Breed All About It! Maryland Breeding News
Standardbred Show at Frederick Fair Standardbred harness racing has been a fi x-
ture at the Great Frederick Fair almost since the beginning over 150 years ago. Live racing will once again be featured at this year’s fair in September, but new for the 155th anniversary is an all-Standardbred Horse Show, held on Saturday, September 23. T e competition will hold a variety of classes that demonstrate the versatility of the Standardbred as more than just a harness horse. In addition, there will be an educational dis-
play called “Sulky To Saddle Tack Room Dis- play” located near the out- door riding area.
Hall of Fame Honors Good Night Shirt
T is month, champion steeplechaser and two- time Eclipse Award winner Good Night Shirt will be inducted into the Racing Museum’s Hall of Fame at Saratoga, NY. Bred in Maryland by Dr. and Mrs. T omas Bowman, Good Night Shirt is by Concern and out of Hot Story by Two Punch. He was owned during the majority of his racing career by Harold Via, Jr., and trained by Jack Fisher. Good Night Shirt started his ca- reer on the fl at track and joined Fisher’s barn in 2005.
In 2007, Good Night Shirt won three G1
races: Iroquois, Lonesome Glory and Colonial Cup. T at year he won his fi rst Eclipse Award and set a record for single season earnings at $314,163. T e following year, the seven-year- old ran only in G1 races and won all fi ve of his starts: Georgia Cup, Iroquois, Lonesome Glory, Grand National and Colonial Cup. His earnings for that year totaled $485,520, break-
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ing the record he set the previous year and earning his second straight Eclipse Award. Good Night Shirt was retired in 2009 with a
record of 14-5-3 after an ankle injury. His career earnings totaled $1,041,083, making him only the third steeplechaser to surpass the $1 million mark.
Maryland TB Hall of Fame
Maryland-bred steeplechaser Good Night Shirt has been inducted into both the Na- tional Racing Hall of Fame and Maryland Thoroughbred Hall of Fame this summer.
In addition to being inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame, Good Night Shirt was recently inducted in the Maryland-bred T oroughbred Hall of Fame along with fl at track and Preak- ness winner Deputed Testamony. Good Night Shirt was the fi rst steeplechas- er to be named Maryland-bred Horse of the Year (2008) and was the state’s steeple- chase champion four times (2006 through 2008). Flat track run- ner Deputed Tes- tamony became a Maryland hero when the Mary- land-bred won the 1983 Preak- ness Stakes. Bred
Our 2015 August cover baby, HFEC, LLc’s Winnie (Senor Swinger x Limelight Lover, Limehouse) is cur- rently a 2-year-old in training for her fl at track debut!
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by the Boniface family in Harford County, the son of Maryland stallion Traffi c Cop, who stood at Bonita Farm, remains the last Mary- land-bred to win the Preakness. He was co- owned by the Boniface family and Francis P. Sears of Boston, Massachusettes and raced un- der Bonita Farm’s colors. A true win for Mary- land, the colt was trained within the state by J. William “Billy” Boniface and ridden to victory by Marylander Donnie Miller. Deputed Testamony ran one more season af- ter his Preakness victory. In total, he won seven stakes races in his three year career. He still holds the track record at Pim- lico for 1 1/16 miles (1:40.80), which he set in the 1984 City of Baltimore Handicap on Preakness Day. T at would be his fi nal race due to a fractured coffi n bone he sustained dur- ing the race. His earnings from 20 starts (including 11
wins), totaled $674,329. Deputed Testamony stood at stud at Bonita
Farm and lived out his days with the Boniface family. He was racing’s oldest classic winner at 32 when he died in 2012.
Connemara Nominations Wanted
T e American Connemara Pony Society is looking for nominations for its Hall of Fame. A Connemara or half-bred Connemara that is 15 years or older or is deceased may be nominated. T e committee is looking for ponies that have had an outstanding career both competitively and non-competitively. T e pony’s owner must submit nominations. Contact Donna Miller at
donna@hiddencreekhorses.com for more in- formation. A link to the nominations form can be found at
http://www.acps.org.
New Leadline Awards for Mary- land Pony Breeders
New this year for the Maryland Pony Breed- ers Association year-end awards program is the addition of awards for both Leadline and Walk/Trot riders. To be eligible for any MPB awards, participants must be members or part of a family membership.
Sternlicht Hilltop Earns AHS/ARS Lifetime Approval
Kudos to Maryland-stallion Sternlicht Hilltop on earning AHS/ARS Lifetime approval.
T is past May, Hilltop Farm’s Sternlicht Hill- top earned the fi nal score re- quired for his lifetime ap- proval with the American Ha- noverian Soci- ety and Ameri- can Rhineland Society at the ESDCTA Me- morial Week- end Shows 1 and 2 at the
Horse Park of New Jersey. Hilltop’s head train- er Michael Bragdell rode the stallion, winning the FEI Prix St. George’s class with a score of 70.658%. T e following day, the pair won the USEF Developing Prix St. George’s class with a score of 71.985%. T e seven-year-old black stallion was bred in Massachusetts by Rachel Ehrlich of Greengate Farm and is now owned by Hilltop Farm.
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