Phoenix Farm is owned by Ramiro Salazar and his wife, Denise, who operates Phoenix Equine Therapy in Georgetown, Ky. Salazar and Belcher ran a small farm that they had leased from 2002 to 2004, but found it difficult to compete with the larger outfits. Salazar went to work at Ben Berger’s Woodstock Farm and eventually was hired as manager of Barrett Frederick’s Windwoods Farm in Georgetown, while Belcher returned to her equine therapy practice.

The couple owned three mares: Ginger Ginger, Ginger Creek and Vic's Nostalgia, and were allowed to board them at Woodstock Farm while Salazar was working there. They had obtained Ginger Ginger after she aborted two years in a row and her previous owner did not want to spend any more money trying to get her in foal. He gave Salazar and Belcher the mare as payment for the $600 in boarding bills he owed them. Ginger Ginger had problems conceiving,so the couple sent her to reproductive specialist Michelle LeBlanc at Rood & Riddle Equine hospital near Lexington, Ky. After undergoing surgery, Ginger Ginger was given a year off and eventually bred to Even the Score in 2005. Take the Points was the result of that breeding, coming 30 days overdue on April 7, 2006.