Maggie Slew Tops Among Indiana-Bred Earners

From Bloodhorse Magazine:

ndiana Horse Racing Commission and the Indiana Thoroughbred Breed Development Advisory Committee announced the award-winning Indiana-bred earners for 2006. Maggie Slew, bred and raced by Swifty Farms, was named Horse of the Year and top 3-year-old filly. Trophies to the winning connections will be given in the spring.

Award recipients are:

  • 2 year-old colt/gelding: B.B. Mancini. Breeder John O’Meara, owner Equi.race Management Service
  • 2-year-old filly: Amature’s Prize. Breeders Michael and Penny Lauer, owners Jim and Scott Farrar and Penny Lauer
  • 3 year-old colt/gelding: Im More Than Flash. Breeder Nikki Luce, owners Nikki Luce and Janice Jordan
  • 3 year-old filly: Maggie Slew. Breeder and owner Swifty Farms
  • Older horse/gelding: Edgerrin. Breeder James R. Elliott, owners Merrill Scherer and Dan Lynch
  • Older mare: Lady Blue Sky. Breeder Heidi Crane, owners Don Roberson and Windy Barco
  • Horse of the Year: Maggie Slew. Breeder and owner Swifty Farms
  • Owner of the Year: My Stables
  • Breeder of the Year: South River Ranch
  • Stallion of the Year: Crown Ambassador. Owner Swifty Farms.
  • Broodmare of the Year: Mean Marlene. Owner John O’Meara

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True Quality Retired to Swifty Farms

Grade II winner True Quality has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Don and Dana Myers’ Swifty Farms near Seymour, Ind. The 6-year-old son of Elusive Quality out of the stakes-winning Seeking the Gold mare Louve Mysterieuse will stand for $2,500 live foal.

A $280,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October sale yearling, True Quality set the pace in all five of his wins, including a victory in the General George Handicap (gr. II) at Laurel Park over grade I winner Fabulous Strike. True Quality’s other stakes win came in the Paumonok Handicap in his previous start.

“As a top-class, grade II-winning sprinter he will be very popular among breeders in Indiana, as well as our neighbors in Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio who want to take advantage of Indiana’s lucrative state-bred program,” manager Christina Lawton said. “Now they have a great reason to breed back in our state.”

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