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First Foal for Lisa
Did You Know....
That jockeys Martin Ramirez and Steven Bahen are one and two wins away, respectively, from reaching the
1000 career wins milestone. Forty-year-old Ramirez, who moved his tack to
Woodbine from Fort Erie in 2005, finished off the 2004 season at Fort Erie with a lifetime total of 988 wins however eleven wins this winter at Tampa Bay Downs leaves him only one shy of the mark.
Steven Bahen won his first race at Woodbine in 1986 and was the winner of the 2002 Queen’s Plate aboard
longshot T.J.’s Lucky Moon. The 38-year-old Montreal native finished off the 2004 season at Woodbine with 998 career wins.
By Kelly MacKay
If the old saying of “breed the best to the best and hope for the best” holds true then Lisa and Fenton Platts have the formula figured out; expecting their first child in November with a pedigree that reads like a champion, who would argue.
Lisa was a successful jockey for the last eleven years both here and in her native New Jersey and was named leading rider at the Atlantic City Race Course in 1997.
Her husband, Fenton Platts, was a trainer for many years and most recently accepted a promotion to become Woodbine’s new paddock judge after a season as the paddock horse identifier.
Lisa’s brother-in-law is Robin Platts, who is a Queen’s Plate winner of four occasions, a member of
Canada’s Horse Racing Hall of Fame
as well as a Sovereign Award winning
jockey.
October 2004, Lisa retired from her
career as a jockey, a career she loved, to follow another avenue of horse racing and listen to her ticking biological clock.
“When I decided to leave racing I juggled with the decision- ‘do I quit? Do I stay?’ Fenny asked me what was in my heart?”
I said that was enough. I wanted to get pregnant and I knew it wasn’t going to happen while I was sitting on a horse.”
At the end of the 2003 season Lisa worked the winter months at Chiefswood Farm. She enjoyed working for the Krembils and was offered a full time position and initially declined the offer.
“I turned it down to stay at the race- track but when they asked me again I said ok.” said Lisa who mentioned that she doesn’t regret her decision.
Lisa was hired as the Supervisor of the yearling farm at Chiefswood and had four staff members working for her however with the announcement of her pregnancy the Krembils decided that it would be safer for Lisa to work with the broodmares.
Lisa says that now she is not doing anything too strenuous and is “hanging out with the big mommas”
When asked if she is learning from the broodmares Lisa replied, “Oh that is really funny because all the guys here say ‘you’re going to look like that soon’ and I say ‘I‘m already waddling!”
Lisa is expecting her own Mom to arrive in November to be her coach and says that the baby will be the first grand child on her side of the family.
Fenton has a thirteen-year-old daughter named Nicole from his previous relationship and she is hoping for a sister. As for Lisa she says, “I want a boy for Fenny’s sake and a girl for Nicole, for me? Either is fine”
Content with her new life and what she has achieved Lisa says, “I have no feelings of regret or remorse. I have my saddles at home and I don’t even look at them. I do miss some of my horses I use to ride, Dana’s Lucky Lady, I miss her a lot.”
Fenton & Lisa Platts - 2003 Photo
New Stallion
PRIDE OF NEW YORK
is now the Pride of Ontario
Pride of New York -
Mt. Livermore - Peruvian Pride, by Baldski Undefeated in two starts Half-brother to Champion Palestino & New York Champion Ransom’s Pride
2005 Fee: $4,000 NominatedtoBreeders’CupandOntario SireStakes
Pride of New York (2001) brings with him an impressive family:
By Classic Sire MT. LIVERMORE - Sire of more than 60 Stakes Winners, Nine Millionaires & Six Champions.
Out of PERUVIAN PRIDE - Arguably the Best Female Line in Canada!
Dam of 6 to race, 6 winners including 4 stakes winners (3 G1 & 3 G3). Full Sister to CHAPOSA SPRINGS winner of $762,000 14 wins in 23 starts incl. 2 G1, 1 G2 & 3 G3.
Half-sister to You and I winner of $701,000 incl. 2 G1, 1 G2, 3 G3. 2nd dam LA CHAPOSA - Winner of 2 G1 and 1 G3. Half-sister to 3 stakes winners. Dam of 9 winners 4 G1, 4 G2, 3 G3 totalling more than $2 million in progeny earnings.
3rd dam BELINDA - Half-sister to stakes placed Jangua. Produced 8 winners, 4 stakes winners who produced 5 stakes winners accumulating 35 stakes wins or placed.
Anson Stud Farm
905-584-4969 Fax: 905-584-5045 email: ansonstudfarm@netscape.net
Inquiries to Sonja or Andy McKinnon 17655 Innis Lake Road, Caledon East, ON