Maggi Moss, Horsewoman from the Heartland, reaches
for new heights with Iowa stallion Native Ruler
Maggi Moss,
attorney, business person and horsewoman, is nothing less than
extraordinary. She is a person who is always reaching for new
heights, and now she has even more to strive for with the addition
of her Native Ruler to the Iowa Stallion Registry.
Moss has found success as a trial attorney specializing in criminal, personal injury cases and discrimination cases. She has found success as a Grand Prix jumping champion. She has found success as a thoroughbred owner and breeder, not only in her home state of Iowa, but on the national level where she has won numerous thoroughbred horse owners’ titles.
In 2011, Moss won her ninth straight owners’ title at Prairie Meadows. She’s won two titles in a row at Churchill Downs and has titles at several more tracks. Just as important to Moss are her efforts on behalf of horse rescue and retirement programs where she has worked tirelessly to ban horse slaughter and to find homes for our retired equine athletes.
Dick Clark is a legendary thoroughbred trainer in the state of Iowa. In 1998, when Moss first got involved with racing, she asked Clark to claim a horse for her at Prairie Meadows. That horse was Apak and nearly 600 wins later at Prairie Meadows and almost 1400 total victories nationally, there seems to be no stopping Moss from achieving even greater heights.
Perhaps Moss’ next grand achievement will come through her newly retired racer, Native Ruler, who is standing at Abraham’s Equine Clinic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The son of the great Elusive Quality by Tajannub (by Dixieland Band), Native Ruler is a 10-time stakes winner and his sire’s all-time stakes winning offspring.
With career earnings of more than $712,000, Native Ruler was two-time winner of both the King Cotton Stakes at Oak Lawn and the Don Bernhardt Stakes at Ellis Park. His 26 lifetime strakes starts include an amazing 10 wins (38.4%) and 8 place finishes.
In an interview with Iowa Horseman Dennis Bracewell last summer for Midwest Thoroughbred online (www.mwtmag.com), Moss said of Native Ruler, “He is one horse that owes me absolutely nothing. I owe him everything.”
Native Ruler, who was retired in October at age seven, stands for $2,000.
Despite all of her success and all of what she has contributed to racing, Moss thinks there is plenty left to do. In Bracewell’s interview with her, Moss said her goals for the future include, “To be fortunate enough to continue with a business that I am passionate about.”
It could be that Native
Ruler will help Maggi Moss reach those goals and, for many years to
come, to help fuel the passion that still burns within her. 