Maryland Million at all-time high

All-sources handle soared at the 22nd annual Maryland Million, which offered a record $1.68 million in purses for the 12-race program held October 13 at Laurel Park.
Story by Sean Clancy Photographs by Lydia A. Williams and Brandon Benson

Record handle. Record attendance. The 22nd annual Maryland Million Day took place on a picture-perfect afternoon on October 13 at Laurel Park, and restored faith in Maryland racing.

“ It was a magnificent day,” said Maryland Million president Wayne Harrison. “It goes to show that when all the groups come together to work for a good event, all goes well. And the weather helped.”

A total of 26,788 fans poured into Laurel and Pimlico, contributing to an all-sources wagering figure of $5,985,793 on the 12 races. Two years ago, the Maryland Million races posted a record handle of $5,049,426. This year’s handle blew past that mark by almost $1 million.

Purses, bolstered by a 2004 change in state law that directs a portion of the in-state handle on Maryland races to the Maryland Million program, totaled a record $1.68 million.

Said Maryland Million executive director Cricket Goodall: “Maryland needed Maryland Million Day this year. It was good news and continues to be the bright spot on the fall racing calendar. It shows that when you put on an interesting and competitive card the fans will pay attention. We are proud of what we do here—the stallions who stand here—and the event that recognizes their importance.”

The races, all restricted to horses conceived in Maryland, were uniformly competitive—none more so than the featured $300,000 Maryland Million Classic, which produced the day’s biggest surprise, a runaway victory by the previously unheralded 6-year-old gelding Evil Storm.

Each of the first three finishers in last year’s Classic came back for another try. Joined by the West Coast-based Malibu Moon gelding Frank the Barber, they made a formidable starting lineup.

But Evil Storm, by former Country Life Farm stallion Storm Broker, carved out a perfect stalking trip under jockey Jeremy Rose before rallying to dominate the mile and three-sixteenths Classic by three lengths.

Five Steps, the 8-5 favorite from the stable of local red-hot trainer Chris Grove, finished second (improving on his third-place finish in 2005) and pacesetter Diamond David (runner-up in the 2006 Classic) was third. Due, who ran the race of his life to win the Classic in 2006, finished fourth.

The winner paid $25.20 after stopping the timer in 1:58.19.
The winner’s circle—typically crowded with celebratory connections after a Maryland Million race—was missing a few key players (who apparently hadn’t counted on Evil Storm to come through that day).

Trainer Michael Gorham, who owns Evil Storm under the name of Old Coach Farm, stayed at Delaware Park to saddle three horses, including Peak Maria’s Way to win the Justakiss Stakes. Breeder Suzanne Moscarelli watched the race from Country Roads, her farm in Warwick, Md. Horse, groom, assistant and jockey smiled. No matter, the $165,000 purse went to Gorham and the nominator’s award went to Country Roads.

Evil Storm was claimed for $16,000 from Country Roads in October 2005. The robust chestnut has now won eight races and $395,240.
With a better trip in last year’s Classic, you’d be reading about the first repeat winner of the Classic since Docent performed the feat in 2002 and ’03. Evil Storm finished third last year, after shuffling to the back of the field on the final turn.
Gorham and Rose hadn’t forgotten.

“ Last year, he ran well and got in a lot of trouble about the three-eighths pole,” Gorham said.

Added Rose: “I was actually the one outside him last year. It was a tough race on him. He ran huge. He got bumped around a lot, shut off a lot and it cost him that year. This year he didn’t get that. I had a lot of confidence going in, as long as he was fit. And with Mike, they usually are. He ran a good race.”
Moscarelli, who bred Evil Storm from the stakes-placed mare Matti’s Pic, is one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most well-established horsewomen. She and her late husband, Vincent Moscarelli, raised a number of high-profile runners at Country Roads, which was located near Charles Town, W.Va., until 1996. The Moscarellis moved to Maryland just three months before Vincent Moscarelli died. Their all-time stars include millionaires Afternoon Deelites and Soul of the Matter and Eclipse Award winner Heartlight No. One, all bred and raced by Burt Bacharach, and A Huevo, the Grade 1 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash winner bred in the name of Danny Lopez.

Evil Storm’s dam sire, Piccolino (a son of Fappiano), had a strong impact on the West Virginia breeding program while briefly holding court at Country Roads in the early 1990s. Among his best runners was Matti’s Pic’s graded stakes-winning sister Evil’s Pic.

Matti’s Pic is still in production at Country Roads. She has a weanling colt by Great Notion, a “beautiful” yearling colt by Domestic Dispute, and is in foal to Domestic Dispute. And Moscarelli has room on the farm for Evil Storm—if he needs to come back.

“ My daughter, Lisa, said if he ever broke down, we’d take him back and he could retire on the farm,” said Moscarelli, who admits to some sorrow over having Evil Storm claimed away. “It’s hard. You’d like to keep them, but sometimes you have to sell them or drop them to try and win a race, just to keep the farm going.”
Gorham took Evil Storm thinking at the worst he was a Maryland-bred, he still had his first-level allowance condition, and maybe he could bang out his claiming price-plus during the winter at Laurel. He got much, much more.

“ He’s been nice to us,” Gorham said. “It was toward the end of the Delaware meet, and we had planned on going to Maryland for the winter. So I thought if he can improve at all, he’s still an a-other-than, whatever happens after that happens. He just kept getting better and better.”

This fall, trainer Tim Ritchey diagrammed a simple racing schedule for his two best fillies, Akronism and Moon Catcher. He planned to use the Maryland Million as a respite from their summertime graded stakes jaunts. Ritchey’s fillies did the rest.
Robert Evans’s homebred Akronism, the only 3-year-old in the field of eight fillies and mares, zipped to the lead under jockey Tony Black in the $150,000 Toyota Tundra Maryland Million Distaff Handicap. The lead went from two lengths to a head and back to two lengths. Ultimately, three-quarters of a length separated Akronism from 2-5 favorite Silmaril after seven furlongs in 1:24.00.

Akronism’s victory in the second race began a big day for leading Maryland sire Not For Love, who had three wins, two seconds and three thirds on the card.
Akronism won her debut in the summer of 2006 and was bet down to favoritism in last year’s Maryland Million Lassie, in which she finished a tired sixth. This year, she won two of her first four starts, including Philadelphia Park’s Jostle Stakes, in which she scored by seven and three-quarters lengths while recording an impressive Beyer Speed Figure of 103. After that, Ritchey aimed for big game, taking a shot in the Grade 1 Test at Saratoga. Akronism finished sixth in that race, beaten six and a half lengths by multiple Grade 1 winner Dream Rush. Then she returned to Delaware, where she finished seventh to Silmaril in the Grade 3 Endine Handicap on September 8, her last outing before the Maryland Million.

Ritchey chalked up the two defeats to bad trips and hoped the Maryland Million would give Akronism a proper end note to her sophomore year.

“ Today, I liked the fact that she was coming from the outside [post position], so Tony could put her where he wanted to,” said Ritchey in the winner’s circle following the Distaff. “I told him, if somebody’s really sending, just sit off of them. If you can control the race, you’ve got a big edge. She had the controlling speed, and the fractions weren’t that hot and we had horse left at the end.
“ I told the owner, hopefully we can go down, win this race, end on a good note, give her the winter off and have her ready in the spring. When she gets to run her race, she’s a very good horse.”

Two races later, Ritchey cued the same sound bite when Moon Catcher wired six rivals in the $150,000 Maryland Lottery Maryland Million Oaks. Owned by CJZ Racing Stable and Ritchey, Moon Catcher mirrored her stablemate, coming in off of tough fourth-place finishes in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes and Grade 2 Fitz Dixon Cotillion Handicap. Ritchey never lost faith, blaming an inexplicable off-the-pace ride by jockey Kent Desormeaux for the Alabama, and the Cotillion performance to a flat-footed start, an injured eye and a bouncing-ball trip.

Black made sure there was no bouncing this time, sending the daughter of Malibu Moon to the lead and never looking back. Moon Catcher, the 3-5 favorite, held off runner-up Paying Off by four and a half lengths and completed the mile in 1:37.47. The win moved Ritchey into a three-way tie for second with Tony Dutrow and King Leatherbury for the all-time Maryland Million trainer’s lead, with seven wins each, one less than leaders Dale Capuano and J. William Boniface.
Bred in Maryland by Albert and Randy Cohen and Ferris Allen, Moon Catcher—a half-sister to stakes winner Smarten Up—was sold through the sales ring twice as a youngster, and each time Ritchey was the buyer. She went for $49,000 at the 2004 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December mixed sale, as part of agent Sally Thomas’s consignment.

“ I bought her for one of my clients to pinhook and sell as a yearling. I told him, ‘I don’t think this is one you need to sell.’ He said, ‘No, no, I want to sell them all,’ ” Ritchey said. “I told him if she goes through the sale for less than $100,000, I’m going to buy her. He said, ‘I don’t have a problem with that, do what you’ve got to do.’ ”

Ritchey bought Moon Catcher for $75,000 at the 2005 Keeneland September Yearling sale, and owns her in partnership with Chuck Zacney (of Afleet Alex fame). The Mary­land Million win boosted her earnings total to $663,450.
“ Basically, the idea was to buy mares to breed to Afleet Alex,” Ritchey said. “That’s where she’ll be in a year or two, hopefully.”

Maryland Million winners come from everywhere—some via the claim box, others bred by their owners. For trainer Eddie Gaudet, the path to victory in this year’s $200,000 Capi­tal Bank Maryland Mil­lion Turf began when he and his wife, Linda, went out looking at horses in the dark at Allaire duPont’s Woodstock Farm in Chesapeake City, Md., soon after that legendary horse­woman’s death in January 2006.

“ Kathee Rengert [of Walnut Green bloodstock agency] called us about horses who were being offered for sale, and we said we’d go see them that day,” recalled Gaudet. “We couldn’t get there until it was dark, so we staked the guys there to stay late.

“ Mrs. duPont didn’t breed anything bad. When you go to people like that, you don’t have to look at the pedigree, you know it’s good,” said Gaudet.
The Gaudets ended up buying three horses that night, on behalf of clients Morris Bailey and Theodore Serure. And of that trio, two went on to be stakes performers.
The best of the bunch has been a big chestnut son of Not For Love who already bore some battle scars—spooked by a deer, he had run through a fence. His name is Forty Crowns.

Forty Crowns (from an illustrious female family that includes the 1999 Maryland-bred horse of the year, Best of Luck) won three of his first six starts, including the Maryland-bred restricted Northern Dancer Stakes in November 2006 at Laurel. The 4-year-old gelding hadn’t won since, so Gaudet made the change he had been wanting to make.

In his grass debut under Luis Garcia, Forty Crowns shot to the lead in the mile and an eighth Maryland Million Turf. Fractions were fast—:22.88, :46.10, 1:10.12—and Forty Crowns made them look slow, drawing away to win by four lengths over Dr Rico and favored New York shipper Broadway Producer. He finished the distance in 1:46.03, setting a new course record.

“ I’d been wanting to do it for eight months or better, but he ran so good on the dirt that I didn’t want to switch him over to the turf and mess him up. Then he put in two bad races back-to-back,” Gaudet said. “He travels like a turf horse. He drops his head down and his legs extend—a daisy cutter.”

Gaudet shipped Forty Crowns to Laurel from his Bowie base for a turf breeze three days before the Maryland Million. He cut the daisies like a Toro.
“ I called the clocker and asked him how the turf was, and he said really slow,” Gaudet said. “He left there slow, just feeling his way, then he ducked every dog out there, so that had to slow him down a little bit. I called the clocker and he said, ‘Unbelievable, Eddie. He went in :36; the best work I’ve got is :39 and change.’ ”
Eddie Gaudet completed a double on the card, winning the finale—the $50,000 Maryland Million Distaff Starter Handicap—with Swear to It. Bred in Maryland by Bonita Farm, the daughter of Swear by Dixie was purchased by the Gaudets for $4,000 at the 2004 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale, and campaigns in the name of Linda Gaudet.

Swear to It picked up her first line of black type when finishing third (through a disqualification) in the Maryland Million Lassie in 2005. Since then she had won two allowance races, but carried a six-race losing streak into the Maryland Million. Luis Garcia rode the winner, who bested longshot Met a Miner by six lengths. Gussie’s Secret finished third after a mile in 1:40.02.
Swear to It, 4-for-19 in her career, is a half-sister to stakes-placed Piano Chimes.

Bowie-based conditioner Linda Albert joined Ritchey and Gaudet in winning two races on the card. Albert ran the gamut in terms of age—saddling 2-year-old Regal Solo to take the $150,000 Maryland Million Nursery and 8-year-old Off the Glass to capture the $50,000 Baltimore Examiner Maryland Million Starter Handicap.
Regal Solo’s score thrilled his owner/breeders, Allen and Audrey Murray, for more than one reason. The Murrays collected their first Maryland Million owner’s trophy—and it was earned by a runner from the first Maryland-sired crop of classic winner Louis Quatorze, who stands at their Murmur Farm in Darlington.

Regal Solo, stuck along the rail early, rallied in the stretch with Ryan Fogelsonger aboard and nailed favorite Izzy Speaking and closer Smooth It Over (a half-brother to Maryland Million Sprint Handicap winner Grand Champion) in a three-way photo, finishing the seven furlongs in 1:25.79. The winner’s circle celebration was delayed while the stewards deliberated a foul claim by Horacio Karamanos, aboard sixth-place finisher Casanova Jack, but ultimately the finish was made official.
“ He’s always acted classy, a little lazy but always classy,” said Albert of Regal Solo, who failed to break his maiden in his first two tries, while finishing on the board, but has been perfect in his two starts since.

The Murrays purchased Regal Solo’s dam, the unraced Sonata (GB), by Polish Prece­dent, for $50,000 at the 2002 Keeneland November sale.
Just hours before their first Maryland Million win, the Murrays welcomed a new stallion onto their farm: Scipion (by A.P. Indy and a three-quarter brother to champion and leading first-crop sire Vindication).

“ It was quite a week for us!” exclaimed Audrey Murray.
While the future looks bright for Regal Solo and the Murrays, Albert’s other winner is in the twilight of his career. Or not.

Making his 65th career start and fifth straight appearance on a Maryland Million Day program, Off the Glass captured his second consecutive Maryland Million Starter Handicap. He won the race for his breeder, The Nonsequitur Stable, which has had an on-again, off-again relationship with the son of Press Card.

Off the Glass finished fifth in the 2003 Maryland Million Starter Handicap for owner Phyllis Dixon and trainer Tim Ritchey. Albert and The Nonsequitur claimed him back and took cracks at the Maryland Million Classic in 2004 and 2005, finishing seventh and sixth. They lost him through the claim box in early 2006 and watched him win last year’s Maryland Million Starter Handicap for owner Joseph Cuppy and trainer Damon Dilodovico. The Nonsequitur partners weren’t going to allow that to happen again. They took $15,000 cash to Charles Town on June 13 and claimed him back, 11 starts since they last had him. Off the Glass nearly doubled their money on Maryland Million Day, collecting $27,500.

“ We robbed the piggy bank. We had to take cash, because of all the claiming restrictions,” said Ellen Fredel of The Nonsequitur Stable. “It was heartbreaking to watch him win this race last year, but we got a little stubborn; we didn’t want to pay more than we lost him for. This year we said, ‘To hell with it.’ ”
Off the Glass is like a poker chip in the high stakes game of Maryland Million hold ’em. To be eligible for the starter handicap, a horse has to run for a $15,000 claiming price. Albert risked Off the Glass back in January 2006, partly to make him eligible for the Maryland Million. Dove Houghton claimed him that day. Dilodovico claimed him in his next start and then earned the rewards of his eligibility. This past June, Dilodovico slid him in for $15,000, again partly to get him eligible for the Maryland Million. That’s when Albert and The Nonsequitur showed up with the money.

“ His dam [Glass Tree, by Air Forbes Won] was our first horse as The Nonsequitur Stable,” Fredel said, partially explaining their bond with Off the Glass. “We got some [bonus] checks when he won for other people, but that’s not as much fun as owning him. We got both this year.”

It was the third Maryland Million win for The Nonsequitur Stable, a partnership of two (previously four) Washington, D.C.-area lawyers. They won the Classic with Perfect to a Tee in 1999 and the Distaff Starter Handicap with Miss Angelina in 1998.


Before the $150,000 Fasig-Tipton Maryland Million Sprint, owner John Moore pointed at New York shipper Grand Champion and summed up the horse.
“ It’s amazing he’s even here,” Moore said of the 4-year-old son of Two Punch who made his debut this past February.

Moore might have been amazed by the appearance, but Grand Champion wasn’t at Laurel to collect appearance money. Sent off as the favorite in the seven-horse field, Grand Champion worked hard to get up by a head over the Not For Love-sired Lemons of Love, thus denying Not For Love his fifth consecutive winner in the Sprint.

Trained by Jimmy Jerkens and ridden by Ramon Dominguez, Grand Champion finished six furlongs in 1:10.27.
After the race, Moore described some of the travails that he and his wife, Susan (who co-owns Grand Champion), have gone through with the horse.
“ Susan is patient by nature,” said Moore, who resides with his wife in Far Hills, N.J. “Our vet bills and training bills are outrageous, because she’ll wait forever on a horse. Plenty of our horses would have been culled somewhere else. Something like 50 percent of the horses we’ve bought are stakes winners. Why? Because we take our time with them and we pay vets to take extra care of them. This horse had chips in all four ankles and didn’t start until he was 4. It’s nuts. She loves animals.”
One of two Fasig-Tipton grad­uates in the Sprint Handi­cap sponsored by the sales company, Grand Champion was bred in Maryland by Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman and Dr. Jason Layfield, who sold him privately as a yearling to New Freedom, Pa.-based horseman Marshall Silverman.

Silverman took the colt to the 2004 Maryland Horse Breeders Association Yearling Show, where the judge, Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard, made him his number one pick among the 132 youngsters who went through the ring. A few weeks later, the handsome bay sold on Silverman’s account for $115,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July Yearling sale. The Moores bought him at that sale, and gave him his name.

“ We’ve bought 40 horses so far; our average is $110,000 a horse,” said John Moore. “Thus far, 30 of them have made it to the track and only four never made it through training. It’s rare for us not to give a horse every chance. One of them never won a race until after four colic surgeries, then he won at Saratoga. His name was Mumble Jumble. They still send him cards from Cornell and New Bolton.”

Robert Cole and Howard Wolfendale teamed up to win the $100,000 Maryland Million Turf Sprint with the aptly named Happy Surprise. The owner/trainer duo claimed the 4-year-old gelding Happy Surprise (by Crowd Pleaser) for $32,000 at Laurel this past August with the Maryland Million squarely in mind. They just weren’t sure which Maryland Million race they were aiming for.

Happy Surprise showed enough versatility for them to consider turf or dirt, short or long. Cole and Wolfendale decided about half an hour before entry time to go for the Maryland Million Turf Sprint. Nice call.

Happy Surprise lagged early in the five and a half-furlong event, as favorite Tommie’s Star cruised along on the front end, before rallying three-wide on the turn to get up by a nose over Whata Monster and Mr Mutter in 1:01.62. Jockey Hora­cio Karamanos didn’t have time to celebrate, as Jonathan Joyce aboard Mr Mutter and Malcolm Franklin aboard seventh-place finisher Sarah’s Prospect lodged objections.
In the winner’s circle, Wolf­en­dale walked away. Cole stood and cringed while the video rolled on the infield big screen.

Finally, track announcer Dave Rodman broke the tension: “Officials have dismissed both claims of foul.”

Cole clenched both fists, supporting the decision, “Yes!”
Bred in Maryland by Mrs. Raymond Burnette, Happy Surprise (out of Abovehawaii, by Great Above) is a half-brother to two-time Maryland Million winner Tropical Punch, who is also graded-placed. Happy Surprise improved his career mark to 4-for-14.

“ Howard and I just tried to figure which was the weakest spot,” said Cole. “We were lucky enough to get the win. He looked like a solid horse; we cross our fingers a lot, and got lucky. It’s a big high. We like to be a part of Maryland’s tradition, and other than the Preakness, the Maryland Million is our biggest day.”

Dennis Federico’s homebred Maddy’s Heart ran down frontrunner Beau’s Trip to win the $200,000 Maryland Million Ladies. Trained by Tim Hills and ridden by Ramon Dominguez, 3-year-old Maddy’s Heart handled her seven older rivals to score for the third time in her 11-race career. Favorite Lexi Star, making her turf debut, finished third after a mile and an eighth in 1:47.26.

Maddy’s Heart, a Maryland-bred daughter of Lion Hearted, began her career with seven straight starts on the dirt, winning a maiden at Gulfstream Park last March but then struggling to get past the first-level allowance condition. Hills decided to try her on the turf at Monmouth in August and before she went a furlong, he knew he had made the right decis­ion. Maddy’s Heart stretched her stride and wound up third that day. She dead-heated for the win in her next start, then finished second in a Belmont Park allowance race.

“ I knew she liked the grass the first time she galloped past,” Hills said. “It was one of those things where long races on the dirt for fillies don’t go very often, so the timing was right to give it a try. After she dead-heated for the win, I said this filly’s legit and thought about the Maryland Million. The race unfolded wrong at Belmont but even then [jockey] Garrett Gomez came back and said this filly’s nice, she’s going to go some place.”

Yes, straight to the winner’s circle in the Maryland Million. Maddy’s Heart (out of Maddy’s Terms, by Private Terms) is a full sister to stakes performer Maddy’s Lion, a winner of $232,172.

“ The owner has two broodmares and he nominates [to the Maryland Million] every other year,” Hills said. “I have Maddy’s Lion, a real nice sprinter, and he’s not nominated.”

For Hills, it was like coming home.
“ I raced in Maryland in the ’70s and ’80s, with the big four [trainers King Leatherbury, Richard Dutrow, John Tammaro and Bud Delp]. That’s how I learned how to train,” Hills said. “Such good horsemen here; it’s so frustrating that they’re not getting the purses. Here, you don’t have to apologize for being a horse­person. Now I’m spread out all over the place.”
Hills trains about 60 horses in New Jersey, New York and Florida.

Kevin Sleeter ventured from his New Jersey base to the Maryland Million for the second straight year. Same race, different result. Last year, Sleeter’s eventual graded stakes winner Talkin About Love failed to get involved in the Maryland Million Lassie, winding up eighth of nine.

This year, Sleeter shipped Kathleen Willier’s Love for Not for the $150,000 MASN Maryland Million Lassie. The daughter of Not For Love sat just off the pace before rolling to a four and a quarter-length victory over All Attitude, with Kosmo’s Buddy another three and a half lengths back in third. Ridden by Stewart Elliott, Love for Not finished the seven furlongs in 1:26.11.

Sleeter, part of a Clementon, N.J.-based family operation that ranks among that state’s most accomplished, and Willier, a resident of Lindenwold, N.J., had spotted the New Jersey-bred at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale, where she was purchased for $60,000.

Love for Not scored by five and a quarter lengths in her debut at Monmouth in August, then finished third, beaten a neck, in an allowance race at Delaware. Sleeter had the Maryland Million on the schedule from the start.
“ Ever since the first time she worked, she’s done nothing wrong,” Sleeter said. “She’s a tough little filly.”

Sleeter hopes Love for Not follows in the footsteps of his homebred 3-year-old Not For Love daughter Talkin About Love, who went undefeated in five starts at Monmouth Park this past summer while becoming the first New Jersey-bred to win the Monmouth Oaks-G3 since 1946.

“ The owners like the Jersey-breds, and this one came with a bonus [Maryland Million-eligibility],” said Sleeter.
Love for Not is the first stakes winner Willier has campaigned during her 30 years in the business.
Bred by Golden Dome Stable, Love for Not (out of stakes-placed Go Nicholas Go, by Polish Numbers) is a half-sister to stakes-placed Calabria Bella.

Phillip Oshier’s Be Oh Be kicked off the day with a win in the $30,000 Baltimore Sun Maryland Million Sprint Starter Handicap. Claimed five times in his 34-start career, Be Oh Be went to trainer Andrea Gonzalez for $7,500 two starts before the Maryland Million. The 5-year-old Maryland-bred son of Diamond finished second that day, returned to win for a $12,500 claiming tag in his next start, and picked up $16,500 for Oshier when getting the best of All Star Prospect and Season Ticket on Maryland Million Day. Hector Ramos rode the chestnut horse.

Out of the unraced mare Secret Sound (by Eastern Echo), Be Oh Be is a half-brother to International Gold Cup winner Chinese Whisper. Bred by R M Zig Stables, Be Oh Be won for the 11th time, pushing his career earnings to $146,995.