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Services Set for Barry Abrams

Funeral arrangements have been scheduled for longtime horseman Barry Abrams, who passed away Friday, Oct. 9. Services will take place Monday, Oct. 19, at 3:00 p.m. PT at the Hollywood Hills location of Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Abrams, best known as a trainer but also a successful breeder and owner, succumbed to throat cancer at the age of 66 after a long battle.

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OTBO Mixed Sale to be Held Thursday

The Ohio Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners (OTBO) Association will hold its annual Mixed Thoroughbred Sale this coming Thursday, Oct. 15., with 87 horses entered including weanlings, yearlings, juveniles, broodmares, and older horses. Eleven horses will be offered from the dispersal of the Estate of Gerald Silver, including Mobil Solution (Mobil), a current runner and dual black-type winner whose record stands at 30-9-9-6 with earnings of $523,070.

The OTBO sale will be held at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio, at 2:30 p.m. Thursday. Previews will be available from 9:00 a.m. on the day of the sale. Every yearling and horse of racing age has been scoped, with those results available, and a licensed veterinarian will be on site.

The complete catalogue can be found online and phone bids will be accepted.

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Five New Directors Join TCA Board

Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA), which raises funds and distributes those funds to Thoroughbred-related charities, announced Monday five new additions to its Board of Directors: Leah O’Meara, Andy Hils, Erik Johnson, Marshall Gramm, and Marette Farrell. They join current board members Mike McMahon (president), Nathan McCauley (vice president), Davant Latham (secretary), and Lesley Howard (treasurer), as well as Bob Beck, Bing Bush, Lesley Campion, Bob Edwards, Terry Finley, Brant Laue, Jaime Roth, and Anna Seitz. Gretchen Jackson, Ellen Moelis, Herb Moelis, and Dan Rosenberg are directors emeriti.

“We are delighted to welcome these wonderful people to the TCA board,” said McMahon. “Our board is committed to carrying on the good work started by our founders over 30 years ago. These new board members recognize that service for the common good is rewarding beyond measure. As a volunteer board, each of us works tirelessly for horses and horse people who need help. In 2020, we distributed over $1 million to successful grant applicants and through our Horses First emergency fund.”

O’Meara is currently part of her family’s Stonehaven Steadings in Versailles, Ky.; Johnson is a veteran of the National Hockey League and races under the name of ERJ Racing; Hils is a senior vice president in the Lexington office of Limestone Bank and has been an owner in various Standardbred and Thoroughbred racing syndicates; Farrell is a well-known bloodstock agent; and Gramm is an Economics Ph.D. and professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., has qualified for the National Handicapping Championships six times, and co-founded Ten Strike Racing.

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Sweetontheladies to Pleasant Acres

Black-type winner and multiple graded stakes-placed Sweetontheladies (Twirling Candy–Whataclassybroad, by Yankee Gentleman) will stand at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Florida for the 2021 breeding season with a $2,500 fee, the farm announced Monday. Sweetontheladies placed in five graded events and eight black-type races, finishing his career with earnings of $408,012 in 31 starts.

“Helen and I are excited to have the black-type winning and graded stakes-placed sprinter, Sweetontheladies, join our roster at Pleasant Acres Stallions,” said Joe Barbazon, owner of Pleasant Acres Stallions. “He has retired sound and brings stamina and consistency as a tenacious sprinter on dirt to our stables. Sweetontheladies is the only Twirling Candy stallion in Florida, which gives breeders the opportunity to expand the Candy Ride (Arg) bloodline in our state.”

Originally bought for $25,000 at OBS April, the gray captured the Juvenile Sprint S. at Gulfstream West as a 2-year-old and added Gulfstream’s Crystal River H. the following year. He was third in the GI Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. at Saratoga in 2018, one of four graded placings he earned that year.

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