WASHINGTON THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS AND OWNERS ASSOCIATION
 
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News from the WTBOA
September 9, 2010
 
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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.
 
2010 WTBOA Summer Yearling Session Average Rebounds with Nearly 30% Increase
  Many breeders were wearing smiles and felt hopeful that maybe things are starting to come around in the Thoroughbred industry after the 44th annual Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale held on Tuesday, September 7 at the Morris J. Alhadeff Sales Pavilion. Though the summer yearling session sold only 80 yearlings, down from 102 offered in 2009, the average and median were significantly up from the previous year. Another good sign was that the percentage of RNAs (reserves not attained) and outs both dropped. This year's summer yearling session showed an average increase of 25.1% ($10,405), while the median gained 27.8% to $5,750. The session only had four (3.4%) outs, down from the 7.3% in 2009. The RNA figure, at 30.4%, was the lowest in three years. 
  Topping the sale was Hip 105, a lovely chestnut filly from the first crop of champion grass horse and $5.3-million earner English Channel which was purchased by Todd and Shawn Hansen for $80,000. Longtime industry members, the Hansens own Scatter Creek Training Center in Tenino. The filly was consigned by Griffin Place LLC, as agent. Based in Buckley, Terry and Mary Lou Griffin's Griffin Place consigned three of the six top-selling yearlings. 
  Hip 71, a powerful-looking full brother to 2009 Washington champion two-year-old colt or gelding Hollywood Harbor was the highest-priced colt. Consigned by his breeders, Pam and Neal Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stables Inc. out of Hermiston, Oregon, the son of Harbor the Gold out of stakes winner Miss Slewette was purchased by Frank L. Gaunt of Eatonville for $56,000.
  The third highest-priced yearling, Hip 99, is a son of champion and leading sire Bertrando who was consigned by the Spokane-based Char Clark Thoroughbreds, as agent. From the immediate family of Washington champion Schoolin You, the striking colt was purchased for $45,000 by Mona Hour of Bellevue.
  It has been a banner year for former WTBOA-sold yearlings, led by the exploits of Grade 1-winning three-year-old Smiling Tiger and Grade 2 stakes winners Atta Boy Roy and City to City. Both Smiling Tiger and Atta Boy Roy are being geared for further action in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1), which will be held at Churchill Downs in early November.
 
Top Yearlings Sold 
Hip, Sex, Pedigree , Consignor), Buyer, Price
 
Hip 105, Filly, English Channel-Time for Magic, (Griffin Place LLC, Agent), Shawn & Todd Hansen, $80,000
Hip 71, Colt, Harbor the Gold-Miss Slewette, (Bar C Racing Stables Inc., Agent), Frank L. Gaunt, $56,000
Hip 99, Colt, Bertrando-Striking Scholar, (Char Clark Thoroughbreds, Agent), Mona Hour, $45,000
Hip 56, Filly, Smarty Jones-Lasting Code, (Northwest Farms LLC, Agent), Lane's End Bloodstock, $37,000
Hip 6, Filly, Delineator-Best Judgement, (Griffin Place LLC, Agent), Ron Crockett Inc., $36,000
Hip 26, Colt, Holy Bull-Courtroom Charmer, (Griffin Place LLC, Agent) , John & Janene Maryanksi, $34,000
 
  This year for the first time the summer yearling and former winter mixed sale sessions were combined into one sale. Following the 115 summer yearlings through the auction ring were 37 mixed and paddock session yearlings, nine mares, two weanlings, four horses of racing age and one stallion share. Two yearlings, which each brought $8,000, topped the mixed portion of the sale. Hip 120, a half-sister to two-time 2010 Emerald Downs stakes-winning two-year-old Couldabenthewhisky, also from the Bar C consignment, was purchased by Joe Kitchen of Sumner; and late entry, Island Rainbow - a daughter of Ministers Wildcat who sold as Hip 175 - was purchased by John and Janene Maryanski of Auburn.
  Complete results of the 2010 WTBOA Sale are available on the WTBOA's website at washingtonthoroughbred.com. The WTBOA is located on the grounds of Emerald Downs racetrack in Auburn, Washington.
 
Thank you to all of the buyers and consignors
 from
 "the litte sale company the could" -
Best wishes and good racing!
 
WTBOA Sales Graduate in the News
  Canary Diamond, a four-year-old daughter of Alphabet Soup out of 2000 Washington turf horse, WTBOA sales graduate and graded stakes winner Classy Cara, by General Meeting, won a 1 1/16-mile allowance race at Monmouth Park on September 5. The half-sister to $295,551 stakes winner Classy Charm has earned $122,372 for Stronach Stables.
Walla Walla Labor Day Race Meet
  The final Washington fair race meet of the year occurs during the Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days, which runs from September 1-5. One of nine meets making up the Blue Mountain Circuit, the Walla Walla fair conducted 27 races over three days, September 3-5. Twenty of the races were for Thoroughbred runners. Among the seven Quarter Horse races run were two stakes, the Dick Monahan Memorial Stakes, won by Call Me a Yankee; and the richest race of the meet, the $3840 Chet Young Memorial Quarter Horse Futurity taken by Shez Pretty Awesome. Trainer Bill Hoburg had the one-two finishers in the Futurity, as Kimz Hucklebery Hank finished a head back in the 250-yard race.
  Bill Hof topped the trainers' list with five winners at the Southeastern Washington meet. Don Abrahamson saddled three winners. Robert Lawrence, Lee Literal, Hector Magallanes and Donald Young each had two wins.
  Joe Crispin took the rider' title with six wins. Ruben Camacho came in second with five winners. Ashley Zachiere finished third with four wins and Connie Doll and J. Luis Torres each had three race victories.
The annual Walla Walla fair has been offering horse racing since 1863 and is the oldest race meet in the state.
  The final meet of the 2010 Blue Mountain Circuit will be held September 10-11 at Burns, Oregon.
Emerald Downs News
  Racing was cancelled after the fifth race of the eight-race card on September 3 when jockeys refused to ride their mounts in the sixth race, citing what they deemed an unsafe area of the racetrack near the five-eighths pole. The first five races had been run without incident. Howard Belvoir became the third trainer to saddle 500 winners at Emerald Downs when Twilight Memo won the third race on the abbreviated card.
  Jockey Deborah Hoonan-Trujillo rode her 300th winner at Emerald on Memories Forever in the 10th race on September 5.
  As of the September 6, Labor Day card, Ron Crockett and Howard Belvoir lead the 2010 Emerald owners with 14 wins each.
  Washington Cup VII will be run this coming Sunday, September 12. For more information, please go to the Emerald Downs website at emeralddowns.com.
Other Washington Racing News
  Finishing in a dead-heat for third in the $50,823 Hong Kong Jockey Club Handicap run at Hastings Race Course on September 6 was Finality Philly, a three-year-old daughter of Finality out of Lucky Acres' Free At Last's daughter Home Free.
  Two-year-old Shrug took a maiden special weight race at Del Mar on September 5. The $300,000 2009 Keeneland September sale graduate has Washington connections on both sides of his pedigrees. His prominent sire, Medaglia d'Oro, is out of Washington-bred stakes winner Cappucino Bay - bred by Al and Joyce Bell of Montana; and his dam, stakes-placed Babeinthewoods, by Woodman, is a daughter of Grade 1 winner and Washington horse of the year Delicate Vine, bred by Dan Agnew.
  Hard Way Ten, the sophomore filly who finished third in the $100,000 Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar on September 5 for her breeder Herman Sarkowsky, is a daughter of Rock Hard Ten out of two-time Washington champion Youcan'ttakeme, by He's Tops.
  Peter Abruzzo, John Carver, Dr. George Todaro and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's Indian Winter, a son of Indian Charlie-Backroom Blues, by Dixieland Band, dead-heated for third with   Riveting Reason in the $250,000 Del Mar Futurity (G1) run on September 8.
  Private Miracle, a five-year-old daughter of St. Hilaire Thoroughbred Farm's Polish Miner earned her eighth win in 14 starts in a $78,800 allowance/optional claiming race at Monmouth Park on September 6. The New Jersey-bred mare out of Private Smile, by Smile, has earned $186,690.
  Three-year-old Power of Titus, the son of Secret Romeo who won the $50,000 Mackinac Handicap at Pinnacle Race Course on September 4, is out of six-race winner C R Emmaus Road, a 1998 Washington-bred  daughter of Rehaan out of Arbitrage Honey.
  Two-year-old Seastrike, a filly from the first crop of Imperialism, won a six-furlong maiden special weight race at Woodbine on September 5 by 3 1/4 lengths. She is out of stakes-placed Isola Mia, a daughter of Just the Time and full sister to Washington champion Comininalittlehot and stakes winner No Time Flat.
  Miss Dilly, a three-year-old Washington-bred daughter of Game Plan-Catpandu, by Wolf Power (SAf), bred by Linda Swanson, took a six-furlong allowance race at Lethbridge by 4 1/2 lengths on September 5.
  Eleven-year-old multiple Washington-bred stakes winner Lafleur finished second in an allowance at Lethbridge on September 4 in his first start in three months. Midnight Martini, who won the five-furlong race by 3 1/2 lengths, is also a Washington-bred. Bred by Terry and Mary Lou Griffin, the five-year-old gelded son of Slewdledo-Late Nite Martini, by Three Martinis, improved his race record to 8-6-3 from 30 starts and has earned $43,391. Lafleur, who was bred by Earl Crofoot, has 35 wins, 11 seconds and one third in his 49 starts and has earned $203,625.
On a Sadder Note
  Longtime Washington horseman and trainer Allen Hoksbergen passed away on September 9. A memorial service will be held on Friday, September 24 at 3:00 p.m. at the WTBOA Morris J. Alhadeff Sales Pavilion, located at Emerald Downs in Auburn.