Maryland Breeder: ENS Stables
Tag Session, is a broodmare in Sweden too,” Solomon added.
Maryland’s Horse Industry Te Maryland Horse Industry Board was
World Champion trotter Triumphant Caviar (SJ’s Caviar x ENS Tag Session) is the highest earning horse to come out of the ENS Stables’ breeding program.
he won five stakes races. As a three-year-old, he went on to win another nine races and was fourth in the Breeders Crown, final (G1). Te colt was the U.S. Tree-Year-Old Trotter of the Year and all in all, he had 30 starts and won 20 of them. Solomon and Bartling sold SJ’s Caviar to Ha-
nover Shoe Farms (PA) where he stood at stud for several years before the syndicate sold him to Flevofarm in Sweden where he remains at stud today. In addition to SJ’s Caviar, ENS Snapshot,
ENS Crescendo, ENS Soaring Raptor, ENS Caviar’s Sun are all standing stud in Europe and were all produced by Solomon’s ENS Sta- bles. “Eunice Boko, who is a daughter of ENS
founded in 1998, Solomon was one of the first Governor-appointed board members. Solomon and MHIB Chairman Jim Steele are the only two original board members still serving today. “When I first joined the board, many people thought of racing in Maryland as Pimlico and the Toroughbreds,” Solomon said. “Now, a there is a lot more consideration of the Stan- dardbreds as part of the racing industry.” “Eli has been a valued member of MHIB
for many years, ably representing the state’s harness racing industry and serving under at least three Governors,” said MHIB Executive Director Ross Peddicord. One of Solomon’s biggest contributions to the
Maryland harness industry was his work within MHIB to help bring slots revenue to Mary- land’s racing industry as a whole. “You have to understand, at the time the sire stakes program in Pennsylvania was much more lucrative than in Maryland,” he explained. “Tey also have a $10 million breeders fund and Maryland didn’t have anything close to that.” With the addition of slots revenue, Solomon said, “things improved in both the money in-
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volved in stakes races and the overnight purs- es.” Te current slots distribution ratio is 80:20 with 80% going to the Toroughbred industry and 20% to Standardbreds. “Pennsylvania still has a larger sires program but Maryland has its own sires stakes program and the Maryland Standardbred Fund, which both help boost Maryland-bred horses.” In addition to representing the harness indus-
try within MHIB, Solomon has been on the management side of Rosecroft Raceway when it was owned by the Cloverleaf Standardbred Association, and has served on the board for Cloverleaf as well as the board of the Maryland Standardbred Breeders Association. “Eli is an exemplary board member, loves
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