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Society’s Chairman
Watching the Everatt’s-bred Sand Cove’s career evolve Arika felt that he possessed everything that she looked for in a stallion. At the time the family was producing Ontario-bred foals and if they were to stand Sand Cove they could produce Ontario-Sired foals to add sale value due to the lucrative Horse Improvement Program (HIP). In late 2011 Arika approached Sand Cove’s trainer Roger Att eld who in turn showed her six stallion prospects that would be looking for homes that year. Society’s Chairman was the last one she was shown and one that Arika felt she could not leave behind.
Both Sand Cove and Society’s Chairman were sent to the Everatt’s Colton Springs Farm in Paris, Kentucky. 35 mares were scheduled to breed to Sand Cove however he foundered and was euthanized before he could even cover one mare.
Arika had also purchased 33 mares which she says she “cherry picked” to breed to Society’s Chairman who was ready for his
 rst year as a stallion in 2012 ......just as the announcement came to end slots at racetracks program in Ontario.
With an uncertain future, Arika, sold almost half of the mares she had just purchased and Society’s Chairman only bred 19 mares that year. From that  rst crop of 19 foals born in 2013 he had 11 two-year-old starters, 8 of which were winners and three of those stakes winners:
Caren (out of the Vilzak mare Jo Zak) is a G3 stakes winner, G2 stakes placed, winner of 8 stakes including the Triple Tiara Bison City and Wonder Where Stakes and was third in the Woodbine Oaks. She is also nominated for 2016 Champion 3 year-old  lly and a possible candidate for Horse of the Year in 2016.
Sparkle’s Girl (out of the Trust N Luck mare, Trusted) who broke her maiden in her  rst start and won the Ontario Lassie Stakes that same year.
Code Warrior (out of the Runaway Groom mare, Lady Natalie) a Florida-bred  lly who won all three of her starts at two including the Golden Nugget and Golden Gate Debutante stakes in California. She was second in the G2 Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita in 2016 and has recorded two second place  nishes so far in 2017.
23 year-old mare, Jo Zak, whose last foal is Graded and multiple Stakes winner, Caren (by Society’s Chairman), is now a retiree
in the paddock at Shannondoe Farms. Arika recently purchased four additional mares for 2017 because of the new Ontario Mare Purchase Program introduced by the CTHS (Ontario Division) and the HBPA of Ontario.
28 year-old retiree Mythical Status (Mythical Ruler) the grey/roan mare of 2010 Champion Older Horse, Sand Cove (foal of 2005), in the paddock with a handful of mares at Shannondoe Farm. 60 mares are scheduled to foal this year at Shannondoe Farm for the family and a number of clients. 25 mares are currently at the farm in Ontario with the remainder
at Colton Springs before being brought to Ontario to foal within the 60 day residency period and four mares will foal in New York State this year to produce NY-breds for both stallions.
READ Sand Cove Honours Shannondoe
READ Shannondoe Farms pro le,
by Dave Briggs - Canadian Thoroughbred
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