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Trainer Frank
Zureick |
Site Updated 11/8/08
Frank Zureick, Professional
Thoroughbred Trainer
Our Value Plus/Gilded Ivory yearling filly was reserve champion at the Virginia-Bred Futurity Aug 24.
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07 Value Plus/Gilded
Ivory filly owned by Mr & Mrs. Frank Zureick and Mr.
& Mrs. George Rayborn
The Reserve Champion filly is by the seven-year-old
Stonewall Stallions (KY) stallion Value Plus. Value
Plus is by Unbridled Son and a stakes winner and
graded stakes placed winner of over $414,000. He was
second in the Futurity Gr.1 as well as the Florida
Derby Gr. 1). At four, Value Plus won the Artax
Handicap in track record time defeating Gigistar.
His first foals are also yearlings of 2008.
The dam of the Reserve Champion, Gilded Ivory is a
winner of $44,745. She is half-sister to the winners
Coolasacat ($172,394), Mount Cavell ($63,881) and
Mesopotamia ($32,375). Her dam Mesappiano is a
full-sister to graded stakes winner and multiple
stakes producer Funistrada. At stud, Gilded Ivory
has produced four foals including $8,715 earner Mach
Z (Macho Uno). This spring she was bred to Cozzene.
Virginia Thoroughbred Blog, Monday
August 25.
Frank Zureick,
racehorse trainer, and
Dr. Candace Lundin,
veterinarian, offer a variety of services for
Thoroughbred racehorses at Dog Branch Farm and the
Middleburg Training Center:
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Breaking/Training
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Layup
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Rehab
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Sales prep
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Flat racing
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Steeplecase
training/racing
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Schooling
Hurdles-Click to enlarge |
With a 20-stall barn at
the
training track, Frank specializes in
breaking yearlings and readying them for the
Maryland 2-year-old in-training sales or racing at
mid-atlantic tracks, including
Laurel,
Pimlico,
Colonial Downs,
Charles
Town,
Delaware Park, and others.
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Our Training
Center Barn |
The Training
Track |
“Surround
yourself with honest horsemen like Frank and you’ll
have a good experience in the horse business.”,
Josh Pons, Owner, Country Life Farm, Maryland
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“Frank, The best broke
horse I ever rode. For the love of
horses, Julie Krone.
P.S. Keep a leg on either
side”
Jockey Julie Krone referring to Belmont
Stakes winner, Colonial Affair |
Well-liked
and respected by other horsemen (and horsewomen)
(see recommendations), Frank has more than 20 years’
experience in breaking and conditioning racehorses.
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Belmont
Stakes winner, Colonial Affair |
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Earn My Keep winning an
allowance hurdle at Saratoga |
With a former background in show
horses, he also has the skills to give young horses
the proper start and seasoned horses a nice
refresher. Have a flat horse that needs a bit more
distance in its races? Let Frank discuss options
for retraining your horse for the jump races (steeplechase
racing).
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Dog Branch Farm-Click
to enlarge |
Situated in northern Virginia, and
part of the Virginia Piedmont fox-hunting
 countryside,
Dog Branch Farm serves as home
to Thoroughbred broodmares, foals, weanlings, and
yearlings as
well as prospective foxhunters and hunter/jumpers
for sale.
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Swim Center |
Less than 10 minutes from the Middleburg Training Center, lay-ups can easily
be moved between the farm and training track when
ready to start back galloping after some R&R at the
farm or when needing some physical therapy at the
nearby equine swimming pool.
Frank and
Candace
at the
Breeders' Cup |
Candace,
Frank’s wife, holds a doctorate in veterinary
medicine and a graduate degree in equine exercise
physiology/equine sports medicine. This education as
well as a background in equine surgery, allows her
to advise/consult with Frank on lameness or health
problems or special training/fitness concerns that
may arise during a horse’s development and
conditioning.
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G2
Stakes winner, Major Success |
Together, Frank
and Candace maintain a small band of
broodmares at their farm.
Frank is an expert on pedigree analysis,
having bred two graded-stakes winners,
including GI millionairess,
Urbane,
and Bobby Frankel-trained
Major
Success (G2 winner) –-both produced from
relatively inexpensive mares and mid-priced,
first-crop stallions. Let him advise you on
your breeding program (bloodstock
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G1 John A. Morris Stakes winner,
Urbane |
consulting)
or let Frank and Candace together select the
right combination of pedigree and
conformation for a weanling, yearling, or
broodmare from the
Fasig-Tipton or
Keeneland sales to fit your program.
Ex-racehorses are
re-trained for alternative careers. Below, Prospect
Weaver (by late MD stallion, Allen's Prospect) shows
his talent as a jumper.
A black/white tobiano,
classic
American Shetland Pony, a
Dartmoor
pony, various cats, and short-legged
Jack
Russell Terriers (shorties, puddins) also
romp and play at Dog Branch Farm, which was
named for Dog Branch Creek that runs
through a corner of the 35-acre property. Italian
Greyhounds will soon join the Dog Branch family.
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NJ's Little
Jewel |
Fox Fire's
Josie, Fox Fire's Lola |
Our farm barn |
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