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James C. Brady, Longtime Thoroughbred Owner And Breeder, Passes At 85

James C. Brady, a longtime Thoroughbred owner and breeder and officer of The Jockey Club, passed away at his home in Bedminster, N.J., on October 22, 2020. He was 85.

The Brady family has been involved in Thoroughbred racing for more than 100 years, beginning with Brady's grandfather, financier James Cox Brady, who developed the 5,000-acre Hamilton Farms in New Jersey and bred and raced the champion War Feathers.

Brady's father, also James Cox Brady, was a steward of The Jockey Club and bred and raced 16 major stakes winners, including classic winners in England and Ireland and a champion in America. He was chairman of the New York Racing Association for eight years, during which Belmont Park was built, and also a founding director of the Monmouth Park Jockey Club.

On behalf of his brother, Nicholas Brady, a former chairman of The Jockey Club, U.S. Senator, and Treasury Secretary, and sisters Lisa Richards and Eliot Stewart, Brady managed Mill House Racing Stable, which raced prominent runners America Alive, Brilliant, Trappe Shot, and Rattlesnake Bridge.

Born in New York, N.Y., to parents James C. and Eliot (nee Chace) Brady, Brady was general partner of Mill House Associates, successor to Brady Security & Realty Corporation. He began work at Bankers Trust Company in 1957, resigning to take a position in New Jersey Governor William T. Cahill's Cabinet as commissioner of banking, where he helped plan the transformative development of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, including Giants Stadium and the Meadowlands Racetrack.

In 1983, Brady was appointed secretary-treasurer of The Jockey Club, joining newly elected chairman Ogden Mills Phipps and vice chairman William S. Farish. Together they led a three-decade period of substantial growth of The Jockey Club, establishing new commercial business, including Equibase Company and several technology-based service and data businesses. Proceeds from the commercial subsidiaries fueled increasing investments in the marketing of Thoroughbred racing and research and advocacy for improved safety and integrity of the sport. Brady's nephew, Ian Highet, succeeded him as secretary-treasurer of The Jockey Club in 2010, and Brady remained on the board of stewards until 2013.

Brady attended St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and Yale University in New Haven, Conn., where he played varsity ice hockey.

He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Joan Babcock Brady; his siblings; son James C. Brady III and his wife, Anne Lusk Brady; daughter Joan “Nonie” Brady and her husband, Wilhelm Merck; and daughter Kerry Chace Brady and her partner, Brock Dolman. He had two granddaughters, Audrey Slade Brady and Millicent McKay Brady.

A private family funeral was held at St. Brigid's Church in Peapack, N.J. A memorial service celebrating his life is to be held in the spring of 2021. In lieu of flowers, donations in Brady's memory may be made to LifeCamp, a summer camp for inner city youth, long supported by the Brady family (greaternewarklifecamp.org).

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In Mares Bred Category, Uncle Mo Back on Top

According to The Jockey Club, which released its annual Report of Mares Bred (RMB) Friday, Uncle Mo covered 257 mares this year, the most among any stallion standing in North America. That puts Uncle Mo back on top for the first time since 2016 when he was bred to 253 mares. He was bred to 241 mares in 2019.

With the year winding down, it was the latest positive development for the 12-year-old Coolmore sire. His progeny have accounted for 19 graded stakes wins in the U.S. on the year and he has shown that he is a sire of sires as the first-crop stallions Nyquist, Outwork and Laoban, all sons of Uncle Mo, are among the leading first-crop sires in North America.

Uncle Mo edged out Into Mischief, who was second with 248 mares covered. Into Mischief is a perennial leader in this category, having topped it in 2017 and 2018 before finishing third last year behind Justify and Mendelssohn.

For 2020, Mendelssohn came in third, covering 242 mares. The Spendthrift stallion and GI Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Vino Rosso was fourth, covering 238 mares. He was tops among all first-year stallions.

As has been the case over the last several years, Coolmore and Spendthrift stallions dominated the list. Eight of the top 10 on the list stand at either Coolmore or Spendthrift, with each having four sires among the top 10.

Their dominance, however, was challenged this year by WinStar, which had two horses place in the top 10. Constitution checked in fifth with 231 mares and Audible was eighth with 219. With GI Florida Derby, GI Belmont S. and GI Travers winner Tiz the Law leading the way for Constitution on the racetrack, he went from 85 mares to the 231 in a year’s time. Audible is a first-year sire. Last year, the top sire on the list among WinStar’s group was 2017 GI Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming, who came in 19th place after being bred to 165 mares.

The horses in the top 10 represented a number of different levels when it comes to stud fees. While Uncle Mo, whose 2020 stud fee was $125,000, and Into Mischief, whose stud fee this year was $175,000, took down the top two spots, several modestly priced stallions were also among the leaders. That list includes three sires that stood for $35,000 or less in Mendelssohn ($35,000), Vino Rosso ($30,000), Mitole ($25,000) and Audible ($25,000).

Darby Dan had a good showing, with three sires in the top 20, all of them standing for $10,000 or less. The list consists of Tapiture (186 mares, $7,500), Flameaway (183 mares, $7,500) and Klimt (172 mares, $10,000).

As expected, Kentucky-based sires dominated the list. Khozan, who stands in Florida at Journeyman Stallions, was the leading non-Kentucky sire. Having been bred to 181 mares, he was in 17th place.

In the years ahead, the list of sires who have covered the most mares will change drastically. In May, The Jockey Club adopted a rule that will limit the number of mares a horse can be bred to to 140. There is, however, a grandfather clause, and the rule will only cover horses born in 2020 or later. A total of 42 stallions exceeded the 140 number in 2020. In 2019, 41 stallions covered 140 mares or more.

In terms of individual state RMB leaders beyond Kentucky and Florida, the following stallions topped the covers list for their respective states/provinces:

New York–Solomini, 123

California–Stay Thirsty, 108

Pennsylvania–Hoppertunity, 107

Maryland–Golden Lad, 103

Oklahoma–Flat Out, 85

Ontario–Frac Daddy, 76

The Jockey Club disclosed a total of 1,067 individual stallions covered 27,970 mares in North America this year, with an estimated 2,500-3,500 additional mares having not yet been reported. The 200 reported stallions in Kentucky covered 16,391 mares (58.6% of all mares reported), a decrease of 4.3% compared to this time last year. Of the top 10 states and provinces (by number of mares bred), stallions in Louisiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Mexico covered more mares in 2020 than in 2019.

Statistics for all reported stallions of 2020 are available at The Jockey Club’s Fact Book.

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Jockey Club Releases 2020 Report Of Mares Bred Statistics

The Jockey Club today released Report of Mares Bred (RMB) statistics for the 2020 breeding season. Based on RMBs received through Oct. 18, 2020, The Jockey Club reports that 1,067 stallions covered 27,970 mares in North America during 2020.

The Jockey Club estimates an additional 2,500 to 3,500 mares will be reported as bred during the 2020 breeding season.

RMB statistics for all reported stallions in 2020 are available through the Fact Book section of The Jockey Club's website at jockeyclub.com.

Kentucky traditionally leads North America in Thoroughbred breeding activity. During 2020, Kentucky's 200 reported stallions covered 16,391 mares, or 58.6% of all of the mares reported bred in North America. The number of mares bred to Kentucky stallions decreased 4.3% percent compared with the 17,123 reported at this time last year.

Of the top 10 states and provinces by number of mares reported bred in 2020, stallions in Louisiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico covered more mares in 2020 than in 2019, as reported at this time last year. The following table shows the top 10 states and provinces ranked by number of mares reported bred in 2020:

State/Province	2019 Stallions	2020 Stallions	Pct. Change	2019 Mares Bred	2020 Mares Bred	Pct. Change
Kentucky	220	200	-9.1%	17,123	16,391	-4.3%
California	124	103	-16.9%	2,018	1,766	-12.5%
Florida	81	73	-9.9%	1,863	1,721	-7.6%
Louisiana	79	74	-6.3%	984	1,017	3.4%
New York	43	37	-14.0%	1,058	1,002	-5.3%
Maryland	31	29	-6.5%	780	806	3.3%
Pennsylvania	28	37	32.1%	686	734	7.0%
Ontario	29	24	-17.2%	538	519	-3.5%
Oklahoma	38	40	5.3%	479	476	-0.6%
New Mexico	51	48	-5.9%	437	453	3.7%

Note: Each incident in which a mare was bred to more than one stallion and appeared on multiple RMBs is counted separately. As such, mares bred totals listed in the table above may differ slightly from counts of distinct mares bred.

In addition, Report of Mares Bred information on stallions that bred mares in North America is available through report 36P or a subscription service at equineline.com/ReportOfMaresBred.

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Thoroughbred Owner Conference Rescheduled For 2021

OwnerView announced today that the seventh Thoroughbred Owner Conference has been rescheduled for 2021. The original conference was planned to be held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in July, but as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, the event was rescheduled to be held at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., and was then planned as a virtual conference during Breeders' Cup week.

“Because of the uncertainties of travel and in-person gatherings, we still plan to provide a virtual event for the seventh Thoroughbred Owner Conference,” said Gary Falter, project manager for OwnerView. “However, we are rethinking the format to provide engaging and educational content over a period of weeks or even months in 2021 instead of the originally planned two days.”

Details for the 2021 conference will be provided as soon as they are available.

“The impressive group of topics, speakers and panelists who were looking forward to participating during the 2020 conference will be our go-to group when we plan the next conference,” Falter said.

OwnerView is a joint effort spearheaded by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to encourage ownership of Thoroughbreds and provide accurate information on aspects of ownership such as trainers, public racing syndicates, the process of purchasing and owning a Thoroughbred, racehorse retirement, and owner licensing.

The need for a central resource to encourage Thoroughbred ownership was identified in the comprehensive economic study of the sport that was commissioned by The Jockey Club and conducted by McKinsey & Company in 2011. The OwnerView site was launched in May 2012.

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