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Monomoy Girl Targeting Bayakoa

Champion Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) will make her 2021 debut in the GIII Bayakoa S. Feb. 15 at Oaklawn, trainer Brad Cox told the track’s notes team.

A lock to win her second championship after a perfect 2020 season capped by a victory in the GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff in November, the chestnut was purchased by Spendthrift for $9.5 million at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale and returned to the Cox barn for a 2021 campaign.

“Honestly, with her breeze this past weekend, she’s probably a little ahead of schedule, as far as where I thought she would be,” Cox said. “We never took her out of training. We just backed off of her. She’s as good as ever, to be honest with you. She’s a monster.”

Monomoy Girl returned to the work tab Dec. 27 at Fair Grounds, covering three furlongs in :37 flat. She breezed a half-mile in :48.80 over a fast track in NOLA Sunday morning.

“She’s really training well,” Cox said. “Looks amazing. Her weight’s great. Her breeze this weekend was spectacular. If we can continue to see that throughout the year, we’re going to have a great year again.”

The Bayakoa is one of the local preps for the Apr. 17 GI Apple Blossom H. Monomoy Girl’s stablemate and fellow GI Kentucky Oaks winner Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil) may make her first appearance of 2021 in the next Apple Blossom prep, the Mar. 13 GII Azeri S.

“Just kind of knocking the dust off of her,” said Cox. “She got a good break, a well-deserved break. No physical issues. Just thought she deserved some time. There was no sense going into the Breeders’ Cup. That was really the only thing left. I thought it was a wise decision by the ownership group to just give her the break. Our goal this year is to get her to the Breeders’ Cup in San Diego, at Del Mar. We’ll work our way back from that.”

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Champion Vino Rosso Represented by First Foal

Spendthrift Farm’s Vino Rosso (Curlin–Mythical Bride, by Street Cry {Ire}), the champion older dirt male and winner of the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic in 2019, was represented by his first foal Jan. 5 when the 6-year-old mare Shine Time (Malibu Moon) produced a filly at Jim and Pam Robinson’s Brandywine Farm in Paris, Kentucky.

“I tell you what, you could not ask for a better foal. She is just beautiful and very smart,” Pam Robinson said. “Physically, she is a strong filly with good bone. I cannot say enough positive things about her. In 46 years of breeding, we have never sent three mares to a first-year stallion before, but we did to Vino Rosso last year. I think that tells you how much we think of the stallion, and we are sending a couple back to him this year.”

Vino Rosso is standing the 2021 breeding season for a fee of $25,000, stands and nurses terms.

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Calumet Led 2020 Breeders by Earnings, WinStar Tops Partnerships

For the second consecutive year, Central Kentucky’s Calumet Farm has led North America’s individual breeders list with 2020 earnings of $9,768,957. Calumet’s 479 individual starters visited the winner’s circle 336 times, with 289 seconds and 346 thirds out of 2,587 starts.

The statistics were released Thursday by The Jockey Club Information Systems, with complete lists of the top 100 breeders available through equineline.com.

The entity of WinStar Farm, LLC was just behind Calumet with earnings of $9,234,344. Not including its various partnerships, WinStar’s 149 wins were derived from 1,137 starts. Flushing out the top 10 individual breeders were: Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds, LLC, $8,628,034 (51 wins/380 starts); Godolphin, $7,032,428 (113/620); Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, $5,911,505 (138/744); Kenneth L. Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey, $5,589,796 (206/1633); Brereton C. Jones, $4,933,211 (159/1,087); Gary & Mary West Stables Inc., $4,241,666 (126/762); Juddmonte Farms Inc., $4,034,079 (64/377); and Woodford Thoroughbreds, LLC, $3,601,327 (115/834).

When tabulating partnerships, the roles were reversed with WinStar coming out on top. WinStar was part of breeding partnerships that took home $11,713,732 in earnings and 254 wins from 1,851 starts. Calumet was the runner-up with $9,869,125 in earnings and 343 wins out of 2,619 starts. The rest of the top 10 partnership list was only slightly different from the individual list: Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds, LLC, $8,628,034 (51 wins/380 starts); Godolphin, $8,240,296 (152/843); Kenneth L. Ramsey, $6,074,311 (220/1,705); Sarah K. Ramsey, $6,054,921 (219/1,700); Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, $5,966,876 (139/762); Brereton C. Jones, $5,594,645 (181/1,220); Fred W. Hertrich III, $4,773,048 (134/947); and Gary & Mary West Stables Inc., $4,251,747 (127/774).

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The Jockey Club President Jim Gagliano Joins TDN Writers’ Room

There are few positions more prominent or scrutinized in racing than president of The Jockey Club, and that goes double for years as tumultuous for the sport as 2019 and 2020 were. With a plethora of game-changing topics to discuss, The Jockey Club’s president and chief operations office Jim Gagliano joined the TDN Writers’ Room presented by Keeneland Wednesday in the show’s first episode of 2021. Appearing as the Green Group Guest of the Week, Gagliano discussed how the industry can potentially pay for the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act, the rationale behind a 140-mare cap for stallions, racing’s inability to permanently do away with repeat-offender trainers and more.

“I don’t think it should come out of the horseplayers’ pockets,” Gagliano said of the HISA cost. “Every state funds its regulation differently. The problem that we faced when we were considering that matter, is there’s really no one-size-fits-all that we could push down to the states. The most important thing we want to do is make sure we capture first the current expenses, and then that those were brought forward. After that, the Authority will work with each state and through its racing commission to determine what the number is. I suggest the simplest way is to share [the costs] between the tracks and the horsemen. But honestly, there’s a lot of details to be considered.”

Now that the HISA is a reality, Gagliano was asked what else The Jockey Club will focus on in the coming years.

“There’s plenty,” he said. “How we market the sport. The opportunity of television, which thank goodness, during this pandemic, to see the amount of live televised hours of horse racing has been a godsend. We’ve talked about scheduling. We need to put the product in a place where it can have the best showcase. Other areas: HISA is going to put USADA into a role and there are now rules that will be in place that will change the sport, we believe. Investigations, that’s something that racing has not done very well over the last bunch of years. I anticipate The Jockey Club will continue to invest in those kinds of resources to make sure that things we don’t want to happen in our sport, don’t happen.”

Elsewhere on the show, in the West Point Thoroughbreds news segment, the crew reacted to some huge performances on the track over the past few weeks and the surprisingly positive handle numbers in 2020, plus host Joe Bianca announces that he and producer Patty Wolfe have won an Eclipse Award. Click here to watch the podcast; click here for the audio-only version.

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