2007-2008
Monthy
Earnings by Highcliff stallions:
The
totals include only the stallions currently
in residence at Highcliff Farm, including the
retired stallions, SCARLET IBIS and THUNDER
PUDDLES.
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| 2008 |
Wins |
Place |
Show |
2008 Earnings
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| January |
18 |
19 |
24 |
$336,119.00
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| February |
20 |
17 |
20 |
$452,970.00
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| March |
28 |
21 |
17 |
$652,697.00
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| 2007 |
Wins |
Place |
Show |
2007 Earnings
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| January |
28 |
29 |
21 |
$574,675.00
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| February |
24 |
16 |
19 |
$430,601.00
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| March |
37 |
32 |
24 |
$592,934.00
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| April |
43 |
31 |
27 |
$753,693.00
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| May |
45 |
45 |
52 |
$1,114,291.00
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| June |
52 |
51
|
62 |
$1,020,942.00
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| July |
61 |
45 |
39 |
$1,255,272.00
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| August |
57 |
43 |
56 |
$1,415,116.00
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| September |
45 |
52 |
56 |
$1,258,282.00
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| October |
51 |
43 |
41 |
$1,377,552.00
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| November |
36 |
31 |
36 |
$1,057,294.00
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| December |
25 |
19 |
22 |
$568,633.00
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| Total
2007 |
504
|
438 |
455 |
$11,558,182.00
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RECENT
PRESS RELEASES
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Highcliff Farm-based Millennium
Wind added to Millennium Rewards Program
(2/14/08) Millennium Stallions' Highcliff Farm-based
MILLENNIUM WIND, a Grade 1-winning third-crop
sire whose progeny earnings recently topped $1.1-million,
has been added to an innovative rewards program for
Millennium Stallions that rewards breeders for achievements
of its stallions' offspring in both sales rings and
at racetracks.
The Millennium Rewards Program, launched on January
1, 2008 but retroactive to January of 2005 to allow
Millennium Stallion-sired juveniles of 2008 to earn
points, is modeled on affinity programs popular in
consumer marketing. It awards points to breeders who
breed to Millennium stallions on a regular basis,
using the following criteria:Opening a Frequent Breeder
Account automatically earns 10,000 points.
a) Additional points are earned for every dollar
spent on stud fees.
b) Additional points are earned for every dollar
a Millennium Stallion-sired offspring brings in its
first trip through a sales ring.
c) Additional points are earned for every purse dollar
a Millennium Stallion-sired offspring earns while
racing.
d) 10,000 points (minimum) are earned for every black-type
stakes win registered by the offspring of a Millennium
Stallion.
e) 25,000 points are earned for every Grade/Group
3 win (group races in Part I of the International
Cataloguing Standards) registered by the offspring
of a Millennium Stallion.
f) 50,000 points are earned for every Grade/Group
2 win registered by the offspring of a Millennium
Stallion.
g) 75,000 points are earned for every Grade/Group
1 win registered by the offspring of a Millennium
Stallion.
Points are converted to dollar credits at a ratio
of 10-to-1, and those credits are applicable towards
stud fees for stallions on the Millennium Stallions
roster in Kentucky and now in New York. A Millennium
Stallion-sired yearling that brings a $100,000 sales
price, for example, qualifies its breeder for a $10,000
credit on a Millennium Rewards account that is applicable
towards stud fees of any stallions on the Millennium
Stallion roster.
Millennium Wind, a Grade 1/Grade 2 winner in Kentucky
and California whose graded-winning half-brothers
include Horse of the Year and multi-millionaire-siring
Charismatic, has sired 40 winners from his first two
crops, and nearly half of his winners (nine from each
crop) broke their maidens as 2-year-olds. His juvenile
winners that won or placed in black-type stakes in
2007 included six-length stakes winner Berry's Pride.
The son of Cryptoclearance - Bali Babe, by Drone,
has stood at Carl Lizza Jr.'s and Joseph Bartone's
Highcliff Farm in Delanson, NY for a $5,000 live foal
fee since 2006.
"Millennium Farms should be congratulated for
developing this concept, which supports breeders -
whether they breed to sell or to race," commented
Highcliff Farm stallion manager Suzie O'Cain. "This
is a huge benefit which helps to offset some of the
expenses incurred by broodmare owners."
HIGHCLIFF FARM
944 Eatons Corners Road
Delanson, NY 12053
www.highcliff.com
highcliff@worldnet.att.net
or Millennium Farms in Kentucky (859) 294-5439
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STONESIDER
GIANT'S
CAUSEWAY - ADDED GOLD, by GILDED TIME
Standing
for $3,000 LF in 2008
Photo
& Hypo-mating
HIGHCLIFF FARM
944 Eatons Corners Road
Delanson, NY 12053 (518) 875-6168
www.highcliff.com
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Stonesider to enter stud at Highcliff
Farm in New York
(12/27/07) Stonerside Stable will send their undefeated
colt STONESIDER to Highcliff Farm in Delanson,
New York, beginning with the 2008 season. Highcliff,
run by resident veterinarian and general manager C.
Lynwood O'Cain and his wife Suzie for owners Carl
Lizza and Joe Bartone, will stand the four-year-old
son of Giant's Causeway for an introductory fee of
$3,000 live foal. He will be first son of Giant's
Causeway to stand in the Empire State.
Trained by Todd Pletcher, the chestnut Stonesider
debuted on the main track at Belmont Park on June
30 of his two-year-old year, and won impressively
over a field that included future Grade 1 winner Flashy
Bull. An injury sidelined Stonesider, and he did not
run again.
"I thought Stonesider would be one of the top
two-year-olds in my barn that year," said Pletcher.
"He's a very good-looking horse, and ought to
throw nice foals."
"We're very pleased to be sending Stonesider
to Highcliff," said John Adger, racing and bloodstock
manager for Stonerside Stable. "The O'Cains are
a great team, and have done an excellent job with
Highcliff's other stallions over the years."
"Stonesider is very much in the mold of Giant's
Causeway, with all the flash and good looks of his
sire," Adger continued. "And even though
he didn't get the opportunity to live up to his potential
at the track, we feel he will be a very solid sire,
and we're happy to be a part of the outstanding program
in New York."
"Had Stonesider been able to reach his predicted
Grade 1 stakes potential, we would not have been given
this opportunity to stand him at Highcliff Farm in
New York," said Suzie O'Cain, director of stallion
promotion and development at Highcliff. "Being
by Giant's Causeway, who is viewed as the next sire-of-sires,
out of a graded stakes winning dam, Stonesider should
be a great addition to the New York breeding program."
From the first American crop by European Horse of
the Year Giant's Causeway, Stonesider is out of the
Grade 2 stakes winner Added Gold, by Gilded Time.
Added Gold is a full sister to the dam of 2007 Grade
1 winner Irish Smoke, as well as a half-sister to
graded stakes winner Added Asset. Stonesider's second
dam is the multiple stakes winner and graded-placed
Added Elegance.
Highcliff is currently home to stallions Key Contender,
Maybry's Boy, Millennium Wind, Stanislavsky, Talk
is Money, and Western Expression. The 800-acre farm
is located some twenty miles west of Albany in upstate
New York, and offers year-round boarding, foaling,
and sales prep in addition to standing stallions.
CONTACT INFO FOR HIGHCLIFF FARM:
Suzie O'Cain (518) 875-6168 (e-mail: highcliff@worldnet.att.net)
CONTACT INFO ON STONERSIDE STABLE:
John Adger, racing and bloodstock manager (859) 621-5474
(e-mail: jadger@stonerside.com
or vvancamp@stonerside.com
) or visit the Stonerside website at www.stonerside.com.
Founded in 1994, Stonerside Stable is the breeding
and racing stable of Janice and Bob McNair (owners
of the Houston Texans NFL team). The 1,947-acre farm
near Paris, Kentucky has bred and raised 34 stakes
winners, including Congaree, Country Star, Van Nistelrooy,
The Cliff's Edge, Bob and John, and Raven's Pass.
In partnership, the farm also co-bred Kentucky Derby
winner Fusaichi Pegasus and E Dubai. Stonerside has
campaigned eight millionaires, 59 stakes winners and
won 123 stakes. Stonerside operates a training facility
in Aiken, South Carolina and campaigns runners in
the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina.
The stable annually sponsors the Stonerside Beaumont
Stakes (G2) at Keeneland.
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MAYBRY'S
BOY
BROAD
BRUSH - ALY'S CONQUEST, by ALYDAR
Standing
for $2,500.00 LF in 2008
with a MAJOR INCENTIVE OF $10,000 awarded
at the conclusion of the 2008 breeding season
Call for details (518) 875-6168
HIGHCLIFF FARM
944 Eatons Corners Road
Delanson, NY 12053 (518) 875-6168
www.highcliff.com
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Graded SW Maybry's Boy to enter
stud in 2008 at Highcliff Farm at $2,500 fee with
a MAJOR INCENTIVE OF $10,000 awarded at the conclusion
of the 2008 breeding season*
(12/4) RCH Stables' graded-winning Broad Brush stallion,
MAYBRY'S BOY, will enter stud for 2008 at Carl
Lizza Jr.'s and Joseph Bartone's Highcliff Farm in
Delanson, New York, standing for $2,500, live foal
- payment of which entitles participation in a drawing
for $10,000 following the conclusion of the 2008 breeding
season. Each purchased season represents a drawing
right for a $10,000 bonus award. Maybry's Boy, a super-durable
gray/roan 16.2-hand sprinter, won on Aqueduct's inner
track in 2006 but was retired too late to stand the
2007 season. The striking-looking stallion was clearly
among the fastest of four-time Grade 1 winner Broad
Brush's 93 stakes winners - a group that includes
2007 top-five second-crop sire (in both lifetime and
2007 progeny earnings) Include, sire of 2007 Grade
1 turf and synthetic surface winner Panty Raid ($1,020,275).
Bred by Jonabell Farm and the late John Franks and
purchased by Randy Hill (RCH Stables) for $220,000
at Keeneland's 2000 September yearling sale, Maybry's
Boy won Gulfstream Park's graded six-furlong Spectacular
Bid Stakes over future Grade 2 winner Showmeitall
for Hall of Fame trainer Claude "Shug" McGaughey.
Less than seven weeks prior to that graded victory,
the then-two-year-old Maybry's Boy had broken his
maiden by six lengths at Aqueduct in 1:22-3/5 for
seven furlongs. Although a winner for six consecutive
seasons who posted a triple-digit Beyer figure, Maybry's
Boy ($322,700) had a horrendous break in Gulfstream's
Grade 1 Fountain of Youth about six weeks after his
Spectacular Bid victory and was never quite the same
following a subsequent layoff of almost a year. He
is the first of four winners produced from graded
runner-up and six-time winner Aly's Conquest ($242,720),
who is by Alydar and is a half-sister to stakes winner
Iroquois Park and to the dam of stakes winner Sariano.
His second dam (maternal granddam) is multiple graded
winner and Grade 1-placed Am Capable ($410,733).
* Call for Details (518)
875-6168
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Highcliff stallions Western Expression
and Millennium Wind have New York & California standouts

Photo:
Adam Coglianese |
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STUNT
MAN
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(11/16/07) Within less than 20 hours during
November 10-11, Highcliff Farm stallions MILLENNIUM
WIND and WESTERN
EXPRESSION were represented by standouts at
Hollywood Park and Aqueduct, as the former's 2-year-old
WIND'S LEGACY won a maiden special, and the
latter's STUNT MAN ($307,819, photo left) and
ARTISTIC EXPRESS ($246,818) won and placed
in stakes. Western Expression's two New York Stallion
Stakes performers on Sunday (Nov. 11) were both already
multiple stakes winners going into their respective
events. Millennium Wind's swift stretch-running juvenile
romped so decisively (winning by two lengths) on Saturday
against sons of some of the most expensive sires in
North America that he seems destined to become a stakes
winner in the near future.
Wind's Legacy broke from the outside post among nine
starters in a seven-furlong maiden special on Hollywood
Park's all-weather track and angled inside to duel
three-wide before gaining command near mid-stretch
and drawing away - almost clocking under 1:23 despite
not being pressured at the finish. The eight rivals
strung out behind him included sons of elite sires
whose stud fees ranged up to $100,000, with the average
fee for those eight stallions being more than $41,000
(Millennium Wind stood for $5,000, live foal, during
the 2007 breeding season). Despite his speed and precocity,
Wind's Legacy looks like he will be even better at
longer distances.
In Aqueduct's New York Stallion Thunder Rumble Stakes
on Sunday, open stakes-winning 3-year-old Stunt Man
dropped back to seven furlongs following multiple-margin
stakes tallies at 1-1/8 miles at Saratoga and a mile
at Belmont during August-September, coming off the
pace to overtake an older $750K-plus-earning favorite.
A world of opportunities await 3-year-old Stunt Man,
who has won at four different distances from six-to-nine
furlongs and placed a closing third among eight in
Saratoga stakes competition in his only turf effort
thus far. Two races later on Aqueduct's same Sunday
New York Stallion Stakes card, Western Expression's
dirt-and-turf stakes-winning daughter, Artistic Express,
closed from next-to-last among eight to place third
in the New York Stallion Perfect Arc Stakes that she
had won as a 3-year-old in 2006. Artistic Express
has scored an equal number of wins on both dirt and
turf and was a precocious stakes-winning juvenile
at Belmont in 2005. Stunt Man and Artistic Express
are among 14 earners of more than $100K each from
Western Expression's first three crops.
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First Stanislavsky sales yearling
brings 6 figures
8 mares in foal to Stanislavsky sell Oct. 14
Opportunities knock if one knows where to look for
them, and at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga New York-bred
preferred yearling sale a couple of months ago, the
first sales yearling sired by Highcliff Farm-based
stallion STANISLAVSKY achieved a unique distinction
by bringing a six-figure final bid. That yearling
colt, Hip No. 358, was the ONLY New York-conceived
six-figure youngster from any stallion's first crop
in the entire preferred sale! There were 17 other
six-figure yearlings among 113 total head sold at
the 2007 preferred sale, and the average stud fee
for their sires was almost $26,000.
The 2008 stud fee for STANISLAVSKY, whose
first foals will be 2-year-olds in 2008, is scheduled
to be $3,500.
A multiple graded NYRA stakes performer, STANISLAVSKY
won by eight lengths at Aqueduct going six furlongs
and was graded-placed at seven furlongs and a mile,
beating at least five graded winners. The son of Eclipse
Champion Dehere (another of whose sons, Graeme Hall,
is a leading second-crop sire in 2007) is out of a
half-sister to a champion miler. A striking individual,
STANISLAVSKY sold for $227,000 as a Saratoga
select sales yearling in 2001, and his owners turned
down a million-dollar offer for him when he was a
3-year-old.
At the New York Breeders' Sales Company's Fall Mixed
Sale that will be held Sunday, October 14 at Saratoga
Race Course, eight mares in foal to STANISLAVSKY
plus a gray/roan registered New York-bred yearling
filly from his first crop (Hip No. 207) will be offered.
These mares offer current opportunities to purchase
the dams of potential six-figure yearlings less than
two years hence. Five of the mares are under the age
of ten, and one of those is a half-sister to a multiple
Grade 2 winner. Also among them are a multiple stakes-placed
winner of $347,697 whose winning offspring include
a six-figure-earner; an earner of $149,670 whose first
starter has won three times; and a 10-year-old Belmont
allowance winner. The hip numbers for these eight
mares are 90, 120, 206, 231, 243, 272, 320, and 360.
Opportunities are knocking again.
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TALK
IS MONEY
DEPUTY
MINISTER - ISLE GO WEST, BY GONE WEST
Stud Fee: $5,000.00 Live Foal
Conformation
Photo & Hypo-mating
Printable
Pedigree
82%
starters, 72% winners from starters in his first
crop, including six stakes horses --one graded;
seven 2-year-old winners in his second crop
Top 3 second crop sire in New York
Top 25 in the US
HIGHCLIFF
FARM
944 Eatons Corners Road
Delanson, NY 12053 (518) 875-6168
or
Millennium Farms in Kentucky
(859) 294-5439
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NY sire Talk Is Money represented
by first-crop G2 Tom Fool winner High Finance
Best Sprinter -
Miler on the East Coast
(7/07) If breeders and handicappers had not
previously been fully aware of the talent of four-year-old
High Finance from the first crop of New York-based
stallion TALK
IS MONEY, they know about him now -- and about
his sire, whose offspring include stakes winners on
both coasts as well as the Midwest. In Belmont's Grade
2 Tom Fool Breeders' Cup Handicap at seven furlongs
on the Fourth of July, West Point Stable's High Finance
scored by 2-3/4 lengths while running blazing fractions
of :22, :43.4, 1:08.2 and finishing in 1:21.4 as the
5.60-to-1 third choice among six starters, leaving
odds-on New York-bred Grade 1 winner Commentator in
his wake. As Nick Zito, the trainer of Commentator,
the 1-2 favorite said after the race "If you look
at 10,000 races, you'll never see that again. A :21
4/5 second quarter? Have you ever heard of that?"
Thirty-eight days earlier in a Belmont allowance/optional
claiming contest, High Finance had registered the
highest Daily Racing Form Beyer figure for a mile
(115) in 2007, posting a higher number than any Grade
1 or Grade 2 winner this year. As became obvious
on Independence Day, that 1:33.54 mile performance
was no fluke.
Drawing away in the seven-furlong Tom Fool in 1:21.81,
High Finance ($295,850) is the second new stakes winner
in 25 days to represent Talk Is Money, whose three-year-old
daughter Girls Pearls scored her fourth consecutive
victory in Prairie Meadows' two-turn mile Panthers
Stakes on June 9. Another colt from the same first
crop as High Finance, Blazing Sunset, last year won
Hollywood Park's mile and an eighth Alydar Stakes
by almost two lengths gate-to-wire under co-topweight.
Talk Is Money, a stakes-winning son of Deputy Minister
- Isle Go West, by Gone West, who also has a first-out
juvenile winner at Woodbine from his third crop, is
owned by a partnership and stands at Carl Lizza Jr.'s
and Joseph Bartone's Highcliff Farm in Delanson.
Coming off this super performance in the Tom Fool,
trainer Rick Violette will most likely point High
Finance to the Grade I Forego at Saratoga on September
1.
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3yo filly by NY stallion Talk Is
Money scores stakes win in 4th straight victory
(6/9/07) Thirteen days after his first-crop
son High Finance registered one of 2007's highest
Beyer figures (adjusted up to 115) while winning a
Belmont mile contest by eight lengths in 1:33.54,
a three-year-old daughter of New York-based TALK
IS MONEY, Girls Pearls, captured Prairie Meadows'
Panthers Stakes on Saturday, June 9. It was the fourth
consecutive win in 55 days for Girls Pearls, who campaigns
for Magdalena Racing under trainer Kenneth McPeek's
care and has victories at Keeneland (by two lengths
in 1:22.76 for seven furlongs) and twice at Churchill
Downs (both by daylight margins going one-turn miles).
Girls Pearls was the 1.70-to-1 favorite among nine
three-year-old fillies in the $54,000 unrestricted
Panthers at a two-turn mile and advanced from seventh-to-first
with a five-wide rally to win by daylight over the
four-time stakes-winning second choice, to whom she
was spotting three pounds.
Bred by Kathryn Schaefer, Girls Pearls is from the
second crop of Talk Is Money and is the first starter
produced from four-time mile-and-up winner Girls Girls
Girls, who is by Colonial Affair. Talk Is Money, a
stakes-winning son of Deputy Minister, is out of Isle
Go West, who is by Gone West and is a half-sister
to Grade 1 winner and prominent international sire
Hennessy. Owned by a partnership, Talk Is Money stands
at Carl Lizza Jr.'s and Joseph Bartone's Highcliff
Farm in Delanson for a 2007 fee of $5,000, live foal.
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Hot May Days at Highcliff
Farm
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MILLENNIUM
WIND
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HIGH
FINANCE
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May 14, MILLENNIUM WIND was awarded
the trophy as New York's Champion Freshman Sire of
2006 by New York Thoroughbred Breeders. for 2007 --
surpassing the Beyers for Curlin's Preakenss (111),
Street Sense's Kentucky Derby (110), and Invasor's
Donn Handicap (109). A one-turn mile -- considered
the quintessential American test for extended speed
-- appears to be the ideal test for graded-placed
High Finance ($175,850), who placed second
to future Eclipse Champion Bernardini the first time
he tried the distance in a Gulfstream Park maiden
special in March of 2006. At Belmont two months later,
the then three-year-old colt captured a one-turn allowance
mile against older company by five lengths while registering
his first of three eventual triple-digit Beyer figures.
Sunday's romp marked High Finance's third effort at
eight furlongs out of a backstretch mile chute. He
appears to have made his point.
May 15, in California at Barretts May Sale
of Two-Year-Olds in Training, MILLENNIUM WIND
was well represented with six lots sold for an average
of $60,916. His top lot was a colt out of the Salt
Lake mare Bonita Lake, hammered down at $170,000.00.
MILLENNIUM WIND was the fifth leading sire at the
sale by average with three or more sold.
May 20, impressive first time starter, MAGICAL
MONA, 3-year-old MILLENNIUM WIND filly
out of the Gone West mare Francoa, scored a 3-1/4
length victory in a $41,000 maiden special weight
at Belmont. Stalking the pace early, MAGICAL MONA
made a decisive move turning for home and jockey Edgar
Prado guided the filly clear down the lane.
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TALK
IS MONEY
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Earlier on Sunday up at Woodbine, a two-year-old
by TALK IS MONEY, Colebrook Farms' first-time-starter
TALKEN TALL, won his 4-1/2-furlong maiden special
debut drawing away by daylight despite being dead-last
at the break. In addition to High Finance, another
of TALK IS MONEY's runners from his first crop is
BLAZING SUNSET, who last year won Hollywood
Park's mile and an eighth Alydar Stakes by almost
two lengths gate-to-wire under co-topweight. Owned
by a partnership, TALK IS MONEY is a stakes-winning
son of Deputy Minister - Isle Go West, by Gone West,
standing for a 2007 fee of $5,000, live foal
May 27, Son of NY sire TALK IS MONEY
gets Memorial Day weekend's top Beyer (114) (Courtesy
nybreds.com)
West Point Stable might have one of North America's
best dirt milers as revealed at Belmont on Sunday
when High Finance -- from the first crop of current
New York-based sire TALK IS MONEY -- won a mile allowance
by eight lengths in 1:33.54, earning a 114 Daily Racing
Form Beyer figure. This was the highest Beyer recorded
over the Memorial Day weekend and is one of the highest
Coming in June...
TALK IS MONEY'S leading filly of 2007, 3-year-old
GIRLS PEARLS ($65,130) is entered in the Dogwood
Breeders Cup S. - G3. The Ken McPeek trainee has Larry
Melancon aboard for the one-mile event at Churchill
Downs.
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Talking Treasure wins first
stakes outing with 2-length Bouwerie romp
by Rab Hagin

Photo:
Adam Coglianese |
TALKING
TREASURE
winning the Bouwerie Stakes
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(5/9/07) Unperturbed even after a delayed
start and having to be re-loaded into the gate
following a blinker adjustment, Kenneth and
Sarah Ramsey's homebred TALKING TREASURE
captured Belmont's seven-furlong Bouwerie Stakes
for New York-bred three-year-old fillies by
two lengths on Sunday while carrying co-topweight
from the eighth post among nine starters. It
was the versatile dark bay's first stakes outing
in five starts and her third win along with
two runner-up efforts, and she went off in the
$115,200 event as half of a Ramsey homebred
entry that was favored at 1.85-to-1 among eight
wagering interests. Ridden to victory for the
second consecutive time in 29 days by two-time
Eclipse Award-winning jockey John Velazquez,
Talking Treasure immediately contested a fairly
quick early pace while racing three wide into
the turn and gained a 2-1/2-length lead by mid-stretch.
She covered her final furlong in 12.87 seconds
to finish with a two-length margin over another
Ramsey-bred filly (though not her stablemate),
6.50-to-1 fifth choice My Kitty, as daughters
of New York-based stallion Catienus finished
one-two.
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TALKING
TREASURE
winning the Bouwerie Stakes
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Winning trainer Charlton Baker confirmed the
versatility and tractability of Talking Treasure,
who had broken her maiden going a two-turn mile
and 70 yards on Aqueduct's inner track in February
before shortening to seven furlongs: "She'll
do whatever you want her to do, and she ran
a great race today. She breaks easy, she's got
tactical speed, and she's a super-nice filly.
She likes to run at horses and then kick away
from them. I think down the road we'll try open
company when she goes around two turns."
Jockey Velazquez had also piloted Talking Treasure
to a 3-1/4-length victory going seven furlongs
at Aqueduct at the restricted N1X allowance
level on April 7. In describing the Bouwerie
he said, "I had a great trip, Talking Treasure
broke sharp, and I felt like she was there the
entire time. She really responded when I needed
her to. She's a nice filly."
Talking Treasure is the 12th stakes winner
from three crops to race sired by the Ramsey
couple's New York-based stallion, Catienus,
who had just picked up his 11th stakes winner
15 days earlier when his four-year-old son Talent
Search won Pimlico's six-furlong Jim McKay Stakes
by six lengths. Bouwerie runner-up My Kitty
-- also bred by the Ramsey couple but owned
by Darlene Bilinski and Martin Zaretsky -- is
likewise by Catienus and had become a stakes
winner as a juvenile in 2006. Catienus's first
New York-conceived offspring are current two-year-olds.
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