The famous 26-time stakes winner and fan preferred Ben’s Cat and star foxhunter Mountain Dew are the latest conscripts into the Maryland-Bred Thoroughbred Hall of Fame after a vote by a committee of Maryland racing market members collaborated by the Maryland Horse Breeders Association and Maryland Racing Media Association.
A child of Parker’s Storm Cat, Ben’s Cat did not launching up until his 4-year-old season after breaking his hips at 2, an injury that needed 6 months of stall rest. He won his very first 2 profession begins in declaring business and his very first 8 total for owner, breeder and fitness instructor King T. Leatherbury, consisting of the very first 3 of those black-type triumphes. He won the Maryland-reproduced Mister Diz S. a half-dozen times from 8 starts in the race, the Jim McKay Turf Sprint on 5 events and the Maryland Million Turf Sprint H. 3 times. He was a graded-stakes winner each year from 2011-2014, all in grass sprints at Parx Racing. In 2017, he was granted the Secretariat Vox Populi Award, selected by citizens from all over the world.
Janon Fisher, Jr.’s Mountain Dew was a star foxhunter prior to changing to lumber racing in the early 1960s. He won the Maryland Hunt Cup 3 times (1962, 1965 and 1967) with rider Janon Fisher III and was runner-up in 1963, 1964 and 1966. He was hurt at the 19th of 22 fences in the 1968 Hunt Cup when leading and extremely continued to leap fence 20 while being brought up. Mountain Dew completed in 24 approved lumber races and never ever fell. He was hurt in a single start on the flat as a 3-year-old.
“We are so proud that, with this year’s inductees, we are able to celebrate not only two of our most important Maryland-bred horses, but Maryland’s remarkable horsemen and the diversity of our sport that they represent,” said Cricket Goodall, executive director of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association. “King T. Leatherbury and the Fisher family are great examples of the persistence and longevity that Maryland is known for.”
This year’s conscripts will be commemorated throughout an event in between races at Timonium Race Course Saturday, Sept. 2.
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