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Hurstland Farm Standard-Bearer Please Sign In Dies At Age 24

Please Sign In (Doc's Leader – Register, by Mari's Book) was euthanized today at age 24 due to a deteriorating neurological condition and buried at her birthplace, Hurstland Farm in Midway, Ky.

Bred by Hurstland Farm, she was one of three stakes winners from the 1996 first crop of nine foals by Hurstland homebred Doc's Leader, but by far his most distinguished producer.

Trained by Gene Brajzcewski, Please Sign In broke her maiden in her first lifetime start at age three and then won the Honky Star Stakes at Hawthorne as a 4-year old. She was multiple graded stakes-placed and ended her racing career for Hurstland Farm and My Jo Lee Stable with $324,446 in earnings.

William Kartozian purchased My Jo Lee's interest while she was carrying Grade 1 winner Cry and Catch Me (Street Cry) in 2004. She became Hurstland's blue hen producer and farm matriarch after producing her second Grade 1 winner and 2012 European Cartier champion 2-year old, Certify (Elusive Quality).

Her yearling filly, Bijou (Street Sense), topped the 2013 Keeneland January Sale when she sold for $1.45 million to Nat Rea's Regis Farm. Her last two foals are both colts by American Pharoah. Please the Pharoah is her 2018 colt, while her final foal is an unnamed 2020 weanling colt. She had been pensioned earlier this year after weaning.

Please Sign In traces to Hurstland Farm's outstanding producer, Little Hut, dam of English champion Habitat and stakes winners Northfields, Guest Room and Hardware, as well as stakes-placed Lodge, granddam of European champion Suave Dancer and 2-year old German champion Shicklah.

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Grade 1-Winning Trainer Beau Greely Dies At Age 49

Christopher Beau Greely, a Grade 1-winning trainer and fourth-generation horseman, died Sept. 30 in Redondo Beach, Calif. He was 49.

Born in Lexington, Ky., and raised in nearby Midway, Ky., at his family's Wintergreen Farm, Greely was educated at Baylor School in Chattanooga, South Kent School in Connecticut and the University of Kentucky.

After college, Greely worked under leading French trainer Criquette Head, then relocated to California to work for Richard Mandella.

Greely branched out on his own as a trainer in 1997, and he was active through 2015. He won 131 races for combined earnings of $11,230,842.

His first Grade 1 victories as a trainer came in 2000, when he saddled the Irish-bred Manndar to victories in the G1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Stakes and G1 Manhattan Handicap. He won the G1 Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes with Sligo Bay, and he took the G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup and Pacific Classic Stakes with Borrego.

Other runners of note for Greely's stable included Grade 2 winners Tres Borrachos, Century City, Grammarian, Takarian, and Five Star Day.

Greely was also active in the breeding industry, founding Wintergreen Stallion Station in Midway with his brother John Joseph Greely IV. John died earlier this year on March 15 at age 54.

In recent years, Greely was involved in underwater and art photography.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, a private burial will take place at Calvary Cemetery in Lexington. In lieu of flowers the family requests contributions to God's Food Pantry (1685 Jaggie Fox Way, Lexington, KY 40511) in response to need for food during the pandemic.

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Former NYRA Starter Brosseau Passes at 74

Richard “Richie” Brosseau, the head starter at the NYRA tracks from 2003 to 2007, passed away Sept. 5. He was suffering from a number of illnesses, including leukemia.

A native of Montreal, Brosseau started out in harness racing before coming to the New York Thoroughbred tracks in the early 1970s. He accepted a job as an assistant starter in 1976 before working his way up to head position. He retired in 2007. In 2011, he became a U.S. citizen.

“He was a really, really good guy,” said Raymond DeStefano, who worked alongside Brosseau on the gate crew. “He never had an agenda. He was just a genuine person , a good person. He was very kind and he loved animals. At the racetrack, everybody just knew him as ‘Frenchie.’ This one really hurts.”

Brosseau was named head starter after the retirement of Bob Duncan.

He is survived by his children, daughter, Corine Rishkel, of Goshen, NY, son, Connor Brosseau of Chester, NY, and son-in-law, Joseph Rishkel IV of Goshen, NY, as well as his brother-in-law, Andre Gregoire, and beloved niece and nephew, Chantal and Stephane Gregoire, and their partners, Andree, Melanie, and Linda.

Funeral services are to be private.

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Group 1 Winner, International Sire Muhtathir Dies At Age 25

Muhtathir, a top-class miler who developed into a leading sire, has died aged 25 due to the infirmities of old age.

Bred by Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, the son of Elmaamul will be best remembered for his Group 1 victories in the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville and in the Premio Vittorio Di Capua at San Siro when trained by Saeed bin Suroor.

Muhtathir began his career with John Gosden, for whom he won five races across two seasons in Sheikh Hamdan's silks – his biggest success coming in the Group 2 Celebration Mile at Goodwood.

The imposing chestnut was transferred to the yard of Saeed bin Suroor for his 4-year-old campaign, during which he tasted top-flight glory in Italy. However, it was as a five-year-old that he gained his biggest success when striding clear to take the Prix Jacques le Marois by three lengths under Frankie Dettori.

Muhtathir stood at Charles-Henri de Moussac's Haras du Mezeray in Normandy for most of his stud career, which has yielded a host of talented flat performers headed by Prix de l'Opera heroine Satwa Queen and top-class middle distance performer Doctor Dino, who is now a leading jumps sire in France.

In recent years, Muhtathir has made a significant impact as a sire of jumpers, producing the likes of dual Cheltenham Festival winner Envoi Allen and Grade 1-winning hurdler Quel Destin.

Shadwell Stud director, Richard Lancaster, said: “Muhtathir was a hugely talented performer on the racecourse and transferred that ability and will to win to his stock.

“He produced several high-class flat performers and in his later years became a highly sought-after sire of jumpers. He was still hugely popular this year, covering a limited book of 40 mares at €6,000 (US$7,077)

“I must give a special mention to the team at Haras du Mezeray, who did a superb job managing the horse and giving him the platform to flourish in his second career.”

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