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4 The Game, February 2008 Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper Krista Kocot stands Legal Jousting in St. Kits
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Five breeding seasons ago, Krista Kocot was doing an internship at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Kentucky where her duties included
“I was just in the right place at the right time,” she said of buying Legal Jousting through champion Fort Erie jockey Robbie King, who was training him at Woodbine in 2004. “Robbie wanted to sell him to someone who would stand him at stud. He de nitely was stallion material.”
caring for mares like Silverbulletday, Sere- na’s Tune, Estrapade and Fowda and bringing mares into the breeding barn to be mated to such stallions as Theatrical, Jade Hunter and Buddha, at fees then ranging from $40,000 to the mid- ve  gures.
Legal Jousting was third in the Grade 3 Fort Marcy Handicap in 2001 and was sec- ond in both the Leopardstown 200 Guineas Trial (by a head) and the Desert King EBF Tetrarch Stakes (Grade 3) in Ireland the year before.
This spring, she’s handling the breeding
of her own stallion, Legal Jousting (Indian Ridge-In Anticipation by Sadler’s Wells),
a graded stakes-placed winner of nearly $100,000 at her Kingsgate Stud (named after Kingsgate Castle in Broadstairs, Kent). The stud is located at Paul Sharpe’s Cedarcrest Farm in St. Catharines.
Legal Jousting
Indian Ridge is best known in North America as the sire of Breeders’ Cup Mile winners Domedriver and Ridgewood Pearl and of Canadian International winner Re-
“My family is as ‘un-horsy’ as you can get,” Kocot admits. “They don’t know where my love of horses came from, but I recall there were horses across the road from my grandparents’ farm. I took riding lessons but that was never my priority. I needed to be around horses and worked for free at different farms to acquire knowledge.”
laxed Gesture. Legal Jousting’s dam, In Anticipation, has had six foals to race, all winners. Two, Irresistible Jewel (by Danehill) and Diamond Trim (by Highest Honor) are stakes winners and the former is dam of multiple Group 1-placed Mad About You (by Indian Ridge), who is listed in the Racing Post International Ratings of top two-year-olds of 2007. Legal Jousting’s second dam is the Grade 1 stakes- winner Aptostar, by Fappiano, winner of $537,259.
After high school she enrolled in the equine sci-
ence production and breeding management program
at Olds College in Alberta, which stood Thoroughbreds, Warmbloods, Standardbreds and Quarter Horses, using both live cover and arti cial insemination. Part of the college program involved the internship at Hill ‘n’ Dale.
Legal Jousting, whose stud fee is $2,000, stood his  rst season in 2005. His mating to Bold Carma produced a  lly that was sold as a yearling in 2007 and afterwards purchased by Ricky Grif th, assistant to top trainer Mark Casse.
She acquired her  rst horse, the mare Bold Carma by Bold Executive, at Fort Erie and bred the chestnut with four white socks to Perigee Moon in the spring of 2004. The resulting colt was sold as a yearling to trainer Paul Buttigieg for $4,500 in 2006 and Kocot emphasized “The most important thing is to get your foals into the hands of a good trainer, to maximize their success on the racetrack.”
Working at horse farms in the St. Catharines area “to support me and my horses,” Kocot asserted that breeding “is very rewarding. It’s a wonderful experience to match pedigrees, breed the mares, foal them and see the foals take their  rst breath. My dream is to see Legal Jousting’s foals do well at the track, and to buy a Blushing Groom-line
mare, it’s a good nick.
“Breeding is a hard business. You’re
Legal Jousting(IRE)
not in it to make scads of money. But... maybe... “
IN THE HEART OF THE NIAGARA PENINSULA
At the time of his passing, John was managing the Hunter/Jumper barn of Nancy Wetmore.
905-680-5380.cell: 905-933-6320 www.kingsgatestud.com info@kingsgatestud.com
John was known throughout his life as the person who helped others get their start in the thoroughbred racing business.
Krista Kocot
He eventually returned to grooming for trainers Glenn Magnusson and John Cardella. He was also an Assistant to Jake Nemett before leaving the race- track in the early 1990’s to start his own boarding business where he re-trained and sold ex-thoroughbreds.
By Harlan Abbey
JoLhn Teeter Passes Away
ong-time horseman, John Teeter,
passed away on January 14, just shy of his 63rd birthday.
Born in England, John came to Canada when he was 4.
In the early 1960’s he began work- ing with horses at Wind elds Farm
in Oshawa and at the racetrack as a groom for trainer Pete McCann, during the time of the Wind elds Farm owned Canebora’s 1963 Queen’s Plate win.
John spent his winters in Aiken, South Carolina, galloping horses such as Stage Door Johnny and The University for trainer John Gaver.
John had a stint as a jockey
at Fingerlakes and Blue Bonnets in Montreal, he also rode a few at Green- wood, Woodbine and Fort Erie before beginning a training career at Blue Bonnets in the 1970’s. He also had small stables at Fort Erie and Woodbine.
A memorial service will be held for John in February.
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