36/ JANUARY 2012 THE RIDER
Breaking Dawn Named as ‘Omega Alpha Horse of the Month’ for November
Ottawa, ON—Equine Canada has named Breaking Dawn the ‘Omega Alpha Horse of the Month’ for November.
Breaking Dawn, a bay 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding sired by Akri- bori and co-owned by Holzer and P.J. Rizvi, won both the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle at at CDI3* Royal Agri- cultural Winter Fair on November 9 and 10, 2011, under the careful guidance of Canadian Olympian, Ashley Holzer.
pleased to have Omega Alpha Pharmaceuticals’ generous support of the horse recognition pro- gram. Omega Alpha Pharmaceuticals will be providing the selected horse/rider combination with Omega Alpha product of their choice, up to a value of $1,000.
On November 9, Breaking Dawn per- formed the Grand Prix test, which featured excellent trot half-
“Equine Canada has named Breaking Dawn the ‘Omega Alpha Horse of the Month’ for November.” Photo Credit— Cealy Tetley
passes, fluid transitions into passage and very strong piaffe and passage tours, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at the Royal, to capture first place with a score of 69.319%.
Breaking Dawn’s performance in the Grand Prix Freestyle the following day caused the sold-out crowd to break-out in applause several times during the test. Choreographed to the movie soundtrack from “How to Train Your Dragon,” the freestyle was awarded 73.475% by the international judging panel.
“What an honour it is to win this award,” said Holz- er, who has declared Breaking Dawn and her 2008 Olympic mount, Pop Art, for the 2012 Olympic Games. “Breaking Dawn is a fabulous horse and a joy to ride every day. I am very fortunate to ride this horse and am very appreciative of the generous Rizvi family. “Breaking Dawn never fails to amaze me. He was so calm and happy to perform at the Royal,” added Holzer.
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The Omega Alpha Horse of the Month program was developed to recognize a performance of exception- al merit by a horse from the disciplines of dressage, eventing or show jumping. Equine Canada is very
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Gural Defers Implementation of Stallion Retirement Conditions To Apply to 2013 Breeding Season
Jeff Gural’s office has issued the following News Release - to announce the deferment and clarification of the Stallion Retirement conditions - on horses eli- gible to major races at tracks under his manage- ment:
Jeff Gural’s vision for improving interest and attendance at harness tracks includes the now well-known provision intended to discourage the retirement of the sport’s stars after their three year old season. This would be accomplished by adding a condition excluding the foals of any sire retired at age four (absent a legiti- mate medical reason) from stakes at Tioga & Vernon Downs and The Meadow- lands. While this initiative is still an integral compo- nent of the big picture, the decision has been made to defer its enactment until 2012. The first crop affect- ed would be those bred in 2013 and foaled in 2014. There are several fac- tors that led to the post- ponement. First, the pro- cess to create and review this language takes time and that has become a problem. It is our intention to enter into dialog with the parties directly affected by this condition in the inter- est of making a clear, con-
cise condition that will be fair to both owners and breeders. We hope to elim- inate any loopholes that might be exploited and ulti- mately avoid having to change the condition after it has been published. As we endeavored to compose the language in this direction, several of 2011’s top three year old horses have been retired. We recognize the absence of any official language on the topic to this point and concede that it would be unfair to those horses to exclude their foals from stakes when there was nothing published that effectively explained the guidelines to the connec- tions as they considered their options.
There also seems to be more than a little confusion as to the scope of the con- dition. The intention from the beginning has been to exclude the progeny of any horse retired at age four for foals bred during that horse’s four year old year ONLY. There would be no exclusion for the foals of ANY horse if the sire was a minimum of five years of age when that foal was bred, regardless of the sire’s age of retirement from racing. It is NOT a lifetime ban.
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“It has simply gotten too close to the breeding season. Horses need to be advertised and booked and I understand that,” said Gural. “I also want to make it clear that a lifetime ban was never my intention. I do believe wholeheartedly that this needs to be done; look at the difference in the Breeders Cup this year, their viewership was off 70 per cent vs. last year with no Zenyatta.
“I am talking to some of the major circuits about creating four-year-old races for big money, which I agree is necessary. There is plenty of money to be made racing older horses and we plan to increase that. If they bring the horse back at four they will have some races against their own type then move on to open older races later in the season. It occurs to me that a horse’s reputation would be enhanced greatly by exhibiting the durability and soundness required to compete at age four and beyond’s also a lot more fun to root for your horse to win a major stake rather than hope to get a mare in foal.”
“Hopefully, unlike this past season, next year we’ll see some dominant three year olds that will attract the kind of fan base that I believe these horses are capable of attracting.” Jeff Gural will be the Featured Speaker at the SBOA’s Annual Awards Banquet, January 21, 2012 at the Sheraton Toronto Airport.
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