Month: March 2022

California-Bred Champions Announced

Finneus (Stay Thirsty), Lieutenant Dan (Grazen) and The Chosen Vron (Vronsky) are the three finalists for California-bred Horse of the Year for 2021, to be announced at the annual CTBA Awards Dinner and Annual Meeting Mar. 28, 2022 at Le Meridien Arcadia.

The business meeting begins at 4 pm., the cocktail reception at 5 p.m. and the awards dinner at 6 p.m.

Other Cal-bred champions to be recognized at the banquet:

Champion California-bred 2-Year-Old Male – Finneus

Champion California-bred 2-Year-Old Female – At the Spa (Outwork)

Champion California-bred 3-Year-Old Male – The Chosen Vron

Champion California-bred 3-Year-Old Female – Closing Remarks (Vronsky)

Champion California-bred Older Male – Lieutenant Dan

Champion California-bred Older Female – Warren's Showtime (Clubhouse Ride)

Champion California-bred Sprinter – Lieutenant Dan

Champion California-bred Turf Horse – Lieutenant Dan

Champion Sire of California Conceived Foals by Earnings – Grazen

Champion Sire of California Conceived Foals by Number of Winners – Grazen

Champion Sire of California Conceived Foals by Turf Earnings – Square Eddie

Champion Sire of California Conceived Two-Year-Olds by Earnings – Stay Thirsty

Trainer of the Year – Andy Mathis

Broodmare of the Year – My Fiona (Ghostzapper)

Champion Breeder of California Foaled Thoroughbreds by Earnings – Terry Lovingier

CTBA Hall of Fame – Dr. Ed Allred, Cee's Tizzy, Indian Charlie

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Kelsey Riley to Join Cornett

Kelsey Riley will join Cornett, the award-winning, Lexington-based marketing agency, as a Senior Account Executive. Riley will lead the marketing team for Lane's End Farm.

Riley joins Cornett after 10 years with Thoroughbred Daily News, including seven years as International Editor, a role that included managing the editorial content of TDN Europe and traveling to sales and races globally. Riley is a graduate of Darley Flying Start (now Godolphin Flying Start) and has a degree in media studies and journalism from the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto, Canada.

Riley succeeds Sam Harte who, after six years with Cornett and Lane's End, is moving back to his native Ireland to be closer to his family and to explore other career opportunities. Harte, who is also a graduate of Godolphin Flying Start, will oversee the transition at Cornett through mid-April.

“We at Lane's End are sorry to see Sam go,” said Lane's End's Bill Farish. “For the last six years, Sam has led all areas of our marketing efforts. He and the excellent team at Cornett have been great at coming up with creative ways of communicating with our clients and the industry, in general. We wish Sam the best in the future and have little doubt that he will be successful in whatever he pursues. Kelsey is a very exciting addition to the Cornett team. She is well-known to us and we are looking forward to working with her.”

“I'm very excited to join Cornett, and to have the opportunity to work with and learn from their excellent, award-winning team,” said Riley. “Similarly, Lane's End is a market leader across every pillar of its business and it will be a privilege to be part of its marketing efforts. Lane's End is an operation I have admired since I began working in the Thoroughbred industry, and I look forward to helping achieve its marketing goals.

“I want to thank Sue Finley, Gary King and all of my colleagues at the TDN for a great 10 years with the company. I am grateful for the many opportunities I've had at the TDN; I have very much enjoyed working within such a highly respected, widely read publication.”

TDN Publisher and CEO Sue Finley said, “For the past 10 years, Kelsey has been an integral and important part of the TDN family, and while we are sad to lose her, we look forward to working with her in her new role at Cornett and wish her all the best.”

Harte said, “The clients, partners and colleagues that I have been fortunate to work with have made my time in Kentucky so very memorable. Special thanks to Bill Farish and Kip Cornett for giving me the opportunity to learn from them and so many talented people at Lane's End and Cornett. I look forward to seeing their ongoing creativity and wish Kelsey all the best in her new role.”

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Riley To Join Cornett As Lane’s End Lead As Harte Steps Down

Kelsey Riley will join Cornett, the award-winning, Lexington-based marketing agency, as a Senior Account Executive. Riley will lead the marketing team for Lane's End Farm. In addition to standing an exciting roster of 21 stallions, Lane's End is an Eclipse-award winning breeder and owner and a perennial leading sales consignor.

Riley joins Cornett after 10 years with Thoroughbred Daily News, including seven years as International Editor, a role that included managing the editorial content of TDN Europe and traveling to sales and races globally. Riley is a graduate of Darley Flying Start (now Godolphin Flying Start) and has a degree in media studies and journalism from the University of Guelph-Humber in Toronto, Canada.

Riley succeeds Sam Harte who, after six years with Cornett and Lane's End, is moving back to his native Ireland to be closer to his family and to explore other career opportunities. Harte, who is also a graduate of Godolphin Flying Start, will oversee the transition at Cornett through mid-April.

“We at Lane's End are sorry to see Sam go,” said Lane's End's Bill Farish. “For the last six years, Sam has led all areas of our marketing efforts. He and the excellent team at Cornett have been great at coming up with creative ways of communicating with our clients and the industry, in general. We wish Sam the best in the future and have little doubt that he will be successful in whatever he pursues. Kelsey is a very exciting addition to the Cornett team. She is well-known to us and we are looking forward to working with her.”

“I'm very excited to join Cornett, and to have the opportunity to work with and learn from their excellent, award-winning team,” said Riley. “Similarly, Lane's End is a market leader across every pillar of its business and it will be a privilege to be part of its marketing efforts. Lane's End is an operation I have admired since I began working in the Thoroughbred industry, and I look forward to helping achieve its marketing goals.

“I want to thank Sue Finley, Gary King and all of my colleagues at the TDN for a great 10 years with the company. I am grateful for the many opportunities I've had at the TDN; I have very much enjoyed working within such a highly respected, widely read publication.”

TDN Publisher and CEO Sue Finley said, “For the past 10 years, Kelsey has been an integral and important part of the TDN family, and while we are sad to lose her, we look forward to working with her in her new role at Cornett and wish her all the best.”

Harte said, “The clients, partners and colleagues that I have been fortunate to work with have made my time in Kentucky so very memorable. Special thanks to Bill Farish and Kip Cornett for giving me the opportunity to learn from them and so many talented people at Lane's End and Cornett. I look forward to seeing their ongoing creativity and wish Kelsey all the best in her new role.”

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Wesley Ward’s Stolen Trophies Recovered

LEXINGTON, KY–The majority of the trophies that were stolen just over a month ago from trainer Wesley Ward's home in Versailles, Kentucky have been recovered. According to the Versailles Police Department's Assistant Chief Rob Young, one individual was charged with receiving stolen property and is now in custody.

On the morning of Feb. 8, 2022, a thief walked off with 14 trophies, including many that Ward received from the Royal Ascot meet, but they did not take any other valuables from the home such as electronics and several other trophies were left behind.

Ward was informed of his recovered trophies on Thursday.

“We got a call from detective Steve Sparkman of the Versailles Police Department and he brought me in and said they had recovered the majority of the trophies,” Ward said. “There are still a few missing. Those trophies are not worth anything monetarily, so at least we got them back and the memories are still there.”

Assistant Chief Young said that seven of the missing trophies have been recovered.

“It's not the outcome that we wanted because they were heavily damaged,” he admitted. “Versailles police worked with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and the Lexington Police Department and we recovered them in Lexington on Wednesday. The case is ongoing. We're trying to recover additional trophies as well as identify all parties involved.”

Due to the ongoing status of the case, Young could not share any further information on the subject in custody.

Ward said that while the recovered trophies were burnt down in order to obtain any precious metals, he added that they were still recognizable and the Royal Ascot insignia could still be seen. When the trophies first went missing, Ward had said he would inquire about seeking replacement trophies, but now says he wishes to keep the recovered trophies despite their damage.

“We'll keep what we have,” he said. “We'll have to dust them off and clean them up, but we're happy to have them back.

Ward credits his son, Riley, for his hand in recovering the trophies by reaching out to various local news outlets including WKYT and LEX18NEWS.

“My son has been there for all these wins and was on the platform when we got all these trophies,” he said. “It really hit him hard so he's the one that reached out to the news outlets. I can't thank them enough because according to Detective Sparkman, that's one of the biggest reasons they were found is because they got a tip from someone and there was a lot of loose talk I guess, so thank God for my boy. He's the one that recovered them.”

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