dr. Anthony Blikslager of North Carolina State University. “Many people continue to use bute because it is cheap and easy—putting the powder in grain, or mixed with water and molasses and squirted into the mouth if the horse won’t eat it in grain, or using the apple-favored paste.

“Many people don’t even think about possible side effects of a drug like this because it’s so commonly used and most horses do fne with it. You can probably fnd it in most horse barns. But if you realize that not every person can take aspirin or Advil, they might understand how not all horses can tolerate bute.

“There are newer NSAIDs on the market called COX-2 inhibitors. The one on the market for horses is Equioxx.

This can be used for something like arthritis (in which the horse is being treated continually), with the idea that it has a safer gut profle. In theory, this is true. It comes in a paste formulation for horses.”

The same drug comes in a canine formulation, called Previcox.

“It’s a small pill, and many horse owners are using this little pill rather than the more expensive Equioxx,” said Blikslager. “But that is off-label. When there is an FDA-ap-proved formulation for the horse, you are not supposed to use the other. In many situations there are no drugs approved for horses, and in those cases we can use drugs that are off-label.”

The formulation for dogs has not been studied for safe-ty and effcacy in horses.

“If you use it, and the horse has a problem related to the drug (like kidney, stomach, or gut problem), this could be an issue,” said Blikslager.

Ultrasound is also a useful diagnostic tool, perhaps revealing right dorsal colitis (shown at right)

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2016 LEADING BREEDERS IN CALIFORNIA BY EARNINGS (THRU APRIL 17, 2016)

Breeder Starts Wins Stakes Wins Leading Earner Earnings

Perry Martin & Steve Coburn 6 3 2 California Chrome ($6,210,000) $6,211,577

Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, LLC 200 27 1 Alwazabridesmaid ($80,560) $607,439

Harris Farms 177 24 1 Velvet Mesquite ($116,250) $572,425

Old English Rancho, Patsy Berumen & Sal Berumen 21 10 3 What a View ($437,500) $551,559

Nick Alexander 77 11 2 Tough It Out ($167,940) $542,414

Terry C. Lovingier 210 19 0 Time for Angie ($71,200) $490,902

Reddam Racing LLC 106 16 1 Smoove It ($65,345) $396,234

Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams 70 14 0 Woodmans Luck ($60,000) $273,165

Harris Farms & Donald Valpredo 12 3 2 Pacifc Heat ($226,030) $237,405

Benjamin C. Warren 99 12 1 Warrens Puppy Love ($49,000) $234,052

John R. Haagsma & Wesley Ward 5 3 1 Lost Bus ($166,800) $214,825

George Schmitt & Mary Clare Schmitt 51 12 0 Touched by Autism ($75,945) $200,557

Old English Rancho 46 8 1 Somethings Unusual ($49,640) $192,279

B Abrams, V Loverso, C Perez, Huston Racing & M Auerbach 5 2 2 Boozer ($164,660) $164,660

C Punch Ranch, Inc. 15 2 1 Smokey Image ($145,845) $155,985

Heinz H. Steinmann 16 6 0 W. Giles ($86,160) $153,082

Bruce Headley 8 3 2 San Onofre ($129,345) $133,767

Ed Delaney 25 5 0 Cool Green ($58,585) $132,738

Heinz Steinmann 18 5 0 Swissarella ($82,764) $129,218

Madera Thoroughbreds 42 7 0 Uncle Chato ($40,320) $118,527

Dahlberg Farms LLC 25 3 0 Raised a Secret ($60,380) $117,604

Donald Valpredo 50 10 0 Bako Sweets ($37,945) $112,827

Old English Rancho & Berumen 24 2 0 Poshsky ($39,345) $105,598

Nick Cafarchia 22 2 0 Tale of Papa Nick ($45,585) $102,160

Daehling Ranch LLC 38 4 0 Fast and Foxy ($37,960) $100,868

Dr. & Mrs. William T. Gray 32 3 1 Handfull ($28,992) $99,538

Madera Thoroughbreds LLC 14 1 1 Sheer Pleasure ($75,580) $99,295

Madeline Auerbach 9 2 0 McHeat ($93,840) $99,010

Crystal Valley Farms Inc. 6 3 0 Howdy ($82,280) $97,420

Howard & Janet Siegel Racing LLC 42 6 0 Brownie Finale ($21,942) $95,581

B & B Zietz Stables, Inc. 11 2 0 Qiaona ($64,620) $93,345

Liberty Road Stables 61 6 0 Prince of Paris ($16,856) $92,658

Joseph P. Morey Jr. Revocable Trust 17 3 0 Toomuchisnotenough ($29,560) $90,485

Black Diamond Racing, LLC 4 2 1 Sweetrayofsunshine ($89,680) $89,680

Oakcrest Stable 18 3 0 Bert’s Melody ($45,585) $86,670

Donald R. Dizney 18 4 1 Diamond Cut ($46,745) $85,952

Rod Rodriguez & Lorraine Rodriguez 34 5 0 Private Joke ($38,070) $83,911

Ellen Jackson 46 9 0 Olympic Jumble ($15,210) $82,935

Mark Tatch 51 8 0 Pat’s Gray Ray ($26,442) $80,986

Lou Neve 17 2 0 Avanti Bello ($62,265) $77,332

Madeline Auerbach & Barry Abrams 15 2 0 How Unusual ($44,715) $76,143

Tony and Suzy Narducci 3 2 0 Nardo ($75,360) $75,360

Walther Solis 6 1 0 Xingontothebone ($64,580) $74,870

William L. Hedrick & Judy Hedrick 30 4 0 Awesome Silver ($35,305) $72,925

Roger Stein 57 6 0 Luckbox Sam ($27,650) $72,322

Old English Rancho & Bruce Headley 13 2 0 Tuscany Beauty ($33,600) $69,344

H & E Ranch 23 9 4 Rye ($25,986) $68,584

Roy Tyra 10 1 0 Gutsy Ruler ($60,320) $67,593

Jim Eaton 16 4 0 My Friend Emma ($30,186) $67,074

Halo Farms 12 2 0 Righteous Ruler ($33,945) $66,214

Stephen Ferraro 11 3 0 Yana ($36,042) $65,617

Jim Robinson, Ron Brewer & Jim Lyberger 4 2 0 Seedsandstemsagain ($63,936) $64,161

Joe Turner 12 4 0 Atta Boy Pete ($38,745) $63,242

Carol A. Lingenfelter 20 3 0 Magnum Force ($22,490) $61,463

Racing Edge, Inc. 4 2 0 Mah Gellin ($60,684) $60,684

Lee Searing & Susan Searing 15 4 0 Canducharlie ($26,214) $59,424

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2016 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY AVERAGE EARNINGS PER RUNNER (MINIMUM 10 RUNNERS)

Races Earnings/ Sire Rnrs Won Earned Runner

1 Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit 86 27 $6,698,030 $77,884

2 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig 40 23 $895,924 $22,398

3 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark 27 17 $461,884 $17,107

4 Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev 71 27 $1,197,261 $16,863

5 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam 18 11 $283,327 $15,740

6 Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 23 10 $338,340 $14,710

7 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even 11 5 $154,664 $14,060

8 † In Excess (IRE), 1987, by Siberian Express 13 3 $181,706 $13,977

9 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson 22 12 $279,959 $12,725

10 † Cindago, 2003, by Indian Charlie 19 12 $235,293 $12,384

11 Skimming, 1996, by Nureyev 12 9 $146,229 $12,186

12 Sundarban, 2006, by A.P. Indy 11 6 $130,863 $11,897

13 Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat 19 5 $225,483 $11,868

14 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike 45 20 $533,770 $11,862

15 † Bertrando, 1989, by Skywalker 35 19 $414,220 $11,835

16 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 48 21 $551,404 $11,488

17 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run 36 17 $363,467 $10,096

18 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image 47 22 $462,697 $9,845

19 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat 94 34 $898,464 $9,558

20 Sierra Sunset, 2005, by Bertrando 13 6 $122,290 $9,407

2016 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY MONEY WON

Races Sire Rnrs Strts Won Earned

1 Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit 86 257 27 $6,698,030

2 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 152 454 55 $1,358,502

3 Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev 71 224 27 $1,197,261

4 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat 94 264 34 $898,464

5 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig 40 121 23 $895,924

6 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 48 162 21 $551,404

7 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike 45 133 20 $533,770

8 Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View 53 165 25 $494,729

9 Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike 59 202 28 $469,025

10 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image 47 146 22 $462,697

11 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark 27 83 17 $461,884

12 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig 87 215 25 $431,748

13 † Bertrando, 1989, by Skywalker 35 119 19 $414,220

14 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run 36 101 17 $363,467

15 Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat 56 168 26 $338,875

16 Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 23 69 10 $338,340

17 Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat 37 119 19 $318,609

18 † Benchmark, 1991, by Alydar 40 130 19 $300,109

19 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam 18 49 11 $283,327

20 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson 22 73 12 $279,959

21 Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE) 34 109 12 $272,498

22 Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled 46 128 12 $262,394

23 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai 28 78 12 $251,938

24 Awesome Gambler, 2004, by Coronado’s Quest 33 108 8 $244,803

25 † Cindago, 2003, by Indian Charlie 19 61 12 $235,293

26 Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat 19 52 5 $225,483

27 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy 25 70 10 $214,529

28 † McCann’s Mojave, 2000, by Memo (CHI) 31 104 16 $188,930

29 Don’tsellmeshort, 2001, by Benchmark 34 109 15 $185,886

30 Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time 21 67 10 $183,740

31 † In Excess (IRE), 1987, by Siberian Express 13 44 3 $181,706

32 Rocky Bar, 1998, by In Excess (IRE) 29 90 14 $180,908

33 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even 11 38 5 $154,664

34 Affrmative, 1999, by Unbridled 19 63 8 $148,122

35 Skimming, 1996, by Nureyev 12 34 9 $146,229

36 † Birdonthewire, 1989, by Proud Birdie 9 29 7 $140,607

37 Lucky J. H., 2002, by Cee’s Tizzy 25 74 9 $137,928

38 Sundarban, 2006, by A.P. Indy 11 28 6 $130,863

39 Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom 17 46 5 $128,189

40 † Western Fame, 1992, by Gone West 9 33 6 $122,348

41 Sierra Sunset, 2005, by Bertrando 13 41 6 $122,290

42 Dixie Chatter, 2005, by Dixie Union 30 70 5 $116,495

43 Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck 30 76 5 $110,639

44 Thorn Song, 2003, by Unbridled’s Song 23 63 4 $108,930

45 Terrell, 2000, by Distorted Humor 22 81 11 $105,564

46 Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry 15 51 6 $104,443

47 Bold Chieftain, 2003, by Chief Seattle 9 25 4 $104,423

48 Mr. Big, 2003, by Dynaformer 5 12 3 $99,095

2016 LEADING TURF SIRES IN CALIFORNIA (MINIMUM 50 STARTS)

Sire Rnrs Strts Wnrs Wins Earned

1 Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev 36 83 7 8 $627,324

2 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig 15 22 4 6 $620,133

3 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike 13 24 5 5 $256,389

4 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 37 75 7 8 $200,526

5 Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View 19 39 4 5 $168,554

6 † In Excess (IRE), 1987, by Siberian Express 3 6 2 2 $153,570

7 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat 17 29 3 3 $147,180

8 Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike 19 35 3 4 $136,526

9 † Bertrando, 1989, by Skywalker 10 20 3 3 $108,077

10 Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 5 15 2 2 $77,936

11 Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time 4 7 1 2 $74,061

12 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig 28 40 3 3 $65,422

13 Siberian Summer, 1989, by Siberian Express 3 8 1 1 $53,085

14 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam 5 9 1 1 $50,731

15 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai 5 6 1 1 $47,175

16 The Pamplemousse, 2006, by Kafwain 2 3 1 1 $45,450

17 Perfect Mandate, 1996, by Gone West 3 8 1 2 $42,624

18 Elusive Warning, 2004, by Elusive Quality 1 2 1 1 $36,960

19 Mr. Big, 2003, by Dynaformer 2 3 1 1 $35,395

20 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image 9 11 1 1 $34,190

The statistics shown here are compiled by The Jockey Club Information Systems (TJCIS). While every effort is made to prevent errors and omissions, California Thoroughbred cannot guarantee their complete and total ac-curacy. A dagger (†) indicates a stallion that has been pensioned or has died, a dot (•) that he is now standing elsewhere (sires no longer standing in California remain on these lists until their last Cal-bred crop turns 3 years old). Freshman sires are highlighted in bold text. Statistics cover racing in North America (U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico), England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) only. Stakes winners and wins follow TJCIS stakes rules. Racing statistics through Apr. 17, 2016.

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2016 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY MEDIAN EARNINGS PER RUNNER (MINIMUM 10 RUNNERS)

Races Sire Rnrs Won Earned Median

1 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam 18 11 $283,327 $14,789







8 † Salt Lake, 1989, by Deputy Minister 11 7 $90,700 $5,480

9 Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry 15 6 $104,443 $5,434

10 Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat 37 19 $318,609 $5,410

11 Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View 53 25 $494,729 $5,220


13 Affrmative, 1999, by Unbridled 19 8 $148,122 $5,051


15 Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time 21 10 $183,740 $4,810


17 Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike 59 28 $469,025 $4,666

18 Tough Game, 1999, by Mr. Greeley 11 5 $56,519 $4,440



2016 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY NUMBER OF WINNERS

Races Sire Rnrs Wnrs Won Earned





Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev 71 22 27 $1,197,261

6 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig 87 21 25 $431,748


Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike 45 19 20 $533,770


† Bertrando, 1989, by Skywalker 35 18 19 $414,220

Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat 56 18 26 $338,875


Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image 47 17 22 $462,697

Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat 37 17 19 $318,609

15 † Benchmark, 1991, by Alydar 40 15 19 $300,109

16 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run 36 12 17 $363,467

Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled 46 12 12 $262,394

† McCann’s Mojave, 2000, by Memo (CHI) 31 12 16 $188,930


Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE) 34 11 12 $272,498

Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai 28 11 12 $251,938

Rocky Bar, 1998, by In Excess (IRE) 29 11 14 $180,908

23 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson 22 10 12 $279,959

2016 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY AVERAGE EARNINGS PER START (MINIMUM 50 STARTS)

Earnings Sire Rnrs Srts Earned Start





5 Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 23 69 $338,340 $4,903

6 Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat 19 52 $225,483 $4,336








14 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai 28 78 $251,938 $3,230

15 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image 47 146 $462,697 $3,169

16 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy 25 70 $214,529 $3,065

17 Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View 53 165 $494,729 $2,998

18 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 152 454 $1,358,502 $2,992

19 Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time 21 67 $183,740 $2,742

20 Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat 37 119 $318,609 $2,677

2016 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY NUMBER OF RACES WON

Races Sire Rnrs Srts Won Earned





Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev 71 224 27 $1,197,261

6 Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat 56 168 26 $338,875


U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig 87 215 25 $431,748


10 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image 47 146 22 $462,697


12 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike 45 133 20 $533,770

13 † Bertrando, 1989, by Skywalker 35 119 19 $414,220

Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat 37 119 19 $318,609

† Benchmark, 1991, by Alydar 40 130 19 $300,109


Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run 36 101 17 $363,467

18 † McCann’s Mojave, 2000, by Memo (CHI) 31 104 16 $188,930

19 Don’tsellmeshort, 2001, by Benchmark 34 109 15 $185,886

20 Rocky Bar, 1998, by In Excess (IRE) 29 90 14 $180,908

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2016 LEADING LIFETIME SIRES IN CALIFORNIA (50 OR MORE NAMED FOALS)

Graded Avg Named 2YO Stakes Stakes Progeny Comp Stallion (Foreign Foaled), Year, Sire Crops Size Foals Runners Winners Winners Winners Winners Earnings AEI Index

1 Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev 16 46 739 537-73% 388-53% 52-7% 40-5% 11-1% $50,263,431 2.00 1.24

2 Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit 7 41 284 182-64% 111-39% 39-14% 3-1% 1-0% $19,414,471 1.74 1.21

3 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike 4 24 96 71-74% 53-55% 16-17% 6-6% 1-1% $4,548,006 1.64 0.91

4 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig 9 19 170 104-61% 70-41% 9-5% 9-5% 3-2% $7,521,998 1.56 1.10

5 † In Excess (IRE), 1987, by Siberian Express 19 52 994 748-75% 562-57% 117-12% 57-6% 11-1% $46,706,151 1.53 1.36

6 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark 4 13 52 40-77% 31-60% 8-15% 2-4% 0-0% $2,136,549 1.48 1.33

7 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam 7 13 91 35-38% 31-34% 0-0% 1-1% 1-1% $2,228,562 1.42 1.23

8 † Bertrando, 1989, by Skywalker 18 59 1066 820-77% 579-54% 124-12% 51-5% 15-1% $49,435,463 1.32 1.48

9 † Birdonthewire, 1989, by Proud Birdie 18 15 271 199-73% 144-53% 40-15% 12-4% 1-0% $13,029,674 1.31 1.32

10 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat 11 62 685 468-68% 347-51% 116-17% 31-5% 6-1% $29,751,694 1.30 1.08

11 Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled 8 48 380 305-80% 223-59% 58-15% 9-2% 3-1% $18,698,236 1.29 1.51

12 Memo (CHI), 1987, by Mocito Guapo (ARG) 15 34 506 301-59% 210-42% 34-7% 12-2% 4-1% $17,955,280 1.26 1.08

13 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 7 102 717 473-66% 345-48% 115-16% 27-4% 6-1% $28,476,673 1.23 1.85

14 Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat 9 8 68 37-54% 27-40% 4-6% 1-1% 1-1% $2,260,940 1.21 0.67

15 † Benchmark, 1991, by Alydar 15 48 720 556-77% 426-59% 107-15% 28-4% 9-1% $33,824,551 1.20 1.10

16 Affrmative, 1999, by Unbridled 7 13 92 60-65% 38-41% 5-5% 2-2% 1-1% $3,540,612 1.19 0.78

17 One Man Army, 1994, by Roman Diplomat 9 9 84 55-65% 38-45% 3-4% 2-2% 1-1% $2,842,175 1.17 0.96

18 Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat 14 54 761 561-74% 391-51% 117-15% 26-3% 9-1% $30,153,439 1.15 1.36

19 Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 5 35 177 103-58% 65-37% 21-12% 7-4% 1-1% $5,135,362 1.14 1.34

20 † Cindago, 2003, by Indian Charlie 6 16 94 69-73% 54-57% 11-12% 3-3% 0-0% $3,454,480 1.11 1.36

21 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image 8 61 485 222-46% 155-32% 43-9% 7-1% 1-0% $12,283,636 1.10 1.22

22 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run 10 56 557 399-72% 295-53% 93-17% 18-3% 6-1% $19,139,180 1.09 1.24

Prime Timber, 1996, by Sultry Song 11 22 238 185-78% 148-62% 29-12% 4-2% 1-0% $10,052,109 1.09 1.21

24 Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE) 5 39 193 100-52% 62-32% 18-9% 4-2% 1-1% $4,617,070 1.07 1.00

Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy 9 18 165 107-65% 69-42% 9-5% 5-3% 1-1% $5,379,560 1.07 0.89

26 Hold for Gold, 1995, by Red Ransom 12 11 135 105-78% 75-56% 16-12% 4-3% 0-0% $5,567,807 1.06 1.11

27 Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View 10 36 358 256-72% 179-50% 43-12% 12-3% 1-0% $13,695,295 1.04 0.97

Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 8 43 341 246-72% 179-52% 45-13% 14-4% 2-1% $13,198,213 1.04 0.95

Robannier, 1991, by Batonnier 17 7 112 71-63% 41-37% 8-7% 3-3% 0-0% $3,032,962 1.04 0.99

30 Formal Gold, 1993, by Black Tie Affair (IRE) 15 35 518 414-80% 326-63% 83-16% 17-3% 5-1% $20,395,578 1.03 1.27

31 Souvenir Copy, 1995, by Mr. Prospector 15 34 517 408-79% 281-54% 74-14% 10-2% 2-0% $16,637,410 1.02 1.13

32 Atticus, 1992, by Nureyev 16 30 475 343-72% 212-45% 40-8% 11-2% 4-1% $14,660,025 1.01 1.41

Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai 4 23 93 54-58% 36-39% 12-13% 2-2% 0-0% $2,168,934 1.01 1.10

34 • Redattore (BRZ), 1995, by Roi Normand 5 143 715 155-22% 105-15% 10-1% 3-0% 1-0% $7,232,036 0.98 1.19

Safe in the U S A, 1999, by Gone West 8 9 72 59-82% 50-69% 20-28% 1-1% 0-0% $3,550,152 0.98 0.98

Sierra Sunset, 2005, by Bertrando 2 25 50 15-30% 6-12% 4-8% 0-0% 0-0% $298,437 0.98 0.83

Slewvescent, 1988, by Seattle Slew 22 13 275 214-78% 95-35% 19-7% 5-2% 3-1% $7,558,002 0.98 0.78

38 † Popular, 1999, by Saint Ballado 9 10 94 65-69% 50-53% 19-20% 1-1% 1-1% $3,102,181 0.96 0.95

39 Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time 13 41 533 420-79% 327-61% 112-21% 19-4% 1-0% $20,603,331 0.95 0.84

40 Silic (FR), 1995, by Sillery 12 16 186 138-74% 86-46% 13-7% 3-2% 1-1% $8,272,884 0.94 0.91

41 † Western Fame, 1992, by Gone West 14 21 298 201-67% 149-50% 46-15% 12-4% 0-0% $8,733,626 0.93 0.81

42 Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat 9 39 348 247-71% 168-48% 38-11% 4-1% 0-0% $9,869,586 0.88 1.01

Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike 4 49 197 113-57% 68-35% 23-12% 4-2% 0-0% $3,296,085 0.88 1.18

Rocky Bar, 1998, by In Excess (IRE) 9 17 151 102-68% 87-58% 27-18% 9-6% 1-1% $5,045,051 0.88 0.85

45 Crafty C. T., 1998, by Crafty Prospector 5 44 221 52-24% 41-19% 9-4% 2-1% 0-0% $2,864,540 0.87 1.04

Lightnin N Thunder, 2001, by Storm Cat 10 20 197 140-71% 92-47% 28-14% 6-3% 0-0% $5,556,332 0.87 1.08

Lucky J. H., 2002, by Cee’s Tizzy 5 16 80 52-65% 33-41% 11-14% 1-1% 0-0% $1,893,593 0.87 1.24

48 † Game Plan, 1993, by Danzig 17 26 440 323-73% 255-58% 57-13% 17-4% 3-1% $14,304,194 0.85 0.79

Sea of Secrets, 1995, by Storm Cat 14 34 476 391-82% 282-59% 79-17% 16-3% 2-0% $18,738,388 0.85 1.06

Suances (GB), 1997, by Most Welcome (GB) 9 14 128 72-56% 44-34% 4-3% 1-1% 0-0% $2,752,888 0.85 1.07

51 Iron Cat, 1995, by Storm Cat 14 11 150 117-78% 95-63% 8-5% 3-2% 0-0% $4,363,014 0.83 0.91

These statistics are for active California-based sires with a minimum of 50 foals of racing age, ranked here by their lifetime Average Earnings Index (AEI.) The statistics shown here are compiled by The Jockey Club Information Systems (TJCIS). While every effort is made to prevent errors and omissions, California Thoroughbred cannot guarantee their complete and total accuracy. A dagger (†) indicates a stallion that has been pensioned or has died, a dot (•) that he is now standing elsewhere (sires no longer standing in California remain on these lists until their last Cal-bred crop turns 3 years old). Freshman sires are highlighted in bold text. Statistics cover racing in North America (U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico), England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) only. Stakes winners and wins follow TJCIS stakes rules. Percentages are based upon number of named foals of racing age.

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Stakes & Sales Dates

Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley Dec. 26-June 14

Los Alamitos Race Course, Los Alamitos April 14-May 1

Santa Anita Park, Arcadia May 5-July 10

Oak Tree at Pleasanton, Alameda County Fair, Pleasanton June 15-July 5

California State Fair (Cal Expo), Sacramento July 6-26

Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar July 15-Sept. 5

Sonoma County Fair, Santa Rosa July 27-Aug. 16

Humboldt County Fair, Ferndale Aug. 17-30

Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley Aug. 17-Sept. 20

Pomona Fair at Los Alamitos Race Course, Los Alamitos Sept. 7-27

San Joaquin County Fair, Stockton Sept. 21-Oct. 4

Santa Anita Park, Arcadia Sept. 28-Nov. 8

Fresno County Fair, Fresno Oct. 5-18

Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley Oct. 19-Dec. 20

Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar Nov. 10-Dec. 4

Los Alamitos Race Course, Los Alamitos Dec. 7-20

2016REGIONAL RACE MEETINGS

MAY 27

BARRETTS MAY SALE OF 2-YEAR-OLDSDel Mar, Calif.Training preview May 25(ENTRIES CLOSED APRIL 8, SUPPLEMENTAL

ENTRIES CLOSE MAY 11)

JULY 23

BARRETTS PADDOCK SALE AT DEL MARDel Mar, Calif.

AUGUST 16

CTBA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA YEAR-LING & HORSES OF RACING AGE SALEPleasanton, Calif.

(ENTRIES CLOSE JUNE 13)

AUGUST 30

BARRETTS SELECT YEARLING SALEDel Mar, Calif.

(NOMINATIONS CLOSED APRIL 1)

2016EARLY REGIONAL

SALE DATES

MAY-JULY California-Bred/California-Sired STAKES RACES

GOLDEN GATE FIELDS

SUNDAY, MAY 1

$100,000 Campanile StakesTree-Year-Old Fillies

1 mile (Turf)

$100,000 Silky Sullivan StakesTree-Year-Olds

1 mile (Turf)

SATURDAY, MAY 28

$200,000 Snow Chief StakesTree-Year-Olds11⁄8 miles (Turf)

$200,000 Melair StakesTree-Year-Old Fillies

11⁄16 miles

$150,000 Tiznow StakesFour-Year-Olds & Up

1 mile

$125,000 Fran’s Valentine StakesFour-Year-Olds & Up, Fillies and Mares

1 mile (Turf)

$100,000 Lennyfromalibu StakesFour-Year-Olds & Up

abt. 61⁄2 furlongs (Turf)

OAK TREE AT PLEASANTON

SUNDAY, JULY 3

$100,000 Everett Nevin FuturityTwo-Year-Olds

51⁄2 furlongs

DEL MAR

FRIDAY, JULY 22

$150,000 Fleet Treat StakesTree-Year-Old Fillies

7 furlongs

SUNDAY, JULY 24

$150,000 California Dreamin’ HandicapTree-Year-Olds & Up

11⁄16 miles (Turf)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27

$150,000 Real Good Deal StakesTree-Year-Olds

7 furlongs

FRIDAY, JULY 29

$100,000 CTBA StakesTwo-Year-Old Fillies

51⁄2 furlongs

SATURDAY, JUNE 11

$100,000 Crystal Water StakesFour-Year-Olds & Up

1 mile (Turf)

MONDAY, JULY 4

$100,000 Tor’s Echo HandicapTree-Year-Olds & Up

6 furlongs

$100,000 Spring Fever HandicapFour-Year-Olds & Up, Fillies and Mares

6 furlongs

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Stakes & Sales Dates

Date Track Stakes (Grade) Conditions Distance Added Value

1 GGF Silky Sullivan Stakes 3-y-o, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 1 m. (T) $100,000

1 GGF Campanile Stakes 3-y-o f., Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 1 m. (T) $100,000

5 SA Royal Heroine Stakes (Gr. II) 4-y-o & up, f. & m. 1 m. (T) $200,000

6 SA American Stakes (Gr. III) 3-y-o & up 1 m. (T) $100,000

7 SA Senorita Stakes (Gr. III) 3-y-o f. 1 m. (T) $100,000

7 SA Desert Code Stakes 3-y-o abt. 6 1/2 f. (T) $75,000

8 SA Adoration Stakes (Gr. III) 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 1 1/16 m. $100,000

14 SA Lazaro Barrera Stakes (Gr. III) 3-y-o 7 f. $100,000

14 SA Singletary Stakes 3-y-o 1 m. (T) $75,000

14 GGF Golden Poppy Stakes 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 1 1/16 m. (T) $50,000

15 SA Angels Flight Stakes 3-y-o f. 7 f. $75,000

15 GGF Alcatraz Stakes 3-y-o 1 m. (T) $75,000

21 SA Mizdirection Stakes 3-y-o & up, f. & m. abt. 6 1/2 f. (T) $75,000

21 SA Kona Gold Stakes (Gr. II) 3-y-o & up 6 1/2 f. $200,000

22 SA Californian Stakes (Gr. II) 3-y-o & up 1 1/8 m. $200,000

28 SA Snow Chief Stakes 3-y-o, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 1 1/8 m. (T) $200,000

28 SA Melair Stakes 3-y-o f., Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 1 1/16 m. $200,000

28 SA Tiznow Stakes 4-y-o & up, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 1 m. $150,000

28 SA Lennyfromalibu Stakes 4-y-o & up, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired abt. 6 1/2 f. (T) $100,000

28 SA Fran’s Valentine Stakes 4-y-o & up, f. & m., Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 1 m. (T) $125,000

29 SA Charles Whittingham Stakes (Gr. II) 3-y-o & up 1 1/4 m. (T) $200,000

30 SA Gamely Stakes (Gr. I) 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 1 1/8 m. (T) $300,000

30 GGF All American Stakes (Gr. III) 3-y-o & up 1 m. $100,000

4 SA Vanity Stakes (Gr. I) 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 1 m. $400,000

4 SA Shoemaker Mile (Gr. I) 3-y-o & up 1 m. (T) $400,000

5 SA Siren Lure Stakes 3-y-o & up abt. 6 1/2 f. (T) $75,000

11 SA Crystal Water Stakes 4-y-o & up, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 1 m. (T) $100,000

11 GGF Albany Stakes 3-y-o & up 5 f. (T) $50,000

12 SA Possibly Perfect Stakes 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 1 1/2 m. (T) $75,000

18 SA Desert Stormer Stakes 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 6 f. $75,000

18 SA Summertime Oaks (Gr. II) 3-y-o f. 1 1/16 m. $200,000

18 OTP Pleasanton Oaks Stakes 3-y-o f. 6 f. $50,000

19 SA Honeymoon Stakes (Gr. II) 3-y-o f. 1 1/8 m. (T) $200,000

25 SA Triple Bend Stakes (Gr. I) 3-y-o & up 7 f. $300,000

25 SA The Gold Cup at Santa Anita (Gr. I) 3-y-o & up 1 1/4 m. $500,000

25 OTP Oak Tree Handicap 3-y-o & up 1 1/16 m. $50,000

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Advertising IndexNOTE: Inside Back Cover, IBC; Outside Back Cover, OBC; Inside Front Cover, IFC

This index is provided as a service. The publisher does not assume liability for errors or ommissions.(Bold fgures indicate a page that features a stallion)

ADVERTISERS

STALLIONS

Amanda Thompson - Alain Pinel Realtors ...................66

Auburn Laboratories Inc. ..............................................33

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Ballena Vista Farm .................................................... OBC

Bella Equine-Amanda Navarro .....................................67

BG Thoroughbred Farm ..........................................14, 15

Cardiff, Suzanne, Pedigree Research ...........................67

Cole Ranch .................................................................8, 66

CTBA 16/17 Industry Directory ....................................29

CTBA 2016 Northern California Yearling Sale ............23

CTBA Foal Advertorial ..................................................59

Daehling Ranch ..............................................................66

Dickson Podley Realtors (Jeannie Garr Roddy) ...........67

E.A. Ranches ....................................................................5

Equineline.com ..............................................................57

Foal to Yearling Halters-Lillian Nichols ........................67

Fruitful Acres Farm ..........................................................7

Gayle Van Leer Thoroughbred Services ......................67

Golden States Stakes Series .........................................27

Harris Farms ................................................................. IFC

Jerry R Vaughn - Alain Pinel Realtors ...........................66

Laurel Fowler Insurance Broker Inc ..............................67

Legacy Ranch ...................................................................9

Lovacres Ranch ..............................................................11

Milky Way Farm ............................................................IBC

NTRA /John Deere ........................................................51

Oak Tree Racing Association ........................................39

Old English Rancho .......................................................35

Ridgeley Farm ................................................................13

Robins Ranches-Nor Cal Horse Property Specialist ..66

Temecula Horse Farm ...................................................66

Tommy Town Thoroughbreds LLC .................................3

Victory Rose Thoroughbreds ..................................40, 41

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Acclamation ...................................................................35

Affrmative ......................................................................14

Bluegrass Cat ............................................................ OBC

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Calimonco ................................................................. OBC

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Daddy Nose Best ...........................................................14

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Fighting Hussar ..............................................................15

Gig Harbor .....................................................................40

Hamish Hy ........................................................................5

He Be Fire N Ice ................................................... 13

Idiot Proof .......................................................................40

Indian Evening ...............................................................40

Lucky Pulpit ........................................................ IFC

Mr.Big .................................................................... 5

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Sundarban ........................................................... IBC

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Under Caution................................................................67

Unusual Heatwave .........................................................14

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MILKY WAY FARMInquiries to Linda Madsen 34174 De Portola Road, Temecula, California 92592

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SUNDARBANA. P. INDY X DESERT TIGRESS BY STORM CAT

Fee: $2,500 Live foal stands and nurses

As of April 16, California’s Leading 3rd Crop Sire in moneys won $132,663

Leading sire of Individual Winners

Leading sire for average per individual runners $12,031

(from Bloodhorse 4/16/16)

COUGAR CREEKSUNDARBAN X CAMAS CREEK CAMAS CREEK is a winning FUSAICHI

PEGASUS granddaughter of Broodmare

of Year COURTLEY DEE, dam of Champion

Three Year Old Filly ALTHEA

Going to Barretts May 2 year old In Training Sale Andy Havens, agent.

CAMAS CREEK has four foals to race:

TEMPLE KEYS (Temple City) $99,795.00 2nd

Snow Chief Stakes

SMARTY BE (Smarty Jones) $106,039 Winner

of Glendale Handicap, 2nd Sun City Handicap

READY VICONTESSE (More Than Ready) $85,086.00

in Russia, 2nd in $80,000 City of Moscow Stakes

La Pancha $11,512 winner of 4 races in Peru


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