California Thoroughbred Foundation

OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES

P R E S I D E N T Mrs. Ada Gates Patton

V I C E - P R E S I D E N T Gail Gregson

S E C R E TA RY Amy J. Zimmerman

Jeff Blea, DVM Tracy Gantz Jane Goldstein Courtney Tunney Hotchkis Thomas S. Robbins John W. Sadler Noreen Sullivan Peter W. Tunney

Te California Toroughbred Foundation has many dedicated trustees, who work to further the organization’s mission. Dr. Greg Ferraro is one who served the Foundation for many years before he moved on to help the Toroughbred industry on an even bigger scale.

Today Ferraro is the chairman of the California Horse Racing Board, and the industry is lucky to have someone of his experience in that capacity. A former racetrack veterinarian and an equine orthopedic Ferraro surgeon, Ferraro spent years as director of the Center for Equine Health at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. He also served as the frst president of the Southern California Equine Foundation, which runs the equine hospitals at California racetracks. With John Kimsey he developed the Kimsey Splint, which stabilizes lower-leg injuries.

Ferraro has dedicated his career to equine safety in every role he has taken on. While on the Foundation board, he was instrumental in the process of determining worthy candidates for the veterinary scholarships and fellowships that the Foundation awards. Many of those recipients have gone on to careers in caring for Toroughbred racehorses.

Te California Toroughbred Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of equine research and education. Since 1958 the Foundation has operated as a non-proft 501(c)3 corporation that can accept tax-deductible contributions. For more than four decades the CTF has sponsored numerous research and educational projects and awarded scholarships to veterinary students at U.C. Davis and Western University of Health Sciences.

Te Foundation maintains the Carleton F. Burke Memorial Library, one of the most extensive collections of equine literature found anywhere. Several generous donations of book collections and artwork form the core of the Library, which is housed in the CTBA ofces in Arcadia. Among its 10,000 volumes are current veterinary publications, turf histories, sales catalogs, and books spanning a wide range of subjects from equine nutrition and care to the fne arts. Te latest instructional videos also are available for viewing in the Library.

Te resources of the CTF’s Carleton F. Burke Memorial Library will again be available to the public for research and pleasure after COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted.

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, 201 Colorado Place, Arcadia, CA 91007. The CTF joins in honoring the memory of those whose names appear in bold type. We also thank and acknowledge the donors for their generous contributions.

JEANNE LAPEYRE CANTY Deanna Mooney ROBERT HESS SR. Jay Privman Alan F. Balch MEL STUTE Ben and Diane Rochelle

BY TRACY GANTZ

orth County Guy loves his N goat so much that when trainer Richard Baltas brings the gelding to a racetrack from where he is stabled at San Luis Rey Downs, the goat comes also. T e trip paid of when North County Guy won the $201,500 Unusual Heat Turf Classic Presented by City National Bank Jan. 16, California Cup day, at Santa Anita.

Baltas claimed North County Guy for $20,000 in 2018 for Little Red Feather Racing and Nancy Messineo. A 3-yearold at the time, North County Guy turned out to be a nervous stall walker.

T e goat calmed North County Guy, and Baltas switched the California-bred gelded son of T e Pamplemousse— Warmth, by Unusual Heat, to the turf.

Allred also bred Cordiality from Warmth. A Cal-bred multiple stakes-winning daughter of Papa Clem, Cordiality has earned $632,863, most recently f nishing third in the 2020 Kathryn Crosby Stakes.

Bruce Sands joined the North County Guy partnership a couple of starts after the claim, and the gelding started earning regular paychecks in allowance turf company. Because that particular LRF partnership was designed as a one-year claiming operation, at the end of 2019, Messineo and Sands bought out LRF privately.

In six 2020 starts North County Guy f nished f rst once and twice second in three allowance/optional claimers and unplaced in three graded stakes. T e Unusual Heat Turf Classic Presented by City National Bank looked like a good spot for him, except for one problem: He hadn’t been nominated to the Golden State Stakes program.

It took $25,000 to make North County Guy eligible to the GSS program, but that is good for the rest of his career. T e strategy paid of handsomely, as North County Guy eked out a narrow victory and earned a $110,000 paycheck.

Eleven entered the starting gate for the stakes, named for the perennial leading California sire. Unusual Heat is not only the broodmare sire of North County Guy, he is the paternal grandsire of entrants Acclimate and Heck Yeah, both by Acclimation.

Acclimate went of as the 19-10 favorite in the 11∕8-mile turf event. North County Guy was the 4-1 second choice.

Cono f ew to a long early lead but ultimately couldn’t sustain it. Jockey Mario Gutierrez positioned North County Guy in f fth. North County Guy raced there comfortably until Gutierrez called upon him in the second turn.

As Cono began to fade, Acclimate took over the lead. Racing four wide, North County Guy ranged up to pass Acclimate. Heck Yeah closed relentlessly, but North County Guy held him of by a neck in 1:46.34.

Acclimate held on for third. A 50-cent trifecta on the three grandsons of Unusual Heat—a hunch bet if there ever was one—paid $202.80.

Cal-bred North County Guy scores his fi rst stakes win in the Unusual Heat Turf Classic

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BY EMILY SHIELDS

ete Parrella has been in the

Phorse racing industry for nearly 50 years, but that doesn’t mean he and wife Evelyn weren’t screaming at the television during the California Cup Derby. T eir Big Fish made a sweeping move from the back of the pack to win the $200,000 race, bringing immense joy to his owners.

“My wife and I were yelling like he was the f rst horse we ever had,” Parrella said.

Big Fish, a sophomore son of Mr. Big and the stakes-placed Into Mischief mare Perched bred by George Krikorian in California, has always had talent. But he had gone through a string of frustrating races. After breaking his maiden at Del Mar in August, he won the $102,500 Del Mar Juvenile Turf Stakes by a length. He ran f fth in both the $101,000 Zuma Beach Stakes and $103,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (G3T) before f nishing fourth in the Eddie Logan Stakes Dec. 27. All of those races were on the grass.

T at wasn’t the only change for Big Fish, who switched to jockey Juan Hernandez and put the blinkers back on. T e combination worked terrif cally, as the dark bay gelding scored by 11∕2 lengths in the 11∕16-mile race, stopping the clock in 1:46.37. He ran past None Above the Law in second and favored Good With People in third.

T e scratch of favored T e Chosen Vron helped with the shape of the race.

Parrella was quick to give credit to everyone involved with the horse, from trainer David Hofmans to ranch manager Terry Knight.

T e purchase has paid of , as Big Fish has earned $229,018 with three wins, a second, and a third in eight starts.

California Cup day was a huge success for the Parrellas and their Legacy Ranch in Clements, as Clubhouse Ride, who stands at the ranch, sired the winner of the Don Valpredo California Cup Sprint, Brickyard Ride.

“It was a very good day for the ranch,” Parrella said. “You need that sometimes because it’s a tough game. I was tickled for the staf , the gallop boys, everyone watching on TV. People don’t realize just how dif cult it is to get a horse to the races: three years and all the trials and tribulations, all the work that goes into it. You’re just trying to break your maiden, but when you go on to win a stakes race, you have to take your hat of to a lot of people.”

Parrella, the immediate past chairperson and current vice chairperson of the California T oroughbred Breeders Association, added, “We would like to continue to support the Cal-bred program with him. We will keep him in against Cal-breds if possible.”

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Big Fish, a son of Mr. Big, wins Cal Cup Derby for Pete and Evelyn Parrella’s Legacy Ranch

BY TRACY GANTZ

hile John Harris always W prizes success in California Cup races, he particularly wanted to win the Jan. 16 Leigh Ann Howard California Cup Oaks with California-bred Closing Remarks. T e race had been newly renamed to honor Harris’ friend and colleague Leigh Ann Howard, a former president and longtime board member of the California T oroughbred Breeders Association who died last September.

Closing Remarks fulf lled her owner/ breeder’s hopes, soundly defeating nine others in the $201,000 Oaks at a mile on the turf at Santa Anita.

“It was a real thrill to win the f rst Leigh Ann Howard California Cup Oaks,” said Harris. “She was such a great supporter and builder of the industry. She went to Cal Poly and had a very good career. She was a real success story of a woman who followed her bliss, found what she wanted to do, and did it.”

Harris bred Closing Remarks from his unraced homebred Unusual Heat mare Orange Cove, named for the town where Harris runs a citrus operation, part of his vast Harris Ranch. T e f lly is by Vronsky, who stands at Harris’ Harris Farms in Coalinga. Both Vronsky and Unusual Heat f rst stood at Old English Rancho before moving to Harris.

“Old English has got so many ties to this horse,” said Harris, who worked to merge the two operations. Jonny Hilvers, grandson of the late E.W. Johnston of Old English, manages both facilities. He and Harris attended California Cup to witness Closing Remarks’ triumph.

Carla Gaines, who has trained for Harris for many years, conditions Closing Remarks and had two others in the race for Irvin Racing Stable, including favored Sensible Cat. Closing Remarks was the second choice. Gaines had not recalled ever running three horses in the same stakes before.

For Gaines, Closing Remarks broke her maiden in her debut at Del Mar last August. Over f ve furlongs on turf, Closing Remarks won by a handy 21∕4 lengths. In the listed Surfer Girl Stakes at a mile on the turf at Santa Anita Oct. 4, Closing Remarks ran a solid fourth. She lost all chance, however, in the Nov. 28 Jimmy Durante Stakes (G3) at a mile on the turf at Del Mar.

“She’s getting better, but it was an awful trip last time,” said Gaines.

In contention, Closing Remarks tried to get through two dif erent holes, once between horses and the second between the rail and another runner. In both cases she was shut of , and she ended up last.

Closing Remarks had a much smoother trip in the Oaks. Jockey Umberto Rispoli kept her in the clear in fourth around the second turn and into the stretch. Closing Remarks took dead aim on the wire and scored by a length in 1:35.62. Warrens Candy Girl, still a maiden, came from last in a good ef ort for second, with Super Game third.

Harris, a leader in the industry and always a major participant in California Cup, was instrumental in getting the event of the ground for its inaugural running in 1990. He won his f rst Cal Cup race the following year, when homebred Teresa Mc, trained by Greg Gilchrist, captured the 1991 California Cup Matron Handicap.

John Harris’ homebred Closing Remarks, outside, posts a one-length victory in Cal Cup Oaks

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Alfred Pais’ homebred Brickyard Ride powers to an open-lengths victory in Cal Cup Sprint

BY EMILY SHIELDS

rickyard Ride has one gear:

Bfast. T e 4-year-old colt’s speed was on display Jan. 16 in the $153,000 Don Valpredo California Cup Sprint at Santa Anita, as he went to the lead and ran his 10 rivals of their feet.

T e son of Clubhouse Ride—Brickyard Helen, by Southern Image, sizzled home under Alexis Centeno, setting fractions of :44.35 and :56.50 before stopping the six-furlong timer in 1:09.24. Favored Tigre Di Slugo, second, and defending champion Fashionably Fast, third, were unable to get closer than 31∕4 lengths behind the commanding winner, who gave apprentice jockey Centeno his f rst stakes win.

Brickyard Ride’s owner and breeder, Alfred “Sonny” Pais, and his trainer, Craig Lewis, both agreed that the horse is naturally gifted with speed.

It was the sixth win in 12 career starts for Brickyard Ride, who once went through the inside rail during a race.

Brickyard Ride has reeled of f ve wins in the last nine months, with a disappointing hiccup coming in a Dec. 12 allowance at Los Alamitos. T e off cial Equibase chart notes that during that outing, Brickyard Ride “stumbled, broke in and bumped rival leaving the gate, drifted inward and bumped repeatedly up the backstretch, checked between rivals entering the turn” while he faded to last. But Pais believes he had an excuse.

Pais owns Brickyard Ride’s dam, Brickyard Helen, in partnership with Lewis. Brickyard Helen was a four-time winner in 14 starts and is the dam of three winners from four foals to race. Her stakes-placed Formal Dinner dam Sorbet is from the female family of graded stakes-placed stakes winner Southern Tour and stakes winner Mystery’s Jules.

Brickyard Ride’s 3-year-old full sister, Sweet Helena, entered training at Santa Anita last fall, and Brickyard Helen has a yearling f lly by graded stakes-placed stakes winner Conquest Farenheit. She was bred back to Clubhouse Ride for 2021.

Plans for Brickyard Ride are in f ux, but Pais leaves that part to Lewis.

Brickyard Ride’s success was no surprise to Pais, who was always high on him.

Now, Brickyard Ride has proved it.

— Craig Lewis

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Leggs Galore struts her stuff in the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf Sprint at Santa Anita

BY TRACY GANTZ

illiam “Jack” Sims brings

Whis California-breds back to his home in Evanston, Wyo., near the Utah border to raise them himself. A Bayern Cal-bred f lly was growing into a leggy beauty, and so he named her Leggs Galore. Now 4 and trained by Phil D’Amato, the f lly won the $150,000 Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf Sprint Presented by John Deere Jan. 16 at Santa Anita.

“Ever since she was a baby she had a lot of leg,” said Sims. “T at’s one reason I really liked her mama. Her mama has a pretty nice hip, but she’s got a lot of leg.” Sims purchased the mare, a daughter of Indian Charlie named Cashing Tickets, for $55,000 in the name of McKenzie Bloodstock at the 2016 Keeneland November sale. Cashing Tickets was carrying Leggs Galore at the time of the sale.

Sims shipped Cashing Tickets to NexStar Ranch in California, where he was standing his stallion Stormberg, since moved to Kentucky. Cashing Tickets now has a 3-year-old f lly by Stormberg and a yearling f lly by Into Mischief.

But Leggs Galore nearly didn’t get to the races.

Sims and his farrier kept working with the f lly, however, and she completely recovered.

Sims typically doesn’t race his horses at 2, and with the pandemic Leggs Galore got a late start. She raced on dirt twice at Oaklawn Park in the spring of 2020 without a win, but since returning to her native state and switching to turf, she has never lost.

She broke her maiden at f ve furlongs on the grass Aug. 7 at Del Mar and picked up two more wins in allowance/ optional claimer events, the latter against open company.

Leggs Galore made her stakes debut in the Turf Sprint. Graded winner Warren’s Showtime, who captured the 2020 California Cup Oaks, went of as the 13-10 favorite, with Leggs Galore the second choice over the likes of Betty Grable Stakes winner Mo See Cal and She’s Devoted, the latter undefeated in two lifetime starts.

Ricardo Gonzalez had ridden Leggs Galore in her two most recent races and was back aboard.

Mo See Cal broke on top, but Leggs Galore quickly took over and dictated the pace. Leggs Galore led at every call, with a sprightly :22.84 f rst quarter and :45.09 half.

Mo See Cal took a run at Leggs Galore in upper stretch, but couldn’t catch her. T ough the late runners began to close, Leggs Galore just kept widening her lead, coming to the wire 3 1∕4 lengths in front while stopping the timer in 1:08.90. Nardini got second by a half-length over Warren’s Showtime.

Chasing Moments, a 6 year-old Orb half sister to the dam of grade 1 winner Charlatan from the Lovacres consignment, tops the CTBA mixed sale at $70,000

BY TRACY GANTZ PHOTOS BY RON MESAROS

Chasing Moments, a half sister to the dam of recent grade 1 winner Charlatan, topped the Jan. 6 California Toroughbred Breeders Association mixed sale at Pomona for $70,000. Tat was the highest-priced sale-topper since the CTBA took over conducting the mixed sale in 2019.

Terry Lovingier’s Lovacres Ranch sold the sale-topper, along with four of the fve other horses that brought $30,000 or higher. Tat included two mares for $40,000 each and two for $30,000 each.

Te CTBA worked hard to conduct the sale, despite the challenges of the ongoing pandemic. Adjustments were made, including holding the sale outside at the Fairplex facility instead of inside in the sale ring.

“It’s an important venue for California breeders, and given the current environment, we were very pleased to just be able to host the sale,” said Doug Burge, president of the CTBA. “For the frst time at Fairplex, a sale was conducted strictly outdoors to adhere to the current protocols, and it was very well received by both the consignors and buyers.

Lovingier and Adrian Gonzalez, another major consignor via his Checkmate Toroughbreds, were also pleased with the CTBA’s eforts to put on the sale.

Gonzalez said that as a consignor, he prepped all of his horses for the sale, even while wondering whether it would be allowed to go forward, given the pandemic restrictions.

Gonzalez liked the outside setup, which put everyone in one location, albeit socially distanced. He said that it worked very well for the horses also.

Lovingier sold most of the high-priced mares, and Gonzalez consigned the second-highest-priced horse, a $60,000 yearling, as well as the top-priced 2-year-old.

Marcelo Aguera, who Lovingier says is based in Europe and breeds many horses in Kentucky, purchased the sale-topper and three other mares, all from the Lovacres consignment.

Chasing Moments is a 6-year-old by Orb—Court of Appeal, by Deputy Minister, and she is in foal to Smokem. A lightly raced winner, Chasing Moments is a half sister to multiple graded winner Authenticity, whose foals include stakes winner Hanalei Moon in addition to Charlatan. Four days before the sale Charlatan turned in a spectacular performance to win the Runhappy Malibu Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita by 41⁄2 lengths.

California sire Stay Tirsty played a major role at the sale. He was the covering sire of two mares who brought $40,000 and two who sold for $30,000. Stay Tirsty stands at Lovacres.

“He’s very productive,” said Lovingier. “He’s got that one flly back east, Dontletsweetfoolya, who has won fve straight races (including the Willa On the Move Stakes and Primonetta Stakes). He’s got that other colt, Pickin’ Time, who won the grade 3 Nashua at Aqueduct. Stay Tirsty’s very live with a bunch of good horses.”

Mobilize and Wedding Dress each sold for $40,000 in foal to Stay Tirsty. Mobilize is by War Front out of the stakes-winning Limit Out mare Katy Smiles. Wedding Dress is by Medaglia d’Oro out of the graded stakes-winning Malibu Moon mare Raw Silk.

“I sold Mobilize’s yearling (a Calbred colt by Munnings) this last year for $85,000 at the Fasig-Tipton sale,” Lovingier said.

My Love Magnet and Tee It Up Charlie each sold for $30,000. My Love Magnet is by Bodemeister out of the stakes-winning Malibu Moon mare Alec’s Moon. Tee It Up Charlie is by Lovacres stallion Govenor Charlie out of the stakes-winning El Corredor mare Tee Game. Lovingier bred Tee It Up Charlie in California.

“Tee It Up Charlie is unraced but a really pretty mare, and her mother’s really a good mare,” said Lovingier.

Gonzalez pinhooked the $60,000 yearling flly from the 2020 Keeneland November sale. She cost $6,500 and then blossomed. Double Chevron Racing purchased her at the January sale.

Gonzalez, who was instrumental in bringing Sir Prancealot to California, sold Wind N Waves, a mare in foal to the stallion. Te daughter of Stormy Atlantic—Destination, by Seattle Slew, sold for $29,000 to Nick Alexander.

“She’s a big, correct mare,” said Alexander, who added that he may breed Wind N Waves back to Sir Prancealot, in whom he owns a share, or to his own good California sire, Grazen.

Checkmate also consigned a 2-yearold Kentucky-bred son of Union Rags— Stealing Holly, by Tapit. Te colt brought $27,000 from Royalty Stable and was the highest-priced 2-year-old. Gonzalez said he sold the colt for Jose Zulaica.

A total of 87 grossed $691,300 at the sale for an average of $7,946. Tat is the highest average of the three years that the CTBA has conducted the sale.

Second-highest price is this bay yearling Malibu Moon flly from the Checkmate Thoroughbreds consignment that brought $60,000

— Terry Lovingier

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George Krikorian’s California homebred Mucho Unusual, outside, takes Robert J. Frankel Stakes at Santa Anita

BY TRACY GANTZ

If California-bred Mucho Unusual were human, you might think she is a big fan of the late trainer Bobby Frankel. In the span of three weeks, she won two graded races associated with the Hall of Famer—the $101,500 Robert J. Frankel Stakes (G3T) Dec. 27 and the $98,000 Megahertz Stakes (G3T) Jan. 18, a race named for one of Frankel’s top distaf runners.

California did particularly well in the Megahertz, getting the exacta when Calbred Sedamar fnished second.

Mucho Unusual adores Santa Anita. In her 19 lifetime starts, 12 have come at the Great Race Place, and she has posted six wins, two seconds, and three thirds there. She’s also done it primarily in graded company.

Te Frankel is the former San Gorgonio while the Megahertz was created in 2011, six years after that mare retired. Frankel won the San Gorgonio eight times prior to his death in 2009, including once with Megahertz in 2004. Te tiny but mighty Megahertz won 14 of her 34 starts and earned $2,261,594.

Like many of Frankel’s other runners, Megahertz came from Europe. Mucho Unusual, on the other hand, is homegrown. She is the frst Cal-bred to take the Frankel since it was renamed and the frst state-bred to win it since Southern Truce in 1993. Mucho Unusual is the third Calbred to win the Megahertz, following A Jealous Woman in 2013 and Dancingtothestars in 2014.

“It’s so great to win these races named in honor of all these great trainers,” said Tim Yakteen, who trains Mucho Unusual for owner/breeder George Krikorian. Yakteen came up under the tutelage of two

of the greats—Charlie Whittingham and Bob Bafert.

In her most recent outing at Santa Anita prior to the Frankel at 11⁄8 miles on the turf, Mucho Unusual had scored in the $300,500 Rodeo Drive Stakes (G1T) at 11⁄4 miles on turf. In between, she traveled to Kentucky, running unplaced in the $2 million Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T) at Keeneland. She tired at the end of the 13⁄16-mile journey after racing forwardly early.

Yakteen calls Mucho Unusual “a dream to train—so easy, so straightforward. She makes my job easy.”

For the Frankel, Mucho Unusual drew post 10, which became post eight after two scratches. Yakteen admitted that the outside post was a “little bit of a concern,” but it turned out not to be an issue.

Mucho Unusual got the services of East Coast rider John Velazquez, who was out for several mounts during Santa Anita’s opening weekend. She went of as the second choice behind favored Miss Teheran, an Irish-bred making her third start in the U.S. and now trained by Chad Brown.

She’s Our Charm, trained by Hall of Famer Ron McAnally, set the early pace, while Velazquez was able to get Mucho Unusual out of the gate quickly and over toward the rail into second. Deep into the backstretch, Miss Teheran boldly moved up on the rail to take command.

But Mucho Unusual, racing three wide, wrested the lead away on the fnal turn. Tough Never Be Enough closed ground in the stretch, Mucho Unusual held her of by three-quarters of a length in 1:46.94. She’s Our Charm saved third.

Tree weeks later Mucho Unusual returned for the Megahertz, a slightly shorter race at a mile, also on turf. Te change in distance didn’t look like a problem because Mucho Unusual had won three times and fnished third three times in seven attempts at a mile on the grass.

Just six horses entered, and two of them scratched. Mucho Unusual and Sedamar faced Brooke, a Chilean-bred making her frst U.S. start, and multiple graded stakes-placed Colonial Creed.

Sedamar, a 5-year-old daughter of Richard’s Kid—Win Allison Win, by Stormy Atlantic, races for her breeder, Mick Ruis, and is trained by Ruis’ daughter, Shelbe. A very capable allowance runner, Sedamar in fve previous stakes tries had two seconds and two fourths. Tis was her graded stakes debut.

Velazquez had returned to the East, and Joel Rosario took over aboard Mucho Unusual for the Megahertz. Umberto Rispoli piloted Sedamar.

Mucho Unusual vied with Brooke right out of the gate, but Rosario let Brooke take the lead into the frst turn.

“It looked like the one horse really wanted to go to the lead, so I just waited behind that one a little bit,” said Rosario.

Tat strategy took them down the backstretch and into the second turn, where Brooke bore out a little, forcing Mucho Unusual a trife wide. It didn’t matter, as Mucho Unusual powered past the Chilean. Sedamar put in a valiant stretch run, and though she couldn’t catch the leader, she passed Broke for second.

Mucho Unusual won by three-quarters of a length, with a half-length separating Sedamar and Brooke. Mucho Unusual stopped the timer in 1:35.89.

During the stretch run, Brooke came over and interfered with Colonial Creed. Te stewards disqualifed Brooke to fourth, elevating Colonial Creed to third.

With the two graded victories, Mucho Unusual raised her lifetime earnings to $822,715.

A daughter of Mucho Macho Man, Mucho Unusual is out of the Cal-bred Unusual Heat mare Not Unusual. Krikorian purchased Not Unusual for $67,000 at the 2007 Barretts October yearling sale. Bred by Betty and Larry Mabee, the flly won three races and earned $70,347 for Krikorian.

Not Unusual has also produced graded winner Big Score, a Kentucky-bred son of Krikorian’s California sire Mr. Big. Mucho Unusual was foaled at E.A. Ranches, and the mare has two subsequent foals by Mr. Big.

Mucho Unusual is all clear in the Megahertz Stakes, just three weeks after her Frankel win

BY TRACY GANTZ

Square Eddie might be retired from stud duty, but he is still getting runners with his fnal crops. Paul and Zillah Reddam bred and race another in a line of Square Eddie stakes winners with Play Chicken, who scored in the $100,000 King Glorious Stakes at Los Alamitos Dec. 20.

Play Chicken isn’t the frst to result from the Reddams’ breeding their winning Distorted Humor mare Smoove to Square Eddie. Tat cross already had resulted in three winners, including California-bred graded stakes-placed Smoove It, winner of the 2016 Irish O’Brien Stakes and an earner of $395,910.

Cal-bred Play Chicken went to Doug O’Neill, who trained Square Eddie as well as many of the sire’s other stakes winners for the Reddams. Play Chicken debuted Oct. 17 at Santa Anita at a mile on the turf against Cal-bred and California-sired maidens. Sent away as the third choice and ridden by Mario Gutierrez, Play Chicken raced in second early and won by a half-length.

Stepped up to stakes competition in the $151,500 Golden State Juvenile Stakes at seven furlongs on the dirt, Play Chicken broke inwardly, stalked the pace, and fnished ffth.

Gutierrez felt going into the King Glorious at a mile on the dirt that if he could keep Play Chicken a little farther of the pace, he might improve. Te tactics worked.

Mister Bold set the pace, carving out fractions of :23.01 and :47.05. Play Chicken broke on top, but around the frst turn Gutierrez was able to settle him into fourth. Te jockey let Play Chicken get a little closer on the second turn, putting him in an excellent striking position through the stretch.

Play Chicken got past the leaders, only to have Moving Fast run to his name and close relentlessly. Play Chicken held of Moving Fast by a neck, stopping the timer in 1:38.10. Club Cal fnished third.

Stephanie Murray, assistant for O’Neill, represented the trainer after the race.

Te combination of the Reddams, Square Eddie, O’Neill, and Gutierrez had won the King Glorious in 2016 with Ann Arbor Eddie. Tat son of the sire went on to earn $454,811. Ann Arbor Eddie came right back after his King Glorious to win the California Cup Derby at Santa Anita.

As for Smoove, she has a 2019 flly by Square Eddie coming. With that sire no longer an option, the Reddams bred the mare back to another of their excellent racehorses, Eclipse Award winner Nyquist.

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Reddam Racing’s Play Chicken holds off the feld to win the King Glorious by a neck

CTBA Member PROFILE

BY EMILY SHIELDS

Dr. Ed Allred is synonymous with so many facets of the racing industry, most notably as the owner of Los Alamitos Racetrack in Cypress. His exploits and successes in the Quarter Horse industry are legendary, as he is the man behind world champions Charger Bar and Separatist, among others. He was the f rst to go over $20 million in Quarter Horse earnings and remains the sport’s all-time leading owner and breeder.

But less is known about Allred’s pursuits in the T oroughbred industry. Although he breeds only from four to 10 T oroughbreds a year, Allred has had a steady trickle of stakes winners. Most recently Allred-bred North County Guy won the $201,500 Unusual Heat Turf Classic Stakes Presented by City National Bank at Santa Anita.

Allred was introduced to racing in the 1940s and has since done much to promote the sport and make it cleaner, safer, and better for horses and horsemen alike. While becoming a titan in the Quarter Horse game, Allred was slowly collecting a group of T oroughbred mares as well.

One of the f rst stakes winners was Maxian, a homebred by Candyman Bee—Maximiss, by Maxistar. T e dark bay California-bred gelding was born in 1998—the same year that Allred became the sole owner of Los Alamitos— and went on to win seven of 30 starts, with f ve seconds and f ve thirds. He was a multiple stakes winner and won races at Santa Anita, Turf Paradise, Santa Rosa, Fresno, and Los Alamitos during his career.

After Maxian came Greenie, a homebred who earned $227,631. T e Cal-bred son of Iron Cat—Green’s Seascape, by Mummy’s Pet, won his f rst two starts in 2004 and ended up running at six dif erent tracks that season. He f nished f fth in the 2005 California Cup Turf Sprint Championship, then won three in a row in 2006, including the $50,650 Fishermans Wharf Stakes at Golden Gate Fields. He won eight of 16 lifetime starts.

“Greenie was a good horse,” Allred recalled. “He was out of a mare we imported from the United Kingdom and became one of

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Te lightly raced Lunar and favored Acclimate. And Lion came at the same time. even though Allred hasn’t Another Cal-bred son of owned him for several years, Iron Cat, this one out of he is still fond of the Calthe stakes-winning Torsion bred. mare Lunar Beauty, Lunar “He was claimed from me Lion won three of his four early on for $40,000,” Allred career starts. Under Allred’s said. “I was delighted, thinkhandling, Lunar Beauty also ing he was worth a fraction produced fve-time winner of that. But he keeps getting Lunar Miss and four-time better and better, and he’s winner Moon Mullins. really tough on the grass.”

Multiple stakes-placed North County Guy has California-bred Ribald start- six wins, seven seconds, and ed his racing career in 2008, fve thirds in 28 starts for two years after Allred was earnings of $366,647.Allred with the late Brad McKinzie, a Los Alamitos racing executive inducted into the American instrumental in bringing daytime Thoroughbred racing back to Los Al Allred still owns Warmth, Quarter Horse Hall of Fame. who is now 16. She is in foal to Ribald, by Unusual Heat—Short Sto- of 34 starts for earnings of $632,863. Misremembered for 2021 and is likely ries, by Mari’s Book, won seven times Cordiality won the Swingtime Stakes at to go to Clubhouse Ride for the next in 25 starts, with 18 top three eforts. Santa Anita in October and the Osuni- season. Like the rest of the Allred-bred runners, tas Stakes at Del Mar in July. Donnie Owner of the Rolling A Ranch in he traveled around multiple tracks and Crevier campaigns the Allred-bred, who Atascadero, Allred is adamant that he circuits, impressive in his consistency. has won fve stakes races to date and is will continue to breed horses in Califor-

Because the Quarter Horse regis- still in training at age 8. nia and nowhere else. try allows one Toroughbred parent, Warmth’s next foal to race was North “No question about it, I don’t breed Allred has bred some of his Torough- County Guy. Te plucky gray by Te out of California, ever,” he said. bred mares to both Toroughbred Pamplemousse was born March 29, Allred has several theories about and Quarter Horse sires. Tat led to breeding horses, such as not breeding an interesting double at Los Alamitos mares or stallions past a certain age Dec. 19. Te Toroughbred Gov From No question about it, because their prowess fades. Above, a 2017 son of Govenor Char- I don’t breed out of “Tat’s just one of my crackpot thelie—Celestial Being, by In Excess, won ories,” he joked. “Horse people always a 51⁄2-furlong event during the daytime California, ever.” have diferent thoughts. Tere have Los Alamitos Toroughbred meeting. — Dr. Ed Allred never been two trainers that thought Tat same night at the Quarter Horse the other guy knew anything.” meet, the Quarter Horse From Above, Allred raises 125 Quarter Horses a 2018 son of Quarter Horse sire Kiddy a year and tries to race most of them Up out of Celestial Being, won a 330- 2015, and took seven tries to break his rather than sell them. yard event. maiden. Allred lost him through the “I know I’ve never sold a Torough-

Te pedigree of North County Guy claim box in his very frst start, and bred before racing them,” he said. “I is an Allred special, as he raced the third North County Guy bounced around have between six and 12 Toroughbred dam, Ain’t Half Bad, in 1990. Second to diferent outfts before settling with mares at any given time. I don’t considdam She’s Bafed, bred by Allred, Nancy Messineo and Bruce Sands. He er myself to be an expert on the breed, never raced, but the Gray Slewpy mare ran well in allowance company in 2019 but I am an expert in Quarter Horses. produced Warmth, who has become a and even tried a few graded stakes races Overall, I just love breeding horses. It’s top broodmare. Warmth, a daughter of in 2020. frustrating, but exciting.” Unusual Heat, ran fourth in her only Te Jan. 16 Unusual Heat Turf Clas- While his place in Quarter Horse lore start, but has quickly become a special, sic Presented by City National Bank is cemented, North County Guy is alproductive mare. was North County Guy’s frst stakes ready trying to help Dr. Allred become

Warmth’s 2013 Cal-bred daughter victory. Te 4-1 shot sat mid-pack early, a force among Toroughbred breeders, by Papa Clem, Cordiality, has won 12 then rallied into the stretch and got up as well.