Indiana voting!!

Contact all Indiana voters you know that love the horse industry-phone, write or email your Legislator!                                      

Indiana SB528

 

Next week the Indiana Governor’s budget will be debated in House Ways & Means.  Now would be a very good time to contact Ways & Means members in support of keeping the horsemen’s money.

 

The message is simple: It makes no fiscal or public policy sense to destroy 10,000 jobs, $69 million in state and local tax revenues, a billion-dollar

industry and the investments of those who believed the state just six years ago in order to add $60 million to the state’s budget surplus.  If you are calling

someone in your district, tell them who you do business with back home.

 

Spread the word.  Please make the contacts and deliver the message.

 

W&M members: Tim Brown (Crawforsville) Chair; Suzanne Crouch ViceChair (Evansville); Greg Porter (Indianapolis) Ranking Minority Member; Jim Baird

(Greencastle); Steve Braun (Zionsville); Bob Cherry (Greenfield); Tom Dermody (LaPorte); Terry Goodin (Austin); Todd Huston (Fishers); Mike Karickhoff

(Kokomo); Clyde Kersey (Terre Haute); Sheila Klinker (Lafayette); Daniel Leonard (Huntington); Sharon Negele (Attica); David Niezgodski South Bend); Phyllis Pond

New Haven); Cherrish Pryor (Indianapolis); Maria Candelaria Reardon (Munster); Hal Slager (Schererville); Steven Stemler (Jeffersonville); Jeffrey Thompson

(North Salem); Randy Truitt (West Lafayette); P. Eric Turner (Cicero); Matt Ubelhor (Bloomfield).

 

Cherry and Goodin have been and continue to be, very good friends of the horsemen.  We got supportive votes last year on this committee (on a free-standing bill that

would have taken money) from Baird, Cherry, Goodin, Karickhoff, Klinker, Pryor, Candelaria Reardon, Truitt and Ubelhor.  Thompson and Kersey were absent for the

vote last year.

Winning!

The stable won three races in January. We won our first race ever at Charles Town in West Virginia with PRIZE WINNER in an allowance race. She is stabled at Penn National and ran out of conditions, so the only track that had a race in the surrounding area that she was eligible for was this one at Charles Town. It is becoming harder and harder to find races for horses after they have won 3 races. This win took this homebred filly over $200,000  in lifetime winnings.

GOLDEN DUE broke its maiden at Turfway Park. Took the lead and went wire to wire for owners Margaux Farm and Penny Lauer.

Our hard luck horse of 2012 ALL THAT GLIMMERS ran at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas and won for owners Ralph Piercy and Penny Lauer. She earned that title by being on the vets list twice at Presque Isle for over two months after the vets in Kentucky both times ok’s her to run. These pre race vet inspections are quite controversial.

The bulk of our stable is at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs Arkansas where (as they say) ” The sun always shines”. The purses have increased from the 2012 meet, with the bottom purse being $15,500. Maiden Special’s are running for $54,000.

2012 Eclipse Award Results

How did you do?  

2-YEAR-OLD MALE                    Shanghai Bobby

2-YEAR-OLD FEMALE                Beholder

3-YEAR-OLD MALE                    I’ll Have Another

3-YEAR-OLD FEMALE                Questing

OLDER MALE                             Wise Dan

OLDER FEMALE                        Royal Delta

MALE SPRINTER                       Trinniberg

FEMALE SPRINTER                   Groupie Doll

TURF MALE                                Wise Dan

TURF FEMALE                            Zagora

TRAINER                                     Dale Romans

JOCKEY                                      Ramon Dominguez

APPRENTICE JOCKEY              Jose Montano

OWNER                                       Godolphin Racing LLC

BREEDER                                    Darley

STEEPLECHASE HORSE           Pierrot Lunaire

 

 

Our Eclipse votes are in!

Here they are folks – time will tell if we’re a smart bunch or not!  And a big thanks to the 20+ of you who voted!

Horse of the Year: Wise Dan (USA), 5g, by Wiseman’s Ferry

Two- Year-Old Male: Shanghai Bobby (USA), 2c, by Harlan’s Holiday (unanimous)

Two-Year-Old Filly: Beholder (USA), 2F, by Henny Hughes

Three-Year-Old Male: I’ll Have Another (USA), 3c, by Flower Alley

Three-Year-Old Filly: My Miss Aurelia (USA), 3f, by Smart Strike

Four-Year-Old+ Male: Wise Dan (USA), 5g, by Wiseman’s Ferry

Four-Year-Old+ Filly: Royal Delta (USA), 4f, by Empire Maker

Male Sprinter (3YO+): Shackleford (USA), 4c, by Forestry

Female Sprinter (3YO+): Grouper Doll (USA), 4f, by Bowman’s Band

Male Turf (3YO+): Little Mike (USA), 5g, by Spanish Steps

Female Turf (3YO+): Tapitsfly (USA), 5m, by Tapit

Steeplechase: Divine Fortune (USA) 9g, by Royal Anthem

 

First win of 2013!

We got lucky and won our first race of the year last night at Charles Town Race Track in West Virginia. This is the third horse we have ever run there and our first winner. PRIZE WINNER is a homebred and with this win took her career earnings over $200,000.

We went from somewhere in the high 1200’s in the trainers standing to 316. Last year we finished the year in the trainers standings at 121 after getting as high as 103.

Oaklawn Park canceled the races for Saturday and Sunday due to excessive rain there and the poor track condition due to a sink hole that popped out right at the 7 1/2 pole over the tunnel.

It has rained in Kentucky for the past three days. If the temperature had been colder here, we would now be up to our eyeballs in snow!