Jody Slew

Prep Race History

Date	Race	Grade	Distance	Finish	Chart	Video
Feb 20 2010	Silverbulletday Fair Grounds		1 1/16M	1	Silverbullerday S..pdf
Jan 23 2010	Tiffany Lass Fair Grounds		1M 40 Yards	1	Tiffany Lass S..pdf

Connections

W. Bret Calhoun

Trainer

Born May 12, 1964 in Dallas, Texas. Father William (Buddy), a school teacher, was an owner and trainer at Louisiana Downs. Bret and his father would claim a few horses and Bret would train them. Took out his trainer’s license in 1993 and would win his first race at Trinity Meadows on April 1, 1994 with Ramjet. His first stakes victory would come at Sam Houston Race Course on April 12, 1997 with Sweet Misty in the Sam Houston Oaks. Calhoun has said his favorite part of training is developing young horses and improving horses he claims.

Miguel Mena

Jockey

Born November 6, 1986 in Lima, Peru.Got his start in horse racing by hotwalking and grooming horses at the age of 12 in his native country.Enrolled in Peru’s jockey school and graduated in the same class as Alan Garcia.

Martin Racing Stable and Dan Morgan

Owner

Martin Racing Stable is made up of William and Stephanie Martin. They reside in Dallas, Texas where they work in the real estate business. Dan Morgan resides in Orlando, Florida and works in the concrete construction business. Met through friends 12 years ago at a 2-year-old-sale. Martin has owned horses since the 1970s. One of his biggest wins came in 2007 in the Grade I Princess Rooney at Calder Race Course with River’s Prayer.

Brandywine Farm, LLC.

Breeder

• Owned and run by Jim and Pam Robinson. • Started in Thoroughbreds in 1971 on the advice of friends. • Own about 200 broodmares. • Farm’s focus is on commercial breeding. Focus on the yearling sells. • Purchased Trustbuster from Benny Bell Williams.

Pedigree

Jody Slew is by multiple Grade 1 winner Slew City Slew
Top-class offspring of Slew City Slew includes seven-time Grade 1 winner and $5 million earner Lava Man, 2001 Canadian Horse of the Year Win City and Grade 3-scoring millionaire Maysville Slew
Slew City Slew’s offspring have won from four furlongs to 14 1/2 furlongs, with an average winning distance of 7.3 furlongs
Jody Slew is out of the winning Trustbuster, who has also produced stakes victress Cape of Bradford
Jody Slew’s third dam is Honest and True, who ran third in the 1980 Kentucky Oaks (G1) and would go on to produce champion and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) heroine Epitome
Epitome is herself the dam of multiple Grade/Group 2 winner Essence of Dubai, highweight Faltaat and stakes victor Danjur, all three of which are now sires
Further back in Jody Slew’s female family you can find dual French champion Green Forest and classic-placed Green Paradise, who are also now sires
Jody Slew’s damsire is two-time champion sprinter Housebuster, who was a dominant winner going as far as one-mile