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00:00Porta Fortuna has been a superstar for medallion racing with back-to-back wins at Royal Ascot
00:06among her several Group 1 victories, and it was recently announced that the talented filly
00:10would return to the racetrack in 2025.
00:13The Medallion Racing Partnership, which was founded about seven years ago, has a lot to
00:18look forward to in the coming year.
00:22Medallion racing is a concept that we came up with here at TaylorMade roughly seven years
00:27ago, and there were two reasons.
00:31One was we were involved with California Chrome during that time period, and a lot of our
00:36customers who had never really owned a top-class racehorse got involved with California Chrome,
00:44and a lot of them said, hey, we would do more of this if you could come up with a platform
00:49that made sense.
00:51So that got the wheels turning, and then we also thought about TaylorMade, we have so
00:56much scope to our organization, a lot of people are constantly meeting people outside
01:01the industry that have maybe some level of interest, and how do I put my toe in the water,
01:06and so it's just been a great way to get new people in the game.
01:09That was kind of the genesis of Medallion, was trying to bring people to the highest
01:13levels of thoroughbred racing.
01:15For all of our horses that we buy, we want to try to be running at a graded stake in
01:20five weeks.
01:21We'll have 10 to 12 horses per partnership.
01:24We feel really strongly about all of our partners being involved in every single horse, so it's
01:30a $50,000 investment, which is all-in, that includes all training expenses, purchase price,
01:36and so for us, we've had roughly 300 starts, 10% of our starts end up in graded stakes
01:42wins or group stakes wins, which is something we feel like is just unparalleled within the
01:49sport.
01:50So 65% of our starts have come in graded stakes, 25% of our starts come in grade ones.
01:57We really couldn't have imagined it would have gone this well.
02:00We've had four grader group one winners, we've won eight grade ones, we've had 14 Breeders'
02:05Cup starters, we've had 31 graded stakes wins, so it's a lot of great days with a lot of
02:13great people that they're never going to forget.
02:16I would say my favorite horse we've had in the partnership is a filly named Bo Recall.
02:21She ran for us for four years, which is very unique.
02:25She won out over a million dollars for our partnership.
02:27We had Selcourt, who was this exceptionally talented filly.
02:32We've had Streetband, who won the Cotillion, then went on and sold for a million dollars.
02:38We had Going to Vegas, who won two straight editions of the grade one Rodeo Drive, was
02:43hugely successful.
02:44We've had Lady Prancelot, who won the American Oaks.
02:47We owned a piece of Bella Sophia.
02:49We have a filly named Papilio, and she won the grade two Appalachian at Keeneland.
02:57One of our newer investors, we got to go to the director's room after it, and he said,
03:03you know, this feels like Augusta National.
03:05I feel like I'm on hallowed ground here.
03:08It's those kind of days that people go and talk about with their family and friends,
03:14and it's just, I think it's getting the word out about how great this fork could be.
03:19This year, too, we had a really exciting two-year-old Vodka with a Twist, who ran second in the
03:23Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, and fingers crossed she'll be on the Kentucky Oaks Trail.
03:28And then obviously the big one with Port-a-Fortuna, went on to new heights this year with three
03:33straight group one wins, including, again, a Royal Ascot, which is just, I tell everybody,
03:39the Breeders' Cup and all of these wonderful events in America are awesome.
03:43There's nothing like that.
03:46Fingers crossed she'll stay in training in 2025, and hopefully she can notch a third.
03:52That's the highlight of what we do, is seeing the look on our partner's face when a horse
03:59wins at Royal Ascot, or a horse wins at Saratoga or Del Mar.
04:03That is the absolute pinnacle for me.
04:05Getting ready for 2025 and hopefully creating a bunch of more unforgettable memories for
04:11our partners, that's what I look forward to the most.