WASHINGTON THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS AND OWNERS ASSOCIATION
 
Gate-to-Wire Newsletter
News from the WTBOA
November 22, 2010
 
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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

[email protected] 

 

Sunday, December 12, 2010

OREGON CHAMPIONSHIP DAY and

BEST OF OREGON FAIR AND BREW FEST

(503) 285-9144

[email protected]

 

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

[email protected]

 

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

[email protected]

 

Saturday, February 19, 2011

WASHINGTON ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET
Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA

(253) 288-7878
[email protected]

 

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Update on Atta Boy Roy

Hi Wa.TB.,
  Wanted to let you know that Atta Boy Roy did NOT sustain any ligament damage in the Breeders' Cup Sprint. That report came from the onsite track vet, who also applied the suspensory boot before I could reach my horse, on track. It was a quick diagnosis, as they are pressed to handle emergencies on Breeders' Cup day rapidly and efficiently. This diagnosis was incorrect. When we got Roy off the van I removed the boot with four Breeders' Cup vets and Roy's regular vet in attendance. We could not find any apparent injury to Atta Boy Roy (other than a small cut on a hind ankle) or ascertain any post-race distress. He cooled out normally and was also cold and tight the next a.m., as well as sound at a jog in the shed row. We can only speculate as to the nature of his distress during the race but believe that when he was bumped hard, he interfered, cross fired and stung himself enough to affect his performance temporarily. He did sustain a  small cut inside of his left hind ankle which was tender. Unfortunate, yes, considering what was at stake, but will return to racing after his long ago, planned vacation.

  We  arrived home in Phoenix, AZ, last night (10 /11), but Roy will be going to the track tomorrow to jog. I am going to let him down a little here at Turf Paradise, then turn him out for a well deserved rest.

  We want to thank everyone for their AMAZING support of both Roy and me and hope we can go back next year and have a little more racing luck on the big day.

  Regards,

  Valorie Lund

WTBOA Sales Grads in the News

  Three-year-old Washington Bridge won the $50,000 Life Is Sweet Stakes run at HollywoodPark on November 12. 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. WashingtonBridge has earned $131,089 for Mark Dedomenico LLC and Jerry Hollendorfer. Allen and Susan Branch's It Tiz, a three-year-old daughter of Tiznow-Star of the Woods, ran second in the 1 1/16-mile stakes and Jack and Ivor Jones' homebred Point of Reference finished third. Point of Reference is a multiple stakes-placed Washington-bred daughter of Benchmark-It's Stevie Time who has earned $168,697 and has a record of 5-4-6 from 19 starts lifetime.

  R.E.V Racing's Antarian, a two-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Aldebaran-Ski Seattle, by Seattle Slew, who was purchased from Dr. Duane and Sue Hopp's Castlegate Farm consignment at the 2009 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale, finished second in a $50,000 maiden claiming race at Churchill Downs on November 4. The Valorie Lund trainee was ridden by Calvin Borel in the six-furlong race.

 Twelve-year-old Shandra Smiles, bred to Tale of the Cat, was a $150,000 RNA at the recent Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. The stakes-winning Cahill Road mare is the dam of two-time Grade 1 stakes winner Smiling Tiger, a 2008 WTBOA summer sale graduate. Also during the Keeneland marathon, a weanling colt by Sharp Humor out of Anotherbusride (a full sister to WTBOA September sale graduate, Grade 1 stakes winner and 2001 Washington horse of the year Tali'sluckybusride, both sired by Delineator) was the second highest offering of the November 19 session, being purchased for $50,000 by Silver Oaks Farm. The day's highest-priced offering, Iqbaal, a four-year-old stakes-placed son of Medaglia d'Oro, was purchased by Wesley Ward.
Latest from Portland Meadows

  Portland Meadows featured three Thoroughbred races in mid-November. The $15,000 Lassie Stakes for two-year-old fillies was the first offered, on November 15. A field of seven went forward in the 5 1/2-furlong stakes race. Race favorite G its Late, who had bumped at the start with Renaissance Queen, took the early lead but gave way after the half mile marker. Meanwhile Renaissance Queen, rider by Javier Matias, was content to bid her time off the pace of the early leaders. During the final furlong Matias urged his mount to the front where she prevailed by a nose over her stablemate, Margaret Root's Chick Power, an Oregon-bred daughter of Seattle Shamus-Happy Chick. Finishing 3 3/4 lengths back in third place was Rogelio S. Gonzalez's Basin Gold, an Oregon-bred filly by Harbor the Gold out of Misty Medo. Final race time was 1:06.50 over a wet fast track. G its Late finished fifth.

  Renaissance Queen, who is owned by Dan Warden's Gate 2 Wire Racing, broke her maiden in a $30,000 claiming race at Emerald Downs in July and the California-bred daughter of Benchmark-Renaissance Woman, by Deputy Minister, improved her race record to 2-1-1 from five starts and she has earned $23,965. Warden and trainer Ben Root had also teamed to win the 2009 Lassie stakes with Shame On Rosie, who was later named Oregon champion two-year-old filly. Both Renaissance Queen and Chick Power are trained by Root.

  In the first of two stakes held on November 17, a field of six two-year-old colts and geldings set forth with the goal to win their first stakes race in the $15,000 Dennis Dodge Memorial Stakes. The fans selected Mark Dedomenico's Golden Gate ship-in El Gaucho, at .40-to-one, as their choice and they were proved right as the Kentucky-bred colt took command inside the quarter pole to draw off and take the 5 1/2-furlong race by 2 3/4 lengths over a sloppy track. Ridden by Joe Crispin, the Jerry Hollendorfer-trained runner finished the race in 1:05.50. Ed Zenker and trainer Pat Mullen's Cresent McGain, a Washington-bred son of You and I-Have'n a Lark, finished a nose in front of Margaret Root's Shamundi, an Oregon-bred gelding by Seattle Shamus-Anima Mundi (Ire).

  El Gaucho, who had won a maiden special weight race at Santa Rosa in August, improved his record to 2-0-1 from five starts. The son of Smoke Glacken-Baby Betty, by El Corredor, has earned $29,582.

  Mullens, Zenker and partner R.A. Larson's Bijou Barrister proved formidable as the four-year-old gelding scored his second consecutive stakes win, after taking a $10,000 Invitational Handicap in October, in the $15,000 Mt. Hood Handicap. Also ridden by Crispin, Bijou Barrister raced near the back of the pack for the first half-mile. As the field of seven runners immerged into the lane, the winner drew off to take the mile test by 5 1/2 lengths in a time of 1:38.61. Jim Gilmour's seven-year-old Stealth Attack, a Washington-bred son of Flying With Eagles-Sarna, outfinished Ron Crockett's Inaugural Handicap winner Carry On John, a Kentucky-bred son of Boundary-Carrie Can, by a neck.

  Bred by the Doris Konecny and her late husband John's Washington-based Czech-Mate Stable, Bijou Barrister (Tribunal-On the Big Screen, by Chequer) improved his record to 11-4-4 from 21 starts. Unraced at two, the Mullens' trainee has earned $44,557 of his $61,422 total this year.

  The second annual Portland Meadows $20,000 XpressBet Jockey Challenge will be held on Monday, November 29. Joe Crispin, Javier Matias, Mark Anderson and Troy Still will represent the Oregon oval while Team Southern California will consist of Joel Rosario, Joe Talamo, David Flores and Martin Pedroza. Among the features for the day will be an autograph session/meet and greet with the jockeys, free parking and admission, a $12 club house buffet and a $25,000 guaranteed pick 4 on the four ExpressBet Jockey Challenge races.
Other News

  Frank Lucarelli-owned and -trained Michael the Man won the $25,000 Jack Coady Sr. Stakes, a mile turf race, at Turf Paradise on November 13. The three-year-old Kentucky-bred gelding by Wild and Wicked-Stormy Senorita, by Storm Boot, who finished sixth in the Pepsi-Cola Handicap at Emerald Downs in June, has won three races and earned $42,950.

  Dr. George Todaro's homebred Cell Line Forever, a three-year-old California-bred daughter of Globalize-Three Tee Three, by Silver Deputy, finished third in the $25,000 Chandler Stakes, a mile race run over Turf Paradise's turf course on November 13. Four days later Todaro, John Carver and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's Seismic Speed, a two-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Gone West-Shake Off, by A.P. Indy, won a mile maiden special weight race over Golden Gate's turf course by 2 1/4 lengths. Todaro also won the third race on the card with five-year-old Bimbo Magic, a five-year-old California-bred daughter of Alymagic.

  Glorious Noah, the four-year-old Japanese-bred colt who took the 1,600-meter Tokyo Chunichi Sports Hai Musashino Stakes (G3) - a race which grossed over $880,000 - at Tokyo race course on November 14, is out of Love Robbery, by Jade Robbery. Love Robbery's dam, stakes winner Crystal Rail, is a half-sister to Washington champion Loto Canada and stakes-placed Miss Actress.
In Memoriam

Eric Longden

  Eric Longden, 67, trainer son of National Racing Hall of Fame jockey and later classic-winning trainer Johnny Longden, died on November 8, 2010, at his home in Carlsbad, California, of ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. Eric was born on May 7, 1943, in Jamaica, New York, to Johnny and Hazel Longden, only six days after his father had won the Kentucky Derby aboard eventual Triple Crown winner Count Fleet.

    Eric was one of three members of his family to train stakes winners at Longacres. His father also rode Longacres Mile winners Harpie (1962) and Viking Spirit (1964) at the former Renton track. Eric's half-brother Vance conditioned 1967 Mercer Girls Stakes winner Royal Sue. Both Johnny and Vance died in 2003.

 Eric saddled the first winner of his 326 winners on March 9, 1977, at Golden Gate Fields. Among the13 stakes winners Eric trained were Washington champion handicap horses Boy Tike (1978) and Tilt the Balance (1979) - who finished second in the 1979 Longacres Mile and third in the 1980 Mile; 1974 British Columbia Handicap winner Follow the Win; 1979 Fashion Handicap winner Chic N' Ruler and 1979 Everett Handicap winner Feather Bow. He also was the co-breeder of multiple stakes winner Kat Krazy and owned and trained $197,865 stakes winner Midnight Ice before retiring from training in 1991.

  After his retirement from racing, he owned restaurants and bars in the Carlsbad area.

  Eric is survived by his wife of 25 years, Sue; and sister, Andrea.

 

Robert M. Peek

  Bob Peek, 82, died on October 31, 2010. Born in Seattle to Lloyd and Margaret Peek in 1928, Bob attended Maple Leaf Elementary and LincolnHigh School before attending the University of Washington.

    Bob loved and excelled in many sports, especially basketball, where he played guard. In 1945, while attending Lincoln High, he played during the first year Seattle high schools were allowed to participate in the state basketball championship tournament. Lincoln High won that year and Bob was chosen all-city and all-state after he broke the scoring record for any single game. He also played varsity basketball during his freshman year at the UW.

  Bob married Geraldine Morrison on May 27, 1955, and they had three children.

  Once out of school Bob went to work for Northern Life Insurance Company, but later joined the family bowling business at Kenmore Lanes.

  A former WTBOA member, Bob bred and raced many good runners, including his homebred Eagletarr, who was named 1976 Washington champion two-year-old colt after winning the Arch Ward and Washington Stallion stakes. The son of Eager Eagle also placed in the Hawthorne Juvenile Stakes and both the Gottstein and Arlington-Washington futurities and was ranked on the national Experimental Free Handicap. Eagletarr later stood at Peek's Classic Farms in Monroe.

  Bob spent the last 20 winters in Arizona and loved the time he spent with his siblings there, as well as time spent on the golf course.

  Bob was preceded in death by his wife, Geraldine; parent, Lloyd and Margaret Peek; and brother and sister-in-law, Douglas and Marilyn Peek. He is survived by his daughter, Susan (Paul) Burton; and sons, Jeffrey Peek and Brad (Kathy) Peek; grandchildren, Christie (Henry) Hurd, Andrea (Ben) Abel-Bey, Brandi (Jeremy) Hopfe, Lindsy (Shawn) Pettibone, Tyler Burton, Jake Peek and Robert Lee; seven great-grandchildren; his brother, Dan (Virginia) Peek; and sister, Joanne (Robbie) Robertson.

 

Stakes Winner and Multiple Stakes Producer Miss Manito

  Stakes winner and multiple stakes producer Miss Manito was euthanized on November 8, 2010, due to failing health. The daughter of Black Mackee-Pretty as Picture, by Extenuate, was 21.

  Bred by Jim Seabeck, Miss Manito won the Sweetheart Handicap at Playfair as a four-year-old while racing for the late J.C. Marshall. During her four-year race career she won 13 races and placed ten other times in her 33 lifetime starts. She earned $50,084. Miss Manito was one of 41 stakes winners (an amazing 12 percent from foals) for Black Mackee, a stakes-winning son of Captain Courageous and was one of six winners out of 19-race winner Pretty as Picture, who earned $84,050.

  Miss Manito produced her first six foals for Marshall, including California stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Miss Pixie, who won eight races and earned $301,619; $97,980 stakes winner Peters Punkin; Emerald Downs juvenile stakes-placed Miss Mariah; and $104,260 earner Morn n' Mist. Her next three foals were bred by Guy Roberts. All of Miss Manito's first nine foals were sired by Petersburg and all became winners. Through November 9, they had won 43 races and earned $658,552.

  Miss Manito was purchased by Tim Floyd in December of 2006 and moved to Floyd's Warlock Stables in Spokane. Beginning in 2008, she produced three fillies for Floyd, all sired by his Washington champion Demon Warlock. Her final foal, named Missing Manito, was foaled on April 15, 2010.