The 2010 Oregon champions were announced and their connections honored at Oregon Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association's annual awards banquet held on March 5, 2011, at Spirit Mountain Casino in Grand Ronde.

  Horse of the year and champion three-year-old colt or gelding honors were earned by Remmah Racing's three-time stakes winner Seven Torrents, who was bred by John Shumate. Dr. Ry and Jo Ann Harwood's homebred Kate Winsalot was named champion two-year-old filly. Shamundi, who is owned by Margaret Root and Dean and Lois Vogt and was bred by Root and her husband Dr. Jack B. Root Jr., earned top two-year-old male honors. Gate 2 Wire Racing LLC's Shame On Rosie, who was also bred by the Roots, was voted the champion three-year-old filly. Mountain Echo, who was bred by Mary Caldwell and Larry Bollman and raced by Dave Ford and Richard Davis, was named champion older distaffer.

  Xpensive Impulse was honored as champion Oregon fair circuit mare and Easter Sonny Boy was given the named her male counterpart.

  Two top Oregon stallions were honored for their 2010 accomplishments. Bar C Racing Stables' Harbor the Gold repeated as leading Oregon sire by money earned. Last year his progeny, which included six stakes winners and six stakes-placed horses, earned $651,327. His son Noosa Beach, who won five stakes races at Emerald Downs including the Longacres Mile Handicap (G3), was named Washington horse of the year and champion older male and his two-year-old Couldabenthewhisky was awarded Washington champion two-year-old honors.

  Deceased Seattle Shamus, who sired two 2010 Oregon champions in Shamundi and Shame On Rosie, was honored as sire of the year, when based on money earned ($190,703) by his Oregon-bred progeny.

   Bar C Racing Stables' Silver City Lilly, dam of 2010 stakes winners Catalina Harbor and Carrabelle Harbor, was named broodmare of the year. Her dam, Crowning Ambition, also a multiple stakes producer, was one of a trio of Oregon mares named to the title in 2006.

  The title of Oregon Champion Oregon-bred Thoroughbred Trainer for 2010 went to Ben Root. His parents Dr. Jack and Margaret "Cookie" Root were named Oregon's leading breeders for the year and were also accorded as Oregon TOBA Award winners for the fifth time consecutively and sixth time overall.

  For more information on the award winners check the OTOBA website at oregontoba.com.

  Dr. Mark Dedomenico, under the banner of his Pegasus Thoroughbreds Training Center in Redmond, is offering  new and novice persons who are interested in exploring Thoroughbred ownership the opportunity to join a new three-horse syndicate. The syndicate, which will consist of 40 shares, with a cost of $2,000 per share, will be comprised of a maiden three-year-old and two two-year-olds.

  Interested parties are invited to attend a syndicate discussion on Sunday, March 27, 2011, at Emerald Downs. To RSVP for the morning event, call (425) 898-1060. For additional information you may call the same number or e-mail info@pegasustrainingcenter.com.

  In other news, on March 3 Dedomenico, Jerry Hollendorfer and John Carver's Final Stand, ridden by Russell Baze, won a mile maiden special weight race at Golden Gate Fields on a half-length. The new winner is a three-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Vindication-Fiscal Year, by Half a Year. The following day, Dedomenico, Hollendorfer and Ed Bloom's first-time starter English Royal, a three-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by Cit Zip-Yes It's Royalty, by Yes It's True, again ridden by Baze, won a six-furlong $32,000 maiden claiming race by nine lengths.

  On March 6, Dedomenico, Barnett Stables Inc., Dr. George Todaro and Hollendorfer's Honour the Deputy finished third in the $80,000 Santana Mile Stakes at Santa Anita. The lightly raced four-year-old Florida-bred son of Honour and Glory-Deputy's Delight, by French Deputy, improved his record to 3-1-1 from six starts and has earned $67,229.

  Dedomenico and Hollendorfer's multiple stakes-winning filly Cathy's Crunches, a three-year-old Florida-bred daughter of West Acre-Miss Atticus, by Atticus, finished second in the $80,500 China Doll Stakes held at Santa Anita on March 13. The filly, who has earned $201,350, has five wins to her credit and has never finished further back then third in ten starts.

  Tychonic Choice, who was bred and consigned by Dr. Jack and Claire Lein's Willow Creek Farm (Griffin Place, agent) to the 2010 WTBOA sale as a two-year-old, earned her second victory in four starts after winning the $10,000 Invitational Handicap at Portland Meadows by a half-length on March 9. The three-year-old California-bred daughter of Sea of Secrets-Tychonica, by Tychonic (GB), who is trained by Nick Lowe and was ridden by Mark Anderson, has earned $9,747 for Susan Calvert.

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  Dwight L. Newman's homebred Hi Ho Cahill, a five-year-old Washington-bred gelding by Cahill Road-Hi Ho Ginger, by Fred Astaire, improved his record to 3-1-1 from five starts after he won a 5 1/2-furlong allowance test at the Arizona track on March 14, pushing the Mike Chambers-trained runner's earnings to $25,320. Finishing second to him in the March race was 2009 WTBOA Summer Sale graduate Tribal Warrior, a California-bred son of Tribal Ruler-Humanist bred by Prisco Vacca who now has two wins and one second in three tries.

  Ron Crockett Inc.'s Eyes On the Prize, a five-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Pure Prize-Run In, by Dynaformer, took a 1 1/16-mile allowance race at Golden Gate Fields on March 6. The Frank Lucarelli trainee has earned $87,993 in her 26-race career.

  Three-year-old Turbulent Descent won her fourth race in five tries when the daughter of Congrats-Roger's Sue, by Forestry, took the $250,000 Santa Anita Oaks (G1) run at Santa Anita on March 5. Among the Florida-bred's owners is Renton resident Steve Zerda. It was the second Grade 1 win for Turbulent Descent, who has earned $528,350 and will reportedly now be heading to east for the a campaign that includes the Grade 1 Acorn and Test stakes in New York.

  2009 Washington horse of the year Reba Is Tops added another $9,558 to her totals after finishing third by about a length in the $93,150 Clocker's Corner Handicap on March 5. Owned by Kenny Marshall, Gordy Jarnig and Eric M. Schweiger and bred by Rich and Ann Richardson, the seven-year-old daughter of Woodstead Farm's He's Tops-Miss Kyama, by Present Value, increased her earnings to $464,267, of which $103,038 has been earned in her four starts this year over Santa Anita's downhill turf course.

  Parker's Storm Cat, who leads the 2011 Washington sire standings with over $250,000 through March 11, sired yet another winner when his four-year-old daughter Stormy Galliac, a Maryland-bred filly out of Galliac, by Carnivalay, won a mile maiden race at Laurel Park by 2 3/4 lengths on March 12.

  Jack and Teresa Hodge are among the partners in All in Stable who race three-year-old Willcox Inn. The son of Harlan's Holiday-De Aar, by Gone West, added his third stakes-placement in only four starts when he finished second in the $59,400 Grindstone Stakes run a Fair Grounds on March 12. He has earned $167,800.

  Gerwinii, a four-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of El Dorado Farm LLC's Matty G out of Crafty Character, by Crafty Prospector, earned her fifth victory in a six-panel allowance/$16,000 optional claiming race at Oaklawn Park on March 3, increasing her earnings to $85,859.

  Cityrap, a three-year-old daughter of Cherokee Rap and half-sister to stakes-placed Chaplinesque and Lucky Acres' stallion Kentucky Lucky, won a six-furlong maiden race at Hawthorne on March 12.

James Paul Seabeck

  Longtime horseman, noted cattleman and cowboy-entrepreneur Jim "J.P." Seabeck, who had turned 98 in January, passed away on March 9, 2011, in Spokane. His health had been in decline since he broke his ankle last August. Born in Rockville, Nebraska, on January 21, 1913, J.P. was one of seven children raised by John and Mary Seabeck on their Polish-German homestead.

  In addition to the family farm, his father owned a small butcher shop and as a youngster J.P. helped him around the shop. This background sparked what would be his lifelong devotion to the livestock business.

  Always an avid sportsman, J.P. was the captain of his high school football and basketball teams and in his senior year was named all-state running back.

  After his graduation from high school, J.P. attended Grand Island Nebraska Business College for six months before going to work for Harris Grain and Livestock, a Grand Island feedlot. At 18, he took an opportunity to work as a range cowboy on the W.C. Harris Ranch in Colorado and later went to work in Harris's feed lot in Twin Falls, Idaho. It was there that he met Novia George Church on a blind date. They were married on June 8, 1935, and their honeymoon was spent traveling to Jim's new job as junior back gate cattle buyer with Carstens Meat Packing Company in Tacoma. A year later he was promoted to head buyer for all Carstens Packing Company's livestock division, a position he held for 21 years. He also served as the company's general manager for three years. After the company was sold in 1957, J.P. established his own meat supply business, Riverside Meat Company, in Tacoma.

  Two years later he, along with Tom and Phil Carstens and Lee Benton, purchased the Twin Falls Livestock Commission Company, and after returning with his family to Idaho, J.P. guided the company to again become the largest livestock auction in Idaho. J.P., along with Peter Gillman, also founded the Twin Falls Feeding Company.

  In 1964 J.P. sold the livestock auction business in Twin Falls and moved to Spokane where he purchased and ran the Stockland Union Stockyard for many years.

   J.P. became one of the initial backers and co-owner of Cattlemens in 1968, which has grown to be a successful California restaurant chain. He also helped bring the Sizzler chain of restaurants to Washington. In another successful venture, he built a feed yard in Lebanon.

  It was during a cattle buying trip in California in 1940, where J.P. was lured to Santa Anita to see the great Seabiscuit run, that his passion for horse racing sparked. Upon his return to Tacoma he purchased his first horse, a palomino named Golden Avalanche from Montana, who he rode in the Carstens feedlots. In 1946 J.P. purchased his first Thoroughbred, a weanling son of *Olimpio. Olimpio Jr. won 24 races and earned $22,710. Later, J. P. and Jim Carstens established C & S Stable, under which they raced 1953 Longacres Mile winner Ocean Mist. Among the top horses they bred and raced was Washington champion juvenile colt Better Not Bet. J.P. also bred the Spokane Futurity winning half-brothers Charity Line and Hope Line and stakes winner and stakes producer Miss Manito, whose dam Pretty as Picture won 19 races in J.P.'s  colors. Many years later, J.P. and partner Gene Barber won the 2006 Portland Meadows Mile with Charlie's Pride. Throughout his 60 years in racing, J.P.'s runners amassed over 600 win photos while competing in 13 states and British Columbia. In 2010, J.P. was at Emerald Downs when he was inducted into Washington's Racing Hall of Fame.

  J.P. first joined the WHBA (WTBOA)  in 1947 and prior to his death was its longest member. He was first elected to the board of directors in 1950, a position he held through 1965. He served three stints as the association's secretary, was vice president in 1953 and was voted president in 1954.

  He also served on the Washington Horse Racing Commission from January 1993 to January 1999.

    An avid supporter of the Junior Livestock Show of Spokane, who named an award in his honor, J.P. judged livestock shows throughout the west for many years. And for many Mondays during the 1970s and 1980s, his voice was heard on Spokane radio station KHQ/KAQQ AM delivering the weekly livestock report.

  J.P. served on the board  of the LMA-American Livestock Association for 38 years and was the association's president in 1993-1994. He was also president of the Western Meat Packers Association for five years.

  Among his many awards was the US Department of Agriculture's "Best Livestock Operation in the West." In 1974, J.P. was inducted into the Southern Idaho Livestock Hall of Fame, which he had helped found in 1960.

  He was a lifetime member of the Tacoma Elks Lodge; Twin Falls Kiwanis Club; founding member and past president of the Spokane East Rotary; founding board member of the Spokane-based American Commercial Bank; and former board of regent and regent emeritus at Gonzaga University.

  Among his hobbies were salmon fishing in British Columbia and traveling. He and Novia had  visited 46 countries. One of his favorite spots was Cabo San Lucas where he took advantage of its deep sea fishing. He also took up golf at 85.

  He was preceded in death by his wife of 72 years, Novia, who died in 2007. He leaves four daughters, Marlene Tenzler, of Tacoma; Kathleen Obschlager, of Zurich, Switzerland; Connie Gable, of Hayden, Idaho; and Kristi Koivula, of Vista, California; 10 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; one great-great grandson; his wife of 11 months, Mary Leewright Seabeck, and her family.