00:01The TDN stopped in for a morning of training at Iseman Equine, where Dr. Barry Iseman spoke
00:07with us about his career in the industry and introduced us to a few two-year-olds who might
00:11just be stars in the making. The first flight line coming out is West Point and Vinny Viola,
00:21St. Elias. This is the flight line out of the Mayor Proud Emma. He was really good at three
00:27and four. People are thinking, well, this year they're not going to be much because he's
00:34not meant to sire two-year-olds. But many of those that I have are in the bridle and they're
00:39precocious and they're forward. My undergrad was in Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh,
00:48and then vet school at UPenn. I moved to this area. When I first came here, there were a lot
00:54of practitioners in the greater Ocala area that did a lot of broodmare work, but there
00:58weren't really that many that did sports medicine type stuff. Then when I came into town, I quickly
01:05was the go-to guy for lamenesses and difficult sports medicine stuff. I practiced probably
01:12for 20 years or so here. Then when Sherry and I got married, she had been doing pin hooking
01:20her whole life and we just sort of transitioned to doing this. Now, there's 250 horses here.
01:27As far as the veterinary stuff, I become a thinker and a finger pointer and work out the problems.
01:36So this next horse that's going to come out, he's by Into Mischief out of KP Dreamin. He'll
01:41be trained by Baffert. He's owned by the Ownership Group, which is a long list, but Stone Street
01:47and Starlight and Matacat, SF Bloodstock. They've named all their horses. There's 21 here. This colt,
01:57they just named Hughes, which is after the two brothers, you know, Jack Hughes, who lost his teeth
02:02and scored the goal. We must have three or four or five horses on the Derby Trail, one being Iron
02:11Honor
02:12that just won the Gotham the other day. We broke him for St. Elias and Glassman Racing. He was our
02:19sixth winner of the Gotham. Golden Tempo for Sherry DeVoe is one that, uh, two wins and a third. And,
02:27you know, the Louisiana Derby will be his next big test. We've had one Derby winner that we sold,
02:34uh, I'll have another, who was about that close to being a triple crown. You know, he had an injury
02:40that precluded him from running in the Belmont. But over the years, I don't know, we probably had
02:4610, 12, 15 Derby starters, which is hard to do in its own right. So this next colt is another
02:55flight
02:56line, and he's by out of Park Avenue. He was 1.8 million. And he's West Point, John Oxley, Lane's
03:04Inn, Summerwind Farm. He's got a whole laundry list of folks in the ownership column. A very,
03:11very good prospect.
03:16I mean, we broke, in the current group of stallions that are out there, we broke Mineframe,
03:21who's very current. And Mackenzie, we broke for Baffert. Olympiad, we broke for, uh, that
03:29ownership group. So we're doing pretty good in the stallions. The last grade one winner that
03:36Bill trained, that came through here to be broken, was, uh, Arthur's Ride. He's his first
03:41crop sire. He stands at, uh, TaylorMade. Arthur's even probably more white than Tappet
03:47ever was, because Arthur. I mean, young thoroughbred horses, their minds aren't adjusted to a white
03:53horse. And he would come on the track, and they would think that something just landed
03:59from a spaceship. It's really pretty funny. This next one's by Gunrunner, and he's out of Songbird.
04:09And they'd named him Mendoza, who is named after the, uh, Heisman Trophy winning quarterback.
04:18We decided very early on that we were not gonna have a racing stable. There's too many people,
04:25many people, that sell horses and also have a racing stable. And the knee-jerk reaction is,
04:31so you've set the five you like best, aside, and you're offering for sale what you don't want.
04:37So we never wanted to be in that mousetrap, so we sell everything. As they go off and do well,
04:42it just makes the snowball get bigger. You know, those are happy people. They're coming back.
04:47They feel they were well-treated. And you sell them a second horse and a third and fourth horse.
04:53Okay, ready to move on to a golf cart?
04:57So there's probably 80 or so turnout paddocks, and they're all in semi-circles around all the barn.
05:06Early on, early breaking process, everything is out alive.
05:11And I usually start breaking horses that come in from a breeder or the yearling sales about two days after
05:20they arrive.
05:20And they get a couple days of making sure the temperature's okay and they're not ill.
05:27I find that when you start early like that, they're a little bit disoriented or a little bit tired from
05:34the sale.
05:35If you give them two or three weeks to get their feet on the ground, you're producing fire-breathing dragons
05:41to start working with.
05:43So it works well for me just to get going.
05:46When we start to break them, they're going to be coming to the track for their first appearance in pairs
05:51in four to five weeks.
05:53Their first, second or third day on the track, they start to go through this gate.
05:57That just teaches them not to be afraid to go into a confined area.
06:02So they'll walk through that gate until they're sick and tired of doing it.
06:06And that gate's made out of PVC pipe.
06:09So if they get in there and stop and they lean against it, it'll creak.
06:13You know, like a PVC pipe would do.
06:17And that begins to teach them that the gate can talk to you.
06:20It can make noise. Don't be afraid of the noise.
06:24I come up here once in a while, sit and watch training because it gives you like a different three
06:30-dimensional view of what's going on.
06:33I've been doing it for a long time.
06:35So the people, the customers that send horses here, I've known for a long time.
06:40And they don't have a need to or try to micromanage anything.
06:44They want the horses when they're ready.
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