‘It’s A Fairy Tale’: Canadian Star Pink Lloyd Flies The Banner For Carey’s Breeding Program

It is every Thoroughbred breeder's dream to find that perfect match of mare and stallion, a union that will not only produce a good racehorse, but boost business at the annual yearling sales.

John Carey has been perfecting the Ontario breeding, sales, and stallion business for some 40 years and his T.C. Westmeath Stud in Shelburne is firmly established as one of the most successful in the country.

He has bred stakes winners, sold stakes winners, and brought some of the best stallions in Ontario racing history to the province.

All impressive accomplishments indeed.

But above all that, Carey will forever be known as the breeder and consignor of one of the greatest sprinters in Canadian racing lore, the remarkable Pink Lloyd.

Purchased for $30,000 at the 2013 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society's Canadian Premier Yearling sale at Woodbine racetrack, he recently won his 22nd stakes race when he bulled his way through rivals to take the Grade 3 Bold Venture Stakes Aug. 15 at Woodbine.

In fact, for four years since he made his career debut in August 2016, the tall and leggy “Lloyd” has rolled through stakes victories for the ownership group Entourage Stable and trainer Robert Tiller, piling up purses that are just $23,000 (CAD) shy of $2 million.

He is second only to Grade 1 winner Heart to Heart (American-based earner of $2.038 million) as the richest CTHS sales graduate in the long history of the sale and he's gaining quickly on that fellow.

“He is something, isn't he?” Carey said after watching “Pinkie” overcome a bit of a crowded journey to win the Bold Venture. “It's a fairy tale. You can never know when you breed them that one could be this good.”

Pink Lloyd, a son of Carey's amazing stallion Old Forester (Forestry) from the mare Gladiator Queen, a daughter of one of Carey's first stallions, Great Gladiator, is three-for-three in 2020 as an 8-year-old in what is likely his last season of racing.

Following his Bold Venture victory, Tiller said, “He's eight years old; these are 4-year-olds and 5-year-olds and he just keeps doing it and doing it. I just cannot believe a horse could stay this good in every season of the year and keep winning. He's a blessing.”

Pink Lloyd's exploits, including his eight-for-eight campaign in 2017 that netted him Canadian Horse of the Year, champion sprinter and champion older male honors, have also provided Carey, wife Doris and twin sons Tyler and Trevor with the ability to continue doing what they love: breeding and selling racehorses.

Carey, an eighth generation horseman from Ireland, has bred dozens of stakes winners in addition to Pink Lloyd and in his latest stakes-caliber runner, Forester's Fortune, is another super advertisement for Old Forester.

Forester's Fortune, produced from the mare Nursery Song by Beau Genius, did not reach his $12,000 reserve at the 2018 CTHS sale and was later acquired by the late Laurie Silvera. As a 2-year-old in 2019, Forester' Fortune was third in the Victoria Stakes and this year, racing for Silvera's widow Claudia and Archie Lee, Forester's Fortune was second in the Greenwood Stakes at Woodbine. His earnings have gone past $100,000.

Carey's 2020 Canadian Premier Yearling Sale consignment of almost two dozen yearlings includes some well-bred youngsters by Old Forester. Carey's young stallion-on-the-rise, Souper Speedy, is also well represented in the sale.

Will another Pink Lloyd come out of this year's sale? That would be difficult to envision, but what the powerful and popular gelding has done for Carey, and Ontario racing, is shown the world that great racehorses can be found in Ontario.

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TIF’s Cummings Takes on Issue of Timing Problems

One day after Bill Finley wrote about inconsistencies in timing at a handful of racetracks in the U.S.–both big and small–in Wednesday’s TDN, Pat Cummings, the Executive Director of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation, has penned a piece of his own, explaining why accuracy in timing is paramount to the game and offering a framework for how to move forward.

“The state of race timing in America is not improving as the years pass. It is getting worse,” writes Cummings, who served as the director of racing information for Trakus for the better part of four years from November 2011 through June 2015.

As the result of a deal between Equibase and the British-based Total Performance Data (TPD), races at a total of 11 American racetracks now rely on a GPS-based system known as Gmax. The system debuted in the U.S. in 2017 and is being used for this first time this summer at Del Mar. But as Finley and Cummings each point out, Gmax has been so unreliable as to force figure makers in this country to rely not on reported times, but on their own hand-timing of races.

“We have discovered that the final times, which is really all you are concerned with when making speed figures, from these tracks are not accurate enough at Gmax tracks to enable us to publish accurate speed figures,” noted Randy Moss, recognizable to most from his role as a racing commentator, but who has also been involved with making Beyer Speed Figures for Daily Racing Form for many years, in Finley’s story. “For the last month plus, we have been using our own times generated by video timing instead of the final times posted by the Gmax timer.”

Indeed, after finding that a handful of races from the Aug. 1 card at Del Mar–a program that also included the GI Bing Crosby S., a Breeders’ Cup Challenge race–TIF undertook an investigation of races at other tracks on the same day. Fully eight of the 11 live races at Woodbine Aug. 1 (as of the charts that existed Aug. 4) and two-thirds of Laurel Park’s nine races had different times on their live feeds compared to what the chart was reporting.

“An accurate time is a fundamental element of regulated horse races,” Cummings writes. “It has become clear that our sport has not evolved with more modern technology, but rather taken a technology, ignored whether it is at least as accurate as the technology it is replacing, and shoved a square peg into a round hole.

“Questioning Equibase’s GPS play is not being critical of all innovation and hoping to quash it, it is being critical of technological backpedaling which is being positioned as exactly the opposite.”

Click here to read the entire piece from Pat Cummings.

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Woodbine’s Mandatory Payout On Jackpot Hi-5 Results In $900,000 In ‘New’ Money

Saturday's card of Thoroughbred racing at Woodbine in Toronto, Ontario, culminated with a Jackpot Hi-5 mandatory payout in the afternoon's 10th race.

The Jackpot Hi-5 wager requires horseplayers to select the top five finishers in correct order. The Jackpot proviso means that the entire pool pays out only when there is a single winning ticket or when there is a mandatory payout.

The payouts for the winning combination of 3-7-12-2-10 were $68,636.20 for a $1-based wager and $13,727.24 for a 20-cent wager.

The Jackpot Hi-5 pool included a carryover of $295,470.54, which had been growing since June 21, with $896,237 in new money wagered on Saturday.

The maiden optional $40,000 claiming race featured a 12-horse field of fillies and mares competing over 5 1/2 furlongs on the Tapeta, with Marjorie's Dream (Patrick Husbands) delivering as the 2-1 favorite. The 3-year-old daughter of Old Forester broke her maiden in dominant fashion, winning her third career start by open lengths in 1:04.47 for trainer Randy Thompson, who shares ownership with John McMullan.

Trading Bay (Luis Contreras), at odds of 13-1, chased the winner home eight lengths behind with 10-1 shot Mrs. Del (Skye Chernetz) finishing third. Longshots Simple Souvenir (Isabelle Wenc), at 44-1, and La Bestia (Sahin Civaci), at 39-1, completed the top five finish order.

Live Thoroughbred racing continues on Sunday, with a 1 p.m. post time for the afternoon's 10-race card.

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Aug. 9 Insights

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DAUGHTER OF WINTER MEMORIES DEBUTS AT THE SPA

2nd-SAR, $72K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:44 p.m.

Jimmy Toner unveils the latest daughter out of his MGISW pupil Winter Memories (El Prado {Ire}) Sunday in SEASONS (Tapit). A dual Grade I winner in New York, including this venue’s Diana S., millionaire Winter Memories is a daughter of MGISW Memories of Silver (Silver Hawk) and a half-sister to GSW La Cloche (Ghostzapper), who in turn produced GSW Bellavais (Tapit). Winter Memories is also the dam of MSW & MGSP Winter Sunset (Tapit). Chad Brown also sends out an intriguing firster here in Peter Brant’s $325,000 KEESEP buy Misspell (American Pharoah). Out of a half-sister to MGSW & GISP Honorable Duty (Distorted Humor), the chestnut’s third dam is Grade I-winning blue hen Toussaud (El Gran Senor), who is responsible for MGISW sire Empire Maker (Unbridled) and Grade I winners Chester House (Mr. Prospector) and Honest Lady (Seattle Slew), who is the dam of GISW First Defence (Unbridled’s Song) and stakes winners Honest Mischief (Into Mischief), Phantom Rose (Danzig) and Honest Quality (Elusive Quality). TJCIS PPs

 

CASSE UNVEILS PRICEY UPSTART AT WOODBINE

3rd-WO, $126.8K, Msw, 2yo, 6f (AWT), 2:05p.m.

Mark Casse unveils the most expensive member of Upstart’s first crop in $510,000 FTSAUG buy WORA. The John Oxley colorbearer is out of SP Joyous Music (Bellamy Road). TJCIS PPs

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