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Grade 1 Winner Rock Your World Retired To Spendthrift Farm

Rock Your World, this year's Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby winner by leading sire Candy Ride, has been retired from racing and will stand the 2022 breeding season at Spendthrift Farm for a fee of $10,000 S&N.

“Rock Your World is a fast Santa Anita Derby winner with a wonderful blend of looks, pedigree and sire power,” said Ned Toffey, Spendthrift general manager. “He's a $650,000 yearling and you can see why. He's one imposing individual and as good-looking of a Candy Ride as you'll find. Rock Your World possesses a true classic dirt pedigree, with Empire Maker and Giant's Causeway as his first two broodmare sires. We believe there's a lot to like, especially through our Share The Upside program. We will begin showing Rock Your World today and I invite all breeders to come out and see him.”

Rock Your World will participate in Spendthrift's renowned “Share The Upside” breeding program in 2022 for a fee of $12,500 for a two-year commitment. Breeders must breed a mare in 2022 and 2023 and have two foals total. After the breeder has the second live foal in 2024 and pays the stud fee, he or she will earn a lifetime breeding right.

Trained by John Sadler, Rock Your World won on debut on New Year's Day going six furlongs before stretching out around two turns to win the one-mile Pasadena Stakes in his second start – both coming over the Santa Anita turf course. In his third start in April, the imposing 3-year-old asserted himself as a leading contender for the Kentucky Derby with a powerhouse 4 1/4-length victory over eventual Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit in the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby in his first start on the dirt.

Rock Your World stopped the clock in 1:49.17 for 1 1/8 miles, earning a 100 Beyer – the only triple-digit Beyer earned before the Kentucky Derby among this year's field.

Owned by Hronis Racing and Talla Racing, Rock Your World retires with earnings of $612,100. A $650,000 yearling purchase, he is out of the multiple stakes-winning Empire Maker mare Charm the Maker. His first three dams are all multiple stakes winners or graded stakes winners.

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McAnally-Trained Mare DQ’d In Year-Old CBD Case

A mare trained by 89-year-old Hall-of-Fame trainer Ron McAnally has been disqualified after winning a race at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club last November and subsequently testing positive for a metabolite of cannabidiol (CBD).

A separate hearing to determine if McAnally will be further sanctioned will go before a hearing officer, California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) spokesperson Mike Marten told TDN.

[Note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated McAnally had avoided being fined or suspended after the issuance of the CHRB's Nov. 12 ruling mandating the DQ.]

Roses and Candy (Candy Ride {Arg}), the nose victress of a Nov. 22, 2020, starter-allowance turf sprint tested positive post-race for 7-Carboxy-Cannabidiol.

The case stood out at the time the complaint was issued back in May for three reasons:

Firstly, it took nearly a half-year between the positive test and the issuance of a complaint.

Secondly, with regard to a possible accidental contamination, soon after the finding was discovered, jockey Geovanni Franco approached the CHRB to disclose that he had used a CBD-containing cream himself, perhaps triggering the mare's positive test when he rode her.

Thirdly, regarding the mechanism for penalization, CBD was not listed as a classified substance at the time the positive finding came back.

In California, by default, any unclassified positives are supposed to be treated as the most-severe Class 1, Penalty Category A violations. And under CHRB rules, such a serious first-time violation can lead to a minimum one-year suspension or a maximum three-year suspension, with a maximum fine of $25,000, absent mitigating circumstances.

But in the six-month gap between that November 2020 positive and when a complaint was eventually issued in May 2021, the CHRB was in the process of reclassifying CBD (and a number of other substances) to the less-severe 3B distinction, which is how the CBD offense is listed now. In California, first-time 3B violations can result in a fine of no more than $10,000 and a minimum 30-day suspension, absent mitigating circumstances.

Back on May 17, 2021, when the complaint became public, Marten told TDN that agency's staff would recommend to the stewards that they treat the positive as the lower 3B penalty because the new classifications had already been voted in by the board in February and were awaiting certification by California's Office of Administrative Law (OAL).

Two days later, at the monthly CHRB meeting on May 19, Rick Arthur, DVM, the CHRB's equine medical director at the time, said for the record, “Let me just get right to the heart of the issue. Cannabidiol, which was not classified under the current standard of regulation, was proposed to be a 3B in August of 2020, three or four months before this violation.”

As a result of the DQ ruling from last week, Roses and Candy's owner, Deborah McAnally, must forfeit $20,500 in purse winnings.

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‘The Russell Baze Act Of Yesteryear’: Jockey Terrero Back In The Saddle After Near-Fatal Accident

Jockey Pedro Terrero suffered a severe head injury when his mount clipped heels in a race at Golden Gate Fields on Feb. 2, 2019. He had to be resuscitated on-track and underwent emergency surgery to relieve swelling in his brain. Over two years later, reports berkeleyside.org, the rider is not only back in the saddle, but currently leading the jockey standings at the Berkeley, Calif. track.

Terrero started getting back on horses in March, and built up his strength over a series of months. He's already won two riding titles since his return.

“Terrero is here six days a week and will jog, gallop, work a horse,” trainer Manny Badilla told berkeleyside.org. “He's doing the Russell Baze act of yesteryear, and he deserves every bit of the success he is having right now. He has earned every bit of it.”

“Maybe I am riding better,” said Terrero. “If I am, maybe it's because I love what I do and I almost lost it. I really love it. This is my second chance. I'm lucky to be alive and I'm lucky to be riding horses again.”

Lesson Horses Presented By John Deere Equine Discount Program: Anna Seitz On Rags To Riches

You never forget the name of your first lesson horse – that horse who taught you what you need to know to work with every one that follows.

In this series, participants throughout the Thoroughbred industry share the names and stories of the horses that have taught them the most about life, revealing the limitless ways that horses can impact the people around them. Some came early on in their careers and helped them set a course for the rest of their lives, while others brought valuable lessons to veterans of the business.

Question: Which horse has taught you the most about life?

Anna Seitz, Fasig-Tipton: “I worked for Todd Pletcher when he had Rags to Riches and she won the Belmont Stakes. Somehow, she changed me…just because she was so amazing, beating the boys. I just remember she made me want to be better at what I do.

“She was a cool horse. She was mean and nasty in the stall, but then, when I got to pony her out on the track, she was a completely different horse. Just to be around something so great, and to be a part of that team, it was pretty special.

“When she won the Belmont Stakes, I started hyperventilating, and I'd never hyperventilated before. I didn't know what was going on. I just remember Todd's assistant being like, 'You've gotta breathe,' and I said, 'I can't.' I was just so overwhelmed. It was like a dream.

“I ponied and walked hots for Todd, but I also did a lot of office stuff. I took care of owners, and whatever Todd needed. I got to see everything, so it was cool to get to work with the horses, but also deal with the owners. It was a great experience, and now I have horses with Todd.”

Anna Seitz leads I'm Already Sexy into the winner's circle

About Rags to Riches
2004, m., A.P. Indy x Better Than Honour, by Deputy Minister

One of the great fillies of the 2000s, Rags to Riches established herself at the top of her division early in her 3-year-old campaign with wins in the G1 Las Virgenes Stakes and Santa Anita Oaks before taking the Kentucky Oaks by a dominant 4 1/4 lengths. She then became the first filly to win the Belmont Stakes in 102 years when she bested Preakness Stakes winner Curlin by a head in one of the most exciting renewals in the history of the classic race.

Rags to Riches finished the season with an Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old filly of 2007. She retired with five wins in seven starts for earnings of $1,342,528.

Bred in Kentucky by Skara Glen Stables, Rags to Riches was a $1.9-million purchase by the Coolmore partnership at the 2005 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Now a broodmare, Rags to Riches is the dam of two winners from five foals to race. Her most notable runner to date is the Galileo colt Rhett Butler, who was a two-time champion in Hungary.

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