stay thirsty ( foaled on 29 march 2008 ) is an american thoroughbred racehorse sired by the leading stallion bernardini .

he was bred in kentucky by john d. gunther and john darren gunther .

his dam , marozia , was sired by storm bird .

stay thirsty was consigned as lot 1147 by glenwood farm to the 2009 keeneland september yearling auction and was bought for $ 160,000 by whitehorse stables .

his trainer , todd pletcher , bought him for his owner , mike repole , for $ 500,000 at the 2010 fasig-tipton sale of 2-year-olds in training in florida .

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stay thirsty in the 2010 breeder ' s cup juvenile . photo : melissa bauer - herzog
stay thirsty came up huge in the travers on a hot , muggy day at the spa .
stay thirsty will race one more time this year and then stand at ashford stud next year .
there is another obstacle for either coil or stay thirsty to overcome that shackleford already has to his advantage .
preakness winner shackleford set the pace until stay thirsty passed him and then faded to an eighth - place finish .
stay thirsty wins 2011 travers stakes as mike repole , javier castellano , and todd pletcher talk about the win .
and how about missandhei still trying to figure out whether the unsullied have genitals ? stay thirsty , my friend .
stay thirsty and uncle mo met only twice on the track , both in breeders’ cup races at churchill downs . last year , stay thirsty was fifth to uncle mo’s victory in the juvenile . this year uncle mo and stay thirsty finished 10th and 11th respectively in the classic . so they really didn’t have much of a rivalry on the track .
stay thirsty earned $ 600 , 000 for the win and boosted his career total to $ 1 . 4 million .
multiple grade 1 winner stay thirsty has been sold and will relocate to lovacres ranch in california . the bloodhorse reports that terry lovingier , owner of lovacres ranch , purchased stay thirsty outright from ashford stud . “stay thirsty brings a ton of pedigree and is a big alternative to a lot of stallions out here , ” lovingier told the bloodhorse . [ … ]
tdn ' s andrew caulfield focuses his column this week on the pedigree of gi travers s . winner stay thirsty ( bernardini ) . he examines the success of a . p . indy - storm bird and a . p . indy - storm cat crosses ( stay thirsty is bred on the former ) and takes a closer look at stay thirsty dam side pedigree .
let ' s stay with the theme of things , longshots in the major three year old faces . going to use velazquez and rattlesnake bridge on top of stay thirsty and wheel in the double .
pletcher , the nation ' s leading trainer , said the jockey club gold cup on oct . 1 could be next for stay thirsty .
stay thirsty improved his record to four wins in 10 starts with his travers win . rattlesnake bridge and jw blue finished second and third respectively .
however , castellano was able to keep stay thirsty relaxed along the backstretch , and the colt had plenty left when he hit the final turn .
uncle mo’s sidekick stay thirsty looks to take back the limelight now that his stablemate is retired . thirsty obviously loves the new york tracks with his worst finish on them being a third in the g1 jockey club gold cup .
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“no doubt the travers was the highlight of owning stay thirsty , but the race that was the most impressive that he ever competed in by far was the jockey club gold cup , ” said repole , who will retain a minority ownership interest in stay thirsty . “he ran too good to be second . ”
uncle mo will have a year to get the jump on stay thirsty in the breeding shed , but i doubt it will make much of a difference .
unlike last year ' s thrilling finish , stay thirsty seized the lead rounding the quarter pole and never let persistent rattlesnake bridge get close enough to seriously threaten .
stay thirsty might be the best 3 year old colt in the country . he is really coming into his own . hope he runs and wins the classic .
in what might be the greatest revenge in the stallion community since the success of alydar over affirmed , stay thirsty appears destined to do the same to uncle mo . the uncle mo / stay thirsty rivalry on the track does not compare to the battle tested years affirmed and alydar went at each other . alydar and affirmed
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as a result , stay thirsty could be destined for the title his sire , bernardini , captured in 2006 , that of 3 - year - old champion male .
castellano expertly rode stay thirsty to a 11 / 4 - length victory in the midsummer derby on saturday before a crowd of 43 , 050 at saratoga race course .
point given , sire of coil , won the haskell and travers in 2001 . bernardini , sire of stay thirsty , won the jim dandy and travers in 2006 .
i allways like when a stable has 2 horses in the derby . and stay thirsty is definately bred to win . and i allways liked uncle moon of course .
stay thirsty followed in the footsteps of his champion sire bernardini on august 27 recording a triumphant victory in the $ 1 million g1 travers stakes at saratoga , usa .
stay thirsty is winless in four starts since the travers last aug . 27 . in two starts this year , he was second to trickmeister in a swiftly run vanlandingham stakes at belmont in may . last month , stay thirsty finished a non - threatening fifth to mucho macho man in the grade 2 suburban at steamy belmont park .
despite stay thirsty’s affinity for saratoga , trainer todd pletcher opted to skip the whitney , giving the colt a little more time to be better prepared for the woodward .
stay thirsty won jim dandy very impressive way , shackleford in haskell did not run very well , it was not his actual run , i think he has still the same stamina as he shown in kentucky derby and preakness , so i am not counting him down yet , i still believe that if he takes the lead as he did in the preakness stakes , he has still chance to beat stay thirsty , i am not worring about other horse , coil and ruler on ice might be challenging theses two horses like stay thirsty and shackleford but i have a doubt that they can succeed . so my selection will be either stay thirsty or shackleford will take the travers .
meanwhile , stay thirsty was unfazed by his outer post position , becoming only the second horse since 1901 to win the travers after breaking from the no . 9 post .
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( bernardini – marozia , by storm bird ) spent his two year old season in the shadow of his more precocious stable mate , uncle mo . as a juvenile , stay thirsty won his maiden at six furlongs then jumped into graded stakes company , finishing second in the hopeful stakes to the speedball , boys at tosconova . after a tough trip in the breeders’ cup juvenile , stay thirsty spent the winter maturing . stay thirsty prepped for his gotham win by working in tandem with the current kentucky derby favorite , uncle mo .
finish in the jockey club gold cup ( g1 ) and finishing off the board in the breeders’ cup classic . stay thirsty hit the board in three of five starts as a
stay thirsty has two winners from five starters . not surprising , since many of his babies will be mid - to - late season types and round into shape as three and
stay thirsty , a grand - looking son of bernardini , has a record of 4 - 5 - 1 from 16 starts and earnings of $ 1 , 726 , 000 .
thirsty : tell me a little about the debut ep , “get it over with already” .
thirsty : i find that people from small towns or the midwest make music like this .
after winning the gotham stakes at aqueduct in early march , but after a seventh - place finish in the florida derby and a 12th in the kentucky derby , stay thirsty was moving ever closer to staying home . a second - place finish to ruler on ice in the belmont stakes awoke some , but not enough to make stay thirsty the favorite in his next start , the grade 2 jim dandy stakes . stay thirsty won the jim dandy impressively by four lengths and went to the travers as the favorite , but only by one dime to the dollar more popular . stay thirsty was 2 . 5 - to - 1 in the jim dandy and the 2 . 4 - to - 1 favorite in the travers .
stay thirsty followed up a victory in the jim dandy stakes a few weeks ago with an impressive 1 1 / 4 length victory saturday in the travers stakes at saratoga race course .
stay thirsty , the betting favorite , paid $ 6 . 80 , $ 4 . 20 and $ 3 . 40 to win . rattlesnake bridge finished second , paying $ 10 . 80 and $ 7 . 60 . j . w . blue placed third , paying $ 11 . 40 . stay thirsty ' s winning time was 2 : 03 . 03 .
stay thirsty came into 2012 as one of the hottest horses in the sport , but unimpressive rides throughout the season and poor posting positions have doomed the greatness of the young horse .
thirstforlife , by ashford stud’s multiple grade 1 winner stay thirsty , will make his career debut in a stakes for trainer mark casse . the colt , a $ 240 , 000 keeneland november weanling purchase , is out of graded stakes winner promenade girl , making him a half - brother to grade 1 winner cavorting . the latter is by stay thirsty’s sire bernardini .
thirsty’s half brothers andromeda’s hero , who was second in the belmont stakes and his precocious full brother superfly who placed in the champagne stakes . stay thirsty’s distaff family traces directly back to mahubah , the dam of man o’war . his fifth dam igual produced triple crown champ assault .
stay thirsty ' s owner mike repole , center , with his grandmother noni , left , and his wife maria repole , right , hold up trophies after stay thirsty ridden by javier castellano won the 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . ( ap photo / hans pennink )
stay thirsty broke well and led entering the first turn . he conceded the lead to shackleford on the backstretch , but raced close behind in second with moonshine mullin in third on the outside .
stay thirsty ( 12 - 1 ) has had a disappointing four year - old season . he is zero for three in 2012 , with two fifth place finishes in his graded stakes races .
repole said the $ 500 , 000 he spent to buy stay thirsty was the most he ever paid for a horse “and i got every penny of thrills from it , ” repole said .
from left , shackleford with jesus castanon , stay thirsty with javier castellano , malibu glow with rajiv maragh , and ruler on ice with jose valdivia lead the field at the start of 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . stay thirsty won the race . ( ap photo / hans pennink )
while most of the recent talk is about coil and stay thirsty’s recent performances , the build up towards the travers is that the lead in the race for the division title is up for grabs .
but out of the “big” horses running , only stay thirsty , who went off as the morning line favorite , finished as expected . ruler on ice finished the best of the rest in fourth .
“he’s gotten so much better since the kentucky derby [ where he placed 12th ] , ” said stay thirsty’s trainer todd pletcher . “once javier [ castellano ] geared him up he took off . ”
stay thirsty ' s owner mike repole , center , with his grandmother noni , left , and his wife maria repole , right , hold up trophies after stay thirsty ridden by javier castellano won the 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . ( ap photo / hans pennink ) ( / ap )
repole said that uncle mo and stay thirsty were the two horses that put his stable on the map , and he’s happy to have them together again . uncle mo retired to ashford last year .
shackleford was expected to stay longer , but he was done by the time they reached the quarter - pole and left stay thirsty ( one mile in 1 : 36 . 74 ) to inherit the lead . stay thirsty held a 1 1 / 2 - length advantage with a furlong remaining , and only had to survive a mild threat from a closing rattlesnake bridge to secure his career - defining win . the final time for the distance on a fast main track was 2 : 03 . 03 .
stay thirsty raced closer to the front than he normally does , and in fact held the lead after a : 23 . 45 opening quarter before the expected pacesetter , preakness stakes ( gr . i )
with mucho macho man , to honor and serve and many others insuring this is one of the toughest races of the year , stay thirsty will be a favorite but far from a lock to win .
stay thirsty has a cross of northern dancer on his pedigree through his maternal grandsire storm bird and his paternal granddam cara rafaela . the 3 x 5 northern dancer cross the only doubling of a horse in the first five generations . while northern dancer is a prominent name in thoroughbred pedigrees , the lack of doubling in any other names in the immediate pedigree leaves stay thirsty a lot of options for mares .
stay thirsty was bred in kentucky by john gunther , who was at saratoga for the travers to watch the scopy bay by preakness and travers winner bernardini perform . gunther was impressed by the condition of stay thirsty and said , “he ' s filled out and matured a lot since the derby coming to the travers . he seems to have more weight through the body and be more mature - looking . ”
@ ivanlsardi , i ' ve also been impressed by stay thirsty this season . he looked awesome in the jim dandy , and i thought he ran a really respectable belmont , too . but i ' m torn between stay thirsty and coil for the travers ? because , imo , coil has been equally impressive himself in 2011 . his win in the haskell , coming from well off the pace to run down shakleford looks strong . and his swaps stakes and affirmed handicap run ' s look like really strong form lines as well . i may just play a stay thirsty - coil exacta , and box it .
stay thirsty’s damsire storm bird was a champion juvenile in ireland . at stud he produced preakness winner summer squall , the great storm cat and many other prominent runners . the offspring produced by his daughters include belmont stakes hero birdstone and multiple g - 1 winners commentator , and court vision . stay thirsty also carries the bloodlines of the classic chef - de - race roberto and belmont stakes winner arts and letters .
from left , shackleford with jesus castanon , stay thirsty with javier castellano , malibu glow with rajiv maragh , and ruler on ice with jose valdivia lead the field at the start of 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . stay thirsty won the race . ( ap photo / hans pennink ) ( / ap )
stay thirsty’s half brother andromeda’s hero was also second in the belmont stakes . that one’s full brother superfly was third in the champagne stakes ( g1 ) . their second and third dams are grade one placed .
stay thirsty is by bernardini , winner of the preakness , travers and jockey club gold cup - two of which are at the classic distance of 1 - 1 / 4 miles . after his first crop hit the track this year as 3 - year - olds with stay thirsty and to honor and serve among them , bernardini’s fee has been raised to $ 150 , 000 by darley stud in lexington , kentucky .
while stay thirsty was eclipsed by stablemate uncle mo during the majority of his career , he has a successful record , especially in new york races . as a 2 - year - old , stay thirsty finished second in the hopeful stakes ( gr . i ) behind boys at tosconova . he ended his second with a fifth place finish in the grey goose breeders’ cup juvenile ( gr . i ) behind uncle mo .
stay thirsty also matched his father by winning both the jim dandy at the spa and the travers , a feat that his owner , mike repole , said should put him firmly at the top of his division .
this year the one - and - a - quarter - mile stakes race for three - year - old colts will be headlined by haskell invitational winner coil , jim dandy winner stay thirsty and preakness winner shackleford .
it’s interesting enough to know that both coil and stay thirsty will try , at some degree , to duplicate their sire’s path in their three - year - old campaign and win the eclipse award in their division .
the impressive victories by coil and stay thirsty over the weekend have put them squarely in the conversation about the three - year - old division of the eclipse awards , with about three months left in the season .
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stay thirsty rebounded in the belmont stakes and missed the victory by less than a length . he picked up victories in the jim dandy ( g2 ) and travers stakes ( g1 ) before falling off form with a
. their distance scope will be sprinters through middle distances , and some may prefer running longer . it isn’t out of the realm of possibility that we’ll see some of stay thirsty’s offspring on the triple crown trail .
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stay thirsty ( 9 ) , with javier castellano up , malibu glow , left , with rajiv maragh up , and ruler on ice , right , with jose valdivia up , head towards the first turn at the start of the 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . stay thirsty won the race . ( ap photo / hans pennink )
as expected , shackleford broke for the lead from the outside no . 10 post . stay thirsty likes to run just off the pace , but found himself in front early - not exactly what pletcher had in mind .
stay thirsty’s sire bernardini was the three - year - old champion of 2006 and had a streak of five graded victories in a row before finishing second to horse of the year invasor ( arg ) in the breeders’ cup classic ( gr . i ) . stay thirsty was from bernardini’s first crop and helped him rank third on the leading first - crop sires list in 2010 . bernardini was the leading second - crop sire in 2011 .
saratoga springs , n . y . – on the day they ran the 143rd travers stakes , stay thirsty , winner of the 142nd travers at saratoga , was continuing preparations for next saturday’s $ 750 , 000 woodward stakes .
stay thirsty with jockey javier castellano in the saddle , right wins 142nd running of the travers stakes at the saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . aug 27 , 2011 . ( skip dickstein / times union )
stay thirsty with jockey javier castellano is exultant as owner mike repole , right leads his horse in to the winner ' s circle after winning the 142nd running of the travers stakes at the saratoga race course in . . . more
stay thirsty ( 9 ) , with javier castellano up , malibu glow , left , with rajiv maragh up , and ruler on ice , right , with jose valdivia up , head towards the first turn at the start of the 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . stay thirsty won the race . ( ap photo / hans pennink ) ( / ap )
prize in august and following up with a second place finish in the hopeful stakes ( g2 ) . he finished off of the board in the breeders’ cup juvenile . stay thirsty needed time to mature through the early spring of his
uncle mo has the 2 - year - old championship but in the end , stay thirsty has something much more important to breeders’ , a grade 1 win at 10 furlongs ( 1 - 1 / 4 miles ) . in fact , uncle mo never won at 1 - 1 / 8 miles , finishing third in the wood memorial in his only attempt at that distance . stay thirsty won the 9 furlong jim dandy and 1 - 1 / 4 mile travers .
bernardini and stay thirsty became the 16th father - son duo to win the travers , but only the second to be ridden by the same jockey . gary stevens accomplished the feat with thunder gulch in 1995 and point given in 2001 .
as if aware of the slight , stay thirsty galloped around the saratoga oval and won the travers nearly gate - to - wire and suddenly he was atop the 3 - year - old class looking down . in his first test against older horses in the grade 1 jockey club gold cup , stay thirsty was a good third behind eventual classic winner drosselmeyer and classic favorite flat out . he looked primed to be competitive and possibly be among the favorites for the classic .
, took over under jesus castanon . shackleford showed the way through a half - mile in : 47 . 63 and six furlongs in 1 : 11 . 91 while stay thirsty stalked him , and belmont stakes ( gr . i ) winner
when castellano asked for run around the turn , stay thirsty had plenty of response , surging into first to shackleford ' s outside . he never relinquished the lead despite a game effort from rattlesnake bridge , who drifted wide in the stretch .
stay thirsty , who emerged from the shadow of his more celebrated stablemate uncle mo to become a grade 1 winner , will rejoin uncle mo in his next career as a stallion at ashford stud in kentucky , owner mike repole said monday .
though he is winless this year , stay thirsty set the pace and repelled three early challenges in the jockey club gold cup before getting passed in the final three strides by flat out . he earned a career - best beyer of 109 .
todd and i will discuss the two options for stay thirsty , probably either the arkansas derby ( g1 ) ( on april 16 at oaklawn park ) or the florida derby ( g1 ) ( on april 3 at gulfstream park ) .
the travers is setting up very nicely . coil and stay thirsty looked great , and shackleford , ruler on ice and brilliant speed had their preps . throw in dominus and a few others and we have the makings of a great midsummer classic !
his face covered with perspiration , a conflicted mike repole tried to express his emotions after losing one big race by a nose with uncle mo and winning the $ 1 million travers stakes with stay thirsty about 30 minutes later at saratoga race course .
in this year’s renewal of the gotham , the favorite , stay thirsty , triumphed over whirlaway stakes winner toby’s corner grade 2 stakes placed nacho saint and a field of recent allowance and maiden winners . the todd pletcher trainee was wide on both turns and traveled the 1 1 / 16 miles in a moderate 1 : 44 . 78 conquering his rivals by over three lengths . in light of the developing trend , we need to ask , does stay thirsty have the pedigree to win a classic race ?
but americans still pay for distance . and stay thirsty will be much more likely to produce winners who can compete at the classic distance . and likely to some day emerge from the shadow of uncle mo and shine as if he was alydar himself .
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stay thirsty didn’t have the best start to the year , winning an unimpressive gotham stakes earlier in the year before finishing mid - pack in the derby . but when the triple crown made its way to belmont for the final jewel of the series , the repole camp was ready . “thirsty” didn’t win the race , but he did show a major improvement on form , finishing second .
it would be unfair to compare coil and stay thirsty to their sires at this time in their careers . by now point given had won the preakness and belmont , and bernardini the preakness . but at least on this part of their campaigns is similar .
preakness winner shackleford dueled stay thirsty for the lead throughout the first half of the 1 1 / 4 - mile race , but eventually fell off the pace . belmont stakes winner ruler on ice ( fourth ) and haskell invitational winner coil were never factors in the race . coil , the 5 - 2 second choice entering the race , finished last in the 10 - horse field in fact , once shackleford fell off the pace stay thirsty really was never challenged down the backstretch . shackleford faded to eighth place .
owner mike repole decided to run uncle mo in the classic instead of the dirt mile and before the classic , uncle mo would go off at 5 - to - 1 odds compared to stay thirsty back in double digits at 11 - to - 1 .
jim dandy winner and belmont runner - up stay thirsty pushed his way into the three - year - old eclipse talks after a win in the travers stakes at saratoga on august 27 . drawing a field that included triple crown jewel winners shackleford and ruler on ice , and haskell winner coil , in addition to stay thirsty , the travers was determined to be perhaps the biggest race in the second half of this year ' s three - year - old season with a wide open group of potential eclipse winners running .
stay thirsty , who ran a gutsy race when beaten a head by flat out in saturday’s grade 1 , $ 1 million jockey club gold cup at belmont park , will race once more before being retired , repole said . in no particular order , repole said he and trainer todd pletcher are considering the breeders’ cup classic , the bc dirt mile – both on nov . 3 at santa anita – or the grade 1 , $ 350 , 000 cigar mile on nov . 24 at aqueduct for stay thirsty’s final race .
during the 2000m race stay thirsty pressed the pace and found himself in the perfect stalking position . around the turn he began to take command , then opened up at the top of the lane and never looked back for a victory in the ' midsummer derby . '
stay thirsty has the better resume , as he won the grade iii gotham stakes early on the year and looked impressive with his easy win in the jim dandy . but coil has the quality win , as he defeated the preakness and belmont stakes winners in the haskell .
while repole’s big horse uncle mo made a splash in his return to racing today in the g1 king’s bishop where he finished second , repole’s forgotten colt , stay thirsty made his way to the winner’s circle , and eclipse talks , in the biggest race of the day .
stay thirsty , with javier castellano aboard , stands in the winner ' s circle after winning the 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . ( ap photo / hans pennink )
uncle mo was everybody’s all - everything from the time he broke his maiden by 14 - 1 / 2 lengths at saratoga through his undefeated championship season and being the winter racebook favorite to win the kentucky derby . meanwhile , during his 2 - year - old seaso , stay thirsty had finished second to boys at toscanova in the hopeful stakes after breaking also breaking his maiden at saratoga , but only by five lengths . stay thirsty went into the juvenile as an anonymous 13 - to - 1 shot and came out as a fifth - place whatchmacallit .
“i hope i own a lot of good horses , but there’ll be no horses that mean more to me than uncle mo and stay thirsty , ” repole said . “that they’re together again is just an amazing feeling . they couldn’t be on a better farm than coolmore’s ashford . ”
multiple grade 1 winner stay thirsty joins four other freshmen by 2006 preakness stakes ( gr . i ) winner bernardini in 2013 . this is the first time bernardini will have more than one son standing in a season as sophomore stallion wilburn stood his first year in 2012 last year .
with a powerful performance that catapulted him to the head the 3 - year - old division , stay thirsty took command at the top of the stretch and rolled to a decisive 1 ¼ - length victory over rattlesnake bridge in saturday ' s 142nd running of the grade 1 , $ 1 million travers at saratoga race course . leaving from post position 9 as the 5 - 2 favorite , stay thirsty found himself on the lead between horses as the field of 10 barreled toward the first turn and through an opening quarter in 23 . 45 seconds . eased back by javier castellano into second as preakness winner shackleford took over through a half in 47 . 63 and three - quarters in 1 : 11 . 91 , stay thirsty ranged up to challenge for the lead on the far turn and spun into the stretch with a lead that was never seriously threatened .
the 1 1 / 4 - mile travers , which included four of the top - ranked sophomores in the country , was billed as a race that would determine the division leader , and 2 - 1 favorite stay thirsty did just that under javier castellano . five years after his sire ,
stay thirsty won for the third time in four starts at saratoga . he broke his maiden there and romped by four lengths in the july 30 jim dandy . his only defeat at the spa came when second in the three chimneys hopeful stakes ( gr . i ) as a juvenile .
stay thirsty has a stamina oriented pedigree and has shown the ability to sit off the pace , yet he has the speed to quicken and put away his foes . the classic race distances shouldn’t be a concern for him and he could easily continue the eleven year gotham / classic trend .
the whitney drew a field of nine . fewer are expected for the woodward . as of saturday , the confirmed woodward starters were cease , mucho macho man , stay thirsty , and to honor and serve . possibles included isn’t he perfect and rule , who finished last in the whitney .
continuing the rash of 3 year old retirements is gemologist . he is joined by announcements for a trio of four year old horses : the factor , caleb ' s posse , and stay thirsty . additionally , winter memories , a millionaire mare on the turf , was retired as well .
stay thirsty , who went off as the 2 - 1 favorite , finished in 2 minutes , 3 . 03 seconds . he was followed by 14 - 1 rattlesnake bridge in second , 32 - 1 long shot j w blue in third and belmont stakes champion ruler on ice in fourth .
stay thirsty , with javier castellano aboard , stands in the winner ' s circle after winning the 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . ( ap photo / hans pennink ) ( / ap )
but there was a rivalry for recognition between the two , especially since both came from the same shed row of trainer todd pletcher and raced for outgoing owner mike repole . and no matter what he did , stay thirsty seem to ever remain in the shadow of his stable mate uncle mo .
stay thirsty’s dam marozia ( storm bird ) raced in europe , winning one race in nine starts and hitting the board three other times . she has proven to be a respectable producer with nine foals of racing age on the ground . from those foals , six have went on to race with five breaking their maidens and three winning stakes . andromeda’s hero and stay thirsty both brought home graded stakes wins for the mare with andormeda’s hero also finishing second in the belmont stakes ( gr . i ) in 2005 . marozia only has one grandfoal of racing age , who has not yet started .
stay thirsty’s granddam make change ( roberto ) was an ungraded stakes winner but hit the board in multiple graded stakes including seconds in five grade one races . in all , she won five times , finished second six times and third five times in 23 starts for $ 506 , 338 in earnings .
but earlier that same day at belmont , uncle mo had turned heads by winning the grade 1 kelso mile in only his second race after being sidelined and missing the triple crown . and during the weeks leading up to the breeders’ cup classic , uncle mo again took the spotlight from stay thirsty .
also there are some other contenders prepping up to try a late fall run at the title . most notably among them is stay thirsty’s stablemate , 2010 two - year - old champ uncle mo , who had his third work today . uncle mo worked five furlongs in 1 : 02 4 / 5 .
stay thirsty , winner of the 2011 travers stakes ( gr . i ) and second in saturday ' s jockey club gold cup ( gr . i ) , will stand at ashford stud , near versailles , ky . , upon retirement , owner mike repole told the daily racing form oct . 1 .
brilliant travers stakes winner stay thirsty will retire to stand at ashford stud for the 2013 season . the todd pletcher - trained son of bernardini ran a huge race in saturday ' s jockey club gold cup invitational and a decision will be made on the remainder of his racing career in the near future .
stay thirsty ( bernardini ) didn ' t show much in this one , but the four - year - old was making just his second start of 2012 and has tons of room for improvement this season . the top colt loves saratoga , so don ' t hold this race against him too hard .
from the first crop of champion three - year - old bernardini ( a . p . indy ) , winner of the preakness ( g1 ) , travers ( g1 ) and jockey club gold cup ( g1 ) , stay thirsty has an ideal pedigree for the kentucky derby on his dam side . he hails from the winning storm bird mare marozia , who also has produced grade 3 winner and 2005 belmont ( g1 ) runner - up andromeda ' s hero ; and stakes victor superfly , both by fusaichi pegasus . stay thirsty also counts an unnamed juvenile colt by mr . greeley as a half - brother .
holy cow ! ! he is for real ! after that stumble . . . to stay in the game and win like he did . awesome !
tiznow would be the exception , and the one coil and stay thirsty look to emulate . he was a late bloomer who benefited from a year where there was also a close competition to the division title . he won the super derby and then a memorable breeder ' s cup classic which secured his title .
stay thirsty with jockey javier castellano is exultant as owner mike repole , right leads his horse in to the winner ' s circle after winning the 142nd running of the travers stakes at the saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . aug 27 , 2011 . ( skip dickstein / times union ) less
stay thirsty wrested command from shackleford nearing the quarter pole , edged away to a clear lead in midstretch , and held off a late run from 14 - 1 rattlesnake bridge to win the $ 1 million travers stakes by 1 1 / 4 lengths . stay thirsty ( $ 6 . 80 ) , the favorite in the field of 10 3 - year - olds , ran the 1 1 / 4 miles in 2 : 03 . 03 under javier castellano . he was the second stakes winner on the day for trainer todd pletcher , who came within a nose of sweeping the day ' s three grade 1 stakes races . urltoken
stay thirsty , front right , with javier castellano aboard , pulls away from j w blue ( 8 ) , with cornelio velasquez to win the 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . ( ap photo / hans pennink )
the travers field breaks from the gate during the start of the 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . stay thirsty ( 9 ) , with javier castellano aboard , won the race . ( ap photo / hans pennink )
the win moves stay thirsty to the head of the 3 - year - old class , ahead of sidelined derby winner animal kingdom and the two other classic winners he beat in the travers - shackleford and belmont stakes winner ruler on ice , who was fourth . haskell winner coil , the second choice , finished 10th .
“i hope i own a lot of good horses , but there ' ll be no horses that mean more to me than uncle mo and stay thirsty , ” repole said . “that they ' re together again is just an amazing feeling . they couldn ' t be on a better farm than coolmore ' s ashford . ”
stay thirsty ( usa ) dkb / br . c , 2008 { 4 - c } dp = 4 - 6 - 16 - 0 - 0 ( 26 ) di = 2 . 25 cd = 0 . 54 - 17 starts , 5 wins , 5 places , 1 shows career earnings : $ 1 , 936 , 000
bred in kentucky by john d . gunther and john darren gunther , stay thirsty is out of the storm bird mare marozia . pletcher bought him for repole for $ 500 , 000 at the fasig - tipton florida select sale of 2 - year - olds in training in 2010 . he was consigned by scanlon training center , agent .
stay thirsty had made this a trio of g1 - placed offspring for marozia with his seconds in the hopeful last year and more recently in the belmont stakes , but the good - looking bay took the step into the winner ' s circle as a g1 winner at saratoga , which seems to be the colt ' s favorite racetrack .
stay thirsty , front right , with javier castellano aboard , pulls away from j w blue ( 8 ) , with cornelio velasquez to win the 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . ( ap photo / hans pennink ) ( / ap )
the travers field breaks from the gate during the start of the 142nd travers stakes horse race at saratoga race course in saratoga springs , n . y . , saturday , aug . 27 , 2011 . stay thirsty ( 9 ) , with javier castellano aboard , won the race . ( ap photo / hans pennink ) ( / ap )
stay thirsty looks to have the makings of a very good stallion . he will be the first of bernardini ' s sons to enter the breeding shed and looks to pass the tests . his female family shows high end production as well as a wide array of winners . he will stand at coolmore ' s ashford in lexington , kentucky .
in total , stay thirsty retired with a record of five wins , five seconds , and one third in 17 starts for $ 1 , 936 , 000 in earnings . of those five wins , two were grade 1 victories , with one grade 2 and one grade 3 . he also finished second in three grade 1 races and third in another .
stay thirsty looked like his sire at the spa . that was important to his breeder , who said that “when i went to see bernardini at jonabell , i just loved his looks , and i bred two mares to him the first year , three the second year , and it looks like he ' s going to be a good sire . ”
repole told the drf that stay thirsty will make one more start this year before being retired . what race that will be is up in the air ; the colt could run in either the breeders ' cup classic ( gr . i ) , breeders ' cup dirt mile ( gr . i ) , or the cigar mile ( gr . i ) .
robert lapenta and head of plains partners’ coal front was headed by american pastime at the head of the stretch in saturday’s g3 gallant bob stakes , but the 3 - year - old son of stay thirsty refused to give in under jockey john velazquez . finding another gear at the eighth pole , coal front re - rallied to pull away from [ … ]
marozia raced nine times in england and won or was in the money four times . she’s a successful broodmare , having produced four winners from five foals to race , including stay
robert lapenta and head of plains partners’ coal front led the field wire - to - wire in saturday’s g2 amsterdam stakes at saratoga , finishing 1 1 / 2 lengths in front of excitations to earn his first graded stakes win . the sophomore son of stay thirsty is now unbeaten in three career starts for trainer todd pletcher . ridden by john velazquez [ … ]
the spa has certainly treated stay thirsty well this year , as it was the three - year - old ' s second graded victory for the season . on july 30 , he dominated in the g2 jim dandy stakes , a feat his sire also accomplished . prior to his jim dandy win , the dark bay was classic - placed in the g1 belmont stakes .
stay thirsty , who ran 12th in the derby and second in the belmont before his jim dandy - travers sweep , returned $ 6 . 80 , $ 4 . 20 and $ 3 . 40 . rattlesnake bridge , ridden by john velazquez , paid $ 10 . 80 and $ 7 . 60 , and j w blue returned $ 11 . 40 to show .
the expectation is that stay thirsty will contest the jockey club gold cup prior to the breeders ' cup classic as part of a program that might make him champion of his division and a horse of the year contender . those races will test both the colt ' s apparent maturity and his rise up the class ladder when he tackles older horses for the first time .
stay thirsty built his resume in 2011 as a 3 - year - old , starting with a win in the gotham stakes ( gr . iii ) and highlighting the year with a 1 1 / 4 length victory in the travers stakes ( gr . i ) . the colt also finished second in the belmont stakes ( gr . i ) by ¾ of a length behind ruler on ice . he topped off his new york campaign with a third place finish in the jockey club gold cup stakes ( gr . i ) behind flat out and eventual breeders’ cup classic ( gr . i ) winner drosselmeyer . stay thirsty ended his 3 - year - old season in the breeders’ cup classic ( gr . i ) , finishing 11 th .
sent off as the 2 - 1 favorite in the field of 10 , stay thirsty raced just off the pace set by preakness winner shackleford . but when the field turned for home in front of a crowd of 43 , 050 , the son of 2006 travers winner bernardini surged to the lead under javier castellano and held off rattlesnake bridge by 1 1 / 4 lengths .
uncle mo begins his stallion career as the grandson of in excess ( ire ) , one of the top stallions in california before being pensioned in july . stay thirsty , who will race at age four according to his facebook page , will begin his stallion career next year as the grandson of a . p . indy , one of the top stallions of his generation .
stay thirsty ' s sire bernardini won from a mile to 1 1 / 4 miles , including the preakness and travers stakes . as a three year old he beat older horses in the jockey club gold cup . although he was second to invasor in a highly anticipated match - up in the breeders’ cup classic , bernardini earned horse of the year honors for his previous exploits .
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stay thirsty , my friend .
stay thirsty doesn’t appear to be a large colt , but he is well - balanced , muscular and has a smooth stride . he has a well - angled shoulder and has the lean demeanor of a route horse . size isn’t an indicator of racing prowess . notable horse that were smaller than average include kentucky derby winners northern dancer , mine that bird and belmont stakes winner birdstone .
with his female family’s success with jumpers in his second and third dam , he could also bring an interesting twist to the steeplechase scene if any breeder decides to go that route . of the six bernardini stallions standing at stud in 2013 , stay thirsty is the second most expensive at stud with a fee of $ 20 , 000 behind to honor and serve’s $ 30 , 000 .
“i feel like he’s rounding into his best form off his last couple of breezes , ” said pletcher , who was planning to give stay thirsty his last woodward breeze sunday . “the suburban was a really hot day and he didn’t seem to fire at all . it took a little while for him to rebound so i felt like we ran out of time to make the whitney . ”
stay thirsty separates himself from every other 3 - year - old by far right now ,
repole said .
there ' s nothing else this horse can do . he should have won the belmont . he ran an incredible jim dandy . javier rode him great . he was all out , a length and a half . there ' s no doubt in my mind .
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in 2012 , he finished second in the ungraded vanlandingham stakes in his may debut but finished second in two graded stakes before finishing second by a head to flat out in the tvg jockey club gold cup invitational stakes ( gr . i ) . stay thirsty finished his career with a second grade one victory when he won the cigar mile handicap ( gr . i ) over groupie doll .


rhagastis rubetra is a moth of the family sphingidae .

it is known from indonesia ( kalimantan , nias , sumatra ) north through malaysia ( sarawak , peninsular ) to thailand and possibly southern china ( tibet ) .

rhagastis rubetra

rhagastis rubetra rothschild & jordan , 1907 , novit . zool . 14 : 95 . type locality : [ indonesia , sumatera utara , ] nias .
rhagastis rubetra rothschild & jordan , 1907 , novit . zool . , 14 : 95 . rhagastis mjobergi clark , 1923 , proc . new engl . zool . club , 8 : 69 .
forewing upperside similar to rhagastis velata but ground colour ranging from pale grey to grey - green ( olive - green in rhagastis velata ) ; the intensity of the dark markings varies considerably from almost absent to strongly present . labial palp segment 2 strongly narrowed towards the base ( as in rhagastis acuta and rhagastis hayesi ) . however , although similar to rhagastis acuta , rhagastis hayesi and rhagastis velata , distinguishable from the first two species by the fore upperside ground colour and from the last by the shape of the labial palp segment 2 .
rhagastis mjobergi clark , 1923 ; proc . new england zool . cl . 8 : 69
synonymized with rhagastis castor as a subspecies by inoue , 1990 , tinea 12 : 255 .
transferred to rhagastis by rothschild & jordan , 1903 , novit . zool . 9 ( suppl . ) : 792 ( key ) , 798 .
rhagastis rothschild & jordan , 1903 ; novit . zool . 9 ( suppl . ) : 675 [ key ] , 791 ; ts : pergesa velata walker
transferred to rhagastis by rothschild & jordan , 1903 , novit . zool . 9 ( suppl . ) : 792 ( key ) , 793 . erroneously included in rhyncholaba by de freina , 1976 , atalanta 7 : 241 . transferred back to rhagastis by d ' abrera , [ 1987 ] , sphingidae mundi : 200 .
an unmistakable species with the olive - green forewing overlain by broad , dark red and partially merged transverse bands . dorsal scaling of antenna brown or black from near the base to near the hook . labial palp segment 1 apical cavity distinct ; segment 2 not narrowed towards base . outer row of forebasitarsal spines simple . forewing upperside ground colour olive green ; transverse bands dark red , broad , irregular and partially merged . forewing underside ground colour bright pink . hindwing upperside median band flushed with pink . hindwing underside ground colour bright pink . uncus weakly dilated apically , slightly sinuate . gnathos narrow , obtusely pointed . valve with about 6 very large stridulatory scales . harpe slender , horizontal , slightly spatulate in dorsal view , weakly upcurved apically . aedeagus similar to rhagastis olivacea , the left process short and broad .
in the male genitalia , valve with 2 - 3 large stridulatory scales . aedeagus without apical free processes , left side with an oblique row of small teeth .
diagnosis . this is a darker , greyer species than its congeners , with straighter forewing margins and distinctive dark patches discally and associated with the submarginal . geographical range . nias , sumatra , peninsular malaysia , borneo . habitat preference . four specimens have been taken in lowland forest in brunei .
ne . himalaya , china , taiwan , burma , sumatra , java , borneo . see [ maps ]
pergesa aurifera butler , 1875 ; proc . zool . soc . lond . 1875 : 7 [ ne . himalayas ]
pergesa olivacea moore , 1872 ; proc . zool . soc . lond . 1872 ( 2 ) : 567 ; tl : simla , nw . himalayas , 7000ft
pergesa velata walker , 1866 ; list spec . lepid . insects colln br . mus . 35 : 1853 ; tl : darjeeling
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walker , 1866 list of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the british museum list spec . lepid . insects colln br . mus . 31 : 1 - 322 ( [ 1865 ] ) , 32 : 323 - 706 ( 1865 ) , 33 : 707 - 1120 ( 1865 ) , 34 : 1121 - 1534 ( [ 1866 ] ) , 35 : 1535 - 2040 ( 1866 )
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zamarada differens is a moth of the geometridae family .

it is found in subtropical africa and is known from central african republic , chad , comoros , kenya , malawi , mozambique , south africa , tanzania , uganda , zambia and zimbabwe .

the fore and hindwings of this species are yellow-greenish and it has a wingspan of 20 mm .

zamarada differens

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garlacz r . 2001 . species of the genus zamarada moore in nigeria with notes on their geographical distribution ( rhopalocera , geometridae , ennominae ) . - lambillionea 101 ( 4 ) : 610–616 .
fletcher d . s . 1974 . a revision of the old world genus zamarada ( lepidoptera : geometridae ) . - bulletin of the british museum of natural history ( entomology ) supplement 22 : 1–498 , pls . 1–123 .
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cameroon , afrique occid . [ dentale ] , johann - albrechts höhe station , 1896 , leg . l . conradt .
oberthür c . 1912 . vii . révision des phalénites décrites par guenée dans le species general des lépidoptères ( tome ix ) –famille 11 . - etudes de lépidoptérologie comparée 6 : 1–355 , pls . 1–64 coloured + 1–69 black and white .
the fore and hindwings of this species are yellow - greenish and it has a wingspan of 20 mm . . . .
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midnight lute ( foaled may 13 , 2003 , in versailles , kentucky ) is an american thoroughbred racehorse .

he was named american champion sprint horse in 2007 .

midnight lute

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. . . both govenor charlie and midnight lucky are trained by the sire of midnight lute , bob baffert .
i doubt baffert sired midnight lute .
a chorus of midnight lute ' s progeny are drumming up wins across the country . last weekend , midnight lute ' s son
evans described his thought process when purchasing the dam of midnight lute , the unraced dehere mare candytuft .
midnight lute ' s female family is filled with a mix of american speed and italian stamina . his dam candytuft
baffert had teamed up to campaign midnight lute ' s sire real quiet to a heartbreaking triple crown miss in 1998 .
midnight lute , trained by bob baffert , won the 2007 breeders & # 39 ; cup sprint at churchil downs .
with a sunland park double in their derby and oaks , hill ‘n ' dale farm ' s young sire midnight lute scored successes that confound simple analysis of stallion potential and performance . the stallion ' s son govenor charlie won the sunland park derby by five lengths for owner - breeder mike pegram , and the midnight lute filly midnight lucky won the sunland park oaks by eight lengths for pegram , watson , and weitman , who also campaigned midnight lute . both are trained by bob baffert , as were midnight lute and his sire , real quiet .
the breeding of midnight lute is a fascinating study in what can be accomplished with modest amounts of money  and plenty of luck .
like the empire maker and the mares prospective foal for 2008 , midnight lute was a may foal , but that doesnt bother evans .
this entry was posted in bloodlines archive , bloodstock and tagged bob baffert , candytuft , govenor charlie , horse racing , lane ' s end weekender pedigree , midnight ballet , midnight lucky , midnight lute , mike pegram , real quiet , thoroughbred by frank mitchell . bookmark the permalink .
and the breeder has not ended his relationship with midnight lute , who has retired to stand at hill n dale for a $ 20 , 000 fee . evans said , i really like midnight lute as a stallion prospect , although i understand hes not by the hottest sire around .
six weeks ago , 3 - year - olds govenor charlie and midnight lucky both broke their maidens in impressive fashion at santa anita during the same weekend shakin it up provided midnight lute with his first graded stakes winner as a sire .
the lute society has the rarer instruments ( lute , cittern , bandora and wooden flutes ) for hire , and can supply sheet music . the lute parts are very hard , but after a couple of years of playing the lute you might well be able to manage the bandora parts without too much difficulty—ask to have a go on a bandora next time you go on a lute - based summer school !
scored victories in the sunland derby and oaks . both of them set new track records ; govenor charlie for 1 1 / 8 miles in 1”47 . 54 and midnight lucky for 1 1 / 16 miles in 1 : 41 . 06 . fittingly , both govenor charlie and midnight lucky are trained by the sire of midnight lute ,
midnight lute retired to stud at hill ' n ' dale farms in kentucky for a fee of $ 20k typical of a first year stallion , his fee was dropped to $ 15k after his initial season and remains steady . there was great demand for the good looking stallion and midnight lute sired 121 foals in his first crop .
her continued development , along with that of govenor charlie , shakin it up , and several other up - and - comers , such as stakes winner midnight ballet , sharp oaklawn winner big lute , and fair grounds - based mylute , will only enhance midnight lute’s stature in the coming months . mylute finished a game second to revolutionary in the louisiana derby on march 30 , and could be yet another member of midnight lute ' s first - crop brigade to resurface at churchill downs in five weeks .
shakin it up ( midnight lute - silverbulletmoon [ vindication ] ) : won the 7f g2 - san vicente but finished a distant 4th to govenor charlie in the sunland derby .
norman stables’ silent bird got his first graded stakes victory on saturday , holding off tough sunday by a head to win the grade 3 midnight lute . a 5 - year - old son of summer bird trained by mark glatt , silent bird donned blinkers for the first time in the midnight lute . jockey kent desormeaux moved him up the [ … ]
lexington , ky .  with an astonishing finish to win the six - furlong breeders cup sprint in 1 : 07 . 08 , midnight lute joined tiznow , miesque , da hoss , and lure as repeat winners of a breeders cup event . this is a special distinction for midnight lute because he is the first two - time winner of the sprint .
another take on the potential of midnight lute as a stallion comes from my associate at datatrack international , pedigree commentator robert fierro . he noted that , on the results of the stallion ' s biomechanical profile , “we loved midnight lute . his profile on one of our programs was very unusual for a horse his size , in that he matches nearly 50 percent of the mares in our test book . that is very unusual for a horse as big as midnight lute , ” who towers over man and beast at 17 hands - plus .
with only two crops on the track , it ' s a bit hard to take an actual account of his runners . but so far , midnight lute has gotten four really good runners :
marjac farms is rich and patti burke , who lived in louisville when midnight lute was born and now live in richmond , va . rich burke manages marjac capital partners , an investment company .
in 2008 , midnight lute raced only twice as a 5 - year - old , but did annex a second consecutive breeders’ cup sprint before retiring to stud at hill ‘n’ dale in lexington , ky . baffert said upon midnight lute’s retirement that the horse was the best he’d ever trained , and those who follow the popular conditioner’s @ midnightlute twitter account are reminded of that every time they receive a message from baffert .
a dead - heat winner of the midnight lute stakes ( g3 ) with solid wager at 6 1 / 2 furlongs new year ' s eve for trainer peter miller . the 5 - year - old gelding by
midnight oil taught me that citizens not only need a soundtrack for resistance , but we also need to resist .
i guess i have no brain . the good news is , thanks to midnight oil , i’ve got heart .
a final research project ( minimum 15 pages ) on the film adaptations of henry v or chimes at midnight .
baffert pegged midnight lute as a special horse from the start , but this is a story of “what might have been . ” standing 17 hands high , the muscular colt made his debut in late july of his two year old season . in what would become his typical running style , midnight lute was away from the gate slow , made a wide move on the outside and mowed down his competition in a powerful late run , getting up to win the six furlong race by 1 ¼ lengths . midnight lute was away from the races for a year , due to a throat issue , necessitating in surgery . this hampered the colt ' s ability to perform at longer distances .
his yearling average took a dip last year , which is not uncommon in this era as stallions move beyond their first crop at auction , but midnight lute was represented by a $ 230 , 000 juvenile at the recent barretts march selected two - year - olds in training sale . sikura is optimistic about the yearling auctions this summer , which may , based on recent evidence , come on the heels of several more graded stakes wins by midnight lute runners .
midnight lute ' s progeny are proving to be mid - season two year olds that improve with age . most carry their sire ' s looks and conformation . his offspring have won over dirt , turf , polytrack , cushion track and tapita from 5 ½ furlongs to 1 1 / 8 miles . we won ' t know how far midnight lute ' s babies will run until they actually prove it , however , given their two - turn conformation and the pedigree of their sire , it wouldn’t be far - fetched to see a son or daughter of midnight lute wearing a wreath of roses , stargazer lilies , black - eyed susans , carnations , or yellow and purple chrysanthemums very soon .
midnight lucky ( midnight lute - citiview [ city dancer ] ) : the star of the sunland derby card when she set a ntr and obliterated the field in the sunland oaks . a really dynamic filly that seems to be able to get any distance she will want to . really pretty mover and definitley a factor in the 3yo filly division this year .
as mentioned , midnight lute stands 17 hands high and is a long - bodied , muscular horse . it appears that he received his large , rangy frame from his second sire , quiet american , who himself stands 16 ½ hands high .
midnight lute stood for $ 20 , 000 in his initial season at hill ‘n’ dale , and according to farm president john g . sikura , he has been popular from the outset . baffert said in february after shakin it up’s win in the san vicente that he always felt midnight lute was at his core a longer - distance horse who , due to low lung capacity , was restricted to sprint races , and sikura echoed that opinion when discussing his potential as a stallion .
once back in training , midnight lute began to fulfill his potential during 2006 and early 2007 , winning a grade 3 event at seven furlongs and competing well in longer - distance graded stakes in california in january and february of 2007 . he suffered another health - related delay during early summer , but when he returned midnight lute was at the top of his game . he dominated both the forego stakes and the breeders’ cup sprint that fall , earning the eclipse award as champion sprinter .
following midnight lute , the breeders sent candytuft to gilded time to produce the stakes - placed tusculum road , and they caught the brass ring when selling the mares yearling by marias mon at the september sale this year for $ 900 , 000 .
to date , midnight lute has sired three stakes winners and 19 winners from 64 starters lifetime . he stands at the top of the second crop sire list in terms of earnings and is tied for first with number of stakes winners . as he did on the racetrack , midnight lute is out - performing a solid group of stallions at stud , which include two - time horse of the year curlin , kentucky derby winner big brown , international sensation henrythenavigator and the two year old champion war pass .
hill ‘n’ dale farms stallion midnight lute might have made his name on the racetrack as a top sprinter , but his first crop is swiftly remaking his reputation this spring as one of the most promising young sires of middle - distance runners in north america .
some of the english lute manuscripts make for satisfying self - contained musical programmes , and have attracted single - source recordings . some years ago anthony rooley made a record ( on the oiseau lyre label ) of the cozens lute book . more recently paul o’dette has made a cd from lord herbert of cherbury’s lute book ( harmonia mundi ) ; jacob heringman has made a cd from jane pickering’s lute book ( avie ) ; oswald hebermehl has made a disc from margaret board’s lute book ( amu records ) , and most recently liz kenny has made a cd flying horse , music of the ml lute book ( hyperion ) . from among the continental sources with quite a lot of english music , joachim held has made a cd of the schele ms ( hannsler ) .
one of the implications of midnight lute ' s results on his biomechanics is that it appeared he would get racers who would appreciate racing two turns , rather than simply sprinting , as many people would have expected from a racehorse who was “limited” to sprinting himself .
midnight lute ' s offspring are consistently showing that they appreciate the opportunity to mature and race distances of a mile , at least , and there is plenty of reason to expect that they will continue to improve at even longer distances as opportunities come to them .
govenor charlie ( midnight lute - silverbulletway [ storm cat ] ) : convincing winner of the g3 - sunland derby and a horse that will be vying for the lead in the kentucky derby . he has a slightly odd way of moving , but shows good early speed .
two noses shy of being unbeaten , trainer bill spawr’s midnight bisou put it all together on sunday at santa anita as she rolled to an emphatic 4 ½ length win in the grade ii , $ 200 , 000 santa ynez stakes . piloted by “big money” mike smith for the first time , the kentucky - bred daughter of midnight lute got seven furlongs in 1 : 23 . 40 while defeating [ … ]
although midnight lute showed his best form by clubbing his contemporaries with come from behind finishes at sprint distances , he did race successfully at longer distances , and his natural aptitude was clearly suitable for racing at longer distances from his size , scope , balance , and physical proportions .
lute manuscripts are as richly varied as the people who played from them . a recently discovered fragment in the westiminster abbey archive looks like a lesson of several pieces written out on a loose sheet of paper for a student ; the dallis lute book is a cambridge student’s workbook , from the very beginning of his lute studies ; the giles lodge book is the musical sketch book of musically semi - literate amateur , perhaps a schoolmaster ; jane pickering’s and margaret board’s lute books are the collections of more competent and serious amateur players ; lord herbert of cherbury’s lute book reveals a refined gentleman amateur who , by modern standards at least , would have been good enough to play professionally ; the welde lute book seems to have been written by a professional scribe , either speculatively or as a commission for a wealthy amateur lute player , while royal appendix 58 is a performing partbook and score , one of a set of partbooks in use in at court by multi - instrumentalist court musicians .
and what happened to charles dawes , the other midnight rider ? he also rode through the countryside warning the colonists of the oncoming british regulars .
given those connections , it was no surprise when pegram purchased midnight lucky for $ 220 , 000 at the fasig - tipton saratoga select yearling sale . a year and a half later , the filly has displayed a breathtaking degree of raw talent in only two races that may , in the end , make her the best of what is shaping up to be a very good , and possibly great , first crop for midnight lute .
but in addition to midnight lute , trackside has been co - breeder of english group 1 winner bahamian pirate , jim dandy winner strong hope , and other good racers , as well as raising and selling numerous graded or group stakes winners for foxfield , liberation farm , and other clients .
a resounding champion as a sprinter on the racetrack with victories at 4 and 5 in the grade 1 breeders ' cup sprint , midnight lute was not pedigreed to be a specialist sprinter , and his performance at stud has been in keeping with his bloodlines , more so than his racetrack performances .
potential favorite for the grade 1 kentucky oaks , midnight bisou breezed at santa anita park at about 4 : 30 a . m . on sunday morning . according to drf . com , the 3 - year - old daughter of midnight lute covered five furlongs in 1 : 01 . 60 under jockey martin pedroza . “she’s getting better , ” trainer bill spawr said . “she’s scary . her bodyweight is right . she’s confident in [ … ]
mylute ( midnight lute - stage stop [ valid expectations ] ) : not a stakes winner , but a 2nd in the g2 - louisiana derby gets him into the kentucky derby a week from today . seems to be a nice colt , but not entirely sure he ' s absolutely top quality .
the dark brown , nearly black , horse was bred by a trio who have emphasized quality over quantity in their breeding decisions . tom evans , marjac farms , and macon wilmil equine bred midnight lute in kentucky , where he was foaled and raised at the trackside farm of evans and pam clark .
midnight lute ' s second damsire blue times ( by olden times ) won two stakes races at 1 1 / 8 miles . his male line traces directly back to man o ' war through his greatest son war relic . blue times ' damsire was a lesser son of the claiborne foundation sire princequello .
the empire maker colt will be in a yearling sale next year . evans said , he is more similar to midnight lute than her other foals have been . he has that length to him , and you can see a lot of potential there . it will be fun watching him grow up .
as the ' 80s turned into the ' 90s , sincerity made way for irony and grunge and the midnight oils returned to the middle of the pack .
the lute society publishes five english facsimiles , with plans for many more , plus free transcriptions and / or photographs of some of the very minor sources .
pinhooked the following spring to the sales of juveniles in training in florida , midnight lute was an rna at $ 290 , 000 and sold after the auction . trainer bob baffert , who had selected real quiet at auction , was instrumental in the acquisition of the stallion ' s best racing son for pegram and partners .
christmas 1995 - midnight angel . a very attractive stamp with a dark blue starry background , a christmas angel , a christmas wreath , and bells . on… | pinteres…
midnight lute ( usa ) dkb / br . h , 2003 { 3 - j } dp = 4 - 5 - 5 - 2 - 0 ( 16 ) di = 2 . 56 cd = 0 . 69 - 13 starts , 6 wins , 3 places , 1 shows career earnings : $ 2 , 690 , 600
last and greatest , robert dowland’s varietie of lute lessons ( 1610 ) self - consciously presents a selection of some of the finest european lute music of its time ; it is available in facsimile from schott . in spite of the title , there is no beginner’s music here ; it represents something to work towards in your studies .
shrouded in controversy since his debut nearly four years ago , top sprinter masochistic is set to make his first start since early may as he heads a field of nine 3 - year - olds and up in saturday’s grade 3 midnight lute stakes at santa anita . idle since distanced over a wet fast track going seven furlongs in the [ … ]
in its long history the lute experienced not one , but a series of ‘golden ages’ , and elizabethan and jacobean england certainly enjoyed one of these . the chief glory and ornament of the elizabethan lute is of course the music of john dowland ( 1563–1626 ) which , if no other lute music at all had come down to us , would amply justify the study of the instrument . happily , a good deal more music has survived , however . the following sketch is intended to convey useful information for the beginner .
here ' s the kicker : govenor charlie , midnight lucky , and shakin it up are all raced by mike pegram . they were also bred by mike pegram . midnight lute was exactly the same , so the bloodline and connections are money . but that ' s the sign of a major owner showing absolute faith in his own stallion that he takes everything he owns mare - wise to him . and it takes that kind of support from your connections that really make or break a stallion ( read : kitten ' s joy ) .
unlike u2 or r . e . m . , midnight oil were less ambiguous about kicking ass onstage , and their live shows are legendary for leaving venues in agitprop shambles . “if you’re singing a song about huge piles of nuclear weapons , you’re unlikely to be playing a harp or plucking a lute , ” peter garrett told the ottawa citize n in 1985 .
bloom racing stable and allen racing’s midnight bisou continued her dominance of the west coast 3 - year - old filly division on saturday , rallying from far back to win the grade 1 santa anita oaks by 3 1 / 2 lengths under mike smith , who also won the g1 santa anita derby aboard justify . trained by bill spawr , midnight bisou , [ … ]
as a sire , real quiet did manage to get 16 stakes winners and a champion . besides midnight lute , real quiet ' s most notable runners are the sprinter / miler pussycat doll , two - time winner of the humana distaff ( g - 1 ) and wonder lady anne l , heroine of the 1 ¼ mile cca oaks ( g - 1 ) .
( dehere - bolt from the blue , by blue times ) was unraced . besides midnight lute , candytuft bore his half brother multiple stakes - placed sprinter captain cherokee ( by sir cherokee ) and a stakes placed half sister tusculum rd ( by gilded time ) . in all , she has seven foals who made it to the track and six of them have won .
fierro continued , “in size , midnight lute is in a category of his own . stallions like him usually project to be modest at best , but what tipped the scale for him is that he matched a number of modest - sized mares , which is unusual but very beneficial , as the norms of the breed tend to breed toward the horses of that size . ”
not surprisingly then , the largest surviving oeuvre is that of ‘the english orpheus’ , john dowland , with 75 pieces ( plus 16 - odd possible attributions ) . his collected lute music , edited by his great scholar and apostle , diana poulton ( with basil lam ) is published by faber , and should be on every lute scholar’s christmas list . more of him hereafter .
an accredited louisiana - bred daughter of midnight lute sold for $ 77 , 000 on monday to top the equine sales company 2 - year - olds in training and horses of racing age sale in opelousas , la . named nite jean , the sale - topper went to prominent southwest owner carl moore from the consignment of pike racing , agent . the may foal worked an eighth [ … ]
nor is evans concerned with the breathing problem that compromised part of midnight lutes career . he said , i dont believe it is a genetic issue at all . as a yearling he had a great throat , as well as when he was at the 2 - year - old sales . i guess he had something go wrong during the summer of his 2 - year - old season .
midnight disguise rallied from last to earn her second straight stakes win , charging home a 1 ¾ - length winner in the 39th running of the $ 200 , 000 busher for 3 - year - old fillies at a mile on saturday at aqueduct racetrack . under regular jockey trevor mccarthy , midnight disguise was unhurried through the early going , settling at the back of the pack as california invader [ … ]
revere wrote a letter in 1798 to the founder of the massachusetts historical society describing his midnight ride . nothing in his letter indicates that he waited and watched to see the lanterns in the church tower .
this is not surprising , as the stallion ' s sire is the champion and premier 10 - furlong performer real quiet , whose best races came with victories in the kentucky derby , preakness , and pimlico special . as a sire , real quiet did not reproduce himself with a classic - winning colt . his best son was midnight lute , although some of his best daughters performed at the highest level at classic distances .
in 2008 , midnight lute came back to race twice as a five year old . he recorded the worst finish of his career in the pat o ' brian stakes ( g - 2 ) over the del mar polytrack . however , in his swan song the champ went out on a high note , winning his second consecutive breeders ' cup sprint in 1 : 07 , the fastest time in the history of the race .
midnight lute is the mares fourth foal . evans said that sire selection was done based on budgetary concerns and physical compatibility . real quiet is a big , stretchy , athletic horse , who has a beautiful profile , and candytuft is a solid , correct , attractive mare . and mating her with the fappiano line , which typically puts stretch into foals like you see with the unbridleds , worked out well with this mare .
when looking at real quiet ' s progeny , you see a dearth of true top end talent . midnight lute tops his list of earners and there are only two others that won more than $ 750 , 000 in sunward run and pussycat doll . he also got wonder lady ann l , winner of the g1 - cca oaks . real quiet died at 15 in 2010 following an accident in his paddock after siring 11 crops of foals . he was by no means a dominant sire , but instead was just a useful one . as a sign of his productivity , he stood in pennsylvania and shuttled to uruguay during the summer months . real quiet was campaigned by mike pegram and trained by bob baffert ( a trend we will see repeated over and over herein ) . real quiet has no sons standing at stud of any note other than midnight lute .
“there’s a lot of prospects out there , and we’re excited , and we’re sure that there’s many more in the wings , ” sikura said . “the more they win , and the more important fixtures that come under midnight lute’s banner , the more his yearlings will bring . . . . if he has a derby winner , or an oaks winner , or a travers winner , certainly they’re more appreciated in the auction ring . ”
in definitiva , midnight . swordfight . di chandler groover è un divertissement che prende per mano l ' avventuriero esortandolo a danzare in un giardino panoramico in cui sia stata edificata una follia dal capriccio di un architetto estroso .
“ [ midnight lute’s reputation ] is really a misnomer because the horse is not a sprinter , he was backed up after throat surgery , ” sikura said . “he was backed up to be a sprinter ; it was an adaptation . the horse’s true aptitude , i believe , is a mile and a quarter , i think that’s what he would have been best at . he was just a big , freaky racehorse that could adapt and do anything .
the musician thomas whytehorn , in his autobiography of c . 1575 marvelled at the wide currency of printed music he had seen on his continental travels ; in england , you had to write everything out by hand . about 50 - odd english lute manuscripts with music in renaissance tuning survive in the british isles , plus maybe 15 or 16 continental manuscripts with items of english lute music , plus various odds and ends . another fragment turns up every year or two .
midnight lute is a peculiar case study as a stallion . he only succeeded at distances we consider sprints , but he ' s most definitely not bred to run short distances . it is well known that he had a chronic throat issue that caused him to really struggle when stretched out to a distance that forced him to take more than one big breath and just take off . in fact , we were looking to breed a mare to him last year , but decided against it precisely because of the breathing issue . his trainer , bob baffert , thought so much of him that he always has fully endorsed the idea that midnight lute was not limited to sprints due to his own ability , in fact , had his throat not been a major hindrance , he would easily have competed at route distances . bob clearly considers him one of his best horses of all time to the point that baffert ' s twitter handle is @ midnightlute .
it’s hard to understate the sincerity of ' 80s alternative rock . what midnight oil taught me and others is that citizens need a soundtrack for resistance , sure , but we also need to organize and and be politically active . like most socially conscious bands in the ’80s , midnight oil set up tables outside their gigs for greenpeace , rock the vote , and planned parenthood . as the ' 80s turned into the ' 90s , midnight oil , for american fans at least , represented one of those bands for people who couldn’t get enough u2 , couldn’t get enough sincerity , and so turned to the latest offerings from the alarm or the call , or , for the more adventurous , michelle shocked or billy bragg .
typically , big time sires will have one , maybe two top end runners in any given year on the road to the roses . maybe they ' re lucky and have a filly that ' s gunning for the oaks . if your first crop is doing that , you ' re unbelievable . and midnight lute , with his first crop turning 3 this year , has done just that : he ' s got two derby starters and a serious contender in the kentucky oaks .
if you get hooked on duets , the john johnson and thomas robinson editions noted in the previous instalment of this article would be worth acquiring . the lute society catalogue of tablature sheets contains a further sprinkling of duets , english and continental ; ask the secretary if you are interested . one of the charms of the lute is the opportunities it offers for social as well as solo music making and the student is commended not to be shy , but to seek out duet partners !
one exception was midnight lute ' s co - breeder trackside farm , whose owner tom evans said , “real quiet had runners by the time we decided to send candytuft to him , and in addition to fitting the stud fee range we could afford for the mare , the reason to make that mating was that i loved real quiet ' s profile . he was a really beautiful horse , and we thought the match was what the mare needed to add some stretch to the foal . ”
midnight lute , a strapping son of real quiet out of the unraced dehere mare candytuft , was the first top - of - the - line horse campaigned by the partnership of pegram , watson , weitman , and baffert , and as a juvenile he won first out in the summer of 2005 at del mar . the colt did not race again for a year , however , as respiratory problems developed that would stall his career more than once and cause him to miss the triple crown season .
midnight lucky entered the sunland park oaks as one of the most talked - about horses in the country following her smashing debut win in february , in which she earned a 100 beyer , and the filly left new mexico with even more hype after she obliterated the competition in an eight - length romp . midnight lucky traveled 1 1 / 16 miles in 1 : 41 . 06 , good for a 94 beyer and another track record ( one of three set march 24 on sunland’s speed - favoring oval ) .
this spring , midnight oil embarks on their first world tour in more than 15 years . the australian band that hit worldwide charts in 1987 with “beds are burning” disbanded back in 2002 , when lead singer peter garrett entered politics full - time and served in a number of positions in the australian government , a second career that lasted more than 11 years . the last time midnight oil toured the us was october 2001 , weeks after september 11 and then - new president george w . bush ramping up the case for the iraq invasion . cut to 2017 , and midnight oil’s six - month , 50 - date great circle tour brings garrett and bandmates to a united states under a trump administration angling to roll back environmental protections , pillage natural resources , and generally mess up the world .
as for the really small fry , the indefatigable john robinson , has been gradually trawling them up in lute society tablature sheets over the years , and there are some ‘one - hit wonders’ there certainly . ask for our catalogue if you want to investigate further .
a survey of english music in continental prints and manuscripts , which are available in facsimile , is beyond the present writer’s competence . publishers include tree , minkoff , frits knuf , and the dutch lute society . would anyone care to write a short piece on this ?
midnight , swordfight was an ifcomp 2015 game . this game is a one - move game like aisle or rematch , where you are in a duel with a countess and have only limited actions available . innovatively , these actions are listed in a playscript in your inventory .
back in 1990 , at the height of midnight oils’ stateside popularity , the band protested exxon’s valdez oil spill by playing a lunchtime concert outside the corporation’s manhattan headquarters . the guerilla action gig stopped traffic on sixth avenue for blocks around radio city music hall . a 30 - foot banner atop the band’s flatbed truck read “midnight oil makes you dance , exxon oil makes us sick” . one likes to think that rex tillerson , then exxon’s vice president and now trump’s secretary of state , could hear the band’s clash - like cover of john lennon’s “instant karma” .
robert johnson , with 20 extant solos , was the son of john johnson , and evidently inherited his father’s melodic gifts . a major figure in the organisation of jacobean court masques , he wrote dance music ( published in sabol’s four hundred songs and dances from the stuart masque ) and songs , including some for shakespeare’s company , the king’s men ( published by stainer and bell ) as well as lute solos . an edition of his lute music edited by albert sunderman was formerly published in the oup lute music series ; now an edition is available from seicento notenversand . some of it is approachable for the early intermediate player . lynda sayce made a father - and - son album of the two johnsons’ music , the golden age restor’d , some years ago , and matthew wadsworth has recorded some solos on a album of songs and solos , away delights , on the avie label .
his easiest lute solos are probably ‘mistress winter’s jump’ , ‘orlando sleepeth’ , ‘fortune my foe’ and ‘mr dowland’s midnight’ , then the ‘preludium’ , ( p98 ) . after a year or two ( of regular practice , that is ! ) you could start to look at some of the easier song accompaniments , such as ‘burst forth my tears’ , ‘white as lilies was her face’ or ‘faction that ever dwells’ . you will be popular with sopranos at summer schools if , after two or three years of practising , you can master the accompaniments to some of the songs in the first book of songes .
won the kentucky derby and preakness , only to fall a heart - wrenching nose short in the belmont stakes . real quiet didn ' t prove to be commercially successful at stud , but as is often the case with broodmare sires , his quality may be evidenced years later in his daughters ' progeny . midnight lute is real quiet ' s best performing progeny and his first prominent son to stand at stud . three minor sons of real quiet are standing as regional sires . real quiet ' s sire quiet american is not noted as a sire of sires , but his daughters are recognized as superior producers .
but the world is upside down again , and if current pop acts can’t get it together to write protest songs , then maybe it ' s time to turn to midnight oil . the other day , i found myself rocking out to “read about it” , one of my favorite tracks from 10 to 1 :
in a repertoire largely preserved in manuscript sources , chances of survival are , happily , skewed in favour of quality , as the more popular a piece was , the more it would be copied , and the more likely it was to survive , so it makes some sense to consider lute composers in terms of their extant output .
a second release for midnight . swordfight . is now available through the links on its ifdb page . this version was created for display at the hand eye society ' s wordplay 2016 showcase . it fixes a few bugs and typos from the original release , smooths out some quixe formatting issues , and includes a little more dialogue for dmitri .
be all that as it may . . . besides the complete lute solos , mentioned above , the lachrimae ( 1604 ) collection for viols and ( very difficult ) lute has been published in facsimile by boethius , and in modern editions , most recently by fretwork editions , while his other consort music is available in a boxed set of partbooks from schott . his solo songs , first transcribed in the 1920s by edmund fellowes , are published by stainer & bell , who also publish a ( shockingly mistake - ridden ) new edition of his four - voice ayres in the musica britannica series ( the 1953 / 1976 edition has far fewer mistakes and bad page turns , but has no tab , for which the lute needs the solo song editions ) . facsimile editions of the songbooks have been published both by scolar press , latterly in association with brian jordan of cambridge , and now also by broude brothers , in their performers facsimile series . not forgetting diana poulton’s fascinating biography of the man , published by faber .
omitting song books and scottish sources ( to be discussed in future issues ) facsimile publishers and the lute books they publish are ( please correct me if i’m wrong ) currently as follows : boethius / severinus / jacks pipes and hammers : willoughby , trumbull , sampson , pickeringe , board , brogyntyn , hirsch , ml , marsh , mynshall .
pegram bred and owns govenor charlie , while midnight lucky was bred in kentucky by dr . charles kidder , j . k . griggs , and linda griggs . pegram owns the filly with karl watson and paul weitman , comprising the triumvirate that has struck grade 1 gold in recent years with lookin at lucky , coil , drill , and executiveprivilege .
five years ago , a friend and i were flipping through vinyl shelves at a record fair , as tragically hip music nerds do , and we confessed our guilty pleasures . “i own more midnight oil albums than i’d like to admit , ” i offered . i further confessed that , in fact , i owned all the oils’ releases , including australian imports .
both 3 - year - olds earned 50 points on the road to the derby and oaks standings . if both govenor charlie and midnight lucky make the trip to churchill downs , they will bring the longtime owner - trainer partnership of mike pegram and bob baffert back to the site of some of their most cherished memories , starting with real quiet’s kentucky derby in 1998 .
the lute society : krakow 40641 , folger dowland , welde , osborn fb7 ; wickhambrook ; in preparation : cambridge dd . 2 . 11 ( and ultimately we hope the rest of the cambridge mss : dd . 3 . 18 , dd . 4 . 22 , dd . 5 . 78 . 3 , dd . 9 . 33 , nn . 6 . 36 ) , herbert of cherbury ; in transcription : bl stowe 389 , royal appendix 58 ; giles lodge , westminster abbey ms 105 ; fragments photographed in the lute ( 1992 ) : bl add mss 60577 , 6402 , 41498 ( 1993 ) magdalen , edmund , och 1280 , occ 254 ( 1999 ) westminster abbey ms 105 ; journal article in preparation : william skypton’s ms .
overall , i really like midnight lute . he posted the top beyer of any sprinter ever at 124 and is a two time bc sprint winner . he ' s won over $ 6 million . he ' s shown the ability to get some really high quality speed horses that have been able to run away from their competition around both one and two turns , something he himself could never manage . now i really do think he was always physically capable of getting a classic distance , but his breathing limitations kept him from getting that far . i think he ' s got an extremely bright future , and with the stout backing of his connections of mike pegram and bob baffert , he ' s in a pretty good place to succeed long term .
many lute players like to go to the original sources for their music . but facsimile publishing of manuscripts is a specialist business , and publishers are rather few . the pioneers in the field were boethius press ; they ran into financial difficulties and were refounded as severinus press . remaining stocks ( and the possibilities of short - run reprints ) now lie with jacks , pipes and hammers
then came 1987’s diesel and dust , which broke midnight oil worldwide . recorded after a tour of the outback with indigenous musical groups , the oils’ sixth album included “beds are burning” , which people magazine accurately describes as “probably the first song about aborigine rights to go top 10 in the u . s . ” the band i secretly jammed out to with my cassette player now boomed from college dorm rooms everywhere .
fast - forward to 2017 , and these debates over musical tastes seem quaint . it’s punk rock time , like henry rollins says , and we’ve got reagan on steroids occupying the white house . public schools , women’s and minority ' s rights , and the environment are all under threat and i’ve taken my lazy white privileged ass out to the streets to protest . and i find myself listening to midnight oil again .
last weekend at sunland park , govenor charlie and midnight lucky all but stamped their tickets to the kentucky derby and kentucky oaks , respectively , with dominant performances in two - turn races . govenor charlie drew clear at the quarter pole and powered to a five - length win in the grade 3 sunland derby , covering 1 1 / 8 miles in a track - record 1 : 47 . 54 and earning a 95 beyer speed figure .
there are three main currently available editions of the english lute duets . stefan lundgren has edited most of the english duets , published in four albums by lundgren edition . lundgren has chopped the treble and ground duets about , to share out treble and ground sections between the two players . this certainly makes for more challenging and stimulating playing , even if it dilutes the didactic concentration of the originals . secondly , there is tablature for two lutes published by stainer & bell , in three volumes edited by nigel north and the late robert spencer . volume 1 contains easier anonymous treble and ground duets , volume 2 has slightly harder treble and ground duets by named composers , including three by robinson and four by john johnson , and volume 3 contains ten of the finest ‘equal’ duets . thirdly and most recently , gordon gregory has edited a selection of treble and ground duets for the lute society , o happie ground , aimed specifically at the student , with fingering indications throughout .
midnight lucky , who may train up to the kentucky oaks on may 3 , is the fourth winning foal out of the citidancer mare citiview . citiview is a full sister to hookedonthefeelin , whom pegram purchased for $ 110 , 000 at the 1997 keeneland september yearling sale . hookedonthefeelin was the winner of five stakes , including the grade 1 la brea . as a broodmare , hookedonthefeelin has produced pussycat doll , a real quiet three - time grade 1 winner for pegram and baffert during the mid - 2000s , as well as grade 1 winner jimmy creed and stakes winner funny feeling .
daniel bacheler comes next in the league table with 55 extant solos . it is surprising that to date there has been no complete edition of his music—the sources are considered problematic—chris morongiello is working on one , and has been supplying pieces by him for our lute news music supplements . much of the music requires more than seven courses , and is not terribly easy ; paul o’dette , who has made a recent recording on the harmonia mundi label , points out that it is hard to find a tempo that suits both the slow passages in his music and the fast divisions . so perhaps not a composer for the beginner to worry about unduly .
in reading ( to use the chinese term ) a chinese landscape painting , we are often moved by the pleasure of recognition , even of identification , occasioned by the one or more tiny human figures , almost imperceptible among the rocks and pines . these figures , executed with a few minute strokes of the brush , represent a solitary man , leaning on his staff along a mountain path , or on the back of a donkey , crossing a bridge and followed by a boy who carries his lute , or among a group of similar figures lingering by the waterside , immersed in the landscape , insignificant and unobtrusive . ( li chi , 1962 )
in reading ( to use the chinese term ) a chinese landscape painting , we are often moved by the pleasure of recognition , even of identification , occasioned by the one or more tiny human figures , almost imperceptible among the rocks and pines . these figures , executed with a few minute strokes of the brush , represent a solitary man , leaning on his staff along a mountain path , or on the back of a donkey , crossing a bridge and followed by a boy who carries his lute , or among a group of similar figures lingering by the waterside , immersed in the landscape , insignificant and unobtrusive .
( li chi , 1962 )
in reading ( to use the chinese term ) a chinese landscape painting , we are often moved by the pleasure of recognition , even of identification , occasioned by the one or more tiny human figures , almost imperceptible among the rocks and pines . these figures , executed with a few minute strokes of the brush , represent a solitary man , leaning on his staff along a mountain path , or on the back of a donkey , crossing a bridge and followed by a boy who carries his lute , or among a group of similar figures lingering by the waterside , immersed in the landscape , insignificant and unobtrusive
( li chi , 1962 ) .
next , john johnson with 31 solos , ‘the queen’s luter’ first really great english lute composer . there have been two complete editions of his works , one published by orphee editions , the other by tree . there is some debate about attributions and the boundaries of his repertoire , and the contents of the two editions differ . he wrote many pavans , galliards , and ground - based pieces , but also some very tuneful variation sets on popular tunes . his duets are notable ; a hallmark of his treble - and - ground writing is that they run the whole gamut of the instrument—good student material ! christopher wilson and shirley rumsey have recorded a selection of his works on naxos .
next comes anthony holborne , with 52 extant solos , mostly pavans and galliards . he was also a noted composer for metal - strung instruments , the cittern and bandora . his solo music was edited first by masakata kanazawa some years ago , and published by harvard , and more recently has been edited by rainer aus dem spring , for the lute society ( this edition is out of print at the moment , but should be reprinted later this year . ) his works include a sprinkling of pieces , especially some of the galliards and almains , which the early intermediate player could begin to tackle . there have been attractive recent recordings by jacob heringman , on the asv label , and christopher wilson and shirley rumsey , on naxos .