Mid Atlantic Thoroughbred July 2011 : Page-2Page 16 Page 24 In This Issue Volume 19, Number 7 DEPARTMENTS Calendar 6 Letters to the editor 8 Mid-Atlantic report 10 Editorial, by Cricket Goodall 15 ’Chasing about, by Joe Clancy 34 Around the Ovals, by staff and correspondents 38 Obituaries 62 Stallion news, by Cindy Deubler 64 Sire rankings 65 Stakes winners 66 Looking back 73 Maryland newsletter 75 New Jersey newsletter 87 North Carolina newsletter 93 Pennsylvania newsletter 95 South Carolina newsletter 99 Virginia newsletter 101 West Virginia newsletter 103 Animal Kingdom’s dreamy Derby precedes Shackleford’s awakening After trainer Graham Motion had an eerie Kentucky Derby premonition, Shackleford produces an eye-opening victory in the Preakness. Story by Sean Clancy. Page 16 Plum Pretty looking good after Oaks victory Overlooked at sales, Pennsylvania-bred Plum Pretty becomes a sudden object of attention and casts a bright light on the Mid-Atlantic forces that developed her. Story by Joe Clancy. Page 24 Market cheers return of two-day Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale Buyers hike gross by 24 percent, nearly match the 2010 average at the noted 2-year-old auction. Story by Cindy Deubler. Page 28 COVER: Front-running Shackleford, his blaze face unsullied by Pimlico dirt, held fast in the Preakness Stakes-G1 and denied the late-gaining Animal Kingdom a chance at the Triple Crown. Photograph by Stuart Haman. 2 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JULY 2011 PATRICIA MCQUEEN LYDIA A. WILLIAMS Publication List |
