PHBA - Champions

PA Bred Champions of 2008

PA-Bred Champion Two Year Old Colt or Gelding
JUKE JOINT
bred by David DiPietro
(Ch. c., 2006, Jazz Club - To The Chapel, by Runaway Groom)

Winner in three of four starts in 2008, including a seven length score in the Send More Money Stakes at Presque Isle Downs and a four length victory in the Maryland Million Nursery Stakes, earning $165,750.

PA-Bred Champion Two Year Old Filly
GLORIOUS SMILE
bred by Pandora Farms
(Bay f., 2006, Honour And Glory - Contagious Smile, by Halo)

Winner of the Blue Mountain Futurity at Penn National and the Eavesdrop Stakes at Philadelphia Park. Glorious Smile won two of her four starts with two seconds, earning $113,165.

PA-Bred Champion Three Year Old Colt or Gelding
DEAL MAKING
bred by Augustin Stable
(Bay c., 2005, Empire Maker - Recording)

Winner of three straight, including the Stanton Stakes at Delaware Park, followed by thirds in the G2 Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga and the G3 Bryan Station Stakes at Keenland, earning $121,500.

PA-Bred Champion Three-Year-Old Filly
EXTRA SEXY PSYCHIC
bred by Toni Kirwan & Ed Hipps
(Dk. b. f., 2005, Freud - She's Pretty Too, by Housebuster)

Winner of four of her eight starts including a six length victory in the Cozy Lace Stakes at Presque Isle Downs and a second place finish in the Wonders Delight Stakes at Penn National, finishing with $201,690 in earnings.

PA-Bred Champion Older Male
WHISTLE PIG
bred by Sylmar Farms
(Dk. b. g., 2004, Patton - Yanni's Girl, by Commadore C.)

Winner of six of fourteen starts in 2008, including four stakes victories the Presidentialaffair and Leematt Stakes at Presque Isle, and the Lyman and Yankee Affair at Philadelphia Park, earning $296,160.

PA-Bred Champion Older Female
JET AWAY JANE
by Ted & Robin Stepanoff
(Bay m., 2003, Unbridled Jet - Mints First Star, by Beyond The Mint)

Winner of four stakes in seven starts, the Foxy J. G., the Langhorne, and the Ambassador of Luck Handicap, all at Philadelphia Park, and the Daylilly Stakes at Penn National earning $240,340.

Turf Horse of the Year
LORD ADMIRAL
bred by London TBS & Derry Meeting Farm
(Bay h., 2001, El Prado - Lady Ilsley, by Trempolino)

Winner of the Al Rashidiya (UAE G3) and the Jebel Hatta Nayef (UAE G2) at Nad al Sheba Racecourse in Dubai, and seconds in the Amethyst Stakes-G3 and the Meld Stakes-G3 in Ireland, with earnings of $411,341.

Jumper of the Year
DARK EQUATION
bred by London TBS & Derry Meeting Farm
(Bay g., 2001, Polish Numbers - Night Risk, by Wild Again)

His one winning race in 2008 was a big one, the New York Turf Writers Handicap (NSA G1) at Saratoga, and also finished a close second in the A. P. Smithwick Memorial (NSA G2) at Saratoga.

PA-Bred Claiming Horse of the Year
BANK'N ON GOLD
bred by Sylmar Farm
(Ch. f., 2005, Banker's Gold - Bank'n On Dixie, by Water Bank)

Winner of seven of fourteen starts, she broke her maiden for $25,000 in May by fifteen lengths, then went on to win three starter allowance races, and three open allowance races, finishing with earnings of $223,520.

2008 Champion Sprinter
FABULOUS STRIKE
Bred by Tea Party Stable Inc. (Walter Downey)
(dk.b./br.g., 2003, Smart Strike-Fabulous Find, by Lost Code)

Won the Vincent A. Moscarelli Memorial at Delaware Park, and both the Fall Highweight Handicap and the Gravesend Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct, and fifth in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1), earning $306,580.

Leading Award Recipient Pennsylvania Breeding Fund
SYLMAR FARM (BETSY & RONNIE HOUGHTON)
Total Awards Earned - $259,464

Leading Overall Breeder of Pennsylvania-Breds
AUGUSTIN STABLE - GEORGE STRAWBRIDGE, JR.
Total Earnings - $1,362,734

Total earnings of $1,362,734 in North America and Europe for horses bred by George Strawbridge Jr.

Pennsylvania’s Stallion of the Year
PATTON
(h., 1991, Lord At War (Arg)-Slew Me Down, by Seattle Slew)

$64,861