Shares available - Petionville colt, (2 year old ) Taino

Hip # 1948 b.c. by Petionville out of Quiet Whisper by Quiet American.

The dam, Quiet Whisper had 5 wins 4 to 6, $115,757, including the Margarita Breeders Cup Handicap (RET $30,000). She is the dam 3 registered foals and three winners by insignificant sire Hold for Gold.

04 - Mostacolli Mort- g. by Hold For Gold 4 wins at 3 and 4, 2008, $241,360, 3rd San Diego H.G2 (DMR $36,000). He ran an impressive #4 on the ragozin sheets.

05 - Hint g. by Hold For Gold, winner at 3, 2008 $19,359 #13 rag no.

06 - Clue Me In - 3 starts 1 win at 2 2008 #13 rag no. and still running.

This mare, is by Quiet American who is a highly sought after broodmare sire, due to his phenomenal successes, like Horse of the Year St. Liam and Bernardini, to name a few. She herself was bought for $90,000 dollars, not in foal, at this January sale.

Petionville needs no introduction. He is the sire of multiple group winner Island Fashion (sale topper at this sale), Runway Model, and last years Breeders Cup dirt mile placed Two Step Salsa. He is a highly respected, under the radar stallion, siring 73% winners, 15% stake horses to runners with 21% of these winning graded stakes and an excellent average earnings of $58,000 dollars per runner. Everest Stable, the breeders, are renowned for breeding top class runners.

This colt is the mirror image of his father if you compare pictures, same outlook and colour with a lovely sloping shoulder, good sized frame, hip and a very athletic walk. We anticipate that he will be a later developing, classic two turn horse. Petionville has crossed well with more Mr. Prospector like in his dams pedigree, so we are hopeful this colt will run with the best of his generation.

Call if interested.

Taino is no longer at the Perkins, but has arrived to Joans barn at Keeneland and is training on the track! We really like him, too!

IN ALL AVAILABLE COUNTRIES FOR ALL TRACKS:
2002 - 2008

STARTS - 493
WINS - 91 (18%)
PLACES - 120 (24%)

FROM 2002 - 2008 IN ALL AVAILABLE COUNTRIES

STARTS 1ST ( %) 2ND ( %) 3RD ( %) UNPL% EARNINGS ROWB
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TOTALS 493 91 (18) 67 (14) 53 (11) (57) $2,112,869 $-17

AVERAGE FOR ALL TRAINERS
(16) (8) (9) (67)

COLTS 193 33 (17) 27 (14) 21 (11) (58) $982,065 $-39

FILLIES 300 58 (19) 40 (13) 32 (11) (57) $1,130,804 $22

GRD BLACKTYPE 14 1 (7) 3 (21) 0 (0) (71) $369,970 $15
ALL BLACKTYPE 55 4 (7) 4 (7) 3 (5) (80) $577,069 $-32
ALLOWANCE/HCP 117 26 (22) 14 (12) 16 (14) (52) $508,943 $31
CLAIMING 46 8 (17) 6 (13) 1 (2) (67) $92,913 $-15
MAIDEN 235 44 (19) 36 (15) 30 (13) (53) $774,212 $17
OTHER 40 9 (23) 7 (18) 3 (8) (53) $159,732 $-19

DIRT 316 63 (20) 45 (14) 29 (9) (57) $1,168,745 $-78
FAST TRACK 269 52 (19) 40 (15) 25 (9) (57) $1,002,904 $-65
OFF TRACK 47 11 (23) 5 (11) 4 (9) (57) $165,841 $-14

TURF 177 28 (16) 22 (12) 24 (14) (58) $944,124 $61
FIRM TURF 150 23 (15) 21 (14) 20 (13) (57) $850,749 $46
OFF TURF 27 5 (19) 1 (4) 4 (15) (63) $93,375 $15

MILE OR MORE 277 51 (18) 36 (13) 30 (11) (58) $1,391,388 $63
< 1 MILE 216 40 (19) 31 (14) 23 (11) (56) $721,481 $-79

FAVORITES 91 32 (35) 16 (18) 13 (14) (33) $425,591 $-24
ODDS < 5 TO 1 245 67 (27) 42 (17) 27 (11) (44) $1,065,540 $-47
ODDS 5 TO 1-
10 TO 1 113 19 (17) 15 (13) 13 (12) (58) $520,299 $95
ODDS > 10 TO 1 135 5 (4) 10 (7) 13 (10) (79) $527,030 $-65

FIRST TIME STARTERS 59 6 (10) 9 (15) 7 (12) (63) $147,160 $26
RACES WITH
APPRENTICES 14 2 (14) 1 (7) 1 (7) (71) $30,247 $-7

BLACKTYPE WINS FOR SCOTT JOAN

DATE BLACKTYPE RACE NAME VALUE HORSE NAME
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070127 Pasco S. (TAM) $75,000 Barkley Sound
060819 Miss Woodford S. (MTH) $70,000 Chandelle No. Five
050618 Oliver S. (IND) $40,000 Ayla Bella
031004 Kelso Breeders Cup H. -G2 (BEL) $350,000 Freefourinternet

No. 2542 - 2008 filly by LANGFUHR out of TATTLETALE

This filly is a beauty!
She has good size and length, big hip, great shoulder, tremendous muscle and an alertness in the mould of Joan’s other star Dr. Zic. She is so light on her feet and virtually floats in the paddock when she gallops. To equate her in human terms it would have to be track star Marion Jones (without the steroids of course!) She is a knockout and we think we stole her in a down market.
She is from KY Derby winner Grindstones family and is the first foal from her dam, Tattletale, who was a winner over a mile at three and whose sisters are already producing stake and group winners which augers well for her future as a broodmare. Tattletale was a buyback by Mr. Farish of Lanes End Farm for $475k in 2008. She has a 2009 filly foal by A. P. Indy, making her a half sister to our filly. Tattletale is by Quiet American, who is the dam sire of a phenomenal 36 stake winners including Horse of the Year St. Liam, Bernardini and Australian multiple Group 1 winner Mentality, whose sire line is Danzig, similar to our filly.
Langfuhr himself was champion sprinter in Canada. He is the sire of 5 champions, including Lawyer Ron, Canadian horse of the Year Wando and champion filly Imperial Gesture. He has sired 110 stake horses to August 2009 and has been in the top 15 on the General sires list for the past six years and is also the broodmare sire of Proud Spell, winner of the Ky Oaks last year. His two year old statistics are way above average and they always improve with age.
Langfuhr himself has a double of the stallion Neartic and the majority of Langfuhr’s good horses have another cross of Neartic in dam side of the pedigree. Tattletale supplies this (I can hear the angels singing) so we believe she has all the attributes to be a top class racehorse with a great pedigree behind her.

All Shares of Taino are gone!

Good Luck to all the owners!

Stay tuned for future Partnership Opportunities!

Dry County’s Maiden Win With Hotshot Rookie

BY JAMES H. BURNETT III
jburnett@MiamiHerald.com

So Sally Mitchellhill rides horses.

Big deal, you say.

But Mitchellhill doesn’t just ride. She’s a top jockey this season at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens. She’s young and she loves her work. Ask any number of parents out there still wondering when the nest will finally be empty, and they’ll tell you the combination of those last two items alone might make her unique.

’’I guess the thing is to make work something that was enjoyable before you got paid for it,’’ the 24-year-old says with a sly smile.

And these days she has a lot to smile about. In May, Mitchellhill was named Calder’s No. 1 apprentice rider -- the race track equivalent of a rookie -- after scoring multiple wins on consecutive days riding horses for several different trainers.

A Herculean effort, racing enthusiasts say. Mitchellhill says it was just another day . . . or two or three at the track.

’’It’s a start,’’ she says. ``But I have more work to do to get where I want to be.’’

To understand where Mitchellhill wants to be, you have to understand from whence she came.

``Scotland!’’

It really does burst out like a pep rally cheer, from behind pearly white teeth and flashing blue eyes.

’’I get asked that question a lot, because of my accent,’’ she says.

When she was 4, while visiting a farm near her home just outside Edinburgh, Mitchellhill sat on a horse for the first time. And she rode. And, more importantly, it was comfortable and she didn’t fall off.

’’It felt natural,’’ she says, ``sort of like the baby who learns to swim before he can walk. I knew during that visit that I wanted to grow up and work with horses.’’

With work being the operative word, Mitchellhill devised a plan that today has her in South Florida.

Some kids promise to do their chores in order to earn a privilege from the folks. Mitchellhill promised her parents she would complete high school in exchange for permission to work with horses.

’’They didn’t necessarily like it at first, but they said if I finished school I would at least have that kind of foundation and I could give the horses a try,’’ she says.

She kept up her end of the bargain, and so did her parents by standing down and giving Mitchellhill, then 16, their blessings to move to Newmarket, England, and attend jockey school.

Mitchellhill spent nearly three years at Newmarket, where she learned how to do everything from maintain proper posture for speed riding, to teaching a horse to sprint, to horse ’’motivation’’ techniques, including whispers and whips. She also learned less glamorous stuff like shoeing a horse, grooming and scooping up their smelly business.

Lessons learned, Mitchellhill packed up and crossed the pond, determined to take her career to the next level in the United States.

After a year bouncing between jobs at legendary California tracks like Santa Anita, Del Mar and Hollywood Park, Mitchellhill traded the West Coast for another year split between tracks in New Orleans and then Delaware.

Finally, at age 20, she landed in Florida.

’’I got my start in Tampa,’’ Mitchellhill says, ``and really, until last year, I just continued to work with the horses -- you know, helping train them, work them out, study their nutrition. But remember I had always wanted to be a jockey. And last year I got my chance.’’

When an observant friend told Mitchellhill early in 2006 that at 5-foot-4 and 110 pounds she should be a jockey, the shy young woman decided there was something to it.

’’I was the right size,’’ she laughs. ``You have to be relatively light to do this. I know horses. I love horses. So it was time.’’

At Tampa Bay Downs, Mitchellhill was the top apprentice last winter and in one four-hour stretch won three races for Kirk Ziadie, a trainer who helped convince her to finally start riding as a jockey.

She started her Calder apprenticeship in March, and by mid May Mitchellhill already had ridden seven winners, and on May 11 she scored another hat trick.

She doesn’t have superstitions before a race, but she does have routines. Mitchellhill has to get a dose of hip-hop and reggaeton music to relax before racing. She also runs a mile-and-a-half each day to loosen up and fortify her stamina, ’’because holding onto a horse that’s in a full gallop takes a lot of strength,’’ she says.

And she prays.

``Yes, I do! You can train all you want, but sometimes you just have to hope the horses cooperate. I’ve had a few times -- it happens to everyone here and there -- where the horse just stood there when the gates opened and refused to budge. It was embarrassing. But later I laughed about it, and just got back on and tried again.’’

When not on the track there are occasional dinners at Italian restaurants with friends near her Miramar home. But Mitchellhill spends most of her time watching Dancing with the Stars with Smarty Jones, her Chihuahua, named after the winner of the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

And sometimes, though she’s loathe to admit it, Mitchellhill will re-watch her favorite movie, Braveheart, for inspiration.

``It’s about my home country, and it really is about bravery and challenges and beating your challenges.’’

Veteran jockeys Rosemary Homeister Jr. and Kristi Chapman have advised Mitchellhill to maintain her slow and steady mentality, because consistency, Homeister says, could very well get Mitchellhill to her ultimate goal: the Kentucky Derby.

’’Sally has the ambition and work ethic to be successful. She is very goal oriented. She is not afraid to ask for advice and is always looking to improve,’’ Homeister says. ``This is important in this business, because a lot of times a new jockey will come in and think that he or she knows everything already. But you can’t. It’s a learning process.’’

Says Mitchellhill: ``I love a challenge, and I know I can get there. I have a record that I’m building, and I have learned this is a business where action speaks louder than words.’’

So she keeps racing.

http://www.miamiherald.com/277/story/142512.html

Tampa Bay Downs trainer Joan Scott sings praises of undefeated filly Dr. Zic

By Don Jensen, Times Correspondent

Tampa Bay Downs trainer Joan Scott often sings the praises of her undefeated filly, Dr. Zic. Just dont ask the descendant of the late Patsy Cline to sing at a family wedding.

"I cant sing, and (the relation is) way out there," Scott said. "But its kind of cool."

Scott is related to Cline through a grandfather. Cline, an iconic country singer from Virginia, died in a 1963 airplane crash at age 30.

Dr. Zic is a chestnut Kentucky-bred by Milwaukee Brew and out of the Holy Bull mare Royal Corona. Unbeaten in two starts, she makes her 3-year-old debut in the Grade II $150,000 Forward Gal Stakes on Friday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach. The 7-furlong race will be contested on Scotts 42nd birthday. Her only graded-stakes victory has come with Freeforinternet in the 2003 Grade II $350,000 Kelso Breeders Cup Handicap at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.

Scott, a Penn Laird, Va., native, has worked in the United States, France and England. She assisted Hall of Fame trainers Carl Nafzger and the late Buddy Delp, but credits Hall of Fame conditioner Nick Zito with fueling her career: "Nick gave me a lot of confidence. He would let me do things and turn me loose. He trusted Id get the job done."

Eight years ago, she started Joan Scott Racing, a public stable in Florida and Kentucky. Dr. Zic is a product of her philosophy: do bloodline homework and acquire investors. Bloodstock agent Marette Farrell purchased Dr. Zic for $40,000 at Junes Ocala Breeders Sale. Scott owns the filly with Derby Lane Farm, Jim Tom and Farrell. Boosted by a win in the $65,000 Sandpiper Stakes on Dec. 27 in Oldsmar, Dr. Zic has career earnings of $61,225.

Dr. Zic led at every call in both starts, neither longer than 61/2 furlongs. After winning her debut in a $50,000 maiden special-weight sprint Oct. 12 at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., Scott asked jockey Calvin Borel if her horse could go two turns. "He said, Baby, she can run all day. I hope hes right."

Milwaukee Brew was a two-time winner of the 11/4-mile Grade I Santa Anita (Calif.) Handicap in 2002-03. Dr. Zics paternal grandsire, Wild Again, won the inaugural 11/4-mile Grade I Breeders Cup Classic in 1984 at Hollywood Park (Calif.). Dr. Zics first two-turn race may be the 11/16-mile Grade III $200,000 Florida Oaks on March 14 in Oldsmar.

Petionville colt, (2 year old) Taino.

The doctor is IN!

Dr Zic has returned to Keeneland. After getting her nails and hair done, Dr. Zic is ready to go back to doing what she does best--- RACE!
We are delighted to have our girl Ziccy back in the barn.

Roger and Beth McDaniel, and James Tom are looking forward to seeing Dr. Zic back at the races.

Dr. Zic, a 2008 OBS June Sales graduate, purchased for $40,000. Another super filly picked out by Marette Farrell. A winner, stakes winner, and graded stakes placed in 3 starts!

Zenyatta

Zenyatta triumphant in he 2010 debut. Santa Anita, March 13, 2010

OBS February Sale

Hip number 50.

From Daily Racing Form, March 29, 2005, by Doug McCoy

Scott’s Runners

When Joan Scott came to Tampa Bay Downs she had a stable of mostly maidens with promising bloodlines but inconsistent past performances. When Scott heads back to Kentucky later this Spring, she will take a number of recent winners plus a 3-year-old who finished second in a Grade 3 stakes, and a co-holder of a track record.

Scott sent out Forever Wild to take on Sun King in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby, and he ran the race of his young career at 27-1. Forever Wild challenged the heavy favorite from the outside leaving the turn, then continued well through the stretch to be second-best to Sun King, the Nick Zito runner who is one of the leading contenders for the Kentucky Derby.

The Tampa Bay Derby was only the fifth career start for Forever Wild, a Dixiana Stable homebred. Scott said that Forever Wild would get a bit of a break before making his next start. "He ran a tremendous race, and everyone is very proud of him, but running races like that take a lot out of a young horse and we are going to give him a little time to freshen up," Scott said. ’He’s had five races since December, so it’s time to give him a little vacation. We’re going to nominate him to several stakes, including the Tesio in Maryland, the Unbridled at Calder, and the Lexington at Keeneland. We’re not looking to take on any monsters next time, so we’ll pick our spots."

Scott, who is based at The Thoroughbred Center outside of Lexington KY, before moving some of her stable to Churchill after Derby week, will also be looking for spots for We Can Do, a Scatmandu filly who was clocked in 57.26 seconds for five furlongs on the main track while beating maidens by 7 1/4 lengths last Tuesday. The time equalled the track record of 57 1/5 set by Arion Fair in 1982 and barely surpassed that of record-holder Mr. Buffum, who ran the distance in 57.28 seconds in 2002. While the track was particularly fast when We Can Do ran, it was still quite a performance for a horse winning it’s first race.

"We’ll look for an allowance race for her next, and if she comes back and runs well in that one then we’ll shop for some stakes," Scott said. Scott has won 15 races from 45 starters at this meet.

Tampa Bay Downs

By DOUG McCOY
OLDSMAR, Fla. - Handicappers sometimes try to get a line on a stable racing at a track for the first time by the appearance of its runners. When an outfit’s horses are well behaved in the paddock, then come onto the racetrack looking bright and vibrant, they often perform well.

Since this meeting started, horses from the barn of trainer Joan Scott have not only won more than their share of "beauty contests," they have turned in some dazzling performances. Since Jan. 14, Scott has sent out three young runners to leave the maiden ranks in eye-catching fashion, and all look like horses with a future.

On Jan. 14, Forever Wild led throughout a 1 1/16-mile race that was taken off the turf, pulling away under Derek Bell to win by 12 lengths despite racing greenly in the stretch. The next day, Scott won again, this time with an Alphabet Soup filly named Roll VTR who was ridden by Juan Umana. Last Thursday, the Scott stable cut loose another monster as Chatham Strait blew past the leaders leaving the far turn and went on to post an authoritative 4 1/2-length win on the turf, again with Bell aboard.

Scott worked for trainers in France and Ireland and then for the barns of Nick Zito and Carl Nafzger in this country before striking out on her own in the fall of 2002. She won with the first horse she saddled as a trainer and has already had a Breeders’ Cup starter, Freefourinternet, who finished sixth in the 2003 Mile.

"I was very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to Europe and be able to work with some top trainers like Alex Head in France and John Oxx in Ireland, then come back here and work with folks like Nick [Zito]," Scott said. "Being around the training and racing of top horses gives you a foundation that is priceless when you strike out on your own."

After spending several winters in New Orleans at Fair Grounds, Scott decided to make a change.

"I’m very happy with the surface here at Tampa. It’s a safe and forgiving racetrack," Scott said. "My horses seem to love it, and when horses like the track they usually show that in the afternoon.

"One of my principal owners, Bill Shively of Dixiana Stable, has a residence here, so he can get a chance to see some of his horses race," she said. "We’ve got a number of young horses, and young ones are a challenge, but they are also the ones with potential, and that’s the exciting part of it."

New Keeneland Photos

October Photos at Keeneland.

Check out the Photo section for more pictures taken by Virginia Smith

June OBS Sales

Check out http://obssales.com/ for more information on the June Two Year Olds and Horses of Racing Age sales. June 16 - 17, 2009.

Synopsis by Marette Farrell

Candy Ride was champion miler in Argentina and set a new world record for a mile when winning the G1 Pacific Classic with a 123 Beyer no. It is a well known fact that milers make the best sires and Candy Ride`s versatility on turf and dirt along with the toughness and resilience gained from his South American roots, makes him one of the younger sires earmarked by knowledgeable students of the industry to support. He is the leading upcoming sire with 5 individual stake winners so far in 2009, more than any other second crop sire, including Medaglia D`Òro and has sired 37 winners from 64 runners already.
This colt exhibits all the trademarks of his sire. He is mid-sized, beautifully balanced, calm and classy attitude and apart from being a really efficient mover on the track he has the added advantage of being a Pennsylvania bred. His dam has bred two winners and is a half sister to the dams of two stake horses. He comes from an inner circle Maryland family developed by the Bonifaces of Bonita farm. Their runaway Preakness and Haskell winner, Deputed Testimony is in this colts third dam. If he shows half of the fire and determination of the Boniface`s prid e and joy, he will do well.

Kafwain needs no introduction. He was an emphatic winner of the 1 1/16 Norfolk Stakes as a two year old and was second in the Breeders Cup Juvenile to Vindication. Thought of by many as only a sprint sire because of his win in the G2 7 furlong San Vincente stakes at three, he showed with The Pamplemousse (who Marette Farrell was involved in purchasing with Alex Solis as a two year old) that he can sire Derby calibre horses. This filly is the first Kafwain progeny that Marette has even left on her list since."The similarities in profile and attitude are uncanny. She has so much range just like him and walks like a cat" she said. Kafwain has 10% stake horses to starters. Her dam, White Line, is a half sister to G2 Schuylerville second Coax Chelsie who in turn is the dam of multiple stake winner Chelsie´s House. It is the family of Coaxing Chad, winner of the Cradle Stakes. It is a well known precocious family and her pedigree has no inbreeding within the first five generations which seems to be the emerging trend in many top class runners. We think she could be a superstar.

Horse Racings Rockette, Zenyatta Steals the Show

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/sports/09zenyatta.html?ref=sports

TRAINER OF THE MONTH: JOAN SCOTT

OLDSMAR, Fla. (March 3, 2005) – Blame it on Tuesday. That was the name of the pony trainer Joan Scott received from her parents when she was eight because, according to the now 38-year-old conditioner, “my mom felt sorry for me riding the broom all over the house.”

From those humble equine beginning’s in her home town of Penn Laird, Va., Scott has toured the country and world working such prestigious sales as Deauville, in France, and Newmarket, in England, as well as exercising and breaking yearlings for top outfits like Juddmonte Farms, Fares Farm, Ashleigh Stud, England’s Stowell Hill Farm and Haras du Quesnay in France.

Clicking at a substantial win percentage of 33% at Tampa Bay Downs this season, her first at the Oldsmar, Fla., oval, Scott is currently tied for third in the track’s trainer standings with 12 wins – from a Tampa stable of 15. One of the reasons for her instant success here could be the track’s surface, which she described as one of the best in the country.

“ The track here is super,” Scott said. “I’ve worked all over the country from California to New York and this is a great track.
“ Even when it was pouring down rain like the other day, you can go out and it’s safe to train on it, then safe again the next day. I’m really impressed with it.”
Scott’s Tampa success might be a little surprising considering she only took out her training license in 2002, but the girl has big time credentials.
“ I’ve been working with Thoroughbreds since 1990,” Scott said. “I’ve either galloped for or assisted [Hall of Famer] Buddy Delp; Elliot Walden, Carl Nafzger and Nick Zito.
“ My biggest year was working for Zito at Belmont in 1996 when we had horses like Acceptable; Louis Quatorze; Love That Jazz; Diligence; and Storm Song.”
Scott said she’s had most of her current barn since they came off the farm.
“ That’s a lot of fun,” she said. “It’s like having your own kindergarten class. It’s a great feeling when you see the light come on and off they go. It’s so rewarding. You feel like they’ve grown up and understand what they’re here for.”
While enjoying being the class teacher, don’t dismiss Scott’s ambition. When asked if she was enjoying her first visit to Tampa, her immediate response was, “when I’m winning races I really like it!”

That confident, competitive attitude also speaks to another reason Scott got into training.
“ One of the reasons I got into training was, you gallop for people, assist for people and think ‘I’d do it this way if I had the chance and I think I could do it better,’” she said. “Then stick your neck out and do it instead of just talking about it.”

© Tampa Bay Downs, Inc. 2004-2005

Lexington trainer enjoys big weekend

Lexington trainer enjoys big weekend
SCOTT GETS WINS AT SARATOGA, MONMOUTH
By Maryjean Wall
HERALD-LEADER RACING WRITER

Every racing fan had an eye on Saratoga yesterday for a stakes racing program highlighted by the Travers Stakes.

A week ago Saturday at Saratoga, when few had their minds on the last race there, Lexington trainer Joan S. Scott caught people off guard with her $18.40 winner, Marieval, in a $51,000 allowance race.

Scott was having an amazing day. About an hour before the win at Saratoga, the trainer won the $70,000 Miss Woodford Stakes at Monmouth Park with Chandelle No. Five, a $21.60 winner.

Scott was in New Jersey at Monmouth with Chandelle No. Five (a 3-year-old filly, owned by Dixiana Stables, sired by Yes It’s True), watching the Saratoga race on television in the track kitchen.

When Marieval, a 4-year-old filly by El Prado and owned by John Cummins of Lexington, cruised across the TV screen the winner in New York by 11/2 lengths, "it was wonderful," Scott said. Her assistant, Karen Beers, was with Marieval at Saratoga.

Scott is a high-percentage trainer whose 21 percent winners has made her a factor in Kentucky racing. She has 22 horses at The Thoroughbred Center; she’s already sent Marieval to Finger Lakes where the New York-bred filly is expected to race in early September.

She hopes to get stalls at Keeneland this fall in addition to those she keeps at the training center. The reason is the new Polytrack that will be ready for Keeneland’s October meet.

Maryjean Wall covers horse racing for the Herald-Leader. This article may contain her opinions and observations. She can be reached at 859-231-3231 or by e-mail at mwall@herald-leader.com.
( http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/sports/columnists/maryjean_wall/15372110.htm Lexington Herald-Leader 8/27/06 )

Joan Scott named Trainer of the month at Tampa Bay Downs!

As of January 10th Joan Scott has amassed a record of 4 wins and one third from 7 starts at Tampa Bay Downs.

Joan currently has a win percentage of 57.1%, and an In the Money percentage of 71.4%.
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DR ZIC STAKES PLACED IN 2009 DEBUT

Dr Zic made her three year old debut Friday in the GR.II $150,000 Froward Gal Stakes at Gulfstream Park. She finished a good third to become stakes placed. Dr Zic has never finished out of the money thus far in her career.
Please see the Articles and Press page for a recent article about Joan and Dr. Zic.
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Big Blue Streaker

Written by Marette Farrell

MIZZEN MAST/PARTY LOVING FOOL

Number 416 from OBS April sale

BIG BLUE STREAKER

Mizzen Mast, whose sire Cozzene and grandsire Caro were both champion sires, was a phenomenal racehorse. He started his career in France winning a G3 and placing second in the G1 Grand Prix de Paris. Bobby Frankel said that he would have won the Kentucky Derby if he had gotten him earlier as a three year old. nstead he blitzed the field in the G1 Malibu stakes over 7 furlongs and the G2 Strub Stakes over 1 1/8 miles and retired before he could really set the world alight, after an unfortunate injury. James Willoughby of the Racing Post called him “the best horse in the world”. He possesses a blue-blooded pedigree and his dam Kinema cost $2.2 million dollars as a yearling.

He is breeding his versatility into his progeny and is a very successful re on all surfaces. He has 6 stake winners to his credit this year already. Mast Track is one of his better known horses and broke the track record whilst winning the Hollywood Gold Cup wire to wire on the polytrack and Midships won the G1 Charlie Whittingham Memorial Stakes in June which is a 1 ¼ on the turf. This colt is the image of his father, same grey colour and similar head and neck, along with a big hip, but with more natural muscle. His dosage indicates distance. He breezed in 10.2 at the April OBS sale and he had one of the faster gallop outs. It was a mechanically perfect breeze and awesome to watch.

His dam possesses one of the most successful crosses with Mizzen Mast i.e. she adds more Ribot through her broodmare sire Odyle and Alleged. Please note that Alleged and Mari’s Book in her pedigree are fabulous broodmare sires. Most importantly, this colt is bred on the exact same lines as Mast Track and a G2 filly called Sober Lady. His only sibling, a three year old called I Want My Money, by Vision and Verse, was a winner at Hollywood Park in his second start and the second dam is the dam of two multiple stake winners.

We think this colt is a fantastic two turn prospect who will have a big turn of foot. His breeder is Ron McPeek, father of trainer Kenny McPeek. Maybe we can strike a lucky vein twice, as he is also the breeder of our G2 star Dr. Zic whom we purchased from him in the OBS June sale in 2008. We have watched the colt closely as he trained at Keeneland and he has matured and developed beautifully in the interim. He is definitely a value play when you factor in the sire stats, the 2 yr old average (in 2008 Mizzen Mast’s 2 yr old average was $120k and in 2009 average was $82k), the brilliant cross with the dam, aligned with the physical development displayed since the sale. Ron McPeek thinks so highly of the colt he is willing to stay in for a lot or a little. It’s a no brainer!

Look up www.obssales.com and go to video replays from the April sale. Scroll down to number 416 from OBS April Sale and the box on left hand side is the pedigree and box on right is replay of breeze. Enjoy……………..

CLOCK THE DOC Day at Keeneland

Dr Zic stretched her legs in her first official work since coming back into training.
She breezed 3/8 in an easy 37 flat and galloped out in 49.3, all under wraps.

Dr Zic had various friends and family on the platform at Keeneland on Tuesday, August 4th to watch her train. She looks to be on her way back, thats for sure!

McCandy Man

Meet Candy Rides colt from June OBS Sale

Candy Ride was champion miler in Argentina and set a new world record for a mile when winning the G1 Pacific Classic with a 123 Beyer no. It is a well known fact that milers make the best sires and Candy Ride`s versatility on turf and dirt along with the toughness and resilience gained from his South American roots, makes him one of the younger sires earmarked by knowledgeable students of the industry to support. He is the leading upcoming sire with 5 individual stake winners so far in 2009, more than any other second crop sire, including Medaglia D`Òro and has sired 37 winners from 64 runners already.

This colt exhibits all the trademarks of his sire. He is mid-sized, beautifully balanced, calm and classy attitude and apart from being a really efficient mover on the track he has the added advantage of being a Pennsylvania bred. His dam has bred two winners and is a half sister to the dams of two stake horses. He comes from an inner circle Maryland family developed by the Bonifaces of Bonita farm. Their runaway Preakness and Haskell winner, Deputed Testimony is in this colts third dam. If he shows half of the fire and determination of the Boniface`s prid e and joy, he will do well.

Synopsis by Marette Farrell
Photo by Virginia Smith

Bad News Sophia

Was Kafwain from June OBS Sale

Kafwain needs no introduction. He was an emphatic winner of the 1 1/16 Norfolk Stakes as a two year old and was second in the Breeders Cup Juvenile to Vindication. Thought of by many as only a sprint sire because of his win in the G2 7 furlong San Vincente stakes at three, he showed with The Pamplemousse (who Marette Farrell was involved in purchasing with Alex Solis as a two year old) that he can sire Derby calibre horses. This filly is the first Kafwain progeny that Marette has even left on her list since."The similarities in profile and attitude are uncanny. She has so much range just like him and walks like a cat" she said. Kafwain has 10% stake horses to starters. Her dam, White Line, is a half sister to G2 Schuylerville second Coax Chelsie who in turn is the dam of multiple stake winner Chelsie´s House. It is the family of Coaxing Chad, winner of the Cradle Stakes. It is a well known precocious family and her pedigree has no inbreeding within the first five generations which seems to be the emerging trend in many top class runners. We think she could be a superstar.

Synopsis by Marette Farrell
Photo by Virginia Smith

Belle Breeze Win

April 18th at Keeneland