News from the WTBOA
July 12, 2010
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Attention
Owners and Trainers
Remember the
Northwest Race Series
for 2YOs
begins in mid-July
with the
NW Stallion Stakes
(two divisions,
filly and colt/gelding).
Don't overlook
these lucrative stakes opportunities for
your 2YOs!
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Proposal to Modify the Process of Certification of Washington-breds
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Calendar
Sunday, July 18, 2010
NWSS KNIGHTS CHOICE S. (2YO F)
NWSS STRONG RULER S. (2YO C/G)
Friday, July 30, 2010
THRUST INDUSTRY GRANTS
APPLICATION DEADLINE
(253) 288-7878 maindesk@washingtonthoroughbred.com
or click here for more information
Friday, August 13, 2010
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING
COMMISSION MEETING
Auburn City Council Chambers
25 W. Main, Auburn, WA (360) 459-6462
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
WHBPA ANNUAL PICNIC
Emerald Downs, Auburn
(253) 804-6822 or (888) 804-HBPA
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO OWN A RACEHORSE? The Current Market and Various Ownership Options, with Emphasis on Syndications (253) 288-7878
Saturday, August 21, 2010
WASHINGTON RACING HALL OF FAME
INDUCTIONS
Emerald Downs, Auburn
(253) 288-7000
Sunday, August 22, 2010
LONGACRES MILE (G3)
Emerald Downs, Auburn
(253) 288-7000
Friday, Saturday & Sunday,
September 3-5, 2010
WALLA WALLA FAIR & FRONTIER DAYS
Walla Walla, WA
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WTBOA Mission Statement
The Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association seeks to unite and represent those who are interested in breeding, owning, racing and improving Thoroughbreds in the state of Washing-ton and the Northwest. To generate positive growth, interest and appreciation of Washington Thoroughbreds, the WTBOA is dedicated and committed to education, communication and collaboration, as well as marketing and promoting the nobility, history and benefits of Thoroughbreds.
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Equine Art 2010
Erica Nordean won
Best of Show for her acrylic entitled Eastern Echo. (Duane Hamamura photo)  |
Over 200 pieces of equine art, covering a wide range of equine disciplines and interests, were on display at Emerald Downs July 8-11. The show kicked off with the always popular preview party on Wednesday evening, July 7.
Prizes were awarded in several categories, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, pastel and drawing, sculpture, objet d'art and photography/digital. There were also two youth categories for intermediates, ages 13 to 18, and pre-teen/childrens, ages 12 and under.
Congratulations to all of the winners (click here) and many thanks to our judges (click here) Lavonne Hoivik, Stephen Sadis and Michael Walmsley. Special thanks to the many sponsors who make this show possible: Kenneth & Marleen Alhadeff and Michael & Margie Alhadeff, Anishinabe Dream Horses, Rozamund Barclay, Ron Crockett, Stanley A. Gillman, Terry & Mary Lou Griffin, Ron and Nina Hagen, Todd Havens, Pamela N. McMurry Larsen and Tim McMurry, Elaine Parks, Pegasus Thoroughbred Training & Rehabilitation Center, Gerald & Gail Schneider, friends of Melissa Swann Wagner, the WTF, WTBOA and Emerald Downs. |
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2010 Washington Hall of Fame Inductees Announced Jockey Joe Baze, trainer Bill McMeans, horse Biggs, pre-1970 breeder Les Turner and special lifetime achievement winner Jim Seabeck will each take their places in the Washington Racing Hall of Fame when they are honored during the induction ceremonies to be held at Emerald Downs on Saturday, August 21.
Baze, who was born in 1933 in Outlook, is the third member of the nationally renowned Baze riding clan to join the Washington Hall of Fame. He joins son Russell, who is also a member of the National Racing Hall of Fame, and nephew Gary among Washington's elite riders. He is also the grandfather of leading California riders Tyler Baze, who won the 2000 Eclipse Apprentice Jockey Award, and Michael Baze. The senior Baze scored riding titles at Longacres, Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields and won the 1971 Longacres Mile aboard Pitch Out.
A native of Sunnyside, McMeans conditioned many top runners, including Washington champions Royal Ruler, Koko's Pal, Prince Joda, Saratoga Dancer, Proud Admiral and lastly Favored One in 1994. Probably the most talented runner he conditioned was 1973 Longacres horse of the meet and Longacres Derby winner Table Run, who went on to become one of the state's all-time leading sires. McMeans also won six Gottstein Futurities, including three straight from 1970-72, was a two-time leading trainer at Longacres and saddled 1974 Longacres Mile winner Times Rush.
Biggs was one of three consecutive Washington-breds to win the $100,000 Californian Stakes in the late 1960s. Campaigned prior to when stakes became graded, the son of Domingo-Blessed Art would have won the equivalent of five graded stakes and placed nine others which are graded today, more than any other Washington-bred runner in history. Bred by Sue Swenson, the 1960-foaled gelding had a record of 18-17-7 from 72 starts and earned $305,797, which gave him an SSE of 14.56. The chestnut runner raced for E.F. Gould and was trained by Farrell W. Jones and Leonard Dorfman.
Les Turner owned and managed Rural Land Farm in Quincy, where he stood many of the top stallions in the state, including seven-time leading sire and three-time leading juvenile sire Strong Ruler, as well as leading juvenile sires Six Fifteen, Alate and Kings Favor. One of the most progressive horsemen of his era, Turner stood the first syndicated stallion in the state, By Zeus, and was the first advertiser to use color in The Washington Horse (January 1961). Turner ranked first in winners in the state in both 1976 and 1977 and was ranked in the top ten by money earned on 16 occasions from 1963-79. Among the many stakes winners bred or co-bred by Turner were state champions Better Dancer, Stardust Melody, Gold Afloat, Alation, Strong Dolphin and Touchdown Miss. He also bred and/or co-bred 1972 Washington claimer of the year Dancing Ruler and 1988 Washington most improved claimer Sucess Formula.
James P. Seabeck and his wife Novia have been members of the WTBOA since 1947, longer than anyone else in the association. Seabeck, 97, has been a successful owner - racing 1953 Longacres Mile winner Ocean Mist with Phil Carstens and 2006 Portland Meadows Mile winner Charlie's Pride with partner Gene Barber; breeder - including breeding stakes winner and stakes producer Miss Manito; leader - served as president of the WHBA and on the Washington Horse Racing Commission; and longtime industry enthusiast - he saw Seabiscuit run and was there when George Woolf made his final ride. |
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Longshots and Surprises
From Ray Paulick in his July 1, 2010, Paulick Report column "American Graded Stakes Standings brought to you by Keeneland" ... "But among all the longshots or unlikely leaders is the little sale company that could: the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association's summer yearling auction that has produced three 2010 AGS [American Graded Stakes] winners: City to City, a $50,000 purchase at the WTBA sale who won the G2 Providencia; Atta Boy Roy, a $4,500 bargain who won the G2 Churchill Down Stakes; and Smiling Tiger, purchased for $40,000 and winner of the G3 Lazaro Barrera Memorial Stakes.
The WTBA sale has weathered many storms in the Pacific Northwest: most notably the closing of the area's flagship racetrack Longacres, which has had the good fortune to be replaced by the efficient and well-run Emerald Downs. That threw Washington's breeding industry into a state of uncertainty, and the foal crop predictably has declined. But the WTBA has survived those storms, and continues to produce results." |
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WTBOA September Sale Topper Takes Chariot Chaser Stakes Darrell Landry's Notoriously earned her third victory of the year and first stakes win when the three-year-old filly took the $49,966 Chariot Chaser Stakes at Northlands Park on Canada Day, July 1. Rodney Cone trains the new stakes winner.
Bred by Northwest Farms LLC in Kentucky, the daughter of Cherokee Run-Silver Echo, by Eastern Echo, the $92,000 2008 WTBOA sale topper is a full sister to 2008 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes winner Cherokee Echo. The fillies' half-sister by Lion Heart is consigned by Northwest Farms to the 2010 WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale in September.
Notoriously improved her lifetime record to 4-1-2 from ten starts with her length victory in the six-furlong stakes. |
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Other Sales Graduates in the News 2008 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale graduate Slew the Man, by Slewdledo-Go for Jackie, by Fit to Fight, earned his first stakes placement and added $6,100 to his totals when he finished third in the $56,700 Alamedan Handicap at Pleasanton on July 4. Bred and consigned by Nina and Ron Hagen, the three-year-old Washington-bred half-brother to $255,723 stakes winner Indian Weaver races for Alan Klein and Philip Lebherz and is trained by Jeff Bonde. He has earned $62,800.
2007 WTBOA Winter Sale graduate Majikewis, a four-year-old son of El Dorado Farms LLC's Liberty Gold, won a five-furlong allowance race at Lethbridge by 3 1/2 lengths on July 2. Bred in Washington by Anishinabe Dream Horses, Majikewis is out of $104,260 winner Morn n'Mist, by Petersburg, a full sister to stakes winners Miss Pixie and Peters Punkin. His half-sister by Free At Last is a member of the Tall Cedars Farm LLC consignment to the 2010 WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale.
2009 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale graduate Social Event won her first outing, a five-furlong $40,000 maiden claiming race, by 2 1/2 lengths at Hollywood Park on July 2. Bred in Washington by DiPietro Thoroughbreds, the daughter of Event of the Year-Peanutella, by Helmsman, races for trainer Ed Moger Jr. and his partners James Cahill, Daniel Gatto and Patrick Neary. |
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Making Beautiful Music
Clair Annette winning the King County Handicap. (Kristy Batie photo) | Nina Egbert's speedy Clair Annette returned to the winner's circle with her 5 1/2 length victory in the $50,000 King County Handicap run at Emerald Downs on the Fourth of July. With Kevin Krigger in the saddle, Clair Annette's lead was never challenged as the seven-year-old Washington-bred mare sped through fractions of :22.20, :45.60, 1:09.80, 1:22.40 to finish the mile test in 1:35.80. Emerald Downs' claimer of the meet in 2008, Clair Annette became the oldest horse to win a featured stakes in track history.
"My plan today was to try and keep her happy," said Krigger of his now three-time stakes-winning mount. "She flat outran those other mares. I was planning on a great break, and she just went right to the front and brought me right down to the rail. She went around that first turn pretty rapid, but she was so relaxed. I could tell I had so much horse in the bit."
Sue and Tim Spooner's Crocodile Tuff, a four-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Petionville-Bayou Boots, finished second, three-quarters of a length the better of John and Janene Maryanski's six-year-old Washington-bred mare Gadget Queen (Flying With Eagles-Knights Fantasy) in the field of eight older fillies and mares.
Clair Annette, who finished third in both the Hastings and Senate Appointee handicaps in her previous two starts, has now won nine of her 19 lifetime starts and earned $146,383 for Egbert, a resident of Enumclaw. The daughter of Beau Genius-Windsong Maria, by Exclusive Bidder, is a half-sister to Washington champion Makors Mark.
More Emerald Records
On July 8, nine-time leading trainer Tim McCanna saddled five winners, including a dead-heat with Vickys Fast Boy and A Black Thorn, to tie a track and state record shared by Doris Harwood (2009) and Jim Penney (1998). McCanna's winners came from only a seven-race card and four of them came within less than an hour time span: third race with Eloika Lake, the dead-heat in the fourth and a win with Cougar Guy in the fifth. McCanna's final win of the day was with Big Sky Posse in the seventh race. Now with 29 winners, McCanna ranks third in the trainer standings.
It was also a banner day for Kevin Krigger, who had returned to Emerald after a three-year absence. The St. Croix, Virgin Islands native, who topped the Emerald jockey standings by wins in 2005, was aboard McCanna's winners of the third, fourth, fifth and seventh race. He also was aboard Raebella for her win in the sixth race. It marked a personal best for the 26-year-old rider who has won 23 races since his return on June 6. |
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Matty G Sires First Washington-bred Juvenile Winner El Dorado Farms LLC's Grade I stakes winner Matty G had his initial Washington-bred two-year-old winner from his first crop of Washington-sired foals when El Dorado Racing's Ms Moscow Mattie led at every call to take a five-furlong $20,000 maiden claiming race at Emerald Downs by two lengths on July 2. Bred by Nina and Ron Hagen and trained by Vann Belvoir, it was the first start for the filly out of the Moscow Ballet mare Moscow Symphony.
Other Washington-bred first-time starters for Matty G include: Buckle, who finished second on June 27 ($30,000 maiden claimer); For the Rest of Us, who ran second on June 12 ($30,000 maiden claimer); Smiley Mylie, who finished second on May 31 ($12,500 maiden claimer); and Stellar Blue, who finished third on June 6 (maiden special weight).
A son of champion Capote, Matty G has been Washington's leading sire for the past three years and currently leads the 2010 state standings. |
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Cahill Road Dead Major Washington sire Cahill Road, 22, was humanely put down on July 4, 2010, due to the infirmities of old age. The stallion covered 25 mares this spring.
Bred by F. A Genter Stable Inc., Cahill Road won four of his six starts as a three-year-old, including a victory in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial Stakes, and earned $370,280. The son of Fappiano-Gana Facil, by *Le Fabuleux, was a full brother to champion and Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Unbridled, who was in turn one of the nation's leading sires and a noted sire-of-sires.
Cahill Road entered stud at Gainesway Farm in Kentucky in 1992 where he sired Puerto Rico horse of the year Mi Vereda and Panama horse of the year Social Request. In 1999, he was purchased by Washington interests and moved to El Dorado Farms in September of that year.
Cahill Road was Washington's leading sire in 2000 and sire of back-to-back Longacres Mile (G3) winners The Great Face and Wasserman in 2007-08, both who were named Washington horse of the year. Among his other runners was Washington champion three-year-old colt or gelding Spanish Highway, Ohio champion Ben's Reflection, Oregon champion two-year-old colt or gelding Tom Won, and three other graded stakes winners. Cahill Road's leading earner is Japan-raced Yashima Captain, an earner of $887,047. His son, Polo Bender, who was Washington's 2008 claimer of the year, has won 20 races, including three this season at Emerald Downs at age nine. Cahill Road's most recent stakes winner is Sis's Sis, who won the Irish Day Handicap at Emerald on June 6. Cahill Road is also the sire of stakes winner Shandra Smiles, whose three-year-old son Smiling Tiger is a multiple stakes winner, including a Grade 3 win this year, of $183,864.
Cahill Road has sired 621 registered foals in his first 17 crops, which includes 38 yearlings of 2010. Thorough July 7, 428 of his 583 foals of racing age have started, with 205 winning 1,063 races. His progeny have earned $19.5 million and he currently ranks sixth on the 2010 Washington sire list with $231,633. Cahill Road's average per runner is $45,591 and he has an average earnings index (AEI) of 1.06. |
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Seattle Seamstress Produces Half-brother to Champ Enumclaw Girl  Seattle Seamstress produced a bay colt by Raise the Bluff on May 7 for Lynne Kelsey and Melissa Martin of Everson, Washington. He is the eighth foal to live out of winning daughter of Washington champion three-year-old filly Mahaska. A daughter of South African Horse of the Year Wolf Power (SAf), Seattle Seamstress is also the dam of 2008 Washington champion three-year-old filly Enumclaw Girl and stakes-placed Fast Stitch Girl.
Seattle Seamstress was purchased by Martin and Kelsey from the 2009 WTOBA Winter Mixed Sale as part of Doris Konecny's Czech-Mate Farm dispersal. Seattle Seamstress's then weanling filly, a full sister to her 2010 colt, topped the sale at $30,000. Seattle Seamstress, 16, was not bred back.
More Washington Foal Reports
Two other Washington-bred foal reports received in July Both owned by Jack Arnold, on April 10, his Buenobambino, by Chopin, produced a bay colt by Parker's Storm Cat and five days later his stakes-winning mare Trumping, by Quiet American, produced a bay filly by Blazonry. Both mares foaled at Roger and Linda Hoff's Indian Springs Farm and both were bred back to Parker's Storm Cat. |
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Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale The two-day Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale, which will be held on August 2 and 3, features 202 premier yearlings. Among those cataloged this year are three with close Washington ties.
Hip 18 is a filly from the first crop of Metropolitan Handicap (G1) winner Corinthian and is out of Washington-bred, and 2002 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale graduate, Brooklynsangel. A half-sister to two-time Grade 1 winner Toccet, Brooklynsangel is the dam of Grade 2-placed Tiny Woods.
Ours, who sells as Hip 30, is a filly from the initial crop of Grade 2 stakes winner Half Ours. Her dam, Ballerina Handicap (G1) winner Classy Mirage, is the dam of seven winners, including Hopeful Stakes (G1) winner Dublin, Grade 2-placed Mike's Classic and $80,895 earner Mike's Way. A daughter of Gulch, Mike's Way, whose three-year-old son Foxcreek won his first start by 3 1/2 lengths at Hastings Racecourse on June 26, is owned by John Roche and Richard Egge. Her yearling colt by Salt Lake is consigned to the 2010 WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale.
Hip 138, a colt by Arch, is the first foal out of Pomerol, a daughter of Washington horse of the year and Grade 1 stakes winner Delicate Vine. A daughter of Knights Choice, Delicate Vine is the dam of Grade 2 stakes winner Altazarr, stakes winner and stakes producer Rayelle, stakes-placed Bullistic and Babeinthewoods. Among the other good horses stemming from the 1986 Washington champion are Grade 1 winner House of Fortune, 2009 Del Mar Derby (G2) winner Rendezvous and 2009 German stakes winner Paradise Rain. This is also the immediate family of Grade 1 winners Georgie Boy and Celtic Melody. |
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Other Washington News Washington State University veterinary student Jamie Getz was named the 2010 recipient of the $1,000 scholarship annually given by the WTBOA and Washington Thoroughbred Foundation. Since 1968, the WTBOA has supported a third year veterinary student with this stipend, which is based on scholarship and an active interest in horses.
Washington-bred runners Dance Composer, a seven-year-old son of Danjur-Foolingaroundgirl, by Staff Writer, and Polar Blue, a seven-year-old gelding by Gold Saga-Good Thing, by Morning Bob, finished two-three to winner Bad Sneakers in the Simikammen Cup Stakes run at Sunflower in Princeton, British Columbia on July 3.
Five-year-old Red Eye Express (Ire), a homebred runner for L. Neil Jones' Abergwaun Farm, improved his record to 3-2-0 from six starts after he won a 1 1/16-mile allowance race at Hollywood Park on July 5. The son of Giant's Causeway-Snowfire (GB), by Machiavellian, who has now earned $80,685, is a half-brother to Jones' stakes-winning and Grade 1-placed Model.
James L. Ingall's homebred Moderation Mary, a three-year-old Washington-bred daughter of Woodstead Farm's He's Tops out of Maryshesaqueen, by Pioneering, won an about three-furlong maiden special weight race at Flagstaff by nine lengths on July 2.
Harmonious, the three-year-old Dynaformer filly who won the American Oaks (G1) at Hollywood Park on July 3, is out of Jade Tree, by Storm Cat. Jade Tree's dam, Jade Flush, by Jade Hunter, is a half-sister to Royal Herat, the dam of stakes winner and El Dorado Farms LLC stallion Houseofroyalhearts, whose first foals were born this spring, and five other stakes horses.
Two-year-old Sherriff Cogburn was an impressive winner in his first start, taking a five-furlong maiden special weight race at Arlington Park by seven lengths on July 1. The son of Vindication is out of Woodstead Farm's You and I's multiple stakes-winning daughter Sweet Nanette...
You and I Forever, a stakes-winning son of A. P. Indy out of You, a multiple Grade 1-winning daughter of You and I, ran third in the $245,000 Salavator Mile Handicap (G3) at Monmouth Park on July 3.
On July 4, Ben's Cat, a four-year-old Maryland-bred son of Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat-Twofox, by Thirty Eight Paces, earned the main portion of a $42,000 purse when he came home first by 4 1/4 lengths in a six-furlong allowance test at Delaware Park. Unbeaten in three starts, Ben's Cat has earned $44,220. Another offspring of Parker's Storm Cat, the four-year-old Maryland-bred filly Phasmes (out of Madelaine, by Wayne County [Ire]) has won four races in Korea and earned approximately $140,000 US while racing at Busan Gyeongnam.
Oakcrest Farm, Stone Farm, John Adger and trainer Michael Stidham's Upperline took the $100,000 Arlington Oaks (G3) run at Arlington Park by 4 3/4 lengths on July 3. Graded stakes-placed at two, Upperline, a three-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Maria's Mon out of Group 1-placed Snowflake (Ire), by Caerleon, improved her record to 3-1-2 from eight starts and has earned $165,387.
Try and Catch Me, a five-year-old Pennsylvania-bred daughter of St. Hilaire Thoroughbreds' Polish Miner out of Walking in Da Sun, by Sunny Clime, won a five-furlong turf allowance at Philadelphia Park on July 3. It was the mare's fifth victory and pushed her earnings to $208,410.
2009 Sovereign Award winner Tribal Belle added her third 2010 stakes placement and sixth overall at Woodbine when the five-year-old British Columbia-bred daughter of Tribunal-B.B. Belle, by Vying Victor, finished second in the $106,141 Sweet Briar Too Stakes run at the Canadian track on July 1. Indian Apple Is won the seven-furlong race by three-quarters of a length.
Hesademon, a five-year-old Alberta-bred son of West Coast Training Center's Liberty Gold out of Demonite, by Tough Knight, went gate-to-wire to take the $10,000 Millarville Derby, run at Millarville in Alberta, by 3 1/2 lengths on July 1. |
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In Memoriam Rick Harbin
Rick Harbin, 49, passed away unexpectedly on July 2, 2010. Born in Seattle on May 29, 1961, he lived most of his life in West Seattle.
Rick was a security guard at Emerald Down where he staffed the security entrance most of the time. Passionate about horse racing, Rick was always there to help and his work with the yearly Equine Art Show was always appreciated.
He was preceded in death by his father, Tom Harbin Sr. He is survived by his mother, Sally Harbin; sister Jeanne (Al) Davis; and brother Tom (Anne) Harbin Jr. |
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