Lantern Hill Farm, LLC

When I-64 cut through Midway’s deep loamy soils in the early 1960s it created a pizza slice piece of land with the new exit 65, where today Lantern Hill’s acres are bound by the interstate to the north and US 421 on the south.

While both heavily travelled roads make access to vet clinics, Keeneland, Churchill Downs and more exotic locales an easier reach, they ultimately leave the storied agricultural countryside more attractive for hotels, houses and mini-marts than raising crops or livestock.

As the latest recession made local government desperate for funds, land near Lantern Hill was rezoned for residential development and more intense commercial uses. A proposed agricultural marketing center at Midway Station was roundly defeated by adjoining property owners who preferred raising roof tops over supporting local crop and livestock farmers.

We all know this disdain for farming is a national trend, and family farms have been in decline for at least four generations.

I admit there are days when I wonder why anyone would want to live on the land in the 21^st century. Without offering any guarantees of sustenance, a horse farm makes leisure time a faint memory, takes muck wagons of cash and requires nearly relentless physical labor.

But this fact remains: most of the time I can’t imagine being anywhere else or having a better lifestyle, and I know how lucky I am to raise race horses and keep our bills paid.

At least if the farm land is still here, not under asphalt, someone else can pursue that dream in 25 or 50 years, and maybe raise another Eclipse Award winner.

So it is with great relief and hope for the future that Lantern Hill Farm announces the donation of a conservation easement on our 184 acres to the Bluegrass Conservancy

Founded in 1995, the Conservancy is a private, nonprofit regional land trust committed to the preservation and conservaion of the unique rural and cultural resources of the Bluegrass Region. Like all nonprofits, they can use your support: http://www.bluegrassconservancy.org/.

Click Here to read a recent article in the Lexington Herald-Leader featuring Lantern Hill's conservation easement.

Capt. Candyman Can, Dr. Joe Rauch & Ian Wilkes at Saratoga

Fatal Bullet may have earned the “Win and Your In” spot afforded by winning the Phoenix S. (G3) on opening day at Keeneland, but Lantern Hill graduate CAPT. CANDYMAN CAN also stamped his ticket for the $1,000,000 Sentient Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) on November 7 at Santa Anita.

“You've got to love him, don't you?” said trainer Ian Wilkes, who added the Breeders’ Cup Sprint is likely if all continues well with Capt. Candyman Can.

“You've got to commend the winner; he's a nice horse. But I'm proud of my little monster,” Wilkes continued.

Capt. Candyman Can uncorked a “terrific late run” (DRF’s Marty McGee) and “came flying from eighth at the top of the stretch to just miss while carrying four more pounds than the winner” (Louisville Courier-Journal’s Jennie Rees).

Fatal Bullet -- who was 2008 Canadian champion sprinter, Horse of the Year and second in the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Sprint -- “held off hard-charging Grade I winner Capt. Candyman Can by a half-length to win” (Thoroughbred Times, Steve Bailey), and the Equibase chart noted Capt. Candyman Can “closed strongly and was getting to the winner with every stride.”

A day earlier, another Lantern Hill offspring, CONCHACER, missed second by a nose in the $150,000 Perryville S. (G3) on Keeneland’s main track. Winner of the Forward Pass S. at Arlington Park in August, Conchacer (Congaree-Eliot Chacer, by Clever Trick) took on a number of graded stakes winners and was beaten less than a length and a half for the win, after contesting the pace throughout and a prolonged battle through the stretch. He was bred by Lantern Hill Farm and Lighthouse Group. A 2007 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase for Brent Fernung, he races for Savoy Stable and is trained by Dale Bennett.

Thank you to our loyal customers who made the Keeneland September Yearling Sale so successful.

Lantern Hill sold 16 of the 18 yearlings sent through the ring during our four sales days. On three of those days the yearlings' averages ranged from 35% to 97% more than the average of the other yearlings selling that day.

(Photo at right: LHF sales topper, Tapit-On the Town, sold to Bob Baffert, Agent)

Potential web site updates looked ambitious last week, with Justenuffhumor running in Saratoga’s Bernard Baruch S. (G-2) on Friday and Capt. Candyman Can entered in the G-1 King’s Bishop for Saturday.

Both horses have strong ties to Lantern Hill, but only a pie-eyed optimist would think we’d be writing a double victory story Sunday morning.

So what does Lantern Hill have to do with Justenuffhumor? We were lucky when Frank Calabrese retired his stakes winning mare Justenuffheart to Lantern Hill Farm in the fall of 2000, because not only did we have the honor of raising her two Rahy offspring, champion filly Dreaming of Anna and G2 winner Lewis Michael; we also got to live with this legendary daughter of Broad Brush on a daily basis.

Justenuffheart stands over 16.1 hands, is leggy for her sire’s stock; and both her Rahy offspring stood over a lot of ground. So when Mr. Calabrese sought advice on the mare’s 2004 mating, Suzi thought Distorted Humor’s smaller stature might be a good fit. At the time his fee was a relatively modest $50,000, but with the likes of 2003 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide on the track, he looked to have potential as a mate for the unproven Justenuffheart.

Later that year Mr. Calabrese decided to sell all of his mares and Justenuffheart was entered in Lantern Hill Farm’s consignment to the 2005 Keeneland January Sale. Greg Goodman’s Mt. Brilliant Farm purchased the mare on the advice of Mt. Brilliant farm manager Jody Alexander, who loved “Justy” the minute he saw her, and was a frequent visitor to the farm and sales barn those days.

Darley Stable purchased Justenuffhumor at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale from Mt. Brilliant in 2006, and trainer Kieran McLaughlin found the colt’s best stride this year, with six consecutive wins on the turf and earnings of $317,400.

"He's one of those special horses who when you put them in the starting gate, you know they'll find a way to get to the wire first," McLaughlin said after the Bernard Baruch win Friday afternoon.

Saturday’s running of the seven furlong King’s Bishop on a sloppy track may have lacked the poetry of Justenuffhumor’s commanding turf win Friday, but no one could be prouder of their horse’s determination to prevail than we are of Capt. Candyman Can. Capt. Candyman Can and Vineyard Haven trying to occupy the same spot in the Saratoga stretch, King's Bishop S. (G-1)

Capt. Candyman Can and Vineyard Haven trying to occupy the same spot in the Saratoga stretch, King's Bishop S. (G-1)

As The Captain gained on Vineyard Haven in the stretch, the gray drifted into his path and bumped him twice inside the sixteenth pole, knocking him off stride. In spite of being cut off Capt. Candyman Can conceded only a neck victory to Vineyard Haven, whose number was quickly taken down after jockey Javier Castellano’s claim of foul.

“He came out and bumped me twice,” said Castellano. “My horse lost momentum at that point. I think we would definitely have won without the bumping.”

Watching the race here in Midway, we agreed. Then we toasted The Captain, Joe Rauch and Dave Zell, Ian Wilkes, and Stormy Way. What a great couple of days!

Conchacer, a 3-year-old colt by Congaree, out of Eliot Chacer (by Clever Trick) was winning his first stakes race, but it was his third time to hit the board in a stakes in his last four starts. He was third in the $100,000 Matt Winn S. at Churchill Downs in May and second in the Prairie Mile S. on June 6.

In the Forward Pass, Conchacer stalked the pace about a length and a half off the lead, made steady progress when asked to run at the top of the stretch and drew clear late to win by a length. In seven starts, he has three wins, two seconds and a third; and three of those are stakes wins or placings.

Two of the six yearlings offered from that group are already stakes winners. Thanks to our partners, clients, and trainers who have made that possible, helping us show that Lantern Hill yearlings are Home Grown Racehorses.

By the way, Conchacer's yearling half-sister by Sharp Humor sells on September 23 as Hip # 3101 in Book 5 of the Keeneland September Sale. You can view our entire September consignment at http://www.lanternhillfarm.com/consignment/hips.aspx?sale=18 . Click on any of the yearlings listed there to view conformation photos and notes.

Justenuffheart was consigned by Lantern Hill at the Keeneland January 2005 Sale carrying Justenuffhumor, a mating recommended by Suzi Shoemaker. Justenuffheart was purchased by Greg Goodman’s Mt. Brilliant Farm LLC, breeder of the now-graded stakes winner. The resulting colt was a $550,000 Keeneland September yearling.

As has been his custom, the 3-year-old gelding was unhurried early and this time swung five wide leaving the quarter pole. Candyman split horses in midstretch and closed well to be four lengths ahead of the rest of the field, while winner Quality Road set a new track record, just two lengths the better of him. The new track record of 1:13.45 for six and a half furlongs bettered the 30-year-old track record set by Topsider (1:14.40) by almost a full second.

"Who can take tomorrow,
Dip it in a dream,
Separate the sorrow
And collect up all the cream?
The Candy Man can."
"The Candy Man", lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

In the fall of 2007 Dr. Joe Rauch and his granddaughter were at the piano plunking out the notes to Sammy Davis Jr.’s 1972 hit "The Candy Man" when Joe realized he had the perfect name for the Candy Ride yearling he owned with Dave Zell.

Bred in partnership with Lantern Hill Farm LLC and produced from the Storm Creek stakes winner Stormy Way, the two men bought out Lantern Hill’s interest in the yearling at the Keeneland September Sale after it became apparent a questionable scope report would keep the handsome colt from bringing a fair price.

As so often happens, Joe’s first name choice wasn’t available, but with the addition of “Capt.,” the name was granted to a colt that does his best to deliver on those song lyrics every time he loads in the starting gate.

From four stakes efforts this year Capt. Candyman Can has won three, and his victory in the seven furlong Hutcheson S.-G2 at Gulfstream Park on January 30 had us dreaming of Kentucky Derby roses. Capt. Candyman Can vied for the lead early, backed off the leaders in the backstretch, angled four wide on the turn to get the lead by a half length, and battled through the stretch, widening his margin to a length and a half.

For his next start, trainer Ian Wilkes stretched the gelding out to a mile in the $250,000 Fountain of Youth S.-G2 at Gulfstream, but after a fourth place finish there the conditioner’s focus for The Captain shifted from Derby starter to Sprint Specialist.

Aqueduct’s 7 furlong Bay Shore S.-G3 on April 4 was a perfect target, and Capt. Candyman Can responded with a three and three-quarters length victory, racing under Javier Castellano’s firm hold between horses in the early stages, moving up on the outside and charging to the front over Taqarub.

The Captain returned to his home track for Churchill Down’s $100,000 Matt Winn S. on May 16, where the early going was a carbon copy of the Bay Shore until 4-5 favorite Cash Run challenged through the stretch, but The Captain dug deep to put him away by three parts of a length.

The Matt Winn featured another Lantern Hill homebred, Conchacer, (Congaree-Eliot Chacer, by Clever Trick) who finished third that day in his first stakes effort. The colts grew up together and sold on the same day at the 2007 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Photo Credit: Lantern Hill Farm LLC

Woodford Girl wins The Diamond A at Keeneland

For a Kentucky breeder, the only thing better than a homebred filly’s win at Keeneland is still being the owner of that filly when she’s standing in the winner’s circle.

Woodford Girl (Honour and Glory-Shawgatny, by Danzig Connection) closed out Keeneland’s Spring Meet with a win in The Diamond A, a 1 3/16 m. turf allowance test.

The Ian Wilkes pupil was bumped leaving the first turn, but made a good middle move under Robby Albarado while racing off the rail, angled wider for the drive and gained a short lead at the top of the stretch, which she extended in the run to the wire to win by three parts of a length. She withstood a late challenge by the Phipps Stable’s regally bred With Flying Colors, (A.P. Indy- My Flag, by Easy Goer).

Four year old Woodford Girl broke her maiden in her second career start last year, winning a mile maiden special at the Fair Grounds in February by three plus lengths, going away. She likes to put on a show through the stretch and that day she trailed the field with less than a half mile to go, split foes when given her head and rallied strongly for the win.

The hometown win is especially sweet because the dark bay filly’s family goes back three generations at Lantern Hill Farm. Grand dam Star Empress (*Young Emperor-Questar, by Requested) provided a down payment for our original farm acreage through her 1991 Keeneland July Selected Yearling sales topping daughter Shawgatny, who since her return to the farm has produced SATULAGI (L) as well as Woodford Girl.

Photo credit: Pat Lang Photography

The temperature in Midway was only 15 degrees when the horses loaded in the gate for the Hutcheson Stakes (G-2) at Gulfstream Park on Friday afternoon, but we were all toasty when Capt. Candyman Can's smooth trip under jockey Julien Leparoux turned into a length and a half victory over Hello Broadway.

Kentucky's ice storm struck Monday, followed by four inches of snow and single digit temperatures. After four relentless days battling icey roads, downed trees, frozen water tanks, stuck vehicles and wearing all the clothes in the closet, this bay gelding's fluid confidence made me remember why it is still worth it to trudge back out in the snow, dark and cold to pull out another foal.

-Suzi Shoemaker

For More on Capt. Candyman Can's Hutcheson S. win visit http://tcm.bloodhorse.com/article/49022.htm

Photo credit: Horsephotos

The Captain is the first stakes winner for owner-breeders Dr. Joe Rauch and Dave Zell, who co-bred the stakes winner with Lantern Hill Farm. Dr. Joe is a medical doctor who sometimes donates his services to Florida backstretch workers, and his buddy Dave Zell is retired real estate developer.

Stormy Way was a round, medium sized mare, bright bay; with a wide forehead under a large star. Typical of her Storm Cat sire line, she had a powerful body balanced on offset knees. But those knees carried her to five wins from the ages of two to five, a victory in the Explosive Red S, and $278,083 in earnings. And Candy Ride, the covering sire, held the world record for a mile and had good knees.

They followed her to the sales ring.

When the bidding stopped at $65,000 Stormy Way was Lantern Hill bound and Joe, Dave and Suzi were partners. Just 34 months later, the colt she carried that day brought all of them to the Directors Room at Churchill Downs to sip champagne, revel in the wonder of the day’s win and plan for races yet to come.

Valenza's son by Street Cry led Lantern Hill Farm's consignment and all Street Cry yearlings at the Keeneland September Yearling sale, selling to John Ferguson on a bid of $410,000. The nearly black colt never put a hoof wrong during four days of intense scrutiny from the toughest audience in the world, and we are grateful to Ed Gamble's Destinaire Farm for allowing us to represent him with this model colt.

Other September highlights included Highfield Farm's Mineshaft-Victorica colt, selected by trainer Richard Mandella on behalf of Seven Rivers for $200,000; and Lantern Hill Farm's Forest Wildcat-Western Friend colt, purchased by Nick de Meric for $180,000. We also had the highest priced Kitten's Joy yearling, produced by the Fit to Fight mare Knock Off, and sold on behalf of Smitten Farm for $120,000 to trainer Dale Romans.

No one can deny the turmoil in world financial markets had a profound effect on the second week of the sale, and most consignors operated in survival mode. This meant buyers went home with better horses for less money than they could have in 2007, and ultimately everyone has a greater chance to prosper.

At Lantern Hill we were proud to find a new home for virtually every yearling we brought to the sale, and look forward to following this crop's racing success in the coming years.

Jockey Julien Leparoux kept the son of Candy Ride four lengths off the hot pace set by Grizzly Peak and Celestial Diamond, closed on those two near the quarter pole, swung out when blocked, and sprinted to the lead in mid stretch, drawing off to win in a hand ride by 7 ¼ lengths. The bay gelding completed the 5 ½ furlongs just two ticks off the track record, in fractions of :21.57, :45.06, :57.28, and 1:03.56.

“He was one of our most popular yearlings,” Suzi said about the strongly made bay colt, which was hammered down for only $25,000. “He had a huge hip, great walk, and wonderful attitude. Some top horsemen vetted him, but he had a marginal throat according to some reports. My partners, Dr. Joe Rauch and Dave Zell bought out my share so they could race him.”

The oft told tale of the sales yearling that didn’t pass with sales vets but has proven his worth on the track just gained a new chapter. In the case of Capt. Candyman Can, who hasn’t had any throat surgery since the sale, his throat was recently termed “beautiful.”

El Prado’s daughter Return to Paradise stalked the leaders three wide, rallied on the turn and drew off in the stretch for a 2 1/4 length victory on Arlington Million Day in the mile and sixteenth Hatoof Stakes (first division). Ridden by John Velasquez for trainer Todd Pletcher, the filly is out of Winner’s Edge (by Seeking the Gold), and was bred by Highfield Farm. The win on fast turf was the third for the dark bay three year old, who was stakes placed last year at two in the Swinging Mood S. (L) and Holly S. Congratulations to owner Sam Pollock, who purchased Return to Paradise from our 2006 September Yearling consignment. Return to Paradise is the first stakes winner for Winner’s Edge, who produced stakes placed Capac ($192,256) and has a two year old in training for Highfield Farm named Perfect Edge, by Pleasantly Perfect.

Photo credit: Joy Gilbert

O'sotopretty as a Keeneland September Yearling

Since Sabino romped at Churchill Downs in May, three more yearlings from Lantern Hill Farm’s 2007 yearling class are maiden winners, each in its first start. The most recent of these, Dale Romans’ pupil O’sotopretty (above) won a 5 ½ furlong maiden test by five lengths on June 20 at Churchill Downs. The bay filly challenged after three furlongs and took over in the stretch to draw away under jockey Robby Albarado in 1:08 on a sealed track. A daughter of La Turk, by Turkoman, she was bred by Lantern Hill Farm and purchased for $13,000 from our 2007 Keeneland September Yearling Sale consignment by trainer Romans for owner Frank L. Jones Jr.
Samba's Run at Keeneland January 2007

Another 2007 yearling grad, Samba’s Run (right), found the winners circle on June 16 for trainer Larry Jones in a five furlong race at Delaware, dueling two wide from the start, drawing clear on the turn, and bounding away to win by 5 ¾ lengths in :59.1. Bred by John and Cathy Fike’s Highfield Farm, Samba’s Run (Cherokee Run-Wild Samba, by Wild Again) brought $30,000 from Elk Manor Farm as a short yearling from our 2007 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages sales consignment (right).

Four days before the Samba's Run victory, two year old filly Girls Image (Halo’s Image-Native Gate Dancer, by Girls Image at Keeneland September 2007

Gate Dancer) won her first start at Lone Star Park by nearly six lengths for trainer Glen Rottweiler and owner Richard P. Hessee. After chasing the pace, Girls Image (left) raced four wide on the turn, took the lead at the top of the stretch, and drew away for the win. Foaled and raised at Lantern Hill, and bred by Paul Franck’s Take 5 of Ocala LLC, the filly was purchased by Mr. Hessee for $13,000 from our Keeneland September Yearling Sale consignment. Congratulations to all the connections of these two year olds, and we hope to see you again in September.

Photo credit: Lantern Hill Farm LLC

Lantern Hill bred and sold SABINO (left) won gate to wire by 13 1/2 lengths in his second lifetime start at Churchill Downs on May 18, becoming freshman sire Stroll’s first winner. Sent off as the heavy favorite, the Dale Romans pupil vied for the lead along the inside and drew off under a hand ride from Robby Albarado, completing the five furlong test in splits of :23.1, :47.1, :59.2. Produced by the Woodman mare Say You’ll Stay and selected by Dale Romans and F.G. Smith from Lantern Hill Farm’s 2007 Keeneland September Sales consignment for Blue Devil Racing Stable LLC, the colt was a bargain purchase at just $4,200.

Photo credit: Lantern Hill Farm LLC

Related Links:

http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/article/45310.htm

www.thoroughbredtimes.com/breeding-news/2008/May/18/Sabino-first-winner-for-freshman-sire-Stroll.aspx

Offers of free nick ratings are everywhere these days, and I must admit I consult them often, especially late in the afternoon when I am still trying to conjure the last mares in my 2008 pedigree pile into an equal stack of 2012 graded win photos.

But Andrew Caulfield’s March 25 commentary in the Thoroughbred Daily News (below) brings me back to reality, and bears repeating here. So often a mating which seems right on a gut level--because it is based on the conformation and racing strengths of the stallion and mare--doesn’t have corroborating data in anyone’s computer analysis.

And that mating is often discarded as too risky, when in fact the overwhelming weight we give to this limited data is the riskiest part of the process.

Let’s not forget the horses themselves when planning our matings, and realize that the long lag time and small sample size in these databases results in a rather large number of “proven” crosses showing up as top of their class—and that is why the stallion farms are using them as a marketing tool, plain and simple.

Until we start looking at all the horses from those same A nicks that never break their maidens in spite of every opportunity, the computer data we use should carry far less weight in our decisions, if we truly want to produce future race horses.

PEDIGREE INSIGHTS: POWER OF THE NICK
BY ANDREW CAULFIELD
(underlines added )

As someone whose income is largely derived from drawing up mating suggestions for stud owners, should I be feeling increasingly threatened by the proliferating number of computer--generated nicking services now available?

Well, I suppose the answer depends on how much faith one has in the concept of a successful nick. Many breeders clearly find it reassuring that a particular cross has worked before, encouraging the belief that such a nick represents the surest route to success. On the other hand, Rob Whiteley--a breeder with a thorough grounding in statistics and logic--wrote to TDN on February 21 in support of Bill Oppenheim’s contention that sample sizes are frequently too small to be reliable.

Bill had cited the Storm Bird/Secretariat nick as the perfect example of the way success rates tend to drop as the numbers bred on that cross increase. For the record, this cross got off to a magnificent start in 1985 when Storm Bird’s first crop produced Storm Cat and the highly talented English-trained Storm Star, both of them out of daughters of Secretariat. Their success inevitably resulted in more Secretariat mares heading to Storm Bird’s door and this further support was justified by the appearance of the Preakness winner Summer Squall and the fast English colt Mujadil. By now the Storm Bird/Secretariat cross was beginning to be regarded as the goose that laid golden eggs, to the extent that--by the end of Storm Bird’s career--more than 11 percent of his foals were out of Secretariat mares. Yet this escalation in the number of foals bred on this cross yielded very little, with Storm Cat, Storm Star, Summer Squall and Mujadil remaining the only graded/group winners produced by the cross.

Storm Bird’s name also crops up in another example. It was a daughter of Storm Bird who provided Gulch with his first champion, Thunder Gulch, and this resulted in Gulch siring more foals from Storm Bird mares than from daughters of any other broodmare sire. The total now stands at 56 but none of Thunder Gulch’s successors has so far hit the Grade I target.

It’s my belief that this apparent weakening of a popular cross owes plenty to conformation--or breeders’ willingness to overlook conformation in the reckless pursuit of nicks. Virtually every stallion sires a wide variety of physical types, with a portion of their offspring inevitably showing the influence of their dam or broodmare sire. So, while Storm Bird may have been suited by a particular type of Secretariat mare, it is unrealistic to think that he was suited by ALL types of Secretariat mare. Seth Hancock once made some interesting observations to the Blood-Horse regarding the importance of conformation, as opposed to nicks: “I never bred a good horse by Unbridled, and maybe the reason is he was a big horse and I tried to breed him to a smaller type of mare, many from the Northern Dancer line. I can’t say that worked. I’m not so sure it is as much a blood thing as it is a physical thing. The longer I stay in it I believe the more I’m going to be a type-to-type guy. I believe I should have bred some mares more of Unbridled’s type to him than I did. “Another aspect which needs taking into account is a broodmare’s ability on the track. If the Storm Bird/Secretariat nick had been founded by comparatively low-achieving mares, we would really have been onto something. However, Storm Bird sired Storm Cat from the dazzling Terlingua; Summer Squall from a dual Grade III winner; Storm Star from a Grade III winner; and Mujadil from a winning mare who produced four stakes winners. It is surely also relevant that these four mares all produced graded winners to other stallions. In other words, Storm Bird’s so-called nick with Secretariat mares was based on mares which were well above average in one respect or another. So were the breeders who sent comparatively ordinary daughters of Secretariat to Storm Bird fooling themselves in believing they were improving their chances of breeding a stakes winner?

Saturday’s GII Lane’s End S. will have bolstered many people’s faith in nicks, as the impressive winner, Adriano, is no less than the 12th graded winner sired by A.P. Indy from daughters of Mr. Prospector. As these 12 come from a sample of 100 foals, they represent an impressive 12 percent, with the percentage rising still higher when a handful of other stakes winners are included. So here we have an example of a nick which has stood the test of time since its potential was highlighted by Pulpit, Tomisue’s Delight and Accelerator, three members of A.P. Indy’s first crop. Perhaps the nick has derived some of its staying power from the fact that A.P. Indy and Mr. Prospector have both been champion sire and Mr. Prospector has been champion broodmare sire on numerous occasions.

Costume, another of the weekend’s Grade II winners, also represents a successful nick (even though she carries a Werk nick rating of B+). There are 25 foals by Danehill out of Nureyev mares--a mating which creates 3x3 inbreeding to Northern Dancer--and Costume is the fourth group winner to emerge from them. She follows Desert King (G1 Irish 2000 Guineas and Irish Derby), Danestorm (G1 Brisbane Cup) and Distinction (G2 Goodwood Cup).

While this cross was attractive, it has always been Juddmonte’s priority to try to pair mares with stallions which suit their conformation. Danehill’s progeny tended to be strong, more compact than lengthy, and he passed on his own good hind-leg and hocks. He was also a fairly reliable source of bone, the danger areas being a risk of back-at-the-knee conformation and upright pasterns. In the case of Costume’s dam, the Group 3 winner Dance Dress, Danehill was considered an excellent match for this quality individual on the score of size, bone, pasterns and hocks. The theory became reality in the form of Costume. Correct enough and sound enough to have raced 12 times already, this admirably genuine filly seems to be still on the upgrade. And while the nick which produced her now has 16 percent group winners to its credit, Juddmonte’s holistic approach to matings has done even better. Costume is one of 13 group/graded winners among Juddmonte’s 57 living foals by Danehill, which equals nearly 23 percent, and she is one of the sample’s 17 stakes winners (nearly 30 percent).

It is going to be interesting to see whether Thousand Words, a four-year-old by Danehill’s son Dansili out of a mare from Costume’s family, can emulate the filly’s success when he steps back into graded company following his impressive win at Santa Anita last month.

Champion Two Year Old and Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense had his first mare declared pregnant this morning at Lantern Hill Farm LLC.

2006’s leading North American owner Maggi Moss is off to a fast start for 2008 with her astute claim of the Lantern Hill raised five year old Mister Triester (left). Trainer Steve Asmussen haltered the Old Trieste-Scatter the Crowd gelding for $25,000 on January 10th at the Fair Grounds. The leggy chestnut won his next start for the same tag by 3 lengths at a mile under Shaun Bridgmohan on Jan. 28.

Wheeled back on Feb. 11 in allowance company at a mile, Mister Triester found the winner's circle a second time in as many starts for his new connections, winning the mile contest under Bridgmohan's patient handling by nearly two lengths.

In spite of being offered a quick profit on Mister Triester, Maggi has decided to sit tight and see what the future holds.

"He is my favorite horse, I just love him, " she said. "We will give him a short rest, and look for his next condition. He is a beautiful horse, has a lot of class, and is totally clean, " she added.

Bred by Lantern Hill Farm and Lighthouse Group LLC, Mister Triester sold from our 2004 Keeneland September Yearling Sale consignment for $85,000 to Cam Allard. Purchased for $135,000 by B. Wayne Hughes at the 2005 Barrett's March Selected Two Year Olds Sale, Mister Triester won early in his three year old season and placed second in the Illinois Derby (G-2) and third in the Derby Trial that year for trainer Warren Stute.

Now a winner at four and five as well, Mister Triester's career line is currently 19-4-2-3, $244,227.

Look for Mister Triester's 2005 half sister Disperse (by Najran) to start later this year for Lighthouse Group and Lantern Hill Farm under the tutelage of Ian Wilkes. Scatter the Crowd has a yearling filly by Dehere and is pregnant to Old Trieste's Grade I winning son Silver Train.

Photo Credit: Lou Hodges Photography

Mare Name	Covering Sire	LDB
Champagne Ending	Songandaprayer	Foaled
Vicky's Gone West	Officer	Foaled
Leading Lioness	Badge of Silver	Foaled
Winner's Edge	Hennesy	Foaled
Eliot Chacer	Sharp Humor	Foaled
Silver Wench	Stormy Atlantic	Foaled
Art Fan	El Prado	Foaled
Gemilli Stormy Way	Indian Charlie Purge	Foaled Foaled
Ablaze	Kafwain	Foaled
Frost Princess	Tale of the Cat	Foaled
Lever To Heaven	Artie Schiller	Foaled
Victorica	Empire Maker	28-Mar
Miner's Blessing	Dehere	1-Apr
Silver Crown	Forest Wildcat	1-Apr
Gold Princess	Silver Train	5-Apr
Aly's Conquest	Good Reward	7-Apr
Piney Woods	Exchange Rate	15-Apr
Sister Quick	Purge	15-Apr
Sleepoverwithgreer	Langfuhr	18-Apr
Sand Pebbles	Johar	19-Apr
Original Spin	Bernardini	26-Apr
Beyond Price	Dehere	26-Apr
Western Friend	Henny Hughes	29-Apr
On The Town	Tapit	29-Apr
Scatter the Crowd	Silver Train	1-May
Call Me Granny	Badge of Silver	2-May
October Beauty	Belong To Me	3-May
Clever Empress	Hennessy	14-May
Valiant Anna	Consolidator	16-May
Rare Rascal	Dehere	19-May
Aly's Adita	Malibu Moon	17-Jun

Australian Rebecca Hoy joins Lantern Hill Farm through the Communicating for Agriculture Program’s Equine Division. She was born and raised on her family’s beef cattle farm in Failford, New South Wales, and has 8 years experience working with quarter and paint horses. Rebecca worked as Head Nurse at Forster Veterinary Hospital, earned an Equine Nursing Certificate , and most recently worked at the resident mare hospital of Coolmore Australia. We are excited to have Rebecca join our team as she furthers her education in global thoroughbred farm management, breeding and sales.

Homebred Woodford Girl (left) made her Midway family proud at the Fairgrounds on February 4 with a 3 1/4 length maiden win going a mile on the dirt in just her second career start. Under a clever ride by jockey Patrick Husbands, the Honour and Glory three year old angled to the rail approaching the first turn, split horses around the second turn, and rallied determinedly through the stretch to win going away over favored Coeur d’ Arc.

Trained by Josie Carroll since last fall, Woodford Girl caught the eye of Steve Collison of The Handicapper’s Edge when she finished second in her career debut at Fair Grounds on January 11. In a race where very little seemed to go her way, Woodford Girl overcame her deadly one post position, stumbled at the start, went wide on both turns, but “showed true grit to come on for the place spot. This was a gallant effort all around for her.”

Woodford Girl is out of the winning Danzig Connection mare Shawgatny, (who was herself bred by Lantern Hill Farm LLC and Computer Applications Group in 1990). Shawgatny also produced Satulagi, by Officer, who won the Indore Pears Diamond Winkfield S. (L) in 2006 for trainer Stan Moore. The second dam, Star Empress, is the third dam of G-3 turf specialist Terrific Challenge.

Photo Credit: Lou Hodges Photography

One of Lantern Hill Farm’s most successful families got off to a quick start with its newest generation, when two-year-old Brother G. (pictured at left) won a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race for owner Zayat Stables and trainer Anthony Dutrow at Philadelphia Park on Nov. 3. Two weeks later, three-year-old Lead Time (below), joined the winners' ranks with a determined effort in a 6 furlong maiden test at Churchill Downs for owner/breeder Lantern Hill Farm and trainer Ian Wilkes.

Brother G, by Matty G., and Lead Time, by Gilded Time, are the second and first foals, respectively, from Lantern Hill's mare Sister Quick, the last daughter of Apalachee’s multiple stakes-producing daughter Come on Texas. Suzi Shoemaker purchased Come on Texas at the 19

97 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, when the mare's multiple record-setting turf speedster Texas Glitter (G3) was still a yearling. Come on Texas produced Cornhusker Breeders’ Cup Handicap (G3) winner Mr. John at Lantern Hill the next year.

Sister Quick’s yearling Toccet filly sold for $65,000 to Prater Thoroughbreds at the 2007 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The mare produced a colt by Grand Reward in 2007, and is back in foal to Cigar Mile (G1) winner Purge.

Photo Credits: Brother G. by Equiphoto; Lead Time by Reed Palmer Photography

Congratulations and thank you to all the purchasers of horses from our consignment to the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Bandini’s half sister Ashley Hall led the way for the Lantern Hill Farm consignment on November 6, selling for $825,000 on the bid of Croom House Stud manager Paul McCartan. Mr. McCartan purchased the winning daughter of the late Maria’s Mon on behalf of Denis Brosnan’s Epona Bloodstock, a division of Croom House Stud.

Ashley Hall is a daughter of Divine Dixie, which Lantern Hill sold for $2 million at the 2005 Fasig-Tipton November Selected Breeding Stock Sale. She is carrying her first foal by Bandini’s sire, Fusaichi Pegasus.

Croom House Stud raised Group 1 winners Candy Glen and Lavinia Fontana In County Limerick, Ireland, but Ashley Hall will likely join the broodmare band at the family’s newly acquired Kilflynn Farm in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Mr. Brosnan is chairman of Ireland’s leading food ingredients company, Kerry Group, and has served two terms at the helm of Ireland’s horse racing governing body, HorseRacing Ireland.

“I am thrilled that Ashley Hall will join such a distinguished breeding program, and thank Epona Bloodstock for their continued confidence in our horses,” Suzi Shoemaker said.

Epona Bloodstock had notable success with a Lantern Hill-bred colt it purchased as a weanling at the 2005 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale for $275,000. When resold at the 2006 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, the Johannesburg-Western Friend yearling brought $535,000 from Angie Sykes Bloodstock. Look for the colt, now named Strategic Knight, to run in 2008 under the tutelage of Paul Cole.

Also during the Keeneland November sale, Dixieland Band’s daughter Tally Ho Dixie topped the session when she sold for $285,000 to James T. Scatuorchio. Mr. Scatuorchio is best known to racing fans as the owner, with Michael B. Tabor and Derrick Smith, of Florida Derby (G1) winner Scat Daddy, who was recently retired to Ashford Stud.

Whistlin’ Dixie...

Tally Ho Dixie was selected as a yearling by Randy Trimble, who bought her for $85,000 on behalf of Richard Otto at the 2003 Keeneland September Sale. The dark bay proved a solid runner for Otto, registering four wins, three seconds and four thirds in 16 starts while earning $103,920. She concluded her career with an allowance win sprinting over Arlington Park's sod in June of 2006 before being retired to the breeding shed and mated to Grand Slam. "Mr. Otto bred her to Grand Slam because he thought that was a good cross--the same one that produced Limehouse," explained Shoemaker, who admitted that Otto had some reservations selling the mare. "He put her in the sale not really wanting to sell her," she said. "He wanted to get the first foal out of her, and would have been just fine taking her home, but I think everything really worked out." She added of the price, "It was significantly higher than the reserve. She's a nice mare, so we expected six figures, but not necessarily that." In addition to being by a hot broodmare sire in Dixieland Band, Tally Ho Dixie boasts a strong female family. Her winning dam, Tally Ho Annie (Capote), is a half-sister to Starrer, a dual Grade I winner of $1,043,033; and Steller Jayne, a three-time Grade I winner of $1,534,964. "And those mares all being bred to nice stallions now, so the family is really poised to explode," added Shoemaker.

Ashley Hall (pictured at right), a half-sister to Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G1) winner Bandini, who is carrying her first foal by Bandini’s sire, Fusaichi Pegasus, is among the six broodmares and eight weanlings Lantern Hill Farm has consigned to the 2007 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Keeneland’s world-famous November sale features a record 5,415 entries, and will occur November 5-19 in Lexington, Kentucky.

“Ashley Hall represents a rare opportunity to buy into one of today's most consistently successful families,” said Lantern Hill owner/general manager, Suzi Shoemaker. “She is a scopey gray daughter of the late Maria's Mon, and her two year old half sister, My Mammy (by Came Home), won her first start and placed third in Belmont’s Astoria Stakes from just two starts. My Mammy races for her owner/breeder, Smitten Farm, and will likely be even better next year at three. ”

Lantern Hill has eight colts and fillies to offer at the sale, all of whom were foaled and raised at the farm. There are especially nice individuals by freshman sires Forest Danger, Lion Heart, Limehouse, Pollard's Vision and Grand Reward, plus a handsome Tiznow half-brother to Your Round (by Distorted Humor), who won his first start at two in 2007 and placed in the Summer Stakes (Can-G3) from just two starts.

In a show of force from horses foaled at Lantern Hill Farm, champion Dreaming of Anna and her talented two-year-old stablemate Dreaming of Liz (right) captured back-to-back Grade 3 races at Arlington Park on September 8. E.T. Baird rode both fillies, who are homebreds racing for Frank Calabrese and trained by Wayne Catalano.

No relation to her champion stablemate, Dreaming of Liz captured the $150,000 Arlington-Washington Lassie Stakes on Arlington’s Polytrack main track for her first career stakes victory. The daughter of El Prado (Ire) is out of Grade 1 winner Silver Maiden, a daughter of Silver Buck who won the Lassie in 1997. Dreaming of Liz, who now has won two of her three career races, might be on track for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), the race Dreaming of Anna won last year during her championship campaign.

Lantern Hill consigned Dreaming of Anna’s dam, Justenuffheart, in foal to Distorted Humor to the 2005 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale. The Broad Brush mare, a half sister to champion Kitten’s Joy, drew the attention of Jody Alexander, who manages Greg Goodman’s Mt. Brilliant Farm in Lexington. The mare is now a member of the Mt. Brilliant broodmare band.

Dreaming of Anna and Dreaming of Liz are among four graded stakes winners in 2007 with Lantern Hill connections. The others are Dreaming of Anna’s older full brother, Lewis Michael, and Marju Mahab Al Shimaal (UAE-G3) winner Terrific Challenge.

Dreaming of Liz photo by Four Footed Fotos

“Keeneland September has become such a huge global market,” said Lantern Hill's owner/general manager, Suzi Shoemaker. “By offering online videos, we hope agents and owners have a chance to see the horses before they arrive in Lexington. Since our yearlings are raised and prepped here, we can present each horse in its natural environment, and give prospective buyers a unique viewpoint.”

On July 21, Dreaming of Anna won the $210,000 Virginia Oaks at Colonial Downs. The victory marked the sixth career win for the millionaire daughter of Rahy, who took the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) last year and was named the champion two-year-old filly. A week later, Lewis Michael earned his first graded stakes victory when he won the $300,000 Washington Park Handicap (G2) at Arlington Park.

The two July stakes winners join Terrific Challenge and Olivine as 2007 stakes winners who were foaled and raised at Lantern Hill. In March, Terrific Challenge won the Marju Mahab Al Shimaal (UAE-G3) at Nad al Sheba over a field that included champion Thor’s Echo. Olivine won Aqueduct’s Busher Stakes in February.

Many of you remember our intrepid spokesdogs, Sadie and Bob (left), from their magazine appearances on behalf of Lantern Hill Farm’s sales consignments.

Bob came into Farm Manager Rachel Holden’s life eight years ago, when she went to buy a goldfish and instead met Bob at a booth sponsored by the Paris Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). Even now, Bob jumps into farm water tanks to prove to Rachel that he can BE a fish.

Nine-year-old Sadie is the sixth collie at Lantern Hill for Owner/General Manager Suzi Shoemaker, who has owned a collie since she was 12. (In fact, the horses are chasing a collie in the Lantern Hill logo.)

When Bob and Sadie are not busy posing for photos, you will find these dedicated dogs taking care of farm security, customer relations, stall inspections, midnight foalings, breeding shed trips, sales set-ups and supervising yearlings as they pony or work in the round pen. Sadie and Bob are also an accomplished pinhooking team, and they want everyone to know that they receive more fan mail and Christmas packages than all of the Lantern Hill barn cats combined.

However, last fall after the sales, Bob announced that he wanted to spend less time in the spotlight so he could sleep. Sadie didn’t argue. After careful discussion, it was decided to find a Puppy Assistant for Bob and Sadie.

A nationwide search ensued to find the perfect breed, and we are happy to announce that a Cardigan Welsh Corgi, Rita Rooney (above right), joined Bob and Sadie on the farm in March. Rita comes from the breeding program of Robin and Frank Mello’s Spotted Fox Cardigans in Centertown, Kentucky.

Under the watchful eyes of both older dogs, Rita is learning all the important stuff first: eating, sleeping, playing, sleeping, eating, playing, sleeping. There’s plenty of time for that farm management stuff later.

A recent graduate of Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, Brie brings a wealth of horse experience from the United States Pony Clubs and 4-H, as a therapeutic riding volunteer and in running a children’s horse camp in her native Indiana. Luckily for us, she also knows her way around the office, having assisted at her family’s St. Francis’ Pet Hospitals, worked at Airdrie Stud, and most recently served as a Membership Coordinator at the United States Dressage Federation.

“We are pleased to represent this very athletic group of yearlings, which were bred and raised with the goal of racing, not selling,” said Lantern Hill general manager Suzi Shoemaker. “We plan to have all the yearlings on the farm for viewing this year prior to the sales, and encourage potential buyers to call for an appointment.”

Among the Lantern Hill yearlings are:

Colt by Awesome Again—Knock Off, by Fit to Fight. Half brother to Virginia Oaks winner and course-record setter Art Fan.

Colt by Seeking the Gold—Stellar Slew, by Seattle Slew. Dam is a young Seattle Slew mare, from the family of Broodmare of the Year Kamar.

Colt by Tale of the Cat—Trust Fund, by Conquistador Cielo. From the family of Grade 1 winner My Trusty Cat, by Tale of the Cat.

Colt by Pleasantly Perfect—Winner’s Edge, by Seeking the Gold. Dam is graded stakes-placed runner and stakes-placed producer, from the family of European highweight Lucky Song.

Filly by Toccet—Clever Empress (GB), by Crafty Prospector. Half sister to multiple stakes winner Terrific Challenge, whose most recent win came at the expense of champion Thor’s Echo in the Marju Mahab Al Shimaal (UAE-G3).

Filly by Toccet—Shawgatny, by Danzig Connection. Half sister to 2006 English listed winner Satulagi.

Click here for a complete list of Lantern Hill’s Keeneland September consignment and to view walking videos of the yearlings.

Trained by David Donk, Olivine broke sharply under C.C. Lopez and went right to the front in the 1 1/16-mile contest. The bay filly led by a length after an opening quarter mile in 23.83, and she extended that advantage to six after a half mile in 47.71. From there, Olivine ran virtually unchallenged to the wire, cruising home to win easily in 1:44.76.

Lantern Hill product Dreaming of Anna overwhelming choice as champion juvenile filly

Dreaming of Anna, a Frank Calabrese homebred who was foaled and raised at Lantern Hill Farm, was nearly a unanimous choice as 2006 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly during the Eclipse Awards ceremony on January 22.

By Rahy out of the Broad Brush mare Justenuffheart, Dreaming of Anna was foaled at Lantern Hill in the spring of 2004. The beautiful chestnut filly was raised at the Lexington-area nursery (pictured) until the end of her yearling year, when she went into training with Wayne Catalano.

Dreaming of Anna posted a perfect season in 2006 when she won all four of her races. The filly broke her maiden going 4 1/2 furlongs in May before she won the $60,000 Tippett Stakes at Colonial Downs and the Grade 3 Summer Stakes at Woodbine in September. Dreaming of Anna culminated her outstanding campaign with a resounding 1 1/2-length victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Churchill Downs on November 4. The filly has banked $1,266,240 to date.

Dreaming of Anna's championship was a runaway, as she received 265 of the 270 first-place votes.

Dreaming of Anna is the second champion to be produced on the acreage comprising Lantern Hill. Princess Rooney, the 1984 champion older female, was also foaled and raised on the property.

Dreaming of Anna, a Rahy filly foaled and raised by Lantern Hill Farm, turned in a devastating, front-running performance to win the $1,832,000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Churchill Downs on November 4.

Out of the Broad Brush mare Justenuffheart, Dreaming of Anna broke well from the rail and was never headed. The strapping chestnut filly cruised through an opening half-mile in 47.96, and six furlongs in 1:12.34 before she galloped home to win the 1 1/16-mile race by 1¼ lengths in 1:43.81.

"This is a special moment," winning jockey Rene Douglas said after the race. "She's the best filly I've ever ridden, and it wouldn't surprise me if she was good enough to go for the Kentucky Derby rather than the Kentucky Oaks next year."

Wayne Catalano trains Dreaming of Anna for owner and breeder Frank Calabrese. Calabrese originally purchased Justenuffheart privately after her maiden victory, and she went on to win the Frances A. Genter Handicap and the Marie P. DeBartolo Oaks for the Chicago-area businessman.

Calabrese sent Justenuffheart to Lantern Hill Farm after her retirement in 2001. The mare – who is a half-sister to 2004 Champion Turf Male Kitten's Joy – produced her first three foals at Lantern Hill, among them stakes winner and 2006 Triple Crown contender Lewis Michael.

Justenuffheart was consigned by Lantern Hill Farm to the 2005 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale, where she was purchased by Mt. Brilliant Farm for $800,000.

Terrific Challenge, a four-year-old colt bred and raised by Lantern Hill Farm, won his third consecutive stakes race when he drew off to win the $60,000 My Frenchman Stakes at Monmouth Park on September 10.

Owned and trained by Stanley Hough, Terrific Challenge sat off the early pace but rallied under Joe Bravo to win the turf sprint by three lengths as the odds-on favorite. Time was 1:01 on a firm turf, which established a new course record for 5 ½ furlongs.

The victory was the colt’s fourth in 2006 and followed victories in the John McSorley and Sneakbox Stakes at Monmouth. Terrific Challenge has not been off the board in 10 starts this year, and he now boasts a career record of 15-7-5-2 for earnings of $255,400.

By Royal Academy, Terrific Challenge is the first foal out of the Crafty Prospector mare Clever Empress (GB). The mare descends from the immediate family of 2006 stakes winners Prince of Light (G3), Native Ruler and Satulago, the latter having also been bred, raised and sold by Lantern Hill.

Satulagi became freshman sire Officer's first stakes winner when she beat colts to win the listed Indore Pears Diamond Winkfield Stakes at Ascot on July 29. Bred and sold by Lantern Hill Farm LLC at the 2004 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale for $70,000, Satulagi became Officer's first winner on April 12, and had run second to Hope N Charity on July 1 at Newmarket in the listed Walker Transport Empress Stakes for Lambourn-based trainer Stan Moore.

2005 was a great year on the track for horses with Lantern Hill roots, led by Juddmonte Spinster S. (G1) winner Pampered Princess, whose dam, Crafty Ember, was a $27,000 Lantern Hill purchase for breeders Dr. R. Herman and Elizabeth Playforth at the 1995 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale. In a 1999 mating planned by Suzi Shoemaker, the Playforths sent Crafty Ember to Indian Charlie and sold the resulting filly to John Moynihan, agent for Martin Cherry, at the 2000 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. Named Pampered Princess, the Marty Wolfson trainee won 12 starts from two to five before her gutsy performance winning the Juddmonte Spinster at Keeneland. Pampered Princess was headed by Capeside Lady at the three-sixteenths pole, but dueled inside that foe, shook clear, and held off a late bid from Pleasant Home to win the 1 1/8 mile race by 1 3/4 lengths in 1:53.91. Pampered Princess was recently retired with career earnings of $786,185

Divine Dixie, dam of 2005 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G1) winner Bandini, was purchased by Robert and Janice McNair’s Stonerside Farm from Lantern Hill Farm’s consignment at Fasig-Tipton’s November Selected Mixed Sale on November 6, 2005, for $2-million.

At the sale, it was quickly apparent that Smitten Farm’s Divine Dixie had it all. Correct, beautifully balanced, a stakes-placed winner in her own right, by leading broodmare sire Dixieland Band, a half-sister to juvenile sire sensation Stormy Atlantic, and pregnant on one cover to Roman Ruler's sire, Fusaichi Pegasus, the mare showed her class by remaining unfazed during three days of intense scrutiny by a host of prospective buyers.

Bandini's 2005 spring campaign established him as one of the nation’s leading Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls, culminating with his six-length triumph in the Blue Grass, widely acknowledged as the year's deepest Derby prep race. Bandini is now training for a 2006 debut for trainer Todd Pletcher and owners Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith, and we wish the McNairs and all of Bandini’s connections the best of luck in the New Year.

The November 1 purchase of an adjacent 40-acre tract of land will allow Lantern Hill Farm to further improve accommodations for broodmares and foals. The gently rolling land, which will be known as Springfield, was formerly used as a cattle and hay farm and entire comprises Maury-McAfee soils. One of the existing barns will be remodeled for use as a farm quarantine facility.

Royal Ascot Queens’ Vase (Eng-G3) winner Melrose Avenue was bred by Lantern Hill Farm LLC, Audrey Daniels and Kris S. Robillard, and raised at Lantern Hill Farm. The Mark Johnston trainee looked beaten by Irish raider Helvetio as they entered the homestretch, but took up the battle and “with a display of sheer courage” held off Mr. Darley for the win. From the penultimate crop of Kris S, out of multiple stakes producer Sham Street, Melrose Avenue has won three of seven races and has earned $102,925 for owner Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.