Those homebreds are comprised, for the most part, of mares and stallions that raced under his Peter Pan Stables banner. That stable topped the North American standings by money earned for five straight years [1996 – 2000] and in 2003. That’s an amazing feat, made even more so by the fact that Glazer first ventured into the game just a decade and a half ago.

“I really wanted to train between 25 and 40 yearlings every year,” he said. “Other than 1990, my first year buying, when I bought 17, that’s pretty much what I’ve purchased. But I started to back off a few years ago because I knew my number of homebreds was starting to increase.”

Glazer said several years ago, he started paying much more attention to pedigree when buying fillies, keeping on eye on his future broodmare band. “When The Panderosa was a two year old, I knew he was going to be a sire,” he said. “That fall, I was specifically looking for fillies that would cross with him.” That was shortly before he started downsizing his purchases. The year he purchased No Pan Intended from the Winbak Farm consignment, 2001, he purchased only four yearlings at auction.

“You always miss a serious buyer like him,” said Murray Brown, public relations director for Hanover Shoe Farms, of Glazer’s absence this year. “We had a great sale at Harrisburg, and we were happy with all our sales this year, but if Bob had been in action, it would have been even better. He is a big player and he was certainly missed.”

Glazer said he actually planned to attend, but some personal business with bad timing precluded that. “I enjoy going to sales, and I probably would have bought one top-flight yearling at both Kentucky and Harrisburg,” he said. “If something crops up that really strikes my fancy, I’m going to buy it. And some very inexpensive buys have done quite well for me. I’m looking for the best individual, not necessarily at the price.”

Another reason Glazer said he regrets missing the 2004 yearling sales season is that he needs to talk to horsemen on a somewhat different level. “With my number of homebreds increasing annually, I’m probably going to be sending 50 of them to the 2005 sales,” he said. “I’m going to have to establish relationships from a different angle now. I’ll be breeding 80 plus mares this year, so this operation is heading toward becoming a mid-sized commercial breeding business.”

Statistics from the USTA show that the Peter Pan Stables breeding operation is well on the way to becoming just that. In 2001, there were 33 Peter Pan-bred starters who banked $357,941; in 2002, 40 starters made $623,652; last year, 50 starters earned $1,365,501; and as this year draws to a close, 72 Peter Pan-breds have banked over $1.8 million.

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No Pan Intended’s first crop hit the ground in 2005.

There should be no lack of lookers when Glazer does present the Peter Pan-bred youngsters at public auction. Many of those will be offspring of stellar second-crop sire The Panderosa and of 2003 Horse of the Year No Pan Intended.

“I’ve always felt from day one that you can’t expect the public to support your stallions if you don’t,” he said. “I felt that I needed to put my money where my mouth is. I have 14 yearlings [of 2005] by Ameripan Gigilo, and of the eight trotting mares I own, four of them have weanlings by The Icepan Cometh.

“Noble Ability’s first crop will be hitting the track next year and he’s going to be well-represented,” he said. “I have 14 by him, including French Panicure’s second foal and first filly.”

Glazer’s other stallions are The Firepan, and the afore-mentioned No Pan Intended and The Panderosa. “I couldn’t be more pleased with The Panderosa’s offspring,” he said. “I’m going to breed more mares than usual to him this year. He had a Breeders Crown winner in each of his first two crops [Pan’s Culottes in 2003 and Restive Hanover in 2004, both fillies], and he’s the highest-ranked second crop sire on the all-age earnings list.”

Glazer is also looking forward to seeing No Pan Intended’s first crop hit the ground in 2005. At this time last year, he was basking in the glow of that colt’s Triple Crown season, and would soon learn he’d been voted Horse of the Year. “This year, racing-wise, has been very mediocre,” he said. “But that’s to be expected after the year we had last year.”

The next step of development in the plan is to consolidate the mares – now boarded at several farms in Kentucky, Ohio, New York and New Jersey – onto a farm of his own. “That’s always been part of the plan,” he said. “I’ve looked at a lot of property [in those four states], and I’m willing to wait for the right opportunity.

“There are a lot of factors,” he said. “I’m going to have to get 300 to 400 acres, it will have to be in the right location, have the right kind of soil, and so on. Then you have to consider whether you’re going to buy raw land and develop it yourself, which would really be a project, or buy an existing farm and adapt it to your needs.

“It will happen,” he said. “I just have to be patient.”