Maryland-bred half-siblings win stakes on same card

The broodmare Tanca recorded a rarity on Saturday at Laurel Park, with two of her offspring winning $100,000 stakes races in the span of about an hour. Tanca, a Robert Manfuso and Katy Voss homebred, was first represented by Cordmaker, who won the Harrison E. Johnson Memorial. Shortly afterward, Las Setas won the Beyond the Wire Stakes.

Manfuso and Voss, who operate Chanceland Farm in West Friendship, Md., have long and prolific backgrounds in the Maryland racing industry. Manfuso formerly served as executive vice president of both the Maryland Jockey Club and Laurel Racing Association, as well as director of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association. Voss, a trainer, helped found the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, is a longtime board member of Maryland Million Ltd., and is a former president of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association. In recent years, they are best known nationally for breeding 2016 Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia in Maryland and breeding 2015 Louisiana Derby winner International Star in New York.

Tanca raced in Manfuso’s name, with Voss as trainer. The Maryland-bred won once from 10 starts before beginning her career as a broodmare, producing seven winners from as many starters, including three stakes winners. The first of those was Corvus, who won the Maryland Million Nursery in 2015.

The Harrison Memorial was the second stakes victory for Cordmaker, a 4-year-old Curlin gelding who took the Jennings Stakes at Laurel last year. He races for Hillwood Stable, which purchased him for $150,000 at the 2016 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale.

Las Setas, who finished sixth in her lone start as a juvenile, has won all three of her starts this year, including open-lengths victories in the Wide Country Stakes and the Beyond the Wire. The Seville filly was a $30,000 buyback as a yearling, and is now campaigned by her breeders and Wayne Harrison. She is trained by Voss.

Tanca is the dam of an unnamed juvenile filly by Imagining. After she was barren last season, she was bred to Street Sense for this year’s foal.