Since Wade Phillips spent a career coaching in the National Football League, including stints as head coach for three different teams and as a defensive coordinator for the Super Bowl winner-Denver-Broncos, he knows everything about the anticipation of a gigantic sporting event.
As part of the partnership behind it Hang the moon The gate for the 2 million dollar -Breeders' cup stutfutch sea This vibes hugs Phillips Figures Back-Schlaft-2 win.
“Our horse hangs the moon in the Breeders' Cup, to have a team in the Super Bowl,” said Phillips.
The 4-year cheer Uncle Mo Filly is a diverse group of owners, which includes people with background in racing, yes, but also politics, racing media and top professional sports. Corey Johnsen, Executive of the experienced racetrack, is President of CJ full blood and his son CJ is Vice President. Corey Johnsen is a former partial owner of Kentucky Downs And currently serves as an interim CEO of the Maryland -fullblood racing route of the company authority.
The Vice President of Business Development at CJ full blood is the retired NFL recipient Mike Renfro, who played for 11 years in the league for the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Oilers. Renfro was designed in 1978 by the Oilers, who were then trained by Bum Phillips – the father of Phillips. Wade Phillips worked as an assistant coach at the Oilers from 1976 to 1980, which started his NFL trainer career.
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Lone Star Park With the breeding cup in Grand Prairie, Texas, in 1994, he met Renfro in the 1990s and worked together at the opening of the route and landed the Breeders' Cup. Renfro brought Phillips into the moon partnership.
This partnership is not restricted to NFL athletes and trainers, since the former NHL goalkeeper Ben Bishop III and his father Ben Bishop are also partners. Ben III, one of the highest goalkeepers in NHL history in 6-foot history, 7 inches, played for 13 years in the league with stops in St. Louis, Ottawa, Tampa Bay, Los Angeles and Dallas.
The group also includes the Senator Damon Thayer, the Senate of the Senate, the majority leader of the Senate. As a senator, the former executive of the Breeder 'Cup supported the legislation in the field of industry in the Commonwealth, including historical horse races, which has brought the owners of massive increases for wallets and has taken the traces on better feet.
And rounded off the partnership is Mike Joyce, who acts as a host, analyst and reporter on Fanduel television.
Co -owner Mike Joyce celebrates with jockey Kazushi Kimura after the John C. Mabee Stakes (G2T) on DEL Mar
Phillips enjoyed the partnership and is looking forward to visiting this year's Breeders' Cup.
“It is quite decent to be in society with this class of horses in the breeder cup,” said Phillips. “Hang The Moon has shown an enormous speed. If you train football, forceful acceleration is of the greatest importance. That is what you see in this horse.”
Phillips traces his love for the race to his father, who was interested in sport while he trained the Fresh Orleans Saints. He started too often Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots.
“Dad had a few racing horses,” said Phillips. “The first race he had won, so I'm probably a chip from the block.”
While Hang The Moon will make the first start of her first class career at the beginning of her career when she faces an international field that is aligned for this year's 1 3/8 miles stuff and the mare grass, she comes with some swing and a recent victory on the course. On September 7, Hang The Moon received her first win for the Stakes on September 7th in Del Mar when she gained half the long length of the seventh in the John C. Mabee Stakes (G2T). She followed these efforts with a clear victory in the Rodeo Drive Stakes (G2T) Santa Anita Park.
Corey Johnsen and Damon Thayer
Hang the Moon is trained by Phil d'Amato and Kazushi Kimura was on board for both second class victories.
Bred in Kentucky from Repole Stall, the stut foal from the winner from Malibu Moon Moondance of CJ fullblood for 200,000 US dollars at the Keeland September sale of 2021 was bought, where it was awarded by Brookdale sales.
CJ full -blooded meters had previously participated in the Breeders' Cup in 2021, as Sallys curlin Seventh in the Stutfalen & Mare Sprint (G1). CJ fullblood owned Sallys Curlin in cooperation with left change and Casner Racing.
