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The month of May is a time for 3-year-olds to shine on the Triple Crown stage, but that magic can be found close to home in Pennsylvania with sophomores born and raced in the Keystone State rewarding their connections in a variety of ways.

When it comes to raking in Pennsylvania incentives, no 3-year-old did it better through the end of May than Social Success, who brought in $64,836 after five months of racing in 2023.

The daughter of Social Inclusion is unbeaten in five starts this year, including four through the end of May. Of her four victories in the qualifying timespan, there two races each at Parx Racing and Penn National for trainer Bruce Kravets and owner/breeder Shirley Lojeski.

As both the owner and breeder of Social Success, Lojeski reaped the greatest benefits from the filly's success, led by breeder's awards totaling $48,216.

For horses bred and sired in Pennsylvania, breeders earn a 50 percent bonus on purse earnings for maiden races run within the state. Runners bred in the state but sired by a horse standing elsewhere are eligible for a 25 percent bonus. For all other races within the Keystone State, runners bred and sired in Pennsylvania can earn a 40 percent bonus, while those by out-of-state sires earn their breeders a 20 percent bonus.

Social Success also brought in $5,040 for Lojeski in owner bonuses. Depending on the track within the state, owner bonuses can tack on a boost of up to 40 percent on an overnight race's purse.

The filly also contributed $11,580 to the coffers of the Social Inclusion Partners in stallion awards.

The owner of a Pennsylvania-based stallion at the time of a foal's conception is eligible for stallion awards generated by that foal. Stallion owners receive 10 percent of the purse earned when a registered Pennsylvania-bred and- sired runner finishes in the top three in any pari-mutuel race within the state.

Social Success' season began at Penn National on Jan. 20, where she closed from near-last to take a six-furlong maiden special weight by a length. She remained at Penn National for her next start, stretching out to a mile for a Feb. 10 allowance race, where she rated a little closer to the pace and got clear in the stretch to win by two lengths.

From there, Social Success traveled to Parx to test stakes company for the first time in the March 6 Main Line Stakes, a one mile and 70-yard. Going against her usual pattern, jockey Frankie Pennington put Social Success on the lead, locked in an early duel with Gold Medal Anna. That rival eventually relented and Social Success carried on to win by 2 1/2 lengths.

Closing out the quartet of starts and wins was an April 12 Parx allowance, where Social Success asserted her dominance to a new degree, taking a one mile and 70 yard race by 11 1/4 lengths.

Social Success is out of the unplaced With Distinction mare Schuylkilla, who is also the dam of stakes-placed Just a Thought, an Uncle Lino gelding who is in the midst of his fourth season of racing in Pennsylvania.

Leading 3-Year-Old Pennsylvania Incentive Earners Of 2023, Through May 31

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The purse and black type benefits that come with winning a stakes race are certainly appealing, but they're not the only way to make serious money with a Pennsylvania-bred.

Through the first four months of the year, Date Night Kisses generated $63,580 through various Pennsylvania incentive programs without making a single start in stakes company.

The 4-year-old Weigelia filly earned the bulk of that total in breeder's awards for Emilie Bateman, bringing in $33,200 in that category.

For horses bred and sired in Pennsylvania, breeders earn a 50 percent bonus on purse earnings for maiden races run within the state. Runners bred in the state but sired by a horse standing elsewhere are eligible for a 25 percent bonus. For all other races within the Keystone State, runners bred and sired in Pennsylvania can earn a 40 percent bonus, while those by out-of-state sires earn their breeders a 20 percent bonus.

Date Night Kisses is out of the winning Oratory mare Tribal Verse, who is herself a homebred for Bateman. The filly sold to Grassroots Training and Sales for $1,500 at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale.

Owner Walter Doggett III benefitted from $22,080 in owner bonuses from the first four months of Date Night Kisses' 2023 campaign. Depending on the track within the state, owner bonuses can tack on a boost of up to 40 percent on an overnight race's purse.

Meanwhile, WynOaks Farm, the owner of sire Weigelia, brought in $8,300 in stallion awards from Date Night Kisses.

The owner of a Pennsylvania-based stallion at the time of a foal's conception is eligible for stallion awards generated by that foal. Stallion owners receive 10 percent of the purse earned when a registered Pennsylvania-bred and- sired runner finishes in the top three in any pari-mutuel race within the state.

Through the end of April, Date Night Kisses won two of three starts and finished third in the other effort, all coming at Parx Racing.

Trained by A. Ferris Allen III, the filly began her season with a dominant front-running seven-length score in a one-mile starter allowance on Jan. 18.

She followed up on Feb. 13 with another wire-to-wire score going a mile in an allowance optional claiming race, this time repelling a late stretch drive by a rival to win by three-quarters of a length. Her final start in the four-month period was a third-place effort in an April 11 optional claimer, where a wide trip left her empty in the stretch.

Leading Earners Of 2023 Pennsylvania Incentive Money Without A Stakes Start, Through April 30

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The name says it all with Uptowncharlybrown Stud: the operation built upon, and geared toward continuing, the success of veteran Pennsylvania sire Uptowncharlybrown.

Through the first four months of 2023, the plan has worked as well as any in the state, with the operation leading the way by breeders' incentive earnings, totaling $182,856. Northview Stallion Station was second, with $119,365.

For horses bred and sired in Pennsylvania, breeders earn a 50 percent bonus on purse earnings for maiden races run within the state. Runners bred in the state but sired by a horse standing elsewhere are eligible for a 25 percent bonus. For all other races within the Keystone State, runners bred and sired in Pennsylvania can earn a 40 percent bonus, while those by out-of-state sires earn their breeders a 20 percent bonus.

Of Uptowncharlybrown Stud's top 10 runners by breeder's award earnings through the end of April, eight were by the operation's flagship stallion.

Uptowncharlybrown, a Grade 2-placed stakes-winning son of Limehouse, stands at WynOaks Farm in Delta, Pa. He's developed into a perennial upper-tier sire in the state, where he currently third among Pennsylvania sires by progeny earnings, trailing only veteran sires Jump Start and Weigelia.

However, the runner that has generated the most breeder's award monies for Uptowncharlybrown Stud is by a different sire.

For the Dreamers, a 4-year-old gelding by Talent Search, produced $25,872 in breeder's awards through April 30 to lead the way.

Racing as a homebred, under the guidance of trainer Edward Coletti Jr., For the Dreamers won two of three starts during that timeframe, all at Parx Racing.

He took his seasonal debut on Jan. 11, when he bid three-wide and kicked away in the stretch to win a six-furlong allowance optional claiming race by 1 1/4 lengths. Two starts later, For the Dreamers led at every point of call to win a March 20 six-furlong claiming race by two lengths.

Among Uptowncharlybrown Stud's runners by its flagship sire, the earners of breeder's awards are led by Rolls Royce Joyce, who made $23,676 in incentives for her breeder.

The 6-year-old mare won two of five starts through the end of April, and she finished in the money in two other starts, all coming at Parx.

Like For the Dreamers, she won her seasonal bow – a 6 1/2-furlong starter optional claiming race on Jan. 4, where she held on to win by a neck. On March 6, she added another victory in another starter optional claimer at the same distance, this time rallying from the middle of the pack to prevail by three-quarters of a length.

Rolls Royce Joyce races for owner Richard Malouf and trainer Scott Lake.

Leading Earners Of 2023 Pennsylvania Breeder's Awards, Through April 30

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After a long rein by the late Jump Start at the top of the Pennsylvania sire ranks, it appears there is a new sheriff in town.

After leading all Pennsylvania sires by stallion awards earned for the first time in 2022, Wyn Oaks Farm's Weigelia is once again setting the pace through the first quarter of 2023, leading longtime rival Jump Start by a margin of $61,206 to $44,250.

The owner of a Pennsylvania-based stallion at the time of a foal's conception is eligible for stallion awards generated by that foal. Stallion owners receive 10 percent of the purse earned when a registered Pennsylvania-bred and- sired runner finishes in the top three in any pari-mutuel race within the state.

Weigelia's rapid ascent in 2023 makes plenty of sense when one accounts for the fact that the top five individual earners of stallion awards on the racetrack were each by the leading sire.

Chief among them is Disco Ebo, who earned $9,996 in stallion awards for Weigelia's owner through the end of March.

The 4-year-old filly went three-for-three in that time frame, taking a pair of allowance races at Parx Racing in January and February, then leading at every point of call and drawing off by 6 3/4 lengths to win the Penn's Landing Stakes at the same track on March 7.

Date Night Kisses was Weigelia's second-leading earner of stallion awards, bringing in $7,728.

Also a 4-year-old filly, Date Night Kisses went unbeaten in two starts through the end of March, leading all the way around to win a Parx starter allowance on Jan. 18 by 7 3/4 lengths, then going to the front once again in a Feb. 13 Parx optional claiming race, where she hung on to win by three-quarters of a length.

Rounding out the quintet of top earners on behalf of Weigelia were Captain Chazz ($4,872); Ninetypercentbrynn ($4,872); and Beren ($4,788).

Weigelia, a 22-year-old son of Safely's Mark, stands at WynOaks Farm in Delta, Pa., for a private fee.

He won 13 of 48 starts during his on-track career and earned $1,007,708, highlighted by victories in the Grade 3 Carry Back Stakes and Kenny Noe Jr. Handicap, with four additional graded stakes placings.

Leading Pennsylvania Stallion Award Earners, Through March 2023

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