March

3/1/2008
Chancellor won the 1 ½ mile allowance race at Santa Anita in very gritty fashion. He fought hard coming down the stretch and after dueling back and forth, took charge and won convincingly. Unfortunately, while galloping out after he crossed the finish line, he took a bad step fracturing the sesamoid bone on his left front leg. We look forward to an uneventful recovery and then a new career as a stallion.

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February

2/26/2008
MULCAHY Declared WA Champion

Mulcahy winning the Trooper Seven at Emerald Downs. Photo courtesy of Emerald Downs.

• 2007 Champion Three-year-old
• 2007 Champion Three-year-old Colt or Gelding

(G., Tribunal --- Briar de La Rose, by Regal Companion)
Owners: Harley Hoppe * Howard Belvoir
Breeders: Mr. & Mrs. William T. Griffin (Griffin Place)
Trainer: Howard Belvoir

Stakes: Emerald Downs Derby (EmD), Seattle Slew H. (EmD), Trooper Seven S. (R) (EmD); 3rd Seabiscuit H. (BM), Tacoma H. (EmD).

WTBA Sales Graduate.

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1/10/2008
Rings a Chime’s Daughter Breaks Maiden in Grade 1 Stakes
By WTBA

Stonerside Stables’ homebred Country Star, a two-year-old filly from the first crop of classic winner Empire Maker, won her second start, the $500,000 Darley Alcibiades Stakes (G1) on Keeneland’s opening day card, October 5, by one length. Country Star is the third foal out of 2000 Washington horse of the year Rings a Chime, who scored the biggest win of her career when she won the Ashland Stakes (G1) at the same Kentucky track. A two-time Washington champion, Rings a Chime was bred by Terry and Mary Lou Griffin and the daughter of Metfield—Outofthebluebell, by Red Ryder, earned $606,315. Rings a Chime, who had been purchased for $800,000 in 2002 by Stonerside, produced a colt by Storm Cat this past spring and was bred back to Giant’s Causeway.

After closing well to be second in a 1 1/16 mile maiden special weight turf race at Belmont Park in late September, Country Star, who is trained by Robert Frankel, raced mid-pack in the Alcibiades under the guidance of Rafael Bejarano before making her move by going “seven or eight wide leaving the second turn to make a sweeping run.” Her final time was 1:45.85. A to the Croft, by Menifee, finished second and Grace Anatomy, by Alderbaran, ran third.

The second winner and stakes winner for Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Empire Maker, Country Star has earned $320,600. Frankel later announced that Country Star will not be going to the 2007 Breeders’ Cup.

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Updated: 4/22/2008