b'2019 NATIONAL AWARDS Broodmare of the YearBeyond the WavesThe most coveted award bestowedI find that mares who are just on the cusp of being upon a broodmare is the Nationalvery good will eventually achieve that excellence, and Broodmare of the Year. this is an example of that occurringthough we had to The award for 2019 goes to Georgewait a fairly long time, Strawbridge told BloodHorse Strawbridge Jr.s Beyond the Waves,earlier this year.dam of 2019 Horse of the Year BricksThe mating that produced Bricks and Mortar came and Mortar. Bricks and Mortar (byvia a recommendation from Nicoma Bloodstocks Giants Causeway) was also namedHeadley Bell.champion turf male of 2019 based onThe mating worked out on paper, they were very a perfect six-start season that earnedsimilar physically, and he was a good stallion, bordering $6,723,650. Major wins came in theon a great stallion, Strawbridge said. I thought maybe Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational Stakes (G1T) andwith a mare that was bordering on great achievement the Longines Breeders Cup Turf (G1T) for Klaravichwith a stallion bordering on great achievement we Stables and William Lawrence and trainer Chad Brown.might get lucky. And we did.Bricks and Mortars exploits also translated into anBeyond the Waves resides at Arthur Hancock IIIs Eclipse Award for Strawbridge as top breeder. Stone Farm near Paris, Ky. Beyond the Waves, a daughter of Ocean Crest Broodmare of the Year honors are rarely based on Excedent, by Exceller, was bred by Strawbridge andone runner. Beyond the Waves also is the dam of grade Ward D. Stiff. Racing mainly in France she won3 winner Emerald Beech (by Marias Mon), stakes one stakes and ran second in six others, includingwinner Beyond Smart (by Smart Strike), grade 3-placed Keenelands Bewitch Stakes (G3T) in the spring of 2003. Sir Ector (by Dynaformer), and stakes-placed Water She was an above average mare until Bricks andView (by Petionville).Mortar came along. Evan HammondsCot Campbell Racing Partnership of the YearMadaket Stables and Partnersand Owner of the Year FinalistMadaket Stables and PartnersThe entries in any major stakes race in North AmericaBreeders Cup Mile (G1T) winner, Uni, who beat males are likely to include runners representing Madaketthat day and earned the Eclipse Award as champion Stables, a name now widely associated with elitefemale turf horse.racehorses. Madakets primary partners in its 2019 successes Sol Kumins Madaket Stables has partnered withrepresent some of the most influential owners or numerous others on a multitude of grade 1 winners andownership groups in the game, including Bloom Racing, champions in recent years. And with an extraordinaryAllen Racing, Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Group, 2019 season to its credit, bursting with a roster ofRobert LaPenta, Starlight Racing, and Wonder Stable.talented horses, including champions British Idiom andKumins ascension in the owner ranks seemingly Sol Kumin Midnight Bisou, its only fitting that Madaket Stableshappened overnight. He arrived on the scene in 2014 and Partners is the recipient of the Cot Campbell Racingwhen he partnered with his friend, Jay Hanley, to Partnership of the Year Award as well as a finalist forpurchase a daughter of Divine Park for $160,000 at that Owner of the Year. years Keeneland 2-year-old in training sale.British Idiom, the undefeated winner of theAnd what a fabulous introduction to racing it was for 2019 Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), was theKumin. That filly, who would be named Lady Eli, went overwhelming choice in the voting that earned her anon to win the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old filly. thenfour other grade 1 events and was crowned 2017 Midnight Bisou, a brilliant racemare whose 2019champion older turf female.campaign saw her win seven consecutive graded racesA co-president of Leucadia Asset Management, before finishing second in the Longines Breeders CupKumin, 45, of Boston, named his stable for Madaket Distaff (G1), was recognized with the Eclipse Award forBeach and the Madaket section of Nantucket Island champion older dirt female. where he owns a residence. Kumin sits on the board of And Kumins Head of Plains Partners nom-de-coursedirectors at both TOBA and Breeders Cup. was part of the ownership group behind 2019 TVGKaren Johnson24 TOBA NATIONAL AWARDS DINNER/2020'