WASHINGTON THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS AND OWNERS ASSOCIATION
 
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September 5, 2010
 
WTBOA Summer Yearling & Mixed Sale
Tuesday, September 7
1:00 p.m.
M. J. Alhadeff Pavilion
Emerald Downs
Auburn, Washington 

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Friday, Saturday & Sunday,
September 3-5, 2010
WALLA WALLA FAIR & FRONTIER DAYS
Walla Walla, WA
(509) 527-3254, race office

Tuesday, September 7, 2010
WTBOA SUMMER YEARLING AND MIXED SALE
M.J. Alhadeff Sales Pavilion
Emerald Downs, Auburn
(253) 288-7878 maindesk@washingtonthoroughbred.com
 
Sunday, September 12, 2010
WASHINGTON CUP VIII
Emerald Downs, Auburn
(253) 288-7000
 
Sunday, September 12, - Sunday,
September 26, 2010
KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE
Lexington, KY (800) 456-3412
keeneland.com
 
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
CTHS (BRITISH COLUMBIA DIVISION) MIXED SALE
Langley, BC, Canada (604) 574-0145
 
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
NOMINATIONS DUE FOR TRUSTEES TO WTBOA BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SALES COMMITTEE
Form to nominate for Board
Form to nominate for Sales Committee
 
Friday September 17, 2010
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING
Auburn City Council Chamber
25 W. Main, Auburn, WA
(360) 459-6462
 
Sunday, September 26, 2010
EMERALD DOWNS CLOSING DAY
Emerald Downs, Auburn
(253) 288-7000
emeralddowns.com
 
Thursday, October 14, 2010
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING

Auburn City Council Chambers
25 W. Main, Auburn, WA
(360) 459-6462
 
Friday, October 15, 2010
WTBOA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
253-288-7878
 
Friday & Saturday, November 5 & 6, 2010
BREEDERS' CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Churchill Downs
Louisville, KY
(859) 223-5444 or 1 (800) RACECUP
 
Sunday, November 7 -
Saturday, November 20, 2010
KEENELAND BREEDING STOCK SALE

Lexington, KY (800) 456-3412
keeneland.com
 
 
Proposal to Modify the Process of Certification of Washington-breds
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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.
 
44th WTBOA Summer Sale Slated for September 7
  The Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association will offer their 44th annual summer sale of Thoroughbreds this coming Tuesday, September 7. This year's annual auction of some of the best yearlings in the Pacific Northwest will have a new twist this year. In addition to the 119 summer sale yearlings, the newly combined sale will feature 41 additional yearlings, nine broodmares, five horses of racing age, three weanlings and one stallion share.
  2010 has been a banner year for former WTBOA sales graduates. Two of the best sprinters in the land, both who are headed for the November 6, Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Churchill Downs are the talented and speedy Smiling Tiger and Atta Boy Roy.
  2008 WTBOA graduate Smiling Tiger won the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes against older runners and has won or placed in six other major California stakes. Dual 2009 Washington champion and 2006 WTBOA graduate Atta Boy Roy, who took the Churchill Downs Stakes (G2) on Derby Day 2010, is headed back to Kentucky for the World Championship Day.
  And one of the best three-year-old fillies in the land, City to City, is Grade 2 stakes winner and 2008 WTBOA sale alumni.
  Among the other highly successful WTBOA-sold runners scoring stakes victories in 2010 are: three-time stakes winner Notoriously, two-time Emerald juvenile stakes winner Couldabenthewhisky, Barbara Shinpoch Stakes winner Lady Golightly and Edmonton Juvenile Stakes victor Mr. Instigator.
  This year's outstanding crop of yearlings include four by hot Pacific Northwest sire Harbor the Gold, including a full brother to 2009 Washington champion Hollywood Harbor. Also cataloged are full or half-siblings to: 2010 Longacres Mile (G3) winner Noosa Beach; Emerald champion racemare and multiple stakes producer Taste the Passion; 2010 stakes winner and WTBOA sales graduate Sis's Sis; Washington champion two-year-old Schoolin You; 2009 Gottstein Futurity winner Koala Beach; 2009 Washington champion two-year-old filly Knight Weaver; three-time 2010 stakes winner Notoriously; and others too many to mention!
  If you want to be part of the racing action, come to "The little sale company that could" - the WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale. Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at the Morris J. Alhadeff Sales Pavilion, located at Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA.
  For more information or a catalog, call or contact WTBOA at 253-288-7878, maindesk@washingtonthoroughbred.com or check out the catalog pages on our website at washingtonthoroughbred.com.
Smiling Tiger Finishes Third in Grade 1 Pat O'Brien Stakes
  2008 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale graduate Smiling Tiger, a $40,000 sale bargain, finished third to El Brujo in the $300,000 Pat O'Brien Stakes (G1) run at Del Mar on August 28. It marked the three-year-old gelding's third Grade 1 placement. The Kentucky-bred son of Hold That Tiger-Shandra Smiles, by Cahill Road, bred by Oregon physician Dr. Rodney Or and trained by Jeff Bonde, has completed exclusively in stakes races since winning his maiden special weight debut by six lengths. The colt has four wins and four thirds in eight starts and has earned $369,864. Smiling Tiger, the $1.80-to-one favorite in his latest stakes effort, had earned back-to-back victories Lazaro Barrera Memorial Handicap (G3) and Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) in his previous two races.
  Bonde is now pointing Smiling Tiger to the November 6 Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Churchill Downs via one of three options: the Ancient Title Breeders' Cup Stakes (G1) at the Oak Tree meet on October 9, where the three-year-old will again meet older runners; the Gallant Bob Stakes on October 9 at Parx Racing (previously known as Philadelphia Park) for sophomores; or coming into the race off works alone.
Other WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News
  2009 Washington champion and multiple 2010 stakes winner Atta Boy Roy, a 2006 WTBOA summer sale alumni, and his regular rider Calvin Borel were showcased in a photo "Atta Boy Roy Worth the Trip" in the August 28, 2010, The Blood-Horse. The photo showed the winning twosome cruising to victory in the Remington Park Sprint Cup on August 21.
  2007 WTBOA September sales graduate Final Judgement, a son of Northern Afleet out of Washington champion two-year-old filly Best Judgement, by Demons Begone, took a six-furlong allowance race at Mountaineer Park on August 30 for Jeffrey Stoddard. The winner of three races and $93,185 was bred in Washington by Mary Lou and Terry Griffin.
  On August 28, two-year-old What's Up Doc, a son of Mutakddim, finished third in the $47,516 Birdcatcher Stakes at Northlands Park.. The Alberta-bred gelding is out of 2002 WTBOA sale graduate Another Lovelysong, a daughter of Slewdledo out of Win the Wind Blows (by Ferdinand), a half-sister to Washington champion Makors Mark and 2010 stakes winner Clair Annette.
  Among the 16 contestants listed as candidates for the November 6 Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) on the "2010 Road to the Breeders Cup" featured in September 2 Thoroughbred Times Today are WTBOA-sold Atta Boy Roy and Smiling Tiger.
Recent Emerald Downs Stakes Results

Kristy Batie photo
Lady Golightly
Longshot Lady
  All but one of the five two-year-old fillies contesting the $50,000 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes run on August 29 had been seen in the winner's circle this summer. The pro-tem leader of the division and .50-to-one race favorite, Carrabelle Harbor, was going for three in-a-row after winning the Northwest Stallion Knights Choice and Angie C. stakes by open margins. The lone non-winner in the group was Lady Golightly, who had placed in both her previous efforts, though had finished third by 13 lengths behind Kids Kooler in her most recent effort.
  Stablemates Carrabelle Harbor and Kids Kooler were out of the gate first and dueled through opening fractions of :23.40, :46.40 and 1:12. Meanwhile, Lady Golightly and apprentice rider Pedro Terrero were content to stay just off the leaders in fourth place. The maiden filly then moved outside through the second turn to reach Kids Kooler, who had taken the lead from the favorite, with a sixteenth to run. Lady Golightly quickly drew off to defeat that rival by 3 1/2 lengths. Kids Kooler, a Kentucky-bred daughter of First Samurai-Bisbee's Prospect who races as a homebred for Northwest Farms LLC,  finished 16 1/4 lengths in front of Oak Crest Farm LLC and Ernie and Diane Burgess's Wings of Pegasus, a Kentucky-bred filly by Include out of Bold Pegasus. Carrabelle Harbor finished another 1 1/4 lengths behind in fourth, but 15 lengths the better of Rossi Reserve in the widely strung-out field. Final race time in the mile event was 1:37.60.
  It was the first stakes win for Terrero, who through the end of August had ridden 54 winners at the meet - the second highest total by an apprentice in Emerald history.
  "The plan was to sit back, because I knew there would be some horses in the race with a lot of speed," said Terrero. "My filly was really relaxed on the backstretch. When I asked her to go at the three-eighths pole, I knew I had a lot of horse. I wasn't sure if I was going to catch the number one (Kids Kooler), because she looked fast up front. I am very happy to get my first stakes win here."
  Lady Golightly, is from the first Washington crop of Grade 1 stakes winner Matty G and is out three-time Canadian stakes winner Lady Beverly, a daughter of Frosty the Snowman. After not obtaining her reserve at the 2009 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale, Lady Golightly's breeders, Terry and Marylou Griffin, partnered with trainer Tom Wenzel and his wife Melissa to race the filly under Lady Golightly Racing. The dark bay Washington-bred filly boosted her earnings total to $29,600 with her convincing win. Wenzel also trained the third place finisher, Seattle Sniper, in the WTBOA Lads two races later.
 
Kristy Batie photo
Couldbenthewhisky
A Whisky Double

  After finishing fifth in the Premio Esmeralda, Couldabenthewhisky rebounded to win his second stakes, and third of four races, in the second half of the August 29 stakes doubleheader, the $50,000 WTBOA Lads Stakes.
  Hayjax broke first out of the gate twice. Once before the start of the mile race, where fortunately the gate handler had kept a tight hold so the half-brother to 2003Washington horse of the year Taiaslew didn't get away, and during the official start. Hayjax and leading rider Ricky Frazier then commenced to lead the field for the first half mile with fractions of :23.60 and :47.60. Near the half-mile post Gallyn Mitchell-ridden Couldabenthewhisky began to make his bid. The gelded son of Harbor the Gold soon opened up a clear lead in the lane and then held off Warlock Stables, Horseplayers Racing Club HRC 032 and James Broussard's Winter Warlock - the Premio Esmeralda winner - to win the race by a half-length in a time of 1:38.80.
  From the first crop of 2004 Washington horse of the year Demon Warlock and out of stakes winner Royal Snowflight, Winter Warlock finished 1 1/2 lengths in front of  C & M Racing and  Northwest Farms LLC's race favorite Seattle Sniper. A son of Strong Hope out of Emerald champion Taste the Passion, the Kentucky-bred Seattle Sniper has quite a legacy to fill at Emerald Downs as he  is a half-brother to two other Emerald champion fillies - Shampoo and Smarty Deb.
  "It was the first time I had ever ridden this colt, so I didn't know what to expect," commented Mitchell. Frazier had been aboard the Bonnie Jenne trainee in his last two outs but was committed to Hayjax. "I thought maybe he was a one-paced speed type, but he showed me today that he could relax. He was doing it so easily that I didn't want him to lose interest, but he pricked his ears at the half-mile post. He showed his toughness and just dug back in."
  Bred by Pam and Neal Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stable, Melodie Bultena and Bill and Carol Ginger, the gelding was purchased for $5,500 at the 2009 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale and races for Bonnie and Wally Jenne's Friendship Stables, Andy Maib's Longshot Racing and Craig and Stanley Frederickson for whom he has earned $49,373. He is the first foal out of the Horse Chestnut (SAf) mare Bahati, whose second foal, a yearling filly by Soft Gold (Brz), will be offered in the September 7 WTBOA sale.

 
Other Emerald News
  Stakes winner and 2007 Emerald sprinter of the meet Westsideclyde, now eight, has been retired from racing after re-injuring an ankle on August 29. The son of Old Topper-Flying Lyon, by Captain Courageous, finishes his career with a record of 7-4-4 from 18 starts. The $144,239 earner raced for Linda Elledge and James Riedinger and has been trained in his last three starts by Martin Pimental. The late Craig Roberts trained "Clyde" when he finished  in the top three in six consecutive stakes in 2008.
  The final Saturday card (September 25) of the 15th Emerald meet, will feature the first Quarter Horse race to be run in track history. The $10,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Dash-John Deere Bonus Challenge is an open 350-yard event.

Peb Raffle
"The Peb Stars of the Turf 50th Anniversary Collector's Portfolio"
  The Peb Stars of the Turf commemorative portfolio features 23 of the famed illustrator's newest works depicting some of the most widely recognized faces and horses of Thoroughbred racing's last 50 years.
   The set of limited prints is available from the Daily Racing Form for $150, but what is unique about the set being raffled is EACH PRINT IS SIGNED BY PEB, making them an extremely valuable collector item!
  Each full color 12 x 16 inch reproduction, printed on fine Strathmore Grande paper and suitable for framing, is enclosed in a high quality blue portfolio with "Peb" spelled in metallic silver lettering on the cover.
  Among the list of works includes portraits of Eddie Arcaro and Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Bob Baffert, Jerry Bailey, Steve Cauthen, Angel Cordero, Jr., Jean Cruguet and Seattle Slew, Pat Day, Bobby Frankel, Julie Krone, Bob and Beverly Lewis, D. Wayne Lukas, Chris McCarron, Laffit Pincay, Jr., Edgar Prado, Jose Santos, Bill Shoemaker, Mike Smith, Gary Stevens, Ron Turcotte and Secretariat, and Marylou Whitney.
  Proceeds to benefit the Scholarship Fund and Backstretch Daycare Learning Center. $10 minimum donation per ticket. Where you can buy a chance to own a bit of racing history: 
  • WHBPA Office, MaryAnn O'Connell, 253-804-6822. Please send a check to PEB DRAWING/ WHBPA, 3702 W Valley Hwy #210, Auburn, WA 98001 by September 24. Include all your contact information and number of tickets requested.
  • Horsemen's Bookkeeper, Jan Baze, 253-288-7760.
  • Monday, September 6, Emerald Downs. Look for the Backstretch ClubHouse Booth near the Margarita Stand!
  • Tuesday, September 7, WTBOA Yearling and Mixed Sale. Raffle Tickets will be available at several locations throughout the sale.
Other News
  Silly Fella, the two-year-old Mass Market colt who finished second in the $47,156 CTHS Sales Stakes run at Hastings Racecourse on August 25, is out of Grey Tobe Free, a stakes-winning daughter of Lucky Acres' Free At Last. In the filly division of the CTHS Sales Stakes, Victorious Vye, the three-year-old daughter of Vying Victor who ran third, is out of Lightning Stitch, a mare by Country Light who is also the dam of Washington-bred stakes winners Northwest Attitude and Light My Ducks. The following day, Nuj Nuj Wink Wink, a two-year-old filly by Finality out of the Free at Last mare Wicca, finished third in the $48,960 Lassie Stakes at the British Columbia track.
  Two Washington-breds added allowance victories to their r�sum�s on August 28 at Golden Gate Fields. In the first race, Jack and Ivor Jones' multiple stakes-placed filly Point of Reference took a 1 1/16-mile allowance/$50,000 optional claiming race on the turf. The four-year-old daughter of Benchmark-It's Stevie's Time, by Quiet American, who is trained by Frank Lucarelli, improved her record to 5-4-5 from 17 starts and has earned $162,001. Three-year-old Summer Excess won the eighth race, a six-furlong allowance, for his breeders Helen Sherry and Billie Klokstad. The Bud Klokstad-trained son of Private Gold-Summer Sails, by In Excess (Ire), has won three of his four starts, with one second, and earned $47,100.
  John Carver, Halo Farms, Dr. George Todaro and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's Grade 2 stakes winner Dakota Phone, a five-year-old gelded son of Zavata-World of Gold, by Spinning World, finished third in the $1-million Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) at Del Mar on August 28, beaten 1 1/4 lengths by winner Richard's Kid. Kentucky-bred Dakota Phone, who earned $120,000 in the 12-furlong race, has now accumulated $703,810.
  Stormy Seattle, who ran third in the $20,000 Mile-Hi Handicap at Yavapai Downs on August 29, was produced out of the Slewdledo mare She'sgotthekey.
  Hawaiian Sky, a six-year-old offspring of Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat,  improved her record to 7-10-6 from 33 starts after she won a six-furlong, allowance/$30,000 optional claiming race at Hoosier Park for owner Maggi Moss on September 3. The Maryland-bred mare out of Abovehawaii, by Great Above.
  Dynaslew, the four-year-old daughter of Dynaformer who won the Ballston Spa Handicap (G2) at Saratoga on August 28 for her breeder Live Oak Plantation, is out of $358,567 stakes winner Slew's Final Answer, a daughter of Seattle Slew bred by Theiline Scheumann's Grousemont Farm. The filly now sports a record of 5-4-0 in 13 starts and has earned $356,852.
  .After finishing third in her first outing, at Arlington Park, Mark Dedomenico's two-year-old colt Theresmyeverything, a New York-bred son of Star Dabbler-Birdie Babe, by Way West (Fr), won a 1 1/16-mile maiden special weight over Saratoga's turf course on September 2.
  Two-year-old Stolen Sagoi, a filly bred in Washington by Laura Pedro, won her first start, a four-furlong allowance race at Grande Prairie on August 20, by five lengths. The new winner is a daughter of Pulse Ranches' Stolen Gold and is out of Sagoi, by Twining.
  On the August 27, at Assiniboia Downs, five-year-old Queen Tina ran third in the $47,315 Distaff Stakes. The daughter f Boaneges is out of Story Book Queen, by Old Stories.