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April Nine, dam of Embrujo FG, wins her trial to the 1988 Vessels Maturity
Embrujo FG in 1992 at 3 weeks of age
horse endeavor as well as in his personal life. In 2005, he lost his beloved wife, Jackie; his dog; and his first Thoroughbred mare. “She died the summer my mom did,” said Anna. “He had tried to breed the mare and she wasn’t getting pregnant. He had her checked out and found she had a 50-pound sarcoma in her gut. Nothing could be done.”
After his losses that year, Anna and her brothers worried about their father being
in eastern Pennsylvania with them in the Washington D.C. area. “We started looking for some land and found the property where we are now,” she said. They built a home and barn, and
Glowacki sold his Pennsylvania home in 2007.
The move marked an unexpected upswing in his life: He met a new friend,
Rose, who is associate dean at a New Jersey
nursing school. “I was selling my
house and the couple looking
at it wanted to bring
and down and asked Glowacki why on earth he was selling him. Although he’d been the high- selling colt, the Gentrys’ inquiry brought on a serious case of seller’s remorse, and Glowacki bought him back and sent him to the breeding shed. Six months later Glowacki turned down an offer of more than three times what he’d just paid to get him back.
The decision to keep Embrujo FG proved to be well founded. Among the stud’s get was Le Magnifique FG, out of Special Effort daughter Meadow Creeks Effort. Trained by Rodney Reed, the 1999 colt’s earnings totaled $170,637, with a 5-3-1-0 record including a Remington Futurity win and the Champion 2-Year-Old title at Remington Park in his one and only year on the track.
Glowacki considered selling Le Magnifique FG, and even sent him to a horse sale under the care of Reed. At the zero hour, however, Glowacki reconsidered. He told Reed he wanted Le Magnifique FG back no matter how much he sold for, and the colt was repurchased.
After the Blue Ribbon Futurity, in which Le Magnifique FG finished fourth after being pushed out in the start, L.D. Brown—also one of Reed’s clients—offered Glowacki $100,000
for the horse. “My son John was with me,” Glowacki joked. “I looked at L.D., pointed to my son and said, ‘You see that kid standing over there? I’ll sell him to you for $100,000, but I’m not selling my horse!’”
Glowacki’s latest track star is Black Rosalita, by Sweet First Down and out of the Tolltac daughter Poneta, who was out of Glowacki’s original race mare April Nine. The multiple stakes winner has earned $93,319 in two years on the track, with a 21-7-1-2 record. Her 2012 wins include the Charlie Claborn Memorial Stakes and the Black Gold Derby, both at Will Rogers Downs, and she was recently named 2012 Oklahoma High-Point 3-Year-Old Filly. Black Rosalita is trained by Luz Chavira of Purcell, Oklahoma, who also trains the 2012 Oklahoma High-Point Claiming Horse, Blazen Getaway.
Thorns and Roses
Anyone in the horse racing business will tell you that along with the
highs, you inevitably experi-
ence some lows. Glowacki is
no exception; he suffered injuries and losses in his
“He’s among those in what I like to call ‘the nice guys network.’”
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