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Malibu Moon yearlings win best in show in Maryland
Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:16 PM
David and JoAnn Hayden’s Dark Hollow Farm of Upperco, Maryland, exhibited both the grand champion and reserve champion at the Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s 75th annual Yearling Show held on Sunday at the Timonium Fairgrounds.
Buzz Chace, one of the nation’s leading bloodstock agents, served as judge. Both of the top-ranked yearlings were sired by Malibu Moon, a Kentucky stallion partially owned by the Pons family’s Country Life Farm in Bel Air, Maryland.
Taking top honors was a colt out of Kinlin, by Unbridled, described by Chace as a “nice individual who had all the right angles and a great disposition.”
The reserve champion, a filly out of Clever Phrase, by Clever Trick, was “racy, with a nice head on her and an elegant good look,” Chace said.
The filly is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Ready’s Image, who won his class at the 2006 MHBA Yearling Show judged by Tim Ritchey and was the champion Maryland-bred two-year-old male of 2007.
Maryland Stallion Station’s Rock Slide won the challenge trophy for leading sire.
