News from the WTBOA
August 10, 2010
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2008 WTBOA Sale Graduate Smiling Tiger Scores Grade 1 Victory
Smiling Tiger winning the G1 Bing Crosby Stakes. (Benoit Photo) | A Grade 1-placed stakes winner at two and a winner of the Grade 3 Lazaro Barrera Memorial in his last start out, Smiling Tiger took on older runners in the six-panel Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) run at Del Mar on August 1 and came away with gate-to-wire victory. Finishing 1 1/2 lengths behind him in second place in the six-furlong sprint was Australian Horse of the Year and multiple Group 1 winner Scenic Blast (Aus). Recent Triple Bend Handicap (G1) winner E Z's Gentleman was another 3 1/4 lengths back in third place. Victor Espinoza was aboard the winner to give trainer Jeff Bonde his first Grade 1 victory. Smiling Tiger earned $150,000 for his efforts for the partnership of Alan Klein and Philip Lebherz. Race favorite and Grade 1 winner Cost of Freedom jumped in the air at the start to finish fifth of sixth. Final race time was 1:09.21 for which Smiling Tiger was given a 101 BRIS Speed Rating
"You don't take a hold of a horse like this," commented Espinoza after the race. "You drop your reins and let him do his thing. I did that in his last race [the Laz Barrera Memorial] and he just went. He's unbelievable. Really fast."
"This is a special horse," said Bonde. "I'm going to enjoy this today, and then we'll see how Smiling Tiger comes out of the race and plan for the future. Our goal is to get the Breeders' Cup Sprint."
Bred by Dr. Rodney Orr in Kentucky, Smiling Tiger, a son of Hold That Tiger, is the third foal out of Orr's Shandra Smiles, a daughter of Cahill Road who won the 2001 Federal Way Handicap for the Silverton, Oregon, family practitioner. Consigned by Orr to the 2008 WTBOA September sale with agent Halvorson Bloodstock Services, Smiling Tiger was purchased by Bonde as agent for $40,000. The colt is now an impressive 4-0-3 from seven starts and has earned $333,864. Orr still owns Shandra Smiles, who has a yearling Pure Prize filly, a 2010 colt by Orientate and is expecting a foal next year by Tale of the Cat. |
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WTBOA Sale Topper Scores Second Stakes Win
Three-year-old Notoriously scored her second stakes victory when the three-year-old daughter of Cherokee Echo won the $48,626 Northlands Oaks by 6 1/2 lengths on August 2. It was the second Northlands Park stakes victory for the filly who had taken the Chariot Chaser Handicap on July 1. Bred in Kentucky by Northwest Farms LLC, the daughter of stakes-placed Silver Echo, by Eastern Echo, has won five of her 11 starts and earned $94,816.
Nortoriously, whose half-sister Cherokee Echo won the Barbara Shinpoch Stakes the day before her sale, was the $92,000 sale topper at the 2008 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale. Notoriously is now owned by Darrell Landry and is trained by Rodney Cone.
The two stakes winners half-sister by Lion Heart has been consigned by Northwest Farms in the 2010 WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale next month. |
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Other WTBOA Sales Grads in the News Mickeys Hot Corona a four-year-old gelding by graded stakes-placed Washington-bred WTBOA sales graduate Son's Corona - who was bred by Rick and Debbie Pabst and raced by Jill and Dave Heerensperger - won the $2,500 Montana State Fair Handicap at Great Falls on August 1. The four-year-old Montana-bred is out of Mickey's Hot Stuff, by Mickey Le Mousse.
2007 WTBOA Summer Sale graduate Winningdancer, a four-year-old filly by Jump Start out of Jaye's Hope, by Line In The Sand, bred in Washington by Nina and Ron Hagen, won a mile and 70 yard allowance race at Prairie Meadows on August 2. It was her sixth victory and upped her earnings to $59,097.
Modern Cowboy, the three-year-old son of Tiznow who won a 1 1/16-mile allowance race at Monmouth Park on August 1, is out of Washington-bred champion two-year-old filly and WTBOA sales graduate Western Woman, a daughter of West by West who is also the dam of stakes winner and graded stakes-placed Hype.
2006 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale graduate Mr. February, a full brother to stakes winners Miss Pixie and Peters Punkin, won a mile allowance race at Marquis Downs on July 31. The five-year-old son of Petersburg-Miss Manito, by Black Mackee, was bred in Washington by Guy C. Roberts.
2007 WTBOA Summer Sale graduate Ry's Not Shy went over the $100,000 mark when the four-year-old son of Katowice-Mystical Maggie, by Crimson Slew, won a 5 1/2-furlong allowance race at Delaware Park on August 5. Bred and sold by Jerry and Peggy Woods, the Washington-bred gelding and $8,700 sale purchase has won four races and earned $107,468.
2007 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale graduate He's All Heart improved his record to 5-4-3 from 18 starts when the four-year-old Washington-bred son of El Dorado Farms LLC's Private Gold won a mile allowance/$50,000 optional claiming race at Emerald Downs on August 7. Bred by the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation and raised by Austin Rogers, the gelding out of Big Headache, by Chequer, has earned $55,769. He races for Vic-Tory Stables IV and is trained by Larry Wolf. |
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Recent Emerald Downs Stakes Results A View from the Beach
Noosa Beach winning the Mt. Rainier Handicap. (Reed Palmer Photography) | The August 1 card, touted as "Mile Preview Day," offered the final chance for local runners to prepare for the August 22 big event, the 75th Longacres Mile (G3) with its $250,000 purse.
Six Emerald-based older runners and Hastings Racecourse ship-in Senor Rojo faced the starter in the nine-furlong Mt. Rainier Handicap. Jeff Harwood's Noosa Beach had won the first two races in the 2010 Mile series, the Seattle and Budweiser handicaps, but lost by a nose to 2009 Mile winner Assessment in the Governor's Handicap. Because of their most recent history, the Tice Ranch color bearer went off the slight favorite ($1.10-to-one) over Noosa Beach at $1.60-to-one.
But Noosa Beach would not be denied this time, as the four-year-old son of hot sire Harbor the Gold led at every call to draw off by 4 1/2 lengths in a final time of 1:48 flat. Tres Hombres' Senor Roja, a four-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Out of Place-Detect, got up for second place. Finishing just a neck behind him was Victor George Bahna Jr.'s oft stakes-placed Rooster City. The four-year-old Kentucky-bred son of City Zip-Hasty Arrival had finished just a head behind winner Winning Machine in the 2009 Emerald Derby. Assessment faded to sixth. Noosa Beach gave jockey Ricky Frazier his sixth stakes win of the meet,
"Noosa Beach is just a classy horse," said Frazier. "He just makes my job a whole lot easier."
The fifth stakes win for trainer Doris Harwood at the 2010 meet, the twice Washington champion was bred by the Harwoods out of Julia Rose, a daughter of Basket Weave which they also bred, but no longer own. (Noosa Beach's half-sister is consigned to the WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale next month by Bar C Racing Stables, who stand Harbor the Gold at their Oregon nursery). Noosa Beach bettered his record to 8-3-2 from 14 starts and has earned $244,340.
Musical Flight
Clair Annette winning
the Boeing Handicap.
(Reed Palmer Photography)  | The 1 1/16-mile Boeing Handicap is also a "preview" race, as it comes three weeks before the nine-panel $75,000 Emerald Distaff, also contested on Mile day.
This year's edition featured six older fillies, including Pretty Katherine, who had been running in graded stakes in Southern California, most recently at Hollywood Park; and Kimmyv, who was coming off a 6 1/2-length allowance victory at Churchill Down in May.
Little distinguished the two out-of-staters and hometown girl Clair Annette in the betting pools, with Kimmyv going off the slight favorite of the trio. Barbara's Love broke first and led through the half-mile with fractions of :23.60 and :46.60. After maintaining just off the pace of the early leader, Clair Annette and rider Kevin Krigger opened a clear lead near the quarter pole and held off Gadget Queen's bid to win the race by 1 1/14 lengths. Her final race time was 1:43.40. John and Maryanski's Gadget Queen, a six-year-old Washington-bred stakes winner by Flying With Eagles out of Knights Fantasy, held off a courageous Barbara's Love, by a nose, as the California-bred daughter of Benchmark-Oh No It's You finished 1 1/2 lengths the better than fourth place Kimmyv.
"I gallop this mare every day, and my goal is to get her to relax," said Krigger. "I told Connie (Bouslaugh), if she goes 23 seconds in the first quarter, start jumping up and down and counting the (money). I counted 23 seconds in my head, so it didn't bother me that (Barbara's Love) took the lead. I never doubted Clair Annette's routing ability. She is just a pleasure to ride."
At seven years old, Nina Egbert's homebred Clair Annette may just be in her prime. Unraced at two and three, the Washington-bred half-sister to two-time Washington champion Makors Mark, was Emerald's claimer of the meet in 2008. Last year, the Bouslaugh-trained mare won half of her four starts, both stakes, and earned $46,428. In her four outings this year, Clair Annette has won two stakes and run third in two others, earning $67,820 to give her a lifetime record of 10-1-3 from 20 starts and earnings of $174,883.
Winter Star
Winter Warlock winning
the Premio Esmeralda.
(Kristy Batie photo)  | Winter Warlock became the first stakes winner for freshman sire Demon Warlock when the two-year-old gelding went gate-to-wire to take the $50,000 Premio Esmeralda on August 8. He is also the first winner and stakes horse - Winter Warlock had finished second in the Northwest Stallion Strong Ruler Stakes in July - for the 2004 Washington horse of the year.
Six juvenile male runners took to the field for the six-furlong Premio Esmeralda. Winter Warlock, ridden by Kevin Krigger and trained by Tim McCanna, broke alertly, racing through early fractions of :22.40, :45.40 and :57.40. As they reached mid-stretch race favorite Seattle Sniper made his bid, but could not get by the winner in the drive as Winter Warlock held on to win by three-quarters of a length. Final race time was 1:09.80. Seattle Sniper, a Kentucky-bred son of Strong Hope out of Emerald champion Taste the Passion - dam of Emerald champions Smarty Deb and Shampoo - who races for C & M Racing and Northwest Farms LLC, prevailed by 3 1/4 lengths over Gdanz Xpress. Bred and owned by Vital Signs Stables, the Washington-bred son of Liberty Gold-Polish Vodka had also finished third in the Strong Ruler Stakes.
Washington-bred Winter Warlock is out of the stakes-winning Mr. Easy Money mare Royal Snowflight. The new stakes winner is owned by Spokane residents Tim Floyd and James Broussard and Horseplayer Racing Club 032. Floyd also bred Winter Warlock and is one of the five-person partnership that stands his sire at Allaire Farms. Winter Warlock has two wins and one second from a trio of starts and has earned $35,230.
Hurricane Carrabelle
Carrabelle Harbor winning the Angie C. Stakes.
(Kristy Batie photo)  | Carrabelle Harbor might be something special. The blazed-face filly was named after a harbor on the Carrabelle River in the small Florida town of Carrabelle, home of "the world's smallest police station." Carrabelle is located on the Gulf of Mexico side of the state, in the panhandle, between the Saint George Sound and the Apalachicola National Forest.
The often hurricane hit Carrabelle's namesake filly went off as the even-money favorite in the $50,000 Angie C. Stakes after her stellar victory in the Northwest Stallion Knights Choice Stakes. For her second start, the Oregon-bred filly was never headed as she and rider Ricky Frazier drew off with fractions of :21.80, :45.40 and :57.80 to record an impressive 9 1/4-length victory. Final race time in the six-furlong race was 1:10.40.
"Racing wise, she was absolutely perfect. She broke sharp and switched leads when I asked her to," said Frazier, who was notching his record 69 stakes victory at Emerald.
In a photo for second, Homestretch Farm Inc. and R & R Warren LLC's The Gang and I, a Washington-bred daughter of You and I-R C Gangster, finished a neck in front of Oakcrest Farm LLC and Ernie and Diane Burgess' Wings of Pegasus, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Include-Bold Pegasus. Iforgottobeme finished another neck back in fourth place in the field of seven.
Carrabelle Harbor is the fourth consecutive Angie C. winner trained by Doris Harwood and increased the all-time leading Emerald stakes-winning conditioner's tally to 46.
One of three 2010 stakes winners for Oregon leading sire Harbor the Gold, Carrabelle Harbor was bred and races for Pam and Neal Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stable and Doak and Melodie Walker's Desert Rose Racing LLC. The filly is a full sister to 2008 Oregon champion Catalina Harbor, and their dam Silver City Lilly, by Tiffany Ice, is a full sister to Oregon champion distaffers Silver Patrona and Corona Del Hielo. |
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Other Emerald News
According to a story written by Nick Rousso in the August 6, 2010, Daily Racing Form, Quarter Horse racing maybe on the agenda for the 2011 season at Emerald Downs. As a means to that end, Emerald, in collaboration with John Deere & Company, would host a 350-yard challenge race for Quarter Horses in late September.
While plans to add the short distance specialists to regular race cards is still tentative, interest has been gaining momentum and there is ample room in the barn area to accommodate the extra runners.
"We're considering having some Quarter Horse races here next year, so we've put out some feelers and the response has been good," said Emerald vice president Jack Hodge Jr.
In order for Quarter Horses to compete at Emerald on a regular basis, the timing of races would have to be adjusted. Currently, Emerald only times its races in fifth of a second increments. Quarter Horse races are timed in hundredths and in some cases thousands of a second increments. Also, Quarter Horse race timing starts the moment the starting gate springs open, while Thoroughbred race timing at the Auburn track currently begins when the lead horse triggers a sensor shortly after the start.
"There's no run-up in Quarter Horse races, so we've got some mechanical work to do," said Hodge. "But if we get enough interest, we'll make an attempt to address all the distances next year." |
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Other Racing News The first three finishers in the Treasure State Futurity run at Great Falls on August 1 all have Washington connections. Winner Won Lucky Cobra, by Cobra King is out of Tinsel Girl, a daughter of Black Mackee. Washington-breds Chanzonenightstand (Our Boy Harvey-Rock and Roll Ruby, by Rubiano) and Swift Kitty (Katowice-Early Light, by Majestic Light) finished second and third in the 5 1/4-furlong race.
Six-year-old Wind Storm got up just in time to win the $48,626 British Columbia Distaff Handicap run at Hastings Racecourse on August 2. The multiple stakes-winning daughter of Woodstead Farm's He's Tops out of Regal Action, by Regal Remark, has won 10 races and earned $220,176 for her owner/breeder George Gilbert. David Forster trains the B.C.-bred mare.
Temple City, the five-year-old son of Dynaformer who scored his initial stakes triumph in the $125,000 Cougar II Handicap (G3) at Del Mar on July 30 is out of Curriculum, a daughter of Danzig who is a half-sister to Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat.
Dr. George Todaro, John Carver, Halo Farms and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's Dakota Phone, a five-year-old gelded son of Zavata-World of Gold, by Spinning Gold, won the $200,000 San Diego Handicap (G2) at Del Mar on July 31. It was the Kentucky-bred's fifth win and upped his earnings to $583,810. Up north at Santa Rosa on the same day, Todaro, Mary Jo Amlie and Hollendorfer's Christmas Ship got up in the final strides to win the $50,000 Luther Burbank Stakes. The six-year-old Florida-bred daughter of Montbrook-Show Your Pride, by Silver Deputy, who has now earned $267,870, is a half-sister to Todaro's $701,224 Grade 2 stakes winner Trickey Trevor, who stands at Allaire Farms and whose first foals are weanlings. On the same card, Mark Dedomenico LLC, John Carver and Hollendorfer's two-year-old Kentucky-bred filly Alec's Moon won a six-furlong maiden special weight race by 5 1/2 lengths. Alec's Moon is a daughter of Malibu Moon-Bello Cielo, by Conquistador Cielo.
Former Washington sire Snowbound, who is now being used mainly as a Quarter Horse sire in California, is the sire of Snowbound Jeffrey, a two-year-old Quarter Horse runner who ran second in the $25,000 California Breeders Freshman Stakes at Los Alamitos on July 31. Snowbound is also the damsire of three-year-old Thoroughbred filly Awintersdream, who finished third in the $50,000 Sierra Starlet Handicap on August 1. Awintersdream, by Suave Prospect, is out of Snowbound's stakes-winning daughter Snowbound N Delmar.
On August 7, two-year-old Sherriff Cogburn, a colt by Vindication, won the $60,000 Prairie Meadows Juvenile Stakes. The new stakes winner is out out Woodstead Farm's You and I's stakes-winning daughter Sweet Nanette.
Malibu Kitten, a three-year-old West Virginia-bred daughter of Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat-Malibu Moment, by Malibu Moon, won a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Charles Town Races by four lengths on July 30. She was one of six new winners for her sire from July 29-August 1. First-time starter Lord Parker, a three-year-old West Virginia-bred out of Merry Mary K, by Lord Parham won at Charles Town Races; two-year-old filly Whatsnottolike, a Maryland-bred daughter of Calling Fappiano, by Cryptoclearance, won a $40,000 maiden claimer at Philadelphia Park; four-year-old Maryland-bred gelding Storm Cat Valay, out of Silent Valay, by Carnivalay, won at Charles Town Races; three-year-old filly Catamaran, a Pennsylvania-bred daughter of Lullaby's Melody, by Ziggy's Boy, won at Philadelphia Park; and three-year-old New York-bred Lady Templar, out of Tejano's Coneja, by Tejano, won at Finger Lakes. The following weekend, Ben's Cat remained unbeaten after winning his fourth race, a seven-furlong allowance/$20,000-$25,000 optional claiming race, by four lengths at Laurel Park on August 7. The three-year-old Maryland-bred son of Parker's Storm Cat-Twoox, by Thirty Eight Paces, has earned $62,460. |
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WTBOA Board Member Todd Havens Resigns Spokane horseman Todd Havens has resigned from the WTBOA board of directors, stating family matters and a decreased involvement in the Thoroughbred industry as the reasons for his departure. As his position was not due to come up for re-election until the end of 2011, the board will decide on his replacement at the next board meeting.
Havens bred 2005 Washington champion two-year-old colt and Gottstein Futurity winner Schoolin You and has two yearlings entered in the September WTBOA sale, one in partnership with fellow board member and Spokane neighbor Char Clark. |
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2010 Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale The two-day Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale, held on August 2 and 3, cataloged 202 premier yearlings. Among those sold were two with close Washington ties.
Hip 18, a filly from the first crop of Metropolitan Handicap (G1) winner Corinthian and out of Washington-bred and 2002 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale graduate Brooklynsangel, was purchased by Team Valor for $130,000. A half-sister to two-time Grade 1 winner Toccet, Brooklynsangel is the dam of Grade 2-placed Tiny Woods.
Ours, who sold as Hip 30 for $150,000 to MSTS, 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 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. |
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What's Your Name? It has recently come to our attention that there could be a bit of confusion between Washington champion and WTBOA sales graduate Ladyledue and Ladyledo, who won a maiden special weight race at the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show this past June. Both are four-year-old Washington-bred fillies. The more prominent Ladyledue, who earned nearly $150,000, is by Slewdledo and out of Washington broodmare of the year Exploded's Girl, by Exploded. Ladyledo is a daughter of Zayzoom-Harbour Point, by Slewdledo.
Also escaping The Jockey Club's attention were Washington-breds and WTBOA Sales graduates 2010 stakes-winning juvenile Couldabinthewhisky, a gelding by Harbor the Gold-Bahati, by Wolf Power (SAf), and Cuddabinthewhiskey, a 2003 gelding by Free At Last out of Late Night Martini, by Three Martinis, who was last seen winning at Grande Prairie in early August.
When The Jockey Club was queried about the two "Lady" fillies, we were told the near duplicates had slipped in under their radar, but since both had started, a change in name couldn't be processed. We are assuming it would be the same case for the two "Whiskey" runners.
These instances brought to mind the full brothers Snipledo (Washington horse of the year and $409,905 earner) and his nine-years younger full brother Snip Le Deux, who failed to win in nine starts. Both are offspring of Slewdledo out of Northwest Snipper, by Canadian Gil.
Since each of the "duplicate" names is pronounced identical to the other, the moral to the story is always check "the fine print." |
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