As a specialty offering on the card, Mahoning Valley will include a Best of Ohio all stake Pick 5 covering races six through ten with the standard 15 percent takeout. Field size after early scratches averages ten betting interests per race. Sixth race post time is 2:35pm. Should there be a carryover in the early Pick 5 covering races one through five, it will carryover and be immediately available in the Best of Ohio Pick 5.

Tune into the races before the first as track announcer Matt Hook is joined by Mike Annechino and Tony Fischbach of the Ohio Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners breaking down the Best of Ohio stakes and sharing their picks for the day.

Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Valley Race Course races Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday with a first race post time of 12:45pm and Saturday with a first race post time of 12:15pm. The fall race meet runs October 22 – December 30, 2021 with three unique cards on Friday, October 22, Friday, November 26, and Thursday, December 30 all with a first race post time of 12:45pm. The 2022 Winter/Spring race meet dates are anticipated to be January 1, 2022 – April 16, 2022 following the same Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday format. These dates are currently pending approval by the Ohio State Racing Commission.

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Fort Larned's first accredited-Ohio foal was a colt out of No Truer (Alcindor), who is a full-sister to True Cinder, a multiple stakes-winner in Ohio. The colt was bred by Michael & Penny Rone and was born at Duncan Farms, where Fort Larned stands in Warsaw, Ohio.

Drill's first accredited-Ohio foal was a filly out of Wild n Bratty (Offlee Wild), out of MSW Bucky's Brat. The filly was bred by South River Ranch Inc., a breeder who resides in Indiana and frequently participates in the Ohio program. Drill stands at Raimonde Farms in Wooster, Ohio.

Itsmyluckyday sired his first accredited-Ohio foals with a pair of colts born on the same day for different breeders. The first colt born–bred by Dr. Robert Maro-is out of Palsy Walsy (Lonhro), out of multiple graded stakes-winner Valbenny (Val Royal), who was trained by Bobby Frankel. The other colt–bred by Alvin Flick–is out of Crimson Kate (First Samurai), a daughter of the SW Red Lifesaver. Itsmyluckyday stands at Maro Veterinary Services in Lowellville, Ohio.

Danza was represented by his first accredited-Ohio foal with a colt out of Swinkey (Dialed In), bred by Dr. Daniel Yates and Patricia Yates. Swinkey is a half-sister to an Ohio stakes-winner Conniption Fit, who was bred and campaigned by Dr. Yates. Danza stands at Fair Winds Farm in Waynesville, Ohio.

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At the Keeneland November Sale back in 2017, Traylor brought home a young mare for just $4,000. This week, her Good Samaritan filly sold for over 27 times that number, hammering down for $110,000.

Traylor is the farm manager for Maccabee Farm, a growing operation established by Steve Belford just seven years ago with locations in both Paris, Kentucky and Mount Gilead, Ohio.

Traylor still remembers the mare’s hip number- 3264. Twizzler (Twirling Candy) was one of the last twenty-some horses to go through the ring on the ninth session of the sale that year.

“It was getting late in the sale and I was standing in the back ring watching the individuals come in and I just fell in love with her,” he recalled.

The daughter of Twirling Candy had raced just three times two years prior, her best result being a second-place finish in her debut at Ellis Park, but pedigree made up for her lackluster race record. Her dam Twist Afleet (Afleet), a seven times graded winner and victress of the 1994 GI Test S., had four stakes horses under her name.

Twizzler herself had produced a Mineshaft filly earlier that year and was in foal to Noble Mission (GB) (Galileo {Ire}).

Before he could head up to the sales ring, Traylor called Maccabee Farm’s owner Steve Belford.

“Steve and I kind of work as a team,” Traylor said. “He knows all the pedigrees and I scope out the horses. I got Steve on the phone and asked if he was alright with the pedigree. He told me to go for it. She was a big, raw-boned mare and I figured she would go for between $25,000 and $30,000 because she was in foal to Noble Mission, but I got her for $4,000 so I was pretty excited.”

When Twizzler foaled her Noble Mission filly the next year, Belford decided to keep the youngster. The now 3-year-old is putting in her first works at Skylight Training Center.

“She’s doing great,” Belford reported. “She’s at Skylight with Tom Drury and her name is Natalie’s Charm.”

Twizzler was barren the following year, but was next bred to WinStar’s then first-year sire Good Samaritan (Harlan’s Holiday).

It was quickly apparent to Traylor that the resulting filly could be an exciting prospect.

“She had plenty of bone, plenty of size and a really nice hip on her,” he said. “She was really well-balanced. She had the attitude to be a racehorse. I told Steve that she’s probably one of the better fillies we’ve raised. I said she looks like a Classic horse.”

Belford had to put a lot of consideration into what to do with the youngster.

“We’re part of the syndicate on Good Samaritan with WinStar and we wanted to help promote the stallion by selling her,” Belford explained. “But it was really hard because she was such a nice filly and I wanted to keep her myself. She looked the part.”

Belford was satisfied with his decision to part with the filly when she sold to Young Squirrel Stable for $110,000 on the first day of the Keeneland January Sale, becoming her sire’s top seller to date.

“We felt she was worth it and we were rewarded,” Belford said. “She was very special. We knew that she was really exceptional and we’re starting to see that in a lot of the Good Samaritan foals. We have another colt that we’re going to offer in February and he’s also really nice.”

Belford reported that Twizzler, as well as five or six other mares from his band, will go to Good Samaritan again this year.

Most of what Belford’s Maccabee Farm breeds is retained to race, with the farm’s top earners including stakes winners Tough It Up (Lemon Drop Kid) and Strike Your Light (Majestic Warrior), both Ohio-breds trained by Tom Drury. In 2015, Maccabee Farm bred four-time graded stakes-winning millionaire Factor This (The Factor).

Despite the farm’s growing success, Belford says they prefer to stay out of the spotlight.

“We don’t really like publicity,” he admits. “If we’re going to promote anything it would be the Ohio program because we need to do better with that.”

So Belford and Traylor will look for their next quiet success story, perhaps in finding another mare overlooked by the throngs of buyers at the next sale.

Traylor will be keeping an eye out for just that.

“I was born and raised at Claiborne and I remember the Hancocks always talking about how they liked those big, raw-boned mares because you can get any kind of horse out of them,” Taylor said. “But certain horses, they just catch your eye, you know?”

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Offered on behalf of the Estate of Gerald Silver, the 5-year-old won the 2017 Joshua Radosevich Memorial S. and the Governor’s Buckeye Cup in 2019 and just two days prior to the OTBO sale, made a one-mile Thistledown allowance his 10th victory from 31 career starts. Mobil Solution will continue his career for winning bidder Carmine Agnello and trainer Jeff Skerrett.

A total of 74 horses changed hands for gross receipts of $528,500.

“The Sales Committee of the OTBO, along with the support of the Ohio HBPA and all its horsemen and women, worked extremely hard to provide an attractive marketplace for both buyers and sellers,” said OTBO Executive Director Michael Annechino. “The horses that went through the ring looked spectacular and offered tremendous value in all categories.”

The OTBO has scheduled an Online Stallion Season auction fo Dec. 7 through 10. For more information, visit www.otbo.com.

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Without question, Catlaunch was a fan favorite at Ohio racetracks when he competed, and, as stated on the Old Friends website, he was “the pride of Ohio racing.”

In his 11-year racing career, Catlaunch earned numerous season-ending Ohio Awards. He was a three-time Ohio Horse of the Year (2008, 2010, and 2011), five-time Ohio Champion Handicap Champion (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011), four-time Ohio Accredited Male Champion (2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011), and Champion Sprinter (2011).

Catlaunch was retired after his final race on Sept. 8. 2013, and arrived at Old Friends in January of 2014. He enjoyed more than four years of retirement at Old Friends before he was euthanized on May 4, 2018 due to chronic neurologic disease.

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