Sam-Son Farm (Frostad, more), Touch Gold to CND Hall of Fame..

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Canadian HOF: Samuel-Balaz, Frostad, and Dancethruthedawn of Sam-Son inducted

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Sam-Son Farm will be front and center at this year’s Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame gala with the late Tammy Samuel-Balaz, trainer Mark Frostad, and Dancethruthedawn among the inductees. The Canadian Horse Racing Hall Fame, a dual-breed facility, is located at Woodbine and inductees in five Thoroughbred and five Standardbred categories were announced on Tuesday afternoon at an on-site press conference.

Dancethruthedawn, a Sam-Son Farm homebred who was trained by Frostad, was inducted in the female horse category. By Mr. Prospector out of the Sam-Son superstar Dance Smartly, Dancethruthedawn was Canada’s champion 3-year-old filly in 2001 after putting together a Woodbine Oaks-Queen’s Plate double. Campaigning in the United States the following year, Dancethruthedawn became a Grade 1 winner in Saratoga’s Go for Wand, She retired that fall with a record of seven wins, two seconds, and three thirds for earnings of $1,609,643 from 16 starts.

This year’s other Thoroughbred inductees were Touch Gold, male horse, and Square Angel, veteran horse.

Touch Gold, a Kentucky-bred son of Deputy Minister, raced at Woodbine as a 2-year-old for trainer Danny Vella but staked his claims to fame the following year while campaigning in the United States with David Hofmans. His most memorable hour came in the 1997 Belmont, which he won by three-quarters of a length to thwart a triple crown bid by Silver Charm, and he recorded a second straight Grade 1 score in Monmouth’s Haskell. Touch Gold retired in 1998 with a record of 6-3-1 and earnings of $1,679,907 from 15 starts.

Square Angel, a foal of 1970, was a stakes winner as a 2-year-old but really came into her own at 3, winning three stakes, including the Woodbine Oaks, en route to a divisional title in the pre-Sovereign Award era. Her success continued in the breeding shed as the dam and granddam of numerous stakes winners, including the Canadian champion Kamar, who in turn produced Grade 1 stakes winner Gorgeous.

* Also announced were the additions of Lily A. Livingston and Thomas Burns, via the veterans committee. Livingston played a revolutionary role for women in Canadian horseracing as an owner and breeder in the first three decades of 1900s. Burns was a champion jockey in the late 1800s and early 1900s