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NEW YORK HERO overlooked at 14-1 in his stakes debut, surprised a large Turfway Park crowd and national television audience on ESPN when he held off Eugene's Third Son to capture the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes-G2 by a neck.
The victory in the Grade 2 Lane's End was the third in five career starts for NEW YORK HERO, who went on to earn $585,560 to become his sire PARTNER'S HERO's leading money earner.
Ch.c. 2000, Partner's Hero–Nin Two, by John Alden.
Bred by Dark Hollow Farm and William Beatson. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $6,000 at the Keeneland September 2001 Yearling Sale. Purchased by Paraneck Stables for $135,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale.

A half-brother by Danzig to Hall of Famer and Eclipse Award-winning sprinter SAFELY KEPT, PARTNER'S HERO was also a speedster on the track. He became a graded stakes winner by winning the six-furlong Kentucky Cup Sprint-G2 in 1:09 and equaled Turfway Park's six-furlong track record of 1:08 1/5 while winning the Hansel S. The huge dark bay horse earned $554,731 over three seasons, with five stakes wins and eight stakes placings, including a third to Kelly Kip and Affirmed Success in the Frank J. DeFrancis Memorial Dash-G2. 

PARTNER'S HERO was named Maryland-bred champion older horse of 1998. After his racing career was completed he retired absolutely sound and was syndicated by Northview Stallion Station, where he launched his stud career, siring, among others, millionaire HEROS REWARD. 

Dk.b./br.h., 1994, Danzig—Safely Home, by Winning Hit
Bred by Dark Hollow Farm and Gilman Investments. Sold at Saratoga Select Yearling Sale to Horton Stables for $390,000. Stands at Castle Rock Farm in Pennsylvania

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NEW YORK HERO overlooked at 14-1 in his stakes debut, surprised a large Turfway Park crowd and national television audience on ESPN when he held off Eugene's Third Son to capture the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes-G2 by a neck.
The victory in the Grade 2 Lane's End was the third in five career starts for NEW YORK HERO, who went on to earn $585,560 to become his sire PARTNER'S HERO's leading money earner.
Ch.c. 2000, Partner's Hero–Nin Two, by John Alden.
Bred by Dark Hollow Farm and William Beatson. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $6,000 at the Keeneland September 2001 Yearling Sale. Purchased by Paraneck Stables for $135,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale.

Overlooked at 14-1 in his stakes debut, NEW YORK HERO surprised a large Turfway Park crowd and national television audience on ESPN when he held off Eugene's Third Son to capture the $500,000 Lane's End S.-G2 by a neck in the spring of 2003. The victory was his third in his first five starts.

The son of Dark Hollow Farm-bred PARTNER'S HERO had an extremely busy campaign that year, making 14 starts, winning four times and finishing second in three others, and being named Maryland-bred champion 3-year-old colt. The next season, his 15 starts included a second in the Gr.3 National Jockey Club H. at Hawthorne and a third in the Jennings H. at Pimlico. Raced through age 7, NEW YORK HERO, went on to earn $628,438.

Dk.b./br.c., 2000, Partner's Hero—Nin Two, by John Alden
Bred by Dark Hollow Farm and William Beatson 
Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $6,000 at the Keeneland September 2001 Yearling Sale.
Purchased by Paraneck Stables for $135,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale.

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Undefeated in her first four career outings—three of which were stakes—POTOMAC BEND established herself as one of the top 3-year-old fillies in training early in 1999. After winning the Jameela S. against Maryland-breds in January and the open Marshua S. less than a month later at Laurel Park, the daughter of POLISH NUMBERS ventured to New York to capture the Gr.3 Cicada S. in March. Sidelined after that effort, she returned at age 4 to gain a victory against allowance company at Pimlico. She was retired with a career record of five victories in seven starts with earnings of $149,345. 

POTOMAC BEND is the dam of stakes-winning juvenile filly BLUEGRASS ATATUDE, winner of the 2011 Maryland Million Lassie S., and stakes-placed juvenile X Marks the Spot.

Ch.f., 1996, Polish Numbers—Gravina, by Sir Ivor
Bred by Mark Hayden and F.W. LePorin. Foaled and raised at Dark Hollow Farm.
Sold for $31,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale to Wayne Harrison’s Twin Oaks Stable.

 

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After breaking her maiden first time out at Belmont Park in July of her 2-year-old season, VICTORY CHIME was purchased privately by Joseph Allen. The accomplished turf mare won three more races, topped by the Grade 3 Boiling Springs Handicap, and placed in eight others–five stakes–including a close second in the Grade 2 Reeve Schley Jr. She was retired after her 4–year–old campaign having earned $210,400. VICTORY CHIME produced her first foal, a filly by Dynaformer, for Joseph Allen in 2000.
B.m. 1994, Polish Numbers–Topacio (Uru), by Snow Satyr. Bred by David Bloom. Foaled and raised at Dark Hollow Farm. Sold as a 2-year-old for $27,000 at the Ocala Breeders' March 2-year-olds in training sale.

After breaking her maiden first time out at Belmont Park in July of her 2-year-old season, VICTORY CHIME was purchased privately by Joseph Allen. The accomplished turf mare won three more races, topped by the Gr.3 Boiling Springs H., and placed in eight others–five stakes–including a close second in the Gr.2 Reeve Schley Jr. S. She was retired after her 4–year–old campaign having earned $210,400.

VICTORY CHIME became a stakes producer when her daughter, GLORIFICATION, won the Tiburon S. at Golden Gate and placed in the California Oaks and Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Oaks.  

B.m., 1994, Polish Numbers—Topacio (Uru), by Snow Satyr
Bred by David Bloom. Foaled and raised at Dark Hollow Farm.
Sold as a 2-year-old for $27,000 at the Ocala Breeders' March 2-year-olds in training sale.

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Dark Hollow sales graduate OUR NEW RECRUIT was sent half way around the world from his California base to the United Arab Emirates to capture the world's richest sprint race, the $2 million Golden Shaheen Sprint-G1 at Nad Al Sheba, a part of the 2004 Dubai World Cup of Racing. The victory not only made him a millionaire, it also earned the big chestnut the title of Highweighted Older Horse (5-7 fur.) that year on the UAE Free Handicap.

OUR NEW RECRUIT was making his third consecutive stakes appearance, coming in off a second in the Vernon O. Underwood S.-G3 at Hollywood Park and a third in the Palos Verdes H.-G2 at Santa Anita. Upon his return from his world tour, OUR NEW RECRUIT captured Del Mar's Pirate's Bounty H. He retired at the end of that season with a record of six wins, seven seconds and two thirds from 19 starts, and earnings of $1,470,915. He was named 2004 Maryland-bred champion older male and champion sprinter.

Race Record:
1st- Gulf News Dubai Golden Shaheen [G1] in Dubai
1st- $75,000 Pirate's Bounty H. at DMR
2nd- $100,000 Vernon O. Underwood S. [G3] at HOL
3rd- Palos Verdes H. [G2] at SA
Race Record:
1st- $1,000,000 Gulf News Dubai Golden Shaheen-G1 in Dubai Video Triangle
1st- $75,000 Pirate's Bounty H. at DMR
2nd- $100,000 Vernon O. Underwood S.-G3 at HOL
3rd- $150,000 Palos Verdes H.-G2 at SA

 

OUR NEW RECRUIT
Ch.c., 1999, Alphabet Soup—Delta Danielle, by Lord Avie
Bred by Thomas Graul. Sold by Dark Hollow Farm for $40,000 to Rollin W. Baugh, agent at Keeneland November 1999.

 

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Not for Silver (by Not For Love), bred in partnership by Dark Hollow Farm, William H.D. deBurgh and George I.E. Harris, campaigned for owner Ted Julio, who purchased him for $85,000 at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale. He had been sold by Dark Hollow Farm at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale for $32,000.
Trained by Laurel Park-based Mike Trombetta, Not for Silver won his only start at 2 and came out running as a 3-year-old, winning his first two starts in 2009 by a combined margin of seven and a half lengths. His stakes debut came in his second outing of the season, Aqueduct’s six-furlong Fred “Cappy” Capossella Stakes on February 15, in which he scored as even-money favorite in a field of six. Returning next to his home court at Laurel, Not for Silver finished a game second, beaten a head by St John’s Gospel, in the one-mile Private Terms Stakes on March 21.
But the best was yet to come.
Not for Silver carried the banner for Maryland in the Grade 3 Hirsch Jacobs Stakes, a six-furlong feature on the Preakness undercard at Pimlico on May 16, as runner-up to Everyday Heroes.
Then in his next outing, on July 11, he staked his claim as one of the top 3-year-old sprinters in the country, charging down the stretch to triumph by four and a half lengths in the six-furlong Grade 2 Carry Back Stakes on Summit of Speed Day at Calder.
Not for Silver added one more stakes placing – as runner-up, a length and a quarter behind El Brujo, in Keene land’s seven-furlong Perry ville Stakes-G3 on October 17.
His two stakes wins and three stakes placings came at five different race tracks, over dirt and Polytrack.
Not for Silver is out of the Silver Deputy mare Silverdew, whom the Haydens purchased for $75,000 (in foal to Golden Missile) at the 2003 Adena Springs November sale. (That 2004 foal, a gelding named Mer cantile, brought $175,000 as a pinhooking prospect at the Keeneland September Yearling sale and $2 million when resold at the Fasig-Tipton Florida 2-year-olds in training sale. Mercantile is a three-time winner of $83,160.)
Silverdew is no longer a member of the Dark Hollow broodmare band, having been sold for $15,000 (not in foal) at the 2007 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed sale.

NOT FOR SILVER  (by Not For Love), bred in partnership by Dark Hollow Farm, William H.D. deBurgh and George Harris, campaigned for owner Ted Julio, who purchased him for $85,000 at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale. He had been sold by Dark Hollow Farm at the Fasig-Tipton December Mixed sale for $32,000.

Trained by Laurel Park-based Mike Trombetta, NOT FOR SILVER won his only start at 2 and came out running as a 3-year-old, winning his first two starts in 2009 by a combined margin of seven and a half lengths. His stakes debut came in his second outing of the season, Aqueduct’s six-furlong Fred “Cappy” Capossella S. on February 15, in which he scored as even-money favorite in a field of six. Returning next to his home court at Laurel, NOT FOR SILVER finished a game second, beaten a head by St John’s Gospel, in the one-mile Private Terms S. on March 21. But the best was yet to come. 

NOT FOR SILVER carried the banner for Maryland in the Grade 3 Hirsch Jacobs S., a six-furlong feature on the Preakness undercard at Pimlico on May 16, as runner-up to Everyday Heroes. Then in his next outing, on July 11, he staked his claim as one of the top 3-year-old sprinters in the country, charging down the stretch to triumph by four and a half lengths in the six-furlong Grade 2 Carry Back S. on Summit of Speed Day at Calder. He added one more stakes placing – as runner-up, a length and a quarter behind El Brujo, in Keeneland’s seven-furlong Perryville S.-G3 in October. 

NOT FOR SILVER's two stakes wins and three stakes placings came at five different race tracks, over dirt and Polytrack. In 2009 he was voted Maryland-bred champion 3-year-old as well as champion sprinter. 

He was the third foal bred by Dark Hollow Farm and partners out of the Silver Deputy mare Silverdew, whom the Haydens purchased for $75,000 (in foal to Golden Missile) at the 2003 Adena Springs November sale. That Golden Missile foal brought $175,000 as a pinhooking prospect at the Keeneland September Yearling sale and was resold for $2 million at the Fasig-Tipton Florida 2-year-olds in training sale at Calder.


Race Record
1st - $200,000 Carry Back S.-G2 at CRC  Video Triangle
1st - $75,000 Fred "Cappy" Caposella at AQU Video Triangle
2nd - $100,000 Hirsch Jacobs S.-G3 at PIM

NOT FOR SILVER
Dk.b./br.c., 2006, Not For Love—Silverdew, by Silver Deputy
Bred by Dark Hollow Farm, William DeBurgh and George Harris
Sold for $32,000 as a yearling to SIGMUND MARGULIES at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale.

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