Monthly Archives: February 2013

Indiana voting!!

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Contact all Indiana voters you know that love the horse industry-phone, write or email your Legislator!                                      

Indiana SB528

 

Next week the Indiana Governor’s budget will be debated in House Ways & Means.  Now would be a very good time to contact Ways & Means members in support of keeping the horsemen’s money.

 

The message is simple: It makes no fiscal or public policy sense to destroy 10,000 jobs, $69 million in state and local tax revenues, a billion-dollar

industry and the investments of those who believed the state just six years ago in order to add $60 million to the state’s budget surplus.  If you are calling

someone in your district, tell them who you do business with back home.

 

Spread the word.  Please make the contacts and deliver the message.

 

W&M members: Tim Brown (Crawforsville) Chair; Suzanne Crouch ViceChair (Evansville); Greg Porter (Indianapolis) Ranking Minority Member; Jim Baird

(Greencastle); Steve Braun (Zionsville); Bob Cherry (Greenfield); Tom Dermody (LaPorte); Terry Goodin (Austin); Todd Huston (Fishers); Mike Karickhoff

(Kokomo); Clyde Kersey (Terre Haute); Sheila Klinker (Lafayette); Daniel Leonard (Huntington); Sharon Negele (Attica); David Niezgodski South Bend); Phyllis Pond

New Haven); Cherrish Pryor (Indianapolis); Maria Candelaria Reardon (Munster); Hal Slager (Schererville); Steven Stemler (Jeffersonville); Jeffrey Thompson

(North Salem); Randy Truitt (West Lafayette); P. Eric Turner (Cicero); Matt Ubelhor (Bloomfield).

 

Cherry and Goodin have been and continue to be, very good friends of the horsemen.  We got supportive votes last year on this committee (on a free-standing bill that

would have taken money) from Baird, Cherry, Goodin, Karickhoff, Klinker, Pryor, Candelaria Reardon, Truitt and Ubelhor.  Thompson and Kersey were absent for the

vote last year.

Winning!

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The stable won three races in January. We won our first race ever at Charles Town in West Virginia with PRIZE WINNER in an allowance race. She is stabled at Penn National and ran out of conditions, so the only track that had a race in the surrounding area that she was eligible for was this one at Charles Town. It is becoming harder and harder to find races for horses after they have won 3 races. This win took this homebred filly over $200,000  in lifetime winnings.

GOLDEN DUE broke its maiden at Turfway Park. Took the lead and went wire to wire for owners Margaux Farm and Penny Lauer.

Our hard luck horse of 2012 ALL THAT GLIMMERS ran at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas and won for owners Ralph Piercy and Penny Lauer. She earned that title by being on the vets list twice at Presque Isle for over two months after the vets in Kentucky both times ok’s her to run. These pre race vet inspections are quite controversial.

The bulk of our stable is at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs Arkansas where (as they say) ” The sun always shines”. The purses have increased from the 2012 meet, with the bottom purse being $15,500. Maiden Special’s are running for $54,000.