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Fox Ridge Farm's NAUGHTY NEW YORKER overshadowed
six New York-bred 2007 graded/group winners to gain
the New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2007 Horse
of the Year and Champion Older Male honors at the
NYTB's annual awards banquet on Monday evening,
May 12 at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs.
The 2006 graded-winning veteran -- currently a six-year-old
in training and less than an overnight purse short
of becoming a millionaire -- won 2007 stakes at
all three New York Racing Association (NYRA) tracks
and also placed in three graded stakes for the year.
Another New York-bred honored twice at the banquet
was 2007 Grade 2 winner OPRAH WINNEY, who
was named Champion Four-and-Up Female and Champion
Female Sprinter.
Named Champion Turf Male in a talented division
that included three graded/group winners was 2007
Grade 2 winner DAVE. Honored as Champion
Male Sprinter in another loaded specialty division
was 2007 Grade 2 winner and millionaire FRIENDLY
ISLAND, who also had placed second among 16
in the $2-million Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen at
Nad Al Sheba in March of 2007.
Unbeaten 2007 juvenile and projected Preakness
starter GIANT MOON was named Champion Two-Year-Old
Male, and another 2007 unbeaten two-year-old, BY
THE LIGHT, was a deserving recipient of Champion
Two-Year-Old Filly honors after having won four
starts by 19-1/2 combined lengths in New York and
Louisiana. Super-versatile STUNT MAN, who
won stakes on all four NYRA dirt tracks and was
stakes-placed in his turf debut at Saratoga, beat
out a graded-winning colt to take the Champion Three-Year-Old
Male title. Three-time 2007 stakes winner TALKING
TREASURE won the Champion Three-Year-Old Filly
title over three open Aqueduct stakes winners, and
recent turf discovery FACTUAL CONTENDER beat
out a 2007 multiple graded grass winner to gain
a well-earned honor as Champion Turf Female. Named
as Champion Steeplechaser was three-year-old BE
CERTAIN, who in his second effort over jumps
had broken his maiden in a hurdle stakes. ...click
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