SBOANJ honors Southwind

The Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey is honoring Allen and Connie Skolnick’s Southwind Farm in Pennington as Breeder of the Year for 2006. A special presentation will be made Sunday, January 28, at the annual New Jersey Equine Awards dinner at the Freehold Gardens Hotel.

The SBOANJ award, recommended by the organization’s Breeders Committee, recognizes the Skolnicks’ long-standing support of the New Jersey Standardbred breeding program during more than 20 years that the farm has been in operation.

Considered a showplace facility, the 226-acre Southwind Farm was home to the outstanding pacing stallion Artsplace, who died recently, and the prolific trotting stallion Valley Victory during his productive career.

Southwind continues to be a major breeder with the syndication and placement at stud in New Jersey of the outstanding trotter Chocolatier for 2007. Chocolatier, a world champion, earned $1,324,800 in a two-year racing career that included the Breeders Crown as a two-year-old and the World Trotting Derby at three. He was second in the 2006 Hambletonian.

“The SBOA of New Jersey is proud to recognize the outstanding contrbution to the New Jersey breeding industry that the Skolnicks have made with this beatiful park-like farm,” said Martin O’Hare, chairman of the Breeders Committee.

The Skolnicks became involved in the Standardbred industry as racehorse owners in 1974 and over the years have owned such outstanding horses as Royce, Radiant Ruler, Andrel and Cosmic King. Among the outstanding horses bred at Southwind are Mystical Maddy, Southwind Allaire and Malabar Maple.

Previous winners of this award are William B. Weaver III’s Valley High Stables, Joseph Parisi’s White Birch Farm and William Perretti’s Perretti Farms. (SBOA of New Jersey press release)

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