News From the Breeding Shed, continued
from 2010. According to the Jockey Club’s Live Foal Reports, 2,904 stallions covered 44,184 mares in 2011, which is also down over 2010.
Royal Prince Earns Fifth Star
Hilltop Farm stallion Royal Prince has be- come only the fourth stallion to achieve the fi ve-star status through the ISR/Oldenburg Star Awards Program for Stallions. T e na- tional program is a way to recognize excep- tional stallions, mares and breeders. Royal Prince (Rohdiamant x Prince T atch) achieved his four-star status through his conformation, stallion performance test results, competition record and foal evaluations. T e fi fth, and fi nal, star was achieved through the outstanding suc- cess of his off spring.
Darlington Stallion Tops Freshman Sires List
Scipion, an A.P. Indy son standing at Mur-
mur Farm in Darlington, tops the Maryland freshman T oroughbred sires list through September 2011 with two winners. Maryland- bred fi lly Victoria’s Comet won on August 1 at Delaware Park and Absolute Answer won at Charles Town on September 1. Scipion has 30 registered two-year-olds in his fi rst crop. He earned $194,056 during his racing career which included 17 starts and a win in the Grade 3 Risen Star Stakes.
New MHBA Directors Tom Mullikin, Hamilton Smith and Rob-
ert White have recently been appointed to the Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s board of directors. Mullikin, general manager of Saga- more Farm, became a MHBA member in 2007 and fi lls a seat on the board recently vacated by Carlos Garcia. Smith is a long-time Maryland
trainer with a 40-horse stable at Laurel Park and he has been a MHBA member for several years. White joined MHBA in 1995 and has served on its nominating committee in the past. He is the cofounder and managing partner of Skeedattle Associates.
Northview’s Expansion Continues
Northview Stallion Station opened for busi- ness in 1989 when present owners Richard Golden and Tom Bowman, along with the late Allaire duPont, saw a need to ensure that Ches- apeake City remained the center of world-class T oroughbred breeding after the Windfi elds Farm’s Maryland Division closed in August of 1988. T at fi rst breeding season, North- view stood four stallions: Cavet, Smarten, Two Punch and Waquoit. Over the years, Northview has expanded its operations and in 2009, they opened a satel- lite site in Lancaster County. Since then, both locations continue to thrive. With the addition of Pennsylvania’s top three sires of 2011 (Jump Start, E Dubai and Smarty Jones) Northview PA’s operations have nearly doubled. All three additions previously stood at Ghost Ridge Farms in Pennsylvania, where the new direc- tor of bloodstock services for Northview, Carl McEntee, was former general manager. In the Mid-Atlantic T oroughbred magazine, McEntee stated, “with the addition of these stallions, Northview solidifi es themselves as the leading stallion farm in Maryland and Pennsyl- vania; and, for that matter, the Northeast.” McEntee told T e Equiery, “Northview has
a very good reputation nationwide and stallion owners want to place their horses with the best in the business.” He went on to talk about trends in the T oroughbred breeding industry, stat- ing that for a while, many owners were sending
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their stallions to New York, where breed incen- tive programs and live gaming were draws. Now the Pennsylvania incentives are catching up. In Maryland, he said that the Maryland Million program is a big draw for breeders. Northview’s stallion count for the 2012 sea- son includes seven stallions at each location. With the two locations combined, Northview now stands nine of the top 20 Mid-Atlantic re- gion 2011 leading sires (including the recently deceased Two Punch, who will still have get born in 2012). Seven of the top 10 on the list stand at Northview. With the economy still at an all-time low, this expansion gives hope that better days are to come.
Maryland Stallion Count T e following statistics are based on information
provided to T e Equiery from Maryland stallion owners. If you would like your stallion to be in- cluded in future stallion counts, please email edi-
tor@equiery.com.
American Quarter Horse - 2 American Warmblood - 1 Arabian - 3
Belgium Warmblood - 1 Chincoteague Pony - 3 Crossbred Pony - 2
Dutch Warmblood - 2 Hanoverian - 10
Irish Draught - 5 Morgan - 6
New Forest Pony - 1 Pinto - 1
Oldenburg - 8
Sheltland Pony - 3 T oroughbred - 10
Warmblood Cross - 1 Welsh Pony - 30
Westpfalen Pony - 1
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