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2009 WTBOA Sales Graduate Wins Edmonton Juvenile Mr. Instigator became the first graduate of the 2009 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale to become a stakes winner when the gelded son of Chapel Royal-Blazed Star, by Gate Dancer, took the $47,405 Edmonton Juvenile Stakes by a half-length at Northlands Park on July 17. The footnotes from the Equibase chart for the race inform that Mr. Instigator, the $1.70-to-one second choice behind $1.65-to-one favorite Oren's Star, who finished fourth, had a bit of a rough trip. After drifting out while entering the first turn, Mr. Instigator and his rider Fernando Perez were carried out eight-wide into the upper stretch but closed steadily to gain his second victory.
Consigned by Halvorson Bloodstock Services LLC, agent to the Washington sale, Mr. Instigator was purchased by North American Horse Company for $20,000. The Kentucky-bred races in the colors of Glen Todd and Patrick Kinsella and is trained by Alan May.
Including the $28,443 he earned for the Edmonton Juvenile, Mr. Instigator has earned $41,087 and is unbeaten in two starts. In his initial outing, on May 9 at Hastings Racecourse, Mr. Instigator went gate-to-wire to win a 3 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race by 2 1/2 lengths. |
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Other Sales Grads in the News Rewritten, the three-year-old El Corredor filly who won the $50,000 Washington's Lottery Handicap at Emerald Downs on July 11, is the third stakes winner 1993 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale graduate and stakes winner Pleas Write, by Staff Writer, has produced for Ron Crockett.
Auzeezee improved her record to 2-3-2 from seven starts after the three-year-old British Columbia-bred daughter of Vying Victor-Trillia, by Regal Classic, won a 6 1/2-furlong allowance/optional claiming race at Hastings Racecourse on July 11. Bred by Prescott Farms, the $18,000 2008 WTBOA Sales graduate has earned $45,223 for Edgar B. Smith. |
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Assessing the Governor
Assessment winning
the Governor's Handicap. (Kristy Batie photo)  | Emerald Downs held its first stakes double header of the year on July 11 with the 71st running of the Governor's Handicap and the 14th running of the Washington's Lottery Handicap.
The 6 1/2-furlong Governor's has long been a favorite warm-up for the Longacres Mile (G3), which precedes the track's marquee race by six weeks. A field of eight faced the starter, which included six runners who have been named track and/or Washington champions.
Jeff Harwood's Noosa Beach (Harbor the Gold-Julia Rose) went into the $50,000 race as the odds-on favorite after winning all three of his 2010 starts, including a 9 1/4-length tally in the Budweiser Handicap in his previous outing .The four-year-old Washington-bred gelding, with Ricky Frazier on board, was bumped at the start but soon grabbed the early lead with fractions of :22, :44.60 and 1:08.20.
Meanwhile Assessment, who had won the 2009 Mile for Lou and Diane Tice's Tice Ranch Stables LLC, was content to wait mid-pack. As the runners reached the final turn, Gallon engaged Noosa Beach in a move that might have helped give Assessment the final edge. Assessment and regular rider Gallyn Mitchell snatched the lead at the eighth pole, as rival Noosa Beach continued to fight back in a stiff drive. But Assessment would not be denied this time, as the six-year-old Kentucky-bred held off Noosa Beach by a neck at the wire to finish in 1:14.40.
Five-year-old Gallon (Victory Gallop-Bellehop), who runs for Michael and Amy Feuerborn, finished another four lengths back in third place.
"I feel so good that Assessment still has the heart and courage that he had last year," said Mitchell. It marked the first win in three 2010 outings for Assessment, who had surgery to remove an ankle chip last September.
"This division is so competitive," the winning rider added. "It's going to be the little things that win races. Everyone's going to need a little racing luck. Now that he's back on his game, we are looking for a repeat in the Longacres Mile. He's coming around just in time."
A Kentucky-bred son of Jump Start-Native Ghost, by Silver Ghost, Assessment improved his record to 8-4-3 from 28 starts and has earned $384,730.
Trainer Howard Belvoir has now won three of the last four runnings of the Governor's Handicap. After winning the 2007 and 2008 editions with Wasserman, Assessment and Wasserman finished two-three behind Atta Boy Roy in 2009. Wasserman, who was also bred and races in Belvoir's silks, finished fifth in his fourth straight Governor's and with the $1,250 he earned, surpassed Captain Condo's $503,285 record earnings mark at Washington tracks. The eight-year-old son of Cahill Road has now earned $504,312 while running in his home state. |
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Rewriting the Lottery
Rewritten winning the Washington Lottery Handicap. (Kristy Batie photo) | Another three-race winning streak fell by the wayside when Ron Crockett Inc.'s homebred Rewritten got up in the last strides to score a 1 1/2-length victory over favorite Sis's Sis in the $50,000 Washington's Lottery Handicap.
A field of eight set forth to challenge Michael and Amy Feuerborn's Sis's Sis, who had been unbeaten in three tries this season, including the Washington-bred daughter of Cahill Road-Carni Gal's victory in the Irish Day Handicap.
Touch of Elegance took the early lead with fractions of :23 and :46.60, but was passed by Sis's Sis as the field neared the three-eighths marker.
Rewritten, with Francisco Duran in the irons, rallied from sixth place to wear down the favorite and win the 1 1/16-mile stakes in 1:43 flat. Perfect Soul Brothers LLC's Soul Custody (Perfect Soul [Ire]-Halo's Gleam) finished another 2 1/2 lengths behind in third, but four lengths the better of fourth place Tapit So Lightly.
"I knew Rewritten was something special, but I didn't know how special she was," said Duran. "I had a lot of confidence that she would run well, and she proved that today."
A Kentucky-bred daughter of El Corredor and the third stakes winner produced out of Crockett's stakes-winning Staff Writer matron Pleas Write, Rewritten had taken eight tries to break her maiden, but had been competitive enough to finish second in the Barbara Shinpoch Stakes, third in the Angie C Stakes and run fourth in the Gottstein Futurity last year. The Frank Lucarelli-trained filly improved her record to 2-4-1 in nine starts and has earned $69,663. The race marked Crockett's 16th stakes win at Emerald. |
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Safe Harbors The two winners, Couldabenthewhisky and Carrabelle Harbor, of the July 18 Northwest Stallion Stakes have several things in common, besides being two-year-olds in their first stakes attempts. First, they both were the betting choices in their divisions of the 5 1/2-furlong stakes. Second and third, each won by 1 1/4 lengths and had a finish time of 1:03.80. Fourth and fifth, they were both sired by Harbor the Gold an, each was bred by Pam and Neal Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stables, the home of Harbor the Gold. Sixth, each was ridden to their wins by Ricky Frazier - who holds the track record with 67 stakes wins and won five races on the Sunday card; and seventh, each runner remains unbeaten.
Couldabenthewhisky winning the
NWSS Strong Ruler Stakes.
(Kristy Batie photo)  | The Northwest Stallion Strong Ruler Stakes was contested first. Nine colts and geldings met the starter at the gate. Couldabenthewhisky, who is trained by Bonnie Jennie and races in partnership for Jenne and her husband Wally's Friendship Stables, Andy Maib's Longshot Racing and Craig and Stanley Frederickson, broke sharply and held a narrow lead over Stolen Rio for the first three eighths. Couldabenthewhisky opened a clear lead into the lane to win his second race in two tries. Warlock Stables, Horseplayers Racing Club HRC 032 and James Broussard's Winter Warlock, a colt from the first crop of 2004 Washington horse of the year Demon Warlock out of stakes winner Royal Snowflight, finished second, 1 1/2 lengths in front of Vital Signs Stable's Gdanz Express (Liberty Gold-Polish Vodka). Stolen Rio and Stellar Blue dead-heated for fourth place.
Couldabenthewhisky, a $5,500 WTBOA September sale graduate, has earned $23,498. The gelding, the first foal out of Bahati, by Horse Chestnut (SAf), was co-bred by the Christophersons with Melodie (Bultena) and Doak Walker and Bill and Carol Ginger.
Carrabella Harbor winning the
NWSS Knights Choice Stakes.
(Kristy Batie photo)  | Two races later, Carrabelle Harbor dueled for the early lead from the get-go with The Gang and I and Iforgottobeme with a quick first fraction of :21.80. Still racing just off the heels of Iforgottobeme, Carrabelle Harbor drew clear of that rival in the final yards to take the first juvenile filly stakes of the season.
"She had to overcome a couple of mistakes today," said Frazier. "I knew she had a ton of speed, and had she broken sharp, she would have been two lengths in front."
Frazier was scoring a record fifth consecutive win in the Northwest Stallion Knights Choice Stakes.
"Winning this race for the fifth straight time is just a tribute to the trainers. I really appreciate the opportunity they gave me to ride their good horses."
Frazier and winning trainer Doris Harwood have combined to win 16 of the last 38 juvenile stakes at Emerald Downs.
Harwood had two runners in the filly stakes, Carrabelle Harbor, and Stepping Stone Stables' Bell Adieu, who had run second in her only other outing. The winning Carrabelle Harbor, who earned $16,521 for co-owners Bar C Racing and Melodie and Doak Walker's Desert Rose Racing LLC, is a full sister to 2008 Oregon champion two-year-old filly Catalina Harbor. In addition, their dam, Silver City Lilly, by Tiffany Ice, is a full sister to two Oregon distaff champions -Silver Patrona and Corona Del Hielo.
Bell Adieu, who finished third, 5 1/4 lengths behind Al Adams, David Israel and Gary Borman's recent $12,500 claim Iforgottobeme (Free At Last-Evans Talory), is from the final crop of Tribunal and out of multiple stakes producer Campanita, a half-sister to Washington horse of the year and Grade 1 winner Rings a Chime. |
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Other Emerald News Jockey Kevin Krigger scored his 300th win at Emerald when he won the fifth race aboard Military Deputy on July 10.
Eight-year-old Chickasaw Park, who has won or placed in the last three editions of the Chinook Pass Sprint Stakes, became the 13th horse to win a dozen races at Emerald Downs after the H.R. Mullens- trainee won a 6 1/2-furlong race on July 16. The son of Delineator, who races for Mullens, Ed Zenker and Swede Larsen, has earned $189,929 in his 49 starts.
Veteran trainer Dinos Apostolou continues to rack up the wins. Including his July 17 victory with Platinum Stiletto, his trainees have amassed six victories from 15 starts.
Miguel Perez returned to the Emerald Downs rider colony on July 17 after a five-year absence. The Mexico City native, whose career began in 1985, has ridden 1,156 winners and his mounts have won over $17-million. |
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Abraaj Joins Stallion Roster at El Dorado Farms Nina and Ron Hagen announced that Grade 2 stakes winner Abraaj will be standing his first season at their El Dorado Farms LLC in 2011.
A $450,000 2004 Keeneland September sale yearling, Abraaj is one of 98 stakes winners sired by Carson City. Unraced at two and three, Abraaj, who raced for Shadwell Stables under trainer Kieran McLaughlin's care, won or placed in 11 of his 13 starts. After finishing a strong third, beaten only a half-length by Benny the Bull, in the True North Handicap (G2) at Belmont Park, Abraaj ended his career with a "powerful" 2 1/2-length victory in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G2) at Saratoga. Abraaj earned $338,050 with his 5-4-2 record and has a SSI of 9.78.
Abraaj is one of three stakes winners produced out of the $44,825 winning Kris S. mare Kris's Intention. Leelanau, a full brother to Abraaj, earned $130,827 and won two of his three starts, including a tally in the Kentucky Breeders' Cup Stakes (G3) in which he set a new 5 1/2-furlong track record at Churchill Downs of 1:03. Kris's Intention, a half-sister to Grade 2 stakes winner and stakes producer How About Now, is also the dam of Sir Cat Stakes winner All Trumps, a colt by Grand Slam who earned $122,822.
Carson City, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Mr. Prospector, is gaining a reputation as a sire of sires through his successful sons Pollard's Vision, Cuvee and City Zip, all sires of Grade 1 winners.
Limited shares in Abraaj are now being offered. His 2011 stud fee will be announced later this year. |
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Free At Last Moves to Lucky Acres Two-time leading juvenile sire Free At Last will stand the 2011 breeding season at Steve and Sally Meredith's Lucky Acres. The 1991 Canadian champion two-year-old colt and three-time graded stakes winner has sired the earners of $9.5-million, including 23 stakes winners (seven percent) and another 32 stakes-placed runners. His most recent stakes horse is Iforgottobeme, who finished second in the $30,000 Northwest Stallion Knights Choice Stakes at Emerald Downs on July 18.
Free At Last was one of 88 stakes winners sired by Wild Again, who won the first Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). Now 21, Free At Last is out of multiple stakes producer Miss Blanche, by Faraway Son. Free At Last entered stud in British Columbia in 1994. He moved to El Dorado Farms LLC for the 1999 breeding season and stood at the Enumclaw farm before moving to Lucky Acres in Yakima.
Silly Fella, the three-year-old son of Mass Market who finished third in the Jim Coleman Province Stakes at Hastings Racecourse in June, is out of Free At Last's stakes-winning daughter Grey Tobe Free. |
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Late Foaling News Char Clark Thoroughbreds, of Spokane, reports that her broodmares Striking Scholar, an unraced half-sister by Smart Strike to stakes winner Sunshine Scholar, stakes-placed Second Degree and the dam of Washington champion Schoolin You, and Heather Georgina, a daughter of Knights Choice, produced fillies this spring. Striking Scholar foaled a bay filly by Salt Lake on May 10 and Heather Georgina produced a dark bay filly by He's Tops on April 25. Neither mare was bred back. |
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Other News Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer and Dr. George Todaro's Paul's Hope, a six-year-old gelding by Lake Austin out of Fondest Hope, by Personal Hope, finished third in the $62,300 Sam J. Whiting Memorial Handicap at Pleasanton on July 11.
2009 Longacres Mile (G3) runner-up Awesome Gem won the $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup (G1) on July 10. The seven-year-old gelding took the 12-furlong race by a half-length over heavy favorite Rail Trip.
Helen Sherry and Billie Klokstad's homebred Summer Excess went gate-to-wire to take a six-furlong allowance race at Sacramento on July 17. The three-year-old Washington-bred son of El Dorado Farms LLC's Private Gold out of Summer Sails, by In Excess (Ire), was winning his second race in three starts for Washington Hall of Fame trainer Bud Klokstad. Summer Excess, who ran second in his only other start, has earned $31,500.
Fillies with Washington connections finished one-two-three in the $76,000 California State Fair Sprint Handicap run at Sacramento on July 17. Ultra Blend, the winner of the six-furlong race, was ridden to victory by Washington Hall of Famer Russell Baze. Irish Gypsy, who ran second, is a granddaughter of Washington horse of the year Delicate Vine and finishing a neck behind her was John Roche's homebred Dianne Do, a four-year-old Washington-bred daughter of Slewdledo out of Roche's state champion Soft Copy, by Staff Writer.
Gallant Gent, the three-year-old son of Yankee Gentleman who finished third in the $112,500 Oceanside Stakes on Del Mar's July 21 opening card, is out of Washington champion Bonne Nuite, a daughter of Knights Choice.
Mark Dedomenico LLC, John Carver, Peter Abruzzo and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's multiple Grade 1 winner Blind Luck increased her earning to $1,578,712 after the three-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Pollard's Vision-Lucky One, by Best of Luck, won the $263,200 Delaware Oaks (G2) at Delaware Park on July 10.
Pretty B, a three-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of El Dorado Farms LLC's Matty G out of Pretty City, by Carson City, won a 1 1/16-mile turf maiden race at Belmont Park on July 11. Multiple stakes winner Holy Nova won her 16th race in 29 starts and increased her earnings to $493,654 after she won a six-furlong optional claiming race at Northlands Park on July 9. The six-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Pure Prize was produced out of the Matty GmatronStarline.
Hawaiian Sky, a six-year-old offspring of Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat, won a $54,501 allowance/optional claiming race at Indiana Downs on July 9. It was the sixth win for the Maryland-bred mare out of Abovehawaii, by Great Above, and increased her earnings to $160,823. Parker's Storm Cat also had a winner at Colonial Downs on July 10 when Miss Oil, a four-year-old Virginia-bred filly out of Pleasant Note, by Prenup, won a 5 1/2-furlong turf allowance race. It was the third win in six starts for Miss Oil who has earned $44,938.
Ham and Ernie went over the $100,000 mark when the four-year-old son of St. Hilaire Thoroughbred Farm's Polish Miner won an allowance test at Delaware Park on July 10. The Maryland-bred runner out of Two From the Blues, by Kyle's Our Man, took the nine-furlong race by three lengths. He has now won four races and $109,500.
Grade 1 stakes winner Life At Ten, a female descendent of Reine-des-Course and Washington broodmare of the year Beadah, added another stakes win to her credit when the five-year-old daughter of Malibu Moon-Rahrahsixboombah, by Rahy, won the $750,350 Delaware Handicap (G2) at Delaware Park on July 17. She has now won half of her 14 starts and earned $909,267.
Double Shuffle, the four-year-old Florida-bred son of Repent who won the Wheat City Stakes at Assiniboia Downs on July 9, is out of Washington-bred stakes winner Late Sailing, by Capt. Don. The gelding was ridden to victory in the mile stakes by Vicky Baze, whose husband Gary Baze, finished second aboard Vindgari. It was one of four winning rides for Vicky on the eight-race card.
Gipsy Countess, the three-year-old daughter of Sadler's Wells who won a 12-furlong maiden race at Tipperary in Ireland on July 11, is out of former Washington broodmare Cozzene's Angel, by Cozzene.
Grade 1 stakes winner Celtic Melody, a granddaughter of Grade 1 winner and Washington horse of the year Delicate Vine, produced a colt by Medaglia d'Oro on May 5 and was bred back to Old Fashioned.
Howard Litt, 75, who owned 1997 Washington champion two-year-old King Slewie in partnership, passed away on July 14, 2010, in his Mill Valley, California, home. |
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