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  Alan Klein and Philip Lebherz's top sprinter Smiling Tiger set all the pace and finished the $250,000 Triple Bend Handicap (G1) with a powerful kick to score a 3 1/4-length victory in his third Grade 1 victory. The four-year-old son of Hold That Tiger, who was ridden by Joel Rosario, earned a 107 BRIS Speed Rating for his 1:21.22 victory in the seven-furlong Hollywood Park stakes and in doing so became a millionaire.

  "We got a good trip today and the horse got to express himself," said winning trainer Jeff Bonde. "This horse as the ability to go quick and still rally. He's got a very long stride; he's a big, long stretchy horse. He's not a typical sprinter-type to look at. But he's very athletic and he has the heart of a warrior."

  The $40,000 2008 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale graduate was bred in Kentucky by Dr. Rodney Orr out of his stakes-winning Cahill Road mare Shandra Smiles. Consigned to the sale by Halvorson Bloodstock Services LLC as agent, Smiling Tiger who was one of a trio of successful runners Bonde purchased at the September auction for Lebherz and Klein, has now won six graded stakes races. In his 16 starts, Smiling Tiger has a record of 9-1-6, including 12 graded stakes placements. His $1,149,353 earnings place him at the top of all horses which have gone through a WTBOA sales ring.

  After placing in 2011 allowance races at Golden Gate Fields, Oaklawn Park and Churchill Downs,  2010 Washington champion three-year-old colt or gelding Slew the Man returned to trainer Jeff Bonde's Pleasanton, California, base and went gate-to-wire to win the $55,550 Alamedan Handicap by 1 1/4 lengths on July 4. The gelded son of Slewdledo had finished third in the 2010 edition of the race written for three-year-old and up runners.

  Produced out of the stakes-placed Fit to Fight mare Go for Jackie,  Slew the Man was bred and sold at the 2008 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sales by Nina and Ron Hagen and their El Dorado Farms LLC.

  Purchased by Bonde for $47,000 for Alan Klein and Philip Lebherz at the Washington sale, along with future Grade 1 winner Smiling Tiger, who became a millionaire after taking the Triple Bend Handicap (G1) two days earlier, Slew the Man has earned $173,445 in 24 starts and sports a 5-7-5 record.

  On July 11, Slew the Man's nine-year-old half-brother Indian Weaver scored his third stakes victory and went over the $300,00 mark after the son of Basket Weave won the $25,000 SunRay Park and Casino Farewell Claiming Stakes by nearly four lengths. The 2003 WTBOA summer sales graduate was also bred by the Hagens.

  Among the July 4 celebrations was the announcement of the Washington Racing Hall of Fame inductees for 2011. Now in its ninth year, the horse category was opened up this year in order to elect both a significant male runner and a distaff star.

  Bred by Arden Archer Jr., Pataha Prince is the newest male runner in the Hall of Fame. The 1965 son of Strong Ruler-Miss Jeff was a three-time stakes winner at two, for which he earned his first championship title. The gelding went on to race for seven more years with 1973, at age seven, being his high-water mark season, as Pataha Prince scored stakes wins in the Bing Crosby Handicap, at Del Mar, and Governor's Cup Handicap, at Pomona (now Fairplex Park). He was also runner-up to Silver Mallet in the Longacres Mile that season. Over all, Pataha Prince raced 84 times with a record of 27-16-9 and $249,523 in earnings.

  Two-time Washington champion Firesweeper earned her place in the Hall of Fame off a record which saw the 1983 daughter of Drum Fire-Skysweeper score a dozen stakes wins at Longacres and notch a victory in the Mt. Wilson Stakes at Santa Anita. Bred and raced by Jerre Paxton's Northwest Farms, Firesweeper raced for four years and earned $363,394. The future stakes producer also placed in four other stakes among her 34 lifetime starts.

  Nine-time leading Emerald Downs' trainer Tim McCanna joins Washington's select "stable" of conditioners. The Spokane native, who also won four training titles at Playfair, was the leading trainer during the 1995 Emerald Racing Association meet at Yakima Meadows. McCanna trained three-time Washington champion race filly Queenledo and was also among the trainers who conditioned multiple champion Cocktails Anyone. He has saddled the winners of 30 stakes races at Emerald Downs, most recently the Northwest Stallion Knights Choice with juvenile Youtheprizeandi. Through July 10, McCanna had accumulated a record of 1,691 wins, 1,486 seconds and 1,332 thirds from 9,706 starts and his horses have earned nearly $11.4-million.

  Grousemont Farm was founded in 1962 by Theiline (Ty) Wright and her late husband Howard S. Wright, who died in 1996. Ty and her second husband Doug Scheumann currently bred horses under the Grousemont banner. Among the horses they have bred, alone or in partnership, are 1979 Washington horse of the year Rock Bath. two-time state champion Savannah Blue Jeans, and additional Washington champion three-year-olds Marching Duke (1978) and Ladies Excuse Me (1992). The farm has bred a dozen other Washington stakes winners, including Crafty Patient, Briartic Gold, Pro Tab, Cup O' Spooks, Ketchum Samantha and Spooky Patient.

  Grousemont Farm has also been recognized on a national level for breeding 1992 Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) winner Thirty Slews, 1981 Marlboro Cup (G1) winner Noble Nashua, and additional graded stakes winners Nasty Storm and Palmerio, etc. The farm's Spooky Creature was named Washington broodmare of the year in 1975 and more recently, Ty, her son David Wright and Wright's father-in-law Charles Swanson raced 2006 Washington most improved plater Magoo Can Do.

  Born Christmas Day 1964 in Brunswick, Georgia, Vicky (Aragon) Baze began her riding career in 1985 in California and earned her first win on June 6 at Longacres. By 1986 she had earned the first of two riding titles at Renton oval. She added her second title in 1988 and finished in the top six at Longacres during all eight years she rode at the Renton track. The diminutive rider also earned two riding titles at Yakima Meadows and finished atop the standings at Assiniboia Downs in 2010. Baze earned her 2,000th victory on March 1, 2011, aboard Decarchy Park at Turf Paradise. As of her most recent ride, in June at Prairie Meadows, Baze has added 19 additional winning mounts. Of her lifetime total of 12,782 rides, of which 1,686 were under her maiden name Aragon, her mounts have earned just shy of $13.7-million. Baze, whose husband Gary joined the Hall of Fame in 2003, is the fourth rider with the Baze surname to be honored in Washington's hall of champions.

  Karen and Mickey Taylor are the fifth recipients of the Hall of Fame Special Achievement Award. The Taylors, who originally hail from the small Central Washington town of White Swan, originally got into racing in 1973 with the purchase of Felicity Trueblood, a 1972 daughter of Cold Command, but will go down in Thoroughbred history as the co-owners of the great 1977 Triple Crown winner and sire Seattle Slew. Among the Taylors pre-Slew runners were the good stakes winners Triangular and Mama Kali and after "Slew" they raced many successful runners, including more than one top-class son of their multiple champion; i.e., two-time champion Slew o'Gold and more recently 2004 Cup and Saucer Stakes winner Slew's Saga, whose first crop races this year.

  The Hall of Fame dinner and induction ceremony will be held at Emerald Downs on Saturday, August 20. For more information contact Emerald Downs at (253) 288-7000.

  Jeff and Doris Harwood were named 2010 Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA) award winners for Washington by a vote of the WTBOA board of directors. The Harwoods' homebred Noosa Beach, Washington's 2010 horse of the year, led them to secure the respected TOBA title. Noosa Beach, who has been named a Washington champion  in each of his first three years at the track, won six of seven starts last year - including the important Longacres Mile (G3) - and remains unbeaten in three consecutive stakes in 2011.

  The Auburn couple produced a team effort in Noosa Beach as they both bred the $435,222 earning son of Harbor the Gold who races in Jeff's colors and has been trained throughout his exemplary career by Doris.

  The four other 2010 finalists were: Nina L. Egbert, Billie and Bud Klokstad, Keith and Jan Swagerty and the partnership of Gerald and Gail Schneider's Riverbend Farm and Dana Claxton.

  Each year, TOBA honors owners and breeders from 27 states and Canada, as well as Regional Owners of the Year, National Owners and Breeders of the Year and the Rood & Riddle Sport Horse of the Year at an annual September awards dinner in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Irish Merry-making

  Emerald Downs ran their first double-stakes header of the season on June 26 when sophomore fillies and colts were given the opportunity to run a mile.

  First up was the $50,000 Irish Day Handicap which featured five distaffers. Michael and Amy Feuerborn, who had taken the 2010 Irish Day with Sis's Sis, were hoping to make it two in-a-row with their homebred Class Included, who had earned her first stakes victory in the Seattle Handicap earlier in the meet. Also in the short field was Debbie Paxton and Northwest Farms LLC's talented Elusive Noise, who is trained by Tom Wenzel.

  Rider Juan Gutierrez sent Elusive Noise to the lead soon after start and the pair was never headed, holding off Class Included (Include-A Classic Life) by a half-length to earn her initial stakes victory. It marked the third win in the Irish Day for Jerre Paxton's Northwest Farms, who had taken the 2002 edition with Lasting Code and scored with Shampoo in 2007. Finishing a nose behind Class Included in a game effort was Coal Creek Farm's previously unbeaten homebred For You My Heart (Kafwain-One for You) in her stakes debut.

  "There were some tough fillies in the race," commented Gutierrez, who notched his 32nd stakes victory at the Auburn oval. "The plan was to take the lead and get her to relax. Her last race (Seattle Handicap) she didn't relax at all on the lead. Today she was really relaxed, and I knew she would be tough to pass in the stretch."

  Elusive Noise, who had won her first two starts, floundered four lengths behind Class Included in the Seattle Handicap run in late May after being worn down in a speed duel. he Kentucky-bred daughter of Elusive Quality-Noisette, by Broad Brush, improved her record to 3-0-0 from four starts and has now earned back $51,930 of her $110,000 price at the 2009 January Keeneland sale. It marked the 12th Emerald stakes win for conditioner Wenzel.

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Lucky Day

  After taking the Irish Day Handicap with Elusive Noise, two races later Wenzel sent off C and M Racing and Northwest Farms LLC's Rainier Ice to finish first in the Pepsi-Cola Handicap. That outcome was quickly changed by the stewards due to the fact that Rainier Ice had come out sharply approaching the wire where he set off a chain reaction of bumps after drifting into second betting choice Zayda. The son of Forestry was demoted to fourth.

  Zayda, whose name means "lucky" in Arabic, proved to indeed be lucky for Heidi Nelson's Nelson Family Racing as the Kentucky-bred colt was awarded the $27,000 winner's purse. It was the second win in seven outings for the son of Bluegrass Cat-Winter Solstice, by Unbridled, who had won maiden special weight race at Golden Gate Fields on New Year's Day. He over doubled his earnings totals with the win to $54,190.

  "Once Zayda makes his move, he really makes his move," said Leslie Mawing, who was aboard the winning colt. "I asked him at the quarter pole to pick it up a bit. By the eighth pole, I really started to ask him. I thought for sure we were going to win at the sixteenth pole. I found the hole I wanted, but then got stopped towards to end. The horse on our outside (Rainier Ice) really came in and stopped us from winning. I got bumped so hard that my stick came out of my hand."

  Warlock Stables, James Broussard and Horseplayers Racing Club HRC 032's Washington-bred Winter Warlock (Demon Warlock-Royal Snowflight) - the favorite in the field of eight - was  upgraded to second place while Auburn Stakes winner Showme Yourfriends, a Washington-bred son of Delineator-Raise a Moon who races for One Horse Will Do Corporation and Tina and Scott Saxwold, was awarded third place. The distance separating the five top finishers were a neck, nose, neck and neck.

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You and You

  Offspring of the recently pensioned Washington sire You and I took both halves of the $25,000 Northwest Stallion Stakes run on July 4.

  Five juvenile colts and geldings took their shot first in the Northwest Stallion Strong Ruler Stakes. The heavy favorite in the field was Michael and Amy Feuerborn's homebred Chu and I, who had taken his June debut by six lengths. With Juan Gutierrez aboard, Chu and I took the lead and was never headed, finishing the 5 1/2-furlong restricted stakes in 1:03.54 and 5 1/4 lengths in front of Gary Hughes' Wild Wings (Free At Last-Peaceful Wings). Vital Signs Stable's Orlando Xpress, a son of freshman stallion Raise the Bluff out of Emerald stakes winner Just Call Me Grace, finished another 1 1/2 lengths back in third after stumbling near the 5/16th's pole.

  Chu and I, who is now two-for-two, is trained by Jim Penney and the Washington-bred gelding out of Bronze Charmer, by Volponi, has earned $19,759.

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Only one filly in the field of six starters for the Northwest Stallion Knights Choice Stakes was a winner going into the race and Youtheprizeandi, ridden by Joe Crispin, remained unbeaten after she held off the charge of Squatting Dog Stable and Rusty G. Warlwick's Royal Moses (Cahill Road-Miss Wagon Lode) to take the race by a neck. Riverbend Stables' homebred Sweet Saga, a daughter of Oregon freshman stallion Slew's Saga out of Cielo Dulce, finished another three-quarters of a length back in third place.

  Bred in Washington by Charlie Dunn's Dunn Bar Ranch LLC and trained by Tim McCanna, Youtheprizeandi is a daughter of two-time Emerald juvenile stakes winner Misty Knight, by Tough Knight. The two-year-old filly's two trips to the winner's circle have so far netted her $22,990 for Jay Taylor's Jethorse LLC.

  In addition to Chu and I and Youtheprizeandi, Metropolitan Handicap (G1) You and I, a son of Kris S., is also the sire of 2011 Hastings Stakes winner You Me and Ema B.

Horseman Tony Schiro Trampled in Backside Incident

  Longtime Washington horseman and owner Tony Schiro, 70, was trampled in an incident on the Emerald Downs backstretch prior to the third race on June 25 after two three-year-old fillies reared up on their way to the track. Both Wiley Witch and Cahill's Ride unseated their riders, veered left and ran full speed up the horse path next to the track on their way back to the stable area.

  Cahill's Ride, collided with Schiro, who was standing near the Quarter Chute Café, but the filly sustained only minor injuries while unfortunately Wiley Witch's multiple injuries after hitting a tree led to her being euthanized. Neither of the fillies' riders, A.L. Gutierrez and Leonel Camacho-Flores, was seriously injured.

  Schiro sustained 10 broken ribs, head injuries, a broken leg and a collapsed lung among his many issues. He was first taken to Auburn Regional Medical Center, but was later air-lifted to Harborview Medical Center.

  Schiro, whose spirits remain high, escaped vision problems despite serious cuts and lacerations around his eyes. He is expected to face a long recovery.

Gemstones

  Trainer Steve Bullock's son, 19-year-old apprentice rider Lance Bullock, won his first race at Emerald Downs on Sky Tribute on June 26. It was the 15th win overall for the young rider who rode his first winner last October at Portland Meadows.

  The first two Washington-bred maiden special weight winners of the meet, both fillies, were bred by Charlie Dunn's Dunn Bar Ranch LLC. After Youtheprizeandi won for Jethorse LLC on June 11, Buzznalawng won her first outing, and in open company, five days later as she scored a two-length victory in the 4 1/2-furlong test. Sired by Dehere, Buzznalawng is a daughter of Washington broodmare of the year Nightatmisskittys, who is the dam of Washington champions No Constraints and Sundance Circle and Canadian stakes winner Dandy Dora.

  Former WTBOA and Washington Thoroughbred Foundation president Richard Hitchcock was honored for his many years of service and commitment to the Thoroughbred industry with the "Richard Hitchcock Appreciation Purse" on July 2.

  2008 Washington horse of the year Wasserman, now nine, returned to the Emerald winner's circle on July 3 after he won a 6 1/2-furlong $20,000 claiming race for breeder-owner-trainer Howard Belvoir. The son of Cahill Road has earned a total of $552,084, of which the $528,017 he won at Emerald Downs makes him the track's all-time leading earner.

  Jeff and Doris Harwood have paid a $25,000 provisional nomination fee to the Breeders' Cup in order that their three-time Washington champion and 2010 horse of the year Noosa Beach, who is unbeaten in three stakes starts this year, might, if everything goes right, have the opportunity to run in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) to be run at Churchill Downs later this year.

  Jody Peetz's One Horse Will Do Corporation and trainer Chris Stenslie's 2009 Washington champion Hollywood Harbor earned his fifth victory, and second in 2011, when the four-year-old son of Harbor the Gold defeated 2010 Seattle Slew Handicap winner Newfound Man by 5 3/4 lengths in a 6 1/2-furlong allowance/$32,000 optional claiming race on Independence Day. His 1:13.80 clocking is the fastest for the distance so far this year. The classy gelding has never finished further back then second in his seven Emerald Downs starts and has earned $94,961. Hollywood Harbor scored a 93 Beyer Speed figure for his latest win.

  Trainer Tom Wenzel saddled three winners on July 9, including a 3 1/2-length maiden special weight win with Northwest Farms LLC's homebred two-year-old first-time starter Exclusive Diva, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Bernardini-Puxa Saco; and a victory with Karl Kreig's homebred three-year-old filly Pure Artistry, a Washington-bred daughter of Mingun-Banana Raspberry, by Rehaan, who took a maiden claiming race by 1 3/4 lengths in her first outing.

  On July 10, owner Heidi Nelson had an impressive two-year-old winner in D'honorable One, who scored a 5 1/2-length victory in a five-furlong maiden special weight race. The Florida-bred son of D'Wildcat-Silver Shannon, by Pentelicus, finished the race in :56.66, which is the fastest time of the meeting for the distance so far in 2011.

  Through July 8, Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat continues his leadership of the Washington sire ranks with 22 winners among his 52 starters who have earned $763,499. The son of Storm Cat's leading earner this year is multiple stakes winner and Maryland champion Ben's Cat with $144,250.

  El Dorado Farms LLC's four-time leading Washington sire Matty G is in second place with 30 winners among his 82 runners and $447,411.

  St. Hilaire Thoroughbreds' Polish Miner ranks third with a dozen winners among his 35 starters and $367,976 in earnings.

  The late Tribunal ranks fourth with earnings of  $311,156. Woodstead Farm's He's Tops rounds out the top five with $270,580.

  Three other stallions are also over the $200,000 mark. El Dorado Farms' Private Gold has $268,726 in earnings this year. The recently pensioned You and I, also a Woodstead Farm stallion, is next with $260,176 and includes the earnings of a trio of stakes winners. Former leader Cahill Road, who died last year, has sired the earners of $229,417.

  Jockey Ismael Mosquerira won every Thoroughbred race conducted at Sunflower Downs in Princeton, British Columbia on June 30. Among his victories on the seven-race card were wins with Evaluate (Ire) in the featured Similkameen Cup and aboard five-year-old B.C.-bred Fun Deal, a son of Washington champion Funboy, in an about 5 1/2-furlong allowance.

  Dr. George Todaro and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, et al's two-year-old homebred City Route, a California-bred daughter of Globalize-Mood Route, by Mud Route, made it three-for-three after she added a four-length tally in the $69,550 Juan Gonzalez Stakes at Pleasanton on July 2. City Route has now earned $101,990.

  It was announced in early July that Todaro and partners' 2010 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) winner Dakota Phone has been retired from racing. The six-year-old son of Zavata had earned over $1.2-million.

  On July 1, Al and Sandee Kirkwood's homebred two-year-old filly Savy Smiles, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Roar-Rugula, by Bernstein, trained by Kathy Walsh, won a five-furlong maiden $40,000 claiming race by 4 1/2 lengths at Hollywood Park.

  Rozamund Barclay's three-year-old Northern Causeway, a Kentucky-bred son of Giant's Causeway-Getaway Girl, by Silver Deputy, won a 1 1/16-mile allowance/$32,000 optional claiming race at Pleasanton on July 1. The Len Kasmerski-trained runner has earned $61,100.

  David and Jill Heerensperger's five-year-old multiple Grade 2 stakes winner Bourbon Bay, a gelded son of Sligo Bay (Ire)-Coral Necklace, by Conquistador Cielo, finished fourth in the $765,000 United Nations Stakes (G1) held at Monmouth Park on July 2 and has now earned $610,086.

  Three-year-old Dr. Proctor, a son of Dehere-Miss Tropics, by Roar, bred in Kentucky by Edward and Theresa DeNike and named for retired longtime South King Country equine veterinarian Dr. John Procter, scored his second win for trainer Bud Klokstad and owners Billie Klokstad and Gordon Jarnig, after taking a six-furlong starter allowance at Pleasanton, with Kevin Krigger in the saddle, on June 25 and improved his record to 2-1-0 from four starts. He has earned $31,400.

  Three-year-old Shug, another member of Washington horse of the year Delicate Vine's family, scored a win on June 26 at Hollywood Park. The son of Medaglia d'Oro out of Delicate Vine's stakes-placed Woodman daughter Babeinthewoods won a 1 1/16-mile allowance/optional claiming race by 1 1/4 lengths. The $300,000 Keeneland sale yearling, a half-brother to stakes winner Mystic Wood, improved his record and earnings to 2-0-0 and $64,720 from four starts.

  Mutually Benefit, a four-year-old daughter of Dynaformer, won her second race on June 30 at Hollywood Park when she took a 12-furlong turf allowance/$40,000 optional claiming race by 1 3/4 lengths. The Kentucky-bred filly, who has earned $98,480, is out of French classic winner Macoumba (by Mr. Prospector), the dam of top sires Malibu Moon and Washington 2011 sire leader Parker's Storm Cat, who stands at Gibson Thoroughbred Farm.Parker's Storm Cat's six-year-old son No Brakes won a 1 1/16-mile allowance at Charles Town Races on July 9. The Maryland-bred gelding out of All Apologies, by Mahogany Hall, has earned $111,515.

  Claire and Jack Lein's four-year-old homebred Gold Plan won a six-furlong maiden special weight race at Pleasanton by four lengths on July 2. The California-bred daughter of Liberty Gold-Choice Plan, by Game Plan, is a half-sister to 2011 multiple stakes-placed Formal Plan. Both fillies have earned over $56,000 each.

  Dan J. Agnew's homebred three-year-old filly Limerick Lane, a California-bred daughter of Benchmark-Flying Capote, by Capote, won a six-furlong $20,000 maiden claiming race at Hollywood Park on July 2.

  Cityrap, a three-year-old Illinois-bred daughter of Cherokee Rap out of stakes-placed Silent City, by Carson City, finished second in the $92,900 Purple Violet Stakes at Arlington Park on June 25 and has now earned $98,149. She is a half-sister to graded stakes-placed Chaplinesque and Lucky Acres' stallion Kentucky Lucky.

  Jack and Theresa Hodge, et al's graded stakes filly Upperline returned to the winner's circle on June 25 with a 3 1/2-length tally in the $104,620 Trillium Stakes at Woodbine. The four-year-old daughter of Maria's Mon-Snowflake (Ire), by Caerleon, improved her record to 7-2-2 from 15 starts and has earned $339,733.

  The Hodges are also among the members of All in Stable who race three-year-old Willcox Inn. The son of Harlan's Holiday-De Aar, by Gone West, earned his first graded stakes win on July 9 after he took the $200,000 American Derby (G2) by four lengths over Arlington Park's turf course. The Kentucky-bred colt has earned $341,543 from his 3-1-2 record in eight starts and has now won two of the trio of races - the other being the Arlington Classic Stakes - making up the Mid-America Triple. The series will cap off with the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes, to be run on August 13.

  Sherriff Cogburn, a three-year-old son of Vindication, increased his earnings to $120,800 after finishing second to Prayer for Relief in the $250,000 Iowa Derby (G3) held at Prairie Meadows on June 25. Sherriff Cogburn is out of the stakes-winning You and I mare Sweet Nanette.

  Burban, a three-year-old daughter of Speightstown, won a six-furlong maiden special weight race at Churchill Downs on July 6 in her second outing. The new winner, a $90,000 Keeneland September sale yearling, is out of out of Washington-bred stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Horse B With You, a daughter of Slewdledo bred by Frank E. Tonkin.

  Six-year-old Casino Drive, who won the 2008 Peter Pan Stakes (G2), has been retired from racing and will stand at Shadai Stallion Station in Japan in 2012. The son of Mineshaft-Better Than Honour, by Deputy Minister, had been purchased as a weanling by Dr. Mark Dedomenico and then resold to Japanese interests for $950,000 at the 2006 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The half-brother to Belmont Stakes (G1) winners Jazil and Rags to Riches earned $904,575.

  Former Emerald Downs trainer David Forster, 75, whose son Grant trained Emerald Downs champions No Giveaway and Youcan'ttakeme, was named to the Jockey Club of Canada in late June. The senior Forster, who was elected to the British Columbia Hall of Fame in 2002, has been involved in racing for over 60 years.

  Randall and Rossi LLC's Emerald champion Gallant Son won the $81,898 Robert K. Kerlan Memorial Handicap, a six-furlong turf stakes, at Hollywood Park on July 3 The five-year-old son of Malabar Gold-Explicity, by Exploit, who is trained by Frank Lucarelli, has now earned $380,662.

  Pulse Ranches' Peak a Bootrando sired two good winners in early July. On July 7 his three-year-old daughter Peek a Boo Baby went gate-to-wire to take a six-furlong $12,500 maiden claiming race at Pleasanton by seven lengths. The California-bred filly is out of By a Mile Baby, by All Thee Power. On July 11, at Northlands Park, another California-bred sophomore daughter, Peaknatacat, won a mile allowance/$32,000 optional claiming race. It was the fifth win in 12 starts for the filly out of Clickety Cat, by Mountain Cat, who has now earned $41,891.

  Victor G. Bahna Jr'.s six-time Emerald Downs stakes-placed Rooster City, a five-year-old Kentucky-bred son of City Zip trained by Tim McCanna, finished second in the $63,000 Sam J. Whiting Memorial Handicap at Pleasanton on July 10 and has now earned $132,687.

  Six-year-old Tajaaweed, a son of Dynaformer-Uforia, by Zilzal, bred in Kentucky by Herman Sarkowsky, won the Grade 3 Arlington Handicap run at Arlington Park on July 9. A Group 3 winner in England, Tajaaweed has won four races and earned $251,981.