McGaughey lauds Point of Entry; Marketing Mix nearing end of racing career

McGaughey lauds Point of Entry; Marketing Mix nearing end

of racing career

Phipps Stable's

Point of Entry galloped 1 1/2 miles for his return to action in Saturday's Turf after

a five-month layoff.

Point of Entry suffered a non-displaced condylar fracture

of his left-hind cannon bone June 8 after winning the Manhattan, in which he

returned victoriously from a four-month layoff.

"I just think he's such a talented horse. He loves to train

in the morning. He'll do what I want him to do, and he loves doing it," trainer

Shug McGaughey said. "He obviously loves the afternoon -- he has a pretty good

race record."

Point of Entry has won seven of his last eight starts,

suffering his only loss in a second-place finish behind Little Mike in last

year's Turf at Santa Anita.

"That's why I've said he's one of the best I've had,

because he's so good in the morning and he's so good in the afternoon," the Hall

of Fame trainer said. "He's the whole package when it comes to a racehorse."

Another runner-up from the 2012 Breeder's Cup, Marketing Mix, is seeking to

go one better in the Filly & Mare Turf on Saturday. The five-year-old mare is

nearing the end of her racing days.

Glen

Hill Farm, which was founded as a racing and breeding operation in 1966 by

Leonard Lavin, has been rebuilding and will be reloading when Marketing Mix is

retired to broodmare duty next year.

Marketing Mix, who has earned $1,955,893, was

purchased at auction during lean times for the breeding end of the business in

recent years. The hope is that her success on the track will translate into her

second career when next year she joins the band of good young broodmares on the

farm who carry the Glen Hill bloodlines.

"The goal is to be self-sufficient and to have the right

mares who are capable of being good producers so that we may continue to do

well," said Glen Hill President Craig Bernick, the grandson of Lavin, who

celebrated his 94th birthday this week.

The current crop of yearlings includes many with six

generations of Glen Hill genes, including those of the deceased One Dreamer, who

won the 1994 Distaff.

"Some of the mares are descended from my grandfather's

original mares," Bernick said. "We keep them not for sentimental reasons, but

because they are good producers."

Hap Proctor, the brother of trainer Tom

Proctor, is retiring after decades as the farm manger. Their uncle was his

predecessor, and their father, Willard Proctor, trained the Glen Hill horses

before his death.

"For over 50 years, when the babies are born, someone in the Proctor

family has been taking care of them at the farm and on the track," Bernick said.

"It's a big advantage when you know the family and the family

knows the horses and their tendencies so they know how to train them when

they're ready. When you buy horses at auction, you don't know their history."

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