Next Membership Meeting is Wednesday, Sept 8, 2010 at The Red Mile our guest speaker is bloodstock agent John Ferguson.

John Ferguson first became involved in the racing industry at the age of 18, when he worked as a stable lad for Nick Gaselee in Lambourn – an area of the UK that is second only to Newmarket in its number of racehorses.

In 1979, John attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst – where all Officers in the British Army are trained to take on the responsibility of leading soldiers. Two years as a Lieutenant with the 1st Battalion Scots Guards followed, but in 1982 the call of the racing world proved too strong and John moved to Newmarket to take on the role of Assistant Trainer to Sir Michael Stoute.

During the three years he spent at Freemason Lodge, the stable was home to some truly outstanding racehorses, headed up by Shareef Dancer, who won the Irish Derby in 1983, plus 2,000 Guineas and QEII Stakes winner Shadeed.

In 1985, John moved into the world of bloodstock and after five years with Richard O’Gorman, branched out on his own and established John Ferguson Bloodstock. Since then, John has established himself as one of the world’s leading purchasers of bloodstock, and has acquired some of the most talented horses to grace the track in the last 20 years, as future stallions, mares, racehorses and young stock and is responsible for all of Darley’s operations

• Registration is at 6:15 P.M. At The Red Mile
• RSVP Must be made by 5:00 P.M. Sept. 3, 2010.
• NO RSVP will be taken after the deadline.
• Please RSVP. Walk-in- seating will be very limited.
• Dinner starts at 6:45 pm.$20/members; $25/guest.
• Please list all attendees.To pre-pay mail check or credit card info to KTFMC, 1005 Richmond Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40502, or register online at www.ktfmc.org

Callan Strouss, manager of William Farish’s Lane’s End Farm- Oak Tree Division Farm, was chosen as the 2010 Kentucky Farm Manager of the Year. The annual award will be presented at the Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Premier Event on October 8th at The Red Mile. The criteria for the award are excellence in farm management, service to the KTFMC and the community.

Strouss was hired by Lane’s End in 1981 and quickly was promoted to broodmare manager and in 1993 promoted to Farm Manager of the Oak Tree Division in northern Lexington. A native of Youngstown, Ohio Strouss grew up playing polo with his father and furthered his passion for thoroughbreds after moving to Lexington in 1978 when hired by Dr. Smiser West’s Waterford Farm. During his 30 plus year career Callan has help raise some of the industry’s top racehorses, broodmares and stallions including A.P. Indy, Summer Squall, Kingmambo, Miesque, De La Rose, Spinning World, Divine Proportions and Weekend Surprise and is a vital asset to the Lane’s End team.

His commitment to raising excellent horses goes even further than Lane’s End; he and wife Darcia Fantucchio own and operate Caldara Farm, a 60-acre property adjacent to Oak Tree. There they have raised and sold many stakes winners including Break Water Edison and C P West. Strouss is a past treasurer and board member of the KTFMC as well a past President of the Lexington Polo Club.

He currently holds positions of Vice President of the Kentucky Equine Management Internship (KEMI), Secretary of the Lexington Polo Club and a board member Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Fund as well as memberships with leading organizations KEEP, TOBA, CBA, and the Thoroughbred Club of America.

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The Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club will host the 11th annual Sporting Clay shoot on August 28th, 2010, at the Elkhorn Creek Hunt Club in Owenton, Kentucky. It has always been a great day of shooting and promises to be just as exciting this year. All participants receive free shells, a golf cart and discounts on practice rounds. There will be a lunch buffet provided after the shoot.

We will have two levels of corporate sponsorship –

Gold Sponsors: One free team entry (3 people), your company advertising at a shooting stand, company logo on the Sporting Clay Corporate Sponsorship page in the 2011 Farm Managers directory.

Silver Sponsors: receive advertising at a shooting stand and company logo on the Sporting Clay Corporate Sponsorship page in the 2011 Farm Managers directory.

There will be a special drawing for all Corporate Sponsors. In years past we have had excellent support from our sponsors and look forward to having you participate this year. This KTFMC event provides an enjoyable day for everybody and benefits local charities through your generous support.

To enter, please complete the enclosed Sponsorship form. Return the form and check to:

KTFMC
1005 Richmond Road
Lexington, Ky 40502

Corporate Sponsorship Deadline: August 13, 2010
Team Entry Deadline: August 23, 2010

We appreciate your support and look forward to seeing you there for a great day of shooting.

Sincerely,
Michael Callanan
Sierra Farm

Des Dempsey
Spendthrift Farm

Next Membership Meeting is Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at Keeneland and our guest speaker is Dan Rosenberg.

Dr. Page to speak at June 9 Membership Meeting

Dr. Allen Page is researching the intestinal bacteria Lawsonia intracellularis and the disease it causes, equine proliferative enteropathy. He has received a grant to conduct a seroprevalence study in the weanling Thoroughbred population this Fall and is hoping that the KTFMC can help.

His funding will allow him to test up to 350 weanlings monthly from mid-August through mid-January. Because of the large number of foals that he is aiming to test,  he would like to  enroll at least 35 farms in this study.

There would be minimal disruption to the farms as it would usually require only one blood sample be taken per month from each weanling enrolled in the study.

Dr. Allen Page graduated from the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 2008 and moved to Kentucky to complete a rotating internship at the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute.  During this internship, Dr. Page began his research on Lawsonia intracellularis, the causative agent of equine proliferative enteropathy (EPE), focusing primarily on the epidemiology of the disease as well as the use of early screening techniques to prevent clinical disease.  After completing his internship in 2009, Dr. Page was accepted to the Ph.D. program at the University of Kentucky’s Gluck Equine Research Center where he is continuing his research on L. intracellularis and EPE as a full-time graduate student.

Calvin Borel’s career has included three Kentucky Derby  victories; 2007 with Street Sense, 2009 with Mine That Bird, and this year with Super Saver.

Borel has guided Rachel Alexandra to stakes wins in the Golden Rod Stakes, Fair Grounds Oaks, Fantasy Stakes, Kentucky Oaks, Preakness Stakes, Mother Goose Stakes, Haskell Invitational, and the Woodward Stakes. The Preakness was the first win by a filly since 1924 and the Woodward was the first ever victory by a filly.

The Kentucky Oaks victory marked only the second time since 1993 that a jockey has won the Oaks-Derby combo and just the seventh jockey overall to accomplish this feat in the same year.

Borel hails from south Louisiana, famous for having produced top jockeys like Randy Romero, Kent Desormeaux, and Shane Sellers. Borel began riding in match races at the age of eight.

Chris McCarron’s career has included Kentucky Derby victories with Alysheba in 1987  and Go For Gin in 1994.

McCarron has Breeders’ Cup Classic wins aboard Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Alphabet Soup and twice with Tiznow.

McCarron was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989 and retired in 2002 as all-time leader in earnings category (over $260 million in purse earnings) and moved to seventh in the win category with 7,141 winners.

McCarron is founder and executive director of the North American Racing Academy.

• Registration is 6:15 P.M. at Red Mile
• RSVP Must be made by 5:00 pm, June 7, 2010.
• NO RSVP will be taken after the deadline
• “Walk in  seating” will be very limited
• Dinner starts at 6:45 pm
• Register online at www.ktfmc.org
• $20 per member, $25 per guest
• Please list all attendees
• To Pre-Pay mail check or credit card info to: KTFMC, 1005 Richmond Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40502

Next Membership Meeting is Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at Keeneland. Our guest speakers include Tim Leith, Andrew Chesser and Gary Falter from The Jockey Club Information Systems.

Topic Outline
1) The Jockey Club’s Interactive Registration and an update on their Registration Center – Andrew Chesser
2) TCA, TRF Foal Check-off Program – Andrew Chesser
3) Tattoo Identification Services – Andrew Chesser
4) New Client-View web service for farms and their clients – Tim Leith
5) New Pedigree Analysis and Research Program – Gary Falter

Tim Leith
Tim Leith joined The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc. in July 2002 and currently serves as account manager. He assists customers with equineline.com, the Horse Farm Management System and custom reports. He also provides onsite customer support and represents TJCIS at horse sales throughout the country.
Leith graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in agricultural economics and a minor in business management. During college, he spent three years with Equibase Company, also a member of The Jockey Club family of companies, providing quality control of race entries and results as well as jockey and trainer names. He also organized all North American race dates and cancellations for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s National Racing Calendar.
Before joining TJCIS, he worked in sales and finance for Wells Fargo Financial and Ameriloan Home Mortgages.
A native of Owensboro, Ky., Leith resides in Lexington, Ky., with his wife, Jessica.

Andrew Chesser
As the Customer Service Coordinator within Registration Services, Chesser’s primary objectives include the design and promotion of Interactive Registration, The Jockey Club’s digital means of handling registry processes.  Other responsibilities include digital customer service and spending time investigating and analyzing internal procedures and software, looking for potential areas for improvement.  Prior to joining The Jockey Club, Chesser spent time at Blood-Horse Publications as well as other major Thoroughbred farms in New York and Kentucky. A native New Yorker, Chesser holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics with a minor in Business from The University of Kentucky.

Gary Falter
Gary Falter, a Columbus, Ohio native, joined The Jockey Club Information Systems, Inc. as the Director of Product Development in February 2000.  When Gary joined TJCIS he had 18 years of information technology experience and 19 years as a thoroughbred owner and breeder. He was promoted to vice president and director of operations in 2004.
He is responsible for managing the development of equineline.com, the Internet-based information network for owners, breeders, trainers and farm personnel, and all other software programs offered by TJCIS.
Gary has owned and bred thoroughbreds for 29 years and maintains a small commercial breeding operation at his Red Fox Farm in Midway, Ky. In 2009, Gary and his wife Cindy were recognized with a Sovereign Award as the breeder of the Champion Turf Mare in Canada, Points of Grace.  Gary previously served on the board of the Ohio Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners.

- Registration is 6:15pm at Keeneland
- RSVP Must be made by 5:00pm, May 7, 2010
- NO RSVP will be taken after the deadline
- Please RSVP,  walk-in  seating will be very limited
- Dinner starts at 6:45pm ($20/members; $25/guest)
- Please list all attendees
- To prepay,  mail check or credit card info to:
KTFMC 1005 Richmond Road
Lexington, Kentucky 40502
- or register online at www.ktfmc.org

Jonathan E. Sheppard
Jonathan E. Sheppard is a Hall of Fame trainer in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

Sheppard came to the United States in 1961 and in 1966 won his first race with Haffaday in a steeplechase event at My Lady’s Manor, Maryland. In 1973 he won his first earnings championship in steeplechase racing. He went on to win the earnings title another twenty-three times. He has trained the winner of four Breeders’ Cup Grand National Steeplechase and holds the record for most wins in the Colonial Cup Steeplechase with eleven. Sheppard is the only trainer to win the American steeplechase Triple Crown, doing it with Flatterer, the only horse to win the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Steeplechase horse four years in a row.

In addition to steeplechase racing, Jonathan Sheppard has met with considerable success in flat racing. In both venues, he has had a long working relationship with stable owner, George W. Strawbridge, Jr. and in 2008 he conditioned Strawbridge’s filly Forever Together to victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

In 1990, he was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
In 2004, Jonathan Sheppard was elected president of the National Steeplechase Association.

In 2008, Sheppard joined fellow Hall of Famee inductee Sidney Watters, Jr. as the only men in American racing to have trained a champion over both jumps and on the flat. In all, Sheppard’s horses have won thirteen Eclipse Awards.

Christophe Clement
Racing is in Christophe’s blood. His grandfather owned racehorses, his father was a successful French trainer, and he grew up in Chantilly, France, at his father’s training yard. His older brother, Nicolas, has also followed the family tradition at the yard in Chantilly, from which he trained the winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in only his second year of training (Saumarez, 1990).
After the death of Christophe’s father, Miguel Clement, in 1978, Ghislaine and Alec Head took Christophe under their wings and allowed him to accompany them to the races, at morning gallops, and at their farm, Haras du Quesnay. Francois Boutin also fostered Christophe’s passion for horse racing, and Crickette Head-Maarek rounded out a group who helped and advised Christophe as he began his career in his father’s footsteps.

Christophe first came to the United States in 1986, working initially for Taylor Made Farm and then with Hall of Fame trainer, Claude “Shug” McGaughey. When he returned to Europe in 1988, Christophe served as an assistant to Luca Cumani for four years in Newmarket, England. During the years Christophe was with Luca Cumani, he was fortunate to be a part of Kahyasi’s great victory at the Derby at Epsom.

In 1991, Christophe went out on his own as a trainer in the United States. He won with the first horse he saddled, Spectaculaire, and just a few months later, he had two Grade II victories, with Passagere du Soir, owned by Mr. Paul de Moussac, and Sardaniya, owned by His Highness the Aga Khan.
In the years that followed, Christophe has had the privilege of training for many different American and international owners of both large and small stables.  Christophe has trained over 1000 winners and his horse Gio Pionti won two Eclipse awards in 2009 5 Grade 1 races including the Arlington Million.

Christophe studied economics at the University of Assas, Paris. He is married to Valerie, whom he met at the University and who helps manage the operations of the Florida stables. They have two children, Miguel and Charlotte.

• Registration is 6:15 P.M. at Red Mile.
• Dinner starts at 6:45 P.M.

• RSVP Must be made by 5:00 P.M. April 2, 2010.

• NO RSVP will be taken after the deadline.

• “Walk in  seating” will be limited.

• To Pre-Pay mail Check or Credit card info to KTFMC, 1005 Richmond Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40502

• Register online at www.ktfmc.org.

• $20 for members, $25 for guests

• Please list all attendees.

Corey Johnsen is the President of Kentucky Downs, the European-style race course located in Franklin, Kentucky, and the Vice President and Partner in Richland Hills, Inc.

Since graduating from Arizona State University, 30 years ago, Johnsen has been involved in the horse racing industry, mostly as a racetrack executive. But, during his college years Johnsen gained a deep appreciation for the industry and its participants when he took a summer job as a racehorse groom.

Prior to investing in the Kentucky horse racing and breeding industries, Johnsen was the President of Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie, the Dallas- area track which hosted the 2004 Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships. Involved in the development of Lone Star Park, Johnsen has been involved in the opening or re-opening of four different tracks throughout the world. They include Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Hipodromo de las Americas in Mexico City and Maronas National Racetrack in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Johnsen received numerous national honors during his career in horse racing. From 2005-2007, he was the President of the Thoroughbred Racing Associations, an organization which represents 43 of the most successful Thoroughbred tracks in North America. In 1986, Johnsen received an Eclipse Award for local video production. He has worked at Lone Star Park, Remington Park, Arlington Park, Louisiana Downs and Turf Paradise during his career. Over the past five years, Johnsen and partners have been involved in thoroughbred ownership in North and South America.

In 2007, the group owned the Grade 1 stakes winner Honey Rose (ARG), who was purchased in her native Argentina and brought to the United States for a successful campaign. Johnsen and his partners own numerous stallions, mares and foals in Uruguay and Argentina, as well as in Kentucky and New York.

- Registration start at  6:15 P.M. at Keeneland.
- RSVP Must be made by 5:00 P.M. March 5, 2010.
- No RSVP will be taken after the deadline.
- Please RSVP “Walk in  seating” will be very limited.
- Dinner starts at 6:45 P.M.
- $20/members; $25/guest
- Please list all attendees.
- Register online at ktfmc.org, click meeting registration link.
- To Pre-Pay mail Check or Credit card info to:

KTFMC
1005 Richmond Road
Lexington,Kentucky 40502

Alan Porter has been professionally involved with Thoroughbreds for nearly 35 years. He has authored racing and breeding analyses for three decades, and has been planning matings for leading breeders throughout the world for a quarter century.

After several years working on a stallion farm in England, Alan turned to journalism, joining Stud & Stable (later Pacemaker), a journal on which Alan worked as Deputy Editor. He then served an eight-year term as advisor for Mr. & Mrs. Bertram R. Firestone’s Catoctin Farm and Gilltown Studs before becoming a freelance pedigree advisor and journalist initially working from Long Island, N.Y., but now from Corinth, Miss.
Over the years, Alan has written regular columns for Daily Racing Form , Thoroughbred Daily News , Pacemaker , The Australian Bloodhorse Review , BloodHorseNOW.com , and Owner-Breeder International , as well as contributing to numerous other publications in Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and North America.
Alan has also authored three books on racing including Patterns of Greatness and Patterns of Greatness II – The Americans (co-written with Anne Peters) and was a contributor to Great Thoroughbred Sires of the World. A speaker at numerous seminars and conferences around the world, Alan has also provided pedigree commentary on camera for Fox Sports Network and for New York Times Television. More recently Alan has, along with Byron, been a co-developer and part owner of TrueNicks.
Alan Porter has consulted on breedings that have resulted in more than 100 stakes winners to date. They include three Eclipse Award winners in North America, as well as other champions and classic winners in Canada, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates, and group and grade I winners in at least 12 different countries. He currently advises leading breeders and owners in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Alan has been an owner and breeder in both England the U.S., and also owns an off-track Thoroughbred riding horse.

Byron Rogers spent eight years at Arrowfield Stud in Australia as Stallion Nominations and Bloodstock Manager, part of the team that developed the careers of leading sires Redoute’s Choice, Flying Spur and Danzero. Byron played an integral part in the relocation of leading Chilean sire Hussonet as well as planning matings for leading racehorses such as Miss Finland, Mentality, Fashion’s Afield, Sunday Joy, Royal Purler, Miss Bussell, etc
Byron extended his industry experience at Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky, where for three years he served as director of their stallion division, managing the careers of the likes of Unbridled’s Song, Forestry, Officer, Forest Danger, Northern Afleet and Southern Image as well as joint venture stallions Tiznow and Speightstown. In 2008, Byron returned to Australia to accept the newly-created post of national sales manager for William Inglis and Son, Australia’s leading Thoroughbred sales company. In 2009, Byron resigned from this position to concentrate on Pedigree Consultants and their associated companies. Byron has written numerous articles for Owner-Breeder International, TBH MarketWatch and The Australian Bloodhorse Review. He co-authored Great Thoroughbred Sires of the World. Byron is a co-developer and part owner of the pedigree rating system TrueNicks.

• Registration is 6:15 P.M. at Keeneland. RSVP Must be made by 5:00 P.M. Feb. 12, 2010.  NO RSVP will be taken after the deadline. Please RSVP “Walk in  seating” will be very limited. Dinner starts at 6:45 P.M.

• To Pre-Pay mail Check or Credit card info to: KTFMC, 1005 Richmond Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40502 or Register online at www.ktfmc.org.

• Dinner starts at 6:45 P.M.

• ($20/members; $25/guest)

• Please list all attendees.

• We will be passing out  2010 Directorys to all members in good standing.(Dues paid) 1 book per member.