2008 Champions

2008 PENNSYLVANIA-BRED CHAMPIONS

Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association has named its champions and leaders for 2008, based upon the unanimous recommendation of its Awards Committee. They are:

TWO YEAR OLD MALE–JUKE JOINT

Ch. c., 2006, Jazz Club – To The Chapel, by Runaway Groom

bred by David DiPietro

Winner in three of four starts in 2008, including a seven length score in the Send More Money Stakes at Presque Isle Downs and a four length victory in the Maryland Million Nursery Stakes, earning $165,750.

 

 

TWO YEAR OLD FILLY–GLORIOUS SMILE

Bay f., 2006, Honour And Glory – Contagious Smile, by Halo

bred by Pandora Farms

Winner of the Blue Mountain Futurity at Penn National and the Eavesdrop Stakes at Philadelphia Park. Glorious Smile won two of her four starts with two seconds, earning $113,165.

 

 

THREE YEAR OLD MALE–DEAL MAKING

Bay c., 2005, Empire Maker – Recording

bred by Augustin Stable

Winner of three straight, including the Stanton Stakes at Delaware Park, followed by thirds in the G2 Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga and the G3 Bryan Station Stakes at Keenland, earning $121,500.

 

 

THREE YEAR OLD FILLY–EXTRA SEXY PSYCHIC

Dk. b. f., 2005, Freud – She’s Pretty Too, by Housebuster

bred by Toni Kirwan & Ed Hipps

Winner of four of her eight starts including a six length victory in the Cozy Lace Stakes at Presque Isle Downs and a second place finish in the Wonders Delight Stakes at Penn National, finishing with $201,690 in earnings.

 

 

CHAMPION OLDER MALE–WHISTLE PIG

Dk. b. g., 2004, Patton – Yanni’s Girl, by Commadore C.

bred by Sylmar Farms

Winner of six of fourteen starts in 2008, including four stakes victories the Presidentialaffair and Leematt Stakes at Presque Isle, and the Lyman and Yankee Affair at Philadelphia Park, earning $296,160.

 

 

CHAMPION OLDER FEMALE–JET AWAY JANE

Bay m., 2003, Unbridled Jet – Mints First Star, by Beyond The Mint

by Ted & Robin Stepanoff

Winner of four stakes in seven starts, the Foxy J. G., the Langhorne, and the Ambassador of Luck Handicap, all at Philadelphia Park, and the Daylilly Stakes at Penn National earning $240,340.

 

 

CHAMPION TURF HORSE–LORD ADMIRAL

Bay h., 2001, El Prado – Lady Ilsley, by Trempolino

bred by London TBS & Derry Meeting Farm

Winner of the Al Rashidiya (UAE G3) and the Jebel Hatta Nayef (UAE G2) at Nad al Sheba Racecourse in Dubai, and seconds in the Amethyst Stakes-G3 and the Meld Stakes-G3 in Ireland, with earnings of $411,341.

 

 

CHAMPION STEEPLECHASER–DARK EQUATION

Bay g., 2001, Polish Numbers – Night Risk, by Wild Again

bred by London TBS & Derry Meeting Farm

His one winning race in 2008 was a big one, the New York Turf Writers Handicap (NSA G1) at Saratoga, and also finished a close second in the A. P. Smithwick Memorial (NSA G2) at Saratoga.

 

 

CHAMPION CLAIMING HORSE–BANK’N ON GOLD

Ch. f., 2005, Banker’s Gold – Bank’n On Dixie, by Water Bank

bred by Sylmar Farm

Winner of seven of fourteen starts, she broke her maiden for $25,000 in May by fifteen lengths, then went on to win three starter allowance races, and three open allowance races, finishing with earnings of $223,520.

 

 

CHAMPION SPRINTER–FABULOUS STRIKE

dk.b./br.g., 2003, Smart Strike-Fabulous Find, by Lost Code

Bred by Tea Party Stable Inc. (Walter Downey)

Won the Vincent A. Moscarelli Memorial at Delaware Park, and both the Fall Highweight Handicap and the Gravesend Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct, and fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1), earning $306,580.

 

 

LEADING BREEDING FUND AWARD RECIPIETN

SYLMAR FARM (BETSY & RONNIE HOUGHTON)

Total Awards Earned – $259,464

 

 

LEADING OVERALL BREEDER OF PENNSYLVANIA BREDS

AUGUSTIN STABLE – GEORGE STRAWBRIDGE, JR.

Total earnings of $1,362,734 in North America and Europe for horses bred by George Strawbridge Jr.

 

 

CHAMPION STALLION–PATTON

h., 1991, Lord At War (Arg)-Slew Me Down, by Seattle Slew

Earned stallion awards in the amount of $64,861

 

 

 

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Breeders Association