Chester and Mary Broman were named New York's outstanding breeders for the second straight year and fifth time overall at Monday evening's awards banquet of the New York Thoroughbred Breeders. Chester and Mary Broman won seven stakes races in 2017 with their homebreds, led by GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint upsetter Bar of Gold (Medaglia d'Oro).
Mind Your Biscuits (Posse), the 2016 New York-bred Horse of the Year, was once again the voters' pick for the top honors in 2017. The chestnut repeated in the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen last month and became the richest New York-bred in history with earnings of $3,719,286, overtaking the mark of $3,529,412 set by GI Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide.
Mind Your Biscuits was also voted champion New York-Bred Male Sprinter and Champion New York-Bred Older Dirt Male. The other multiple winner of the night was the Bromans' Bar of Gold, who was voted Champion New York-Bred Female Sprinter and Older Dirt Female.
Other winners include: 2-Year-Old Male: Therapist (Freud); 2-Year-Old Filly: Pure Silver (Mission Impazible); 3-Year-Old Male: Twisted Tom (Creative Cause); 3-Year-Old Filly: Fifty Five (Get Stormy); Turf Male: Disco Partner (Disco Rico); Turf Female: Fourstar Crook (Freud); Broodmare of the Year: Jazzmane (Toccet), dam of Mind Your Biscuits; Trainer of the Year: Linda Rice; and Jockey of the Year: Irad Ortiz Jr.
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