WASHINGTON THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS AND OWNERS ASSOCIATION
 
Gate-to-Wire Newsletter
News from the WTBOA
November 4, 2010
 
Calendar

Friday, November 5 -

Saturday, November 6, 2010

BREEDERS' CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Churchill Downs, Lousiville, KY

1 (800) RACECUP; breederscup.com

 

Sunday, November 7 -

Saturday, November 20, 2010

KEENELAND BREEDING STOCK SALE

Lexington, KY

(800) 456-3412

keeneland.com

  

Friday, November 19, 2010

WASHINGTON HORSE RACING

COMMISSION MEETING

Auburn City Council Chambers

25 W. Main, Auburn, WA

(360) 459-6462; whrc.wa.gov

 

Sunday, November 21, 2010

KING COUNTY 4-H HORSE PROJECT

TACK SALE

WTBOA M.J. Alhadeff Sales Pavilion
3220 Emerald Downs Dr.
Auburn, WA

 

Saturday, December 4 -

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

56TH ANNUAL AAEP CONVENTION

Baltimore, MD

(859) 233-0147; aaep.org

 

Monday, December 6 -

Thursday, December 9, 2010

SYMPOSIUM ON RACING AND GAMING

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

(520) 621-5660; ua-rtip.org

  

Friday, December 10, 2010

WTBOA BOARD MEETING

(253) 288-7878

maindesk@washingtonthoroughbred.com 

 

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

2011 BREEDERS' CUP STALLION

NOMINATION DEADLINE

Lexington, KY

(859) 223-5444, (800) RACECUP

breederscup.com

  

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

2010 LATE BREEDERS' CUP FOAL

NOMINATIONS CLOSE

Lexington, KY

(859) 223-5444, (800) RACECUP

breederscup.com

 

Friday, December 31, 2010

NORTHWEST RACE SERIES

NOMINATIONS DUE

(253) 288-7878

maindesk@washingtonthoroughbred.com

 

Monday, January 10 -

Saturday, January 15, 2011

KEENELAND HORSES OF

ALL AGES SALE

Lexington, KY

(800) 456-3412; keeneland.com

 

Monday, January 24 -

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

BARRETTS MIXED SALE

Pomona, CA

(909) 629-3099; barretts.com

 

Monday, January 31, 2011

NORTHWEST RACE SERIES LATE

FEE EXTENSION PAYMENTS DUE

(253) 288-7878

maindesk@washingtonthoroughbred.com

 

Saturday, February 19, 2011

WASHINGTON ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET
Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA

(253) 288-7878
maindesk@washingtonthoroughbred.com

 

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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.

Breeders' Cup World Championship Updates

  Grade 2 stakes winner, Washington champion and WTBOA sales graduate Atta Boy Roy, the sixth Washington-bred to start in a Breeders' Cup World Championship race and first Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) participant, will start from the 11th post position in the field of 12 running on Saturday. Grade 1 stakes winner and WTBOA sales graduate Smiling Tiger will be coming out of the five hole in the six-furlong Sprint.

  Mark Dedomenico and partners Grade 1 stakes winner Blind Luck drew the ten position, in a field of 11, in the Breeders Cup Ladies Classic (G1) on Friday.

   Dr. George Todaro and partners' Grade 2 stakes winner Dakota Phone will begin his journey from the number one spot in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) on Saturday. Mine That Bird drew starting position 11 in the 13-horse field.

   All In Stable's (which includes Jack and Teresa Hodge's Oak Crest Stable) Grade 1-place Willcox Inn, post position seven, will face a dozen others in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G2) on Saturday. Wesley Ward-bred, -trained and co-owned Madman Diaries drew the ten hole. Neither of Ward's other two trainees (Nina Fever and Pleasant Prince) drew into their races.

  Vic Carlson's co-owned Grade 2 stakes winner Musket Man drew the seven hole in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) on Saturday, just to the inside of unbeaten Zenyatta. Mike Pegram and partners champion Lookin At Lucky drew the extreme outside position (12).

   2009 Longacres Mile (G3) runner-up Awesome Gem is the seventh of 12 starters in the Breeders' Cup Marathon (G3) on Saturday.

Other WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News

  Three-year-old Washington Bridge earned her third victory in a mile allowance race at Golden Gate Fields on October 24. The Yankee Gentleman filly is out of WTBOA summer sale graduate and $179,889 multiple stakes winner Stirling Bridge, a daughter of Prized who is also the dam of stakes winner Noble Bandit and graded stakes-placed Fire Path. Washington Bridge has earned $99,108 for Mark Dedomenico LLC and Jerry Hollendorfer.

  Four-year-old Bjiou Barrister, one of the finalists for the 2010 Emerald Downs claimer of the meet, took a $10,000-added Invitational Handicap by one length at Portland Meadows on October 25. A WTBOA winter sale graduate, the Washington-bred by Tribunal-On the Big Screen, by Chequer, sports a 2010 record of 5-3-1 from ten starts and the consistent gelding has lifetime stats of 10-4-4 from 20 outings. Bijou Barrister, who was bred by the Konecny family's Czech-Mate Stable and races for trainer Pat Mullens and partners R.A. Larson and Ed Zenker, won the mile contest by one length in a time of 1:36.27.  Moon Glow Farms, Charles Essex and Dennis Trenkenschuh's six-year-old Olympic Lights, a Washington-bred son of Tropic Lightning-Maria Michele, finished second, a neck in front of Clockwise Racing's four-year-old Overtime Victory, a Kentucky-bred son of Victory Gallop-Hanselina.
Demon Warlock Moved to Roche Farm

  2004 Washington horse of the year and 2010 Washington leading freshman sire Demon Warlock was moved in early November to Roche Farm in Yakima. Owned by Mike Floyd, Mike Nist, Allen Floyd, Keith Briggs and Michael Roche, the $278,335 winning son of Grade I stakes winner Demons Begone out of stakes winner Witchery, by Zamboni, will stand the 2011 season for $1,500 live foal, which includes a $150 booking fee.

  Among Demon Warlock's first five starters are Premio Esmeralda Stakes winner Winter Warlock, who also finished second in a trio of other stakes at Emerald Downs this past summer and has earned $56,437; winner Chasing Demons and placed Demon's Gone Wild.

Other Pacific Northwest News

  Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat had his 36th winner of 2010 when four-year-old maiden Snow Secret Gin, a Maryland-bred gelding out of Secret Snow, won an about 8 1/2 furlong  race at Laurel Park by 5 3/4 lengths on October 21. Nine days later, four-year-old Ben's Cat kept his unbeaten streak in place after the son of Parker's Storm Cat won the nine-furlong $50,000 Find Handicap, for older Maryland-bred runners, at Laurel Park by a nose. The gelding out of Twofox, by Thirty Eight Paces, is now seven-for-seven, including three stakes wins, and has earned $179,460.

    Willcox Inn, the two-year-old son of Harlan's Holiday out of stakes-placed De Aar, by Gone West, who finished third in the October 9 Dixiana Breeders' Futurity (G1) at Keeneland, races for Jack and Theresa Hodge's Oak Crest Farm LLC (25 percent), John Adgar (25 percent), Three Kings Stable (25 percent) and Hillary Pridham, Marette Farrell and trainer Michael Stidham (25 percent) under All in Stable. The colt, who had taken a 1 1/16 -mile maiden special weight race at Arlington Park by 2 3/4 lengths in his first outing.

  At Portland Meadows, John Coonan's Sheen Falls, who was coming into the race off a three-race win streak at Emerald Downs, rallied from off the pace to take the $15,000 Diane Kem Handicap by 1 3/4 lengths over race A.L. Valair's B.C. Cat on October 27. A four-year-old British Columbia-bred daughter of Storm Victory-Diamonds for U B, B.C. Cat had won the October 6 Invitational Handicap by two lengths. Howard Belvoir's four-year-old Perfect Finish, a Washington-bred daughter of Katowice-Share the Knight, was a head behind the race favorite in third place. Final time for the six-furlong stakes for three and up fillies and mares was 1:10.87.  Ridden by Javier Matias and trained by Steve Fisher, Sheen Falls is a five-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Officer-Riffle, by Mr. Prospector, who improved her race record to 6-5-1 from 20 starts and has earned $62,650.

  The $15,000 N.E. "Nub" Norton Memorial Handicap run at Portland Meadows on November 3 went down to the wire as nine-to-one longshot Promiscuous Lad nipped odds-on choice Brickyardtradition to win the mile and 70 yard race by a nose. Ridden by David Lopez, the Ben Root-trained Promiscuous Lad was winning his first stakes after placing in four Portland stakes earlier this year, including a second to Seven Torrents in the $40,000 Oregon Thoroughbred Breeders Derby. Final race time for the race named to honor longtime Pacific Northwest trainer Nub Norton was 1:46.34 over a fast track. Wendell McDaniel's Brickyardtradition, a Kentucky-bred son of Olmodavor-Cincinnatti (Brz) finished 3 1/4 lengths the better of Art McFadden's Getrdonegotrdid, a Kentucky-bred son of Hero's Honor-Way It Should Be in the field of eight sophomore-aged runners. Bred in Oregon by Dr. Jack and Margaret Root, Promiscuous Lad races for the partnership of Margaret "Cookie" Root and Dean and Lois Vogt. Sired by stakes-placed Klinsman (Ire), Promiscuous Lad is out of 2009 Oregon broodmare of the year Forty Romances, a daughter of Forty Niner. Promiscuous Lad improved his record to 2-4-3 from 11 starts and has earned $37,431.

    Al and Saundra Kirkwood's All Due Respect took home $20,000 after finishing second, by a nose, to Go Forth North in the $100,000 Harold C. Ramser Sr. Handicap (G3) run at Oak Tree at Hollywood Park on October 17. The Florida-bred three-year-old filly by Value Plus-Aunt Due, by Devil His Due, has earned $228,432.

  GSR Stables LLC, Mark Dedomenico LLC and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's three-year-old Crazy Good took a six-furlong allowance race at Golden Gate Fields on October 23. The California-bred gelding by Decarchy-Cleverness, by Clever Trick, improved his record to 4-2-0 from seven starts and has earned $89,280. The following day Dedomenico's two-year-old Mr Artistic M D, a Kentucky-bred son of Mr. Greeley-Art Fair, by Air Forbes Won, won a six-furlong maiden special weight, in his first start, at Oak Tree at Hollywood Park. Washington Racing Hall of Famer Kathy Walsh trains the new winner.

  On October 23, Bill Yeagle's Washington homebred Steviedane, a four-year-old filly by Slewdledo out of Rebelle Royale, by Native Prospector, won a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Zia Park by 1 3/4 lengths.

  Boundless Cat, a gelding by Storm Victory-Boundless Colony, by Pleasant Colony, owned by longtime WTBOA sale consignors Brian and Marg Leight and Foster Armstrong, won the $35,000 Walter R. Cluer Memorial Stakes at Turf Paradise on October 23. The four-year-old British Columbia-bred, who was bred by Marg Leight and Helen Klimes, has won six races, including four of six starts this year, and earned $106,368.

  Former Washington Thoroughbred sire Snowbound is the sire of Girlie Man, the two-year-old Quarter Horse gelding who won the 200-yard Invitational Stakes at Los Alamitos on October 29. Three-year-old New Mexico-bred filly Awintersdream, a daughter of Suave Prospect who is out of Snowbound's stakes-winning Washington-bred daughter Snowbound N Delmar, finished third in the $140,000 New Mexico Classic Cup Championship Filly Stakes run at Zia Park on October 31, improving her record to 4-3-2 from 11 starts. She has earned $152,844.

  Five-year-old Little Nick won the $70,000 Basket Weave Stakes, a six-furlong turf race, at Belmont Park on October 10. The race was named to honor New York stakes winner and prominent Washington sire Basket Weave, now pensioned at age 29.