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News from the WTBOA
August 18, 2011 


 
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Saturday, August 20, 2011

WASHINGTON RACING HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY

Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA

(253) 288-7000; 1 (800) 931-8400

 

Sunday, August 21, 2011

LONGACRES MILE (G3)

Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA

(253) 288-7000; 1 (800) 931-8400

 

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

WTOBA SUMMER YEARLING AND MIXED SALE PADDOCK SESSION DEADLINE

(253) 288-7896; [email protected]

 

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

WTBOA SUMMER YEARLING AND MIXED SALE

Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA

(253) 288-7878; [email protected]

 

Friday, September 9, 2011

WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING

Auburn City Council Chambers
25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA

(360) 459-6462

 

Sunday, September 11 - Saturday, September 24, 2011

KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE

Lexington, KY

(800) 456-3412; Keeneland.com

 

Monday, September 12, 2011

CTHS (BRITISH COLUMBIA DIV.) MIXED SALE

Langley, BC, Canada

(604) 574-0145; cthsbc.org

 

Sunday, September 18, 2011

WASHINGTON CUP IX

Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA

(253) 288-7000; 1 (800) 931-8400

 

Monday, September 19 - Tuesday, September 20, 2011

PACIFIC NORTHWEST JUDGES CONTINUING EDUCATION SEMINAR

Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA

Washington Horse Racing Commission

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

 

Tuesday, October 11 - Wednesday, October 12, 2011

CALIFORNIA CUP YEARLING SALE

Pomona, CA

(909) 629-3099; [email protected];

barretts.com

 

Thursday, October 13, 2011

WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING

Auburn City Council Chambers

25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA

(360) 459-6462

 

Friday, November 4 - Saturday, November 5, 2011

BREEDERS' CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS XXVIII

Churchill Downs, Louisville, KY

(859) 223-5444; breederscup.com 

 

 

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CLASSIFIED CORRECTION

Steal this: 2005 mare by Behrens ($4.5 million) in foal to Parker's Storm Cat. Selling with Stormy Jack ($596,000) weanling filly (2/27). Stud fees paid. $2,950, or will consider trade. (253) 887-9487.


 

 

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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 Washington 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.

Longacres Mile Draw 2011

Longacres Mile (G3) Draw

To be run Sunday, August 21, 2011

Post Position

  1 - Posse Power

  2 - Assessment

  3 - St Liams Halo

  4 - Honour the Deputy

  5 - Saratoga Boot

  6 - Winning Machine

  7 - J P Jammer

  8 - Wasserman (WA-bred)

  9 - Slew the Man (WA-bred, WTBOA Sales Graduate)

10 - Crew Leader

11 - Noosa Beach (WA-bred)

12 - Awesome Gem

$65,000 Emerald Distaff Draw

Emerald Distaff Draw 2011To be run Sunday, August 21, 2011

Post Position

  1 - Kimmyv

  2 - U R All That I Am

  3 - Hard Way Ten

  4 - Private Fortune
       (WA-bred, WTBOA Sales Graduate)

  5 - Rewritten

  6 - Sweet Nellie Brown
       (WA-bred, WTBOA Sales Graduate)

  7 - Zenovit (WA-bred)

  8 - You Me and Ema B 
       (WA-bred, WTBOA Sales Graduate)

Emerald Notes
Jebrica
Wayne Nagai Photo

Surprise Party

  In 2010, Saratoga Boot paid the largest $2 win payoff ($21.40) in the first 73 runnings of the Emerald Downs Derby. In the 2011 August 14-staged Derby, the Jim Penney-trained Jebrica cruised home to a 2 3/4-length tally over second betting choice Couldabenthewhisky and in doing so set a new payoff record of $23.00. It also marked the first time since 1997 (Dave Forester with Capilano and You've Got Action) that a trainer has scored an Oaks-Derby double in the same year. Jebrica gave Penney, who had also won with Michael and Amy Feuerborn's Gallon in 2008, his third Derby winner.

  Winter Warlock broke first in the nine-furlong test, with Rainier Missile right on his heels. The two runners put several lengths between them and the rest of the field for the first six furlongs. Meanwhile, Jebrica, ridden by Pedro Terrero, was racing fifth in the field of six. Trailing him was race favorite Zayda. Jebrica reached the leaders near the three-sixteenths pole and proceeded to draw away to defeat Friendship Stables, Longshot Racing and Craig and Stanley Frederickson's 2010 Gottstein Futurity winner Couldabenthewhisky in a time of 1:48.17. Warlock Stables, Horseplayers Racing Club HRC 032 and James Broussard's Winter Warlock (Demon Warlock-Royal Snowflight) finished 8 1/4 lengths behind Couldabenthewhisky in the show spot. Zayda was never in contention, finishing fourth, almost 14 lengths behind the winner.

  "I sat behind the speed and tried to stay as quiet as possible, said Terrero. "I started to ask him to go right before the quarter pole, and he really responded.

  "This has been a great week, probably my greatest of the year," added Terrero, who finished the week with six winners, despite being unseated in Sunday's fourth race.

WTBOA Sales Grads Finish One-Two

  Owned by Ron and Rosalie Warren's R & R Warren LLC, the Olympia couple had paid $15,000 for their future stakes winner at the 2009 WTBOA summer sale. Runner-up Couldabenthewhisky (Harbor the Gold-Bahati) was a $5,500 purchase from the same venue.

  Last year at two, after winning a maiden special weight race by seven lengths, Jebrica had finished third behind Couldabenthewhisky in the Gottstein Futurity (Winter Warlock ran fourth in the juvenile championship race). The steadily improving Jebrica, who has never been out of the money in seven starts, increased his totals to $72,470.

  Bred by Rick and Debbie Pabst and their Buckley-based Blue Ribbon Farm, Jebrica, a Washington-foaled son of Liberty Gold, is the third stakes winner and fifth stakes horse produced out of the Halo mare Peaceful Wings.

 

Class Included
Kristy Batie Photo

Classy Lady

There's an old saying that class will prevail and indeed it did when Michael and Amy Feuerborn's homebred Class Included, the .90-to-one favorite, took the 32nd running of the Washington Oaks, contested on August 13, over a field of six other sophomore fillies.

  Elusive Noise broke first in the nine-furlong stakes and led throughout the first six furlongs. Dueling right at her side was second betting choice Carrabelle Harbor. As the field grew closer to home, Leslie Mawing moved Class Included up from the outside and nailed the wire a neck in front of Robert Clary's fast-closing Playful Argument (Closing Argument-Play Misty). Perfect Soul Brothers LLC, whose Soul Custody had finished third in the 2010 Oaks, finished in the same spot with Soul in One, another daughter of Perfect Soul (Ire). The Kentucky-bred filly out of Forest Flora gained the wire three lengths behind Florida-bred Playful Argument. Final time for the Saturday stakes was 1:50.76 over a fast track. Carrabelle Harbor weakened to finish last.

  "I was really stoked about her workout last week, so I was coming into the race pretty confident," said Mawing of the Jim Penney trainee. "I got the lead at the top of the stretch with plenty of horse. Once I committed to the lead, there was no turning back."

  With their 2011 tally, the Feuerborns have now won three renewals of the Washington Oaks, including the 2005 edition with Class Included's dam A Classic Life. The $35,750 share of the $65,000 purse, helped Class Included go over the $100,000 mark ($100,750 precisely). The Kentucky-bred daughter of Include, who also includes a victory in the Seattle Handicap among her 2011 tallies, sports an impressive record of three wins and four seconds from lifetime seven starts.

 

Gemstones

Race fans can now have free access to Emerald Downs race replays by logging onto emeralddowns.com.

WTBOA Sales Graduate in the News

2010 WTBOA sale graduate Courtney's Prize won a 5 1/2-furlong maiden $32,000 claiming race for owner Wally Thompson at Del Mar on August 11. Trained by Vann Belvoir, the Kentucky-bred daughter of Orientate-Strong Credentials, by Carson City, was bred and consigned by Northwest Farms LLC.

The Jockey Club Projects 2012 Foal Crop at 24,700

  On August 13, 2011, The Jockey Club announced that they are projecting a 2012 North American registered Thoroughbred foal crop of 24,700, a decline of 8.5 percent from the estimate of 27,000 registered foals for 2011.

  The foal crop projection, traditionally announced in mid-August, is computed by using Reports of Mares Bred (RMBs) received to date for the 2011 breeding season. RMBs are to be filed by August 1 of each breeding season.

  The 2012 foal crop is projected to be the smallest foal crop since 1971, when 24,301 foals were registered.

  Stallion owners who have not returned their RMBs for the 2011 breeding season are encouraged to do so as soon as possible. Submission of RMBs can be accomplished quickly and easily through Interactive RegistrationTM, the online service that enables registered users to perform virtually all registration-related activities over the Internet. Interactive Registration is available at registry.jockeyclub.com.

  Additional foal crop information is available in The Jockey Club's Online Fact Book at jockeyclub.com/factbook.asp and in the state fact books at jockeyclub.com/statefactbook.asp.

Other News

  Rozamund Barclay's Northern Causeway won the $50,626 Richmond Derby Trial Handicap run at Hastings Racecource on August 14. The Kentucky-bred son of Giant's Causeway-Gateway Girl, by Silver Deputy, who is trained by Len Kasmerski, improved his record to 3-3-0 from ten starts and has earned $91,475.

  Former Washington stallion Snowbound sired another Quarter Horse stakes winner when his two-year-old son I've Been Special took the $17,971 Futurity at Les Bois Park by three-quarters of a length on the August 13 Idaho Cup card.

  Dr. George Todaro and Jerry and Janet Hollendorfer's homebred Life Is a Rock, a three-year-old California-bred son of Globalize-Tadita, finished third, only a neck and a head behind winner Mr. Candy Bar, in the August 13 $50,000 Robert Dupret Derby at Santa Rosa on August 13.

  Gordon Jarnig and Billie Klokstad's Dr. Procter, who was bred in California by Edward and Theresa DeNike, won a 5 1/2-furlong allowance/$25,000 optional claiming race at Santa Rosa on August 13. It was the third win in five tries for the son of Dehere-Miss Tropics, by Roar, who is trained by Bud Klokstad. The sophomore-aged gelding has earned $48,300.

  On August 13, Flatter This, a four-year-old son of Flatter out of Val U Me, by You and I, won the $50,000 Band Is Passing Stakes at Calder Race Course. It was the fourth win for the Kentucky-bred who has now earned $124,882.

  Centripetal Motion, a four-year-old Maryland-bred daughter St. Hilaire Thoroughbreds' Polish Miner, won a 6 1/2-furlong allowance race at Charles Town Races on August 13. It was the eighth win for the filly out of Bold Perfume, by Jeblar, and increased her earnings to $132,373.

  Indian Assault, the two-year-old Florida-bred son of Indian Ocean who won the $100,000 Lafayette Stakes at Evangeline Downs by five lengths on August 13, is out of See My Agent (by Skip Trial), a half-sister to Woodstead Farm sire Katowice, as both are out of Mr. Prospector's stakes-winning half sister Lillian Russell.

  On August 13, Let's Get Crackin, a son of Eddington out of Washington-bred stakes winner I'maknightschoice, a daughter of Knights Choice bred by Jerry and Carol Many, finished second in the $75,000 Prairie Meadows Juvenile Mile Stake. The Kentucky-bred has never finished farther back than third in four starts and has earned $45,900.

In Memoriam

Robert Dean Anderson

  Bob Anderson, 74, of Republic, died on July 26, 2011, surrounded by his family. He was born in Republic on March 7, 1937, to Dean and Frances Anderson.

  Bob's true loves were his family and horses. Among his fondest memories were the great times he spent at racetracks in the US and Canada.

  Bob was also a member of Eagles Aerie 68.

  He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Jack; sister, Marybeth; and niece, Beth Ann. Bob is survived by his wife of 52 years, Lorna Joanne Anderson; three children, Robert D. (Debra), Randy (Debbie) and Jodi (Craig); seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

  

Ann Eleanor Holmberg Martin Beam

  Ann Beam, of Sequim, died on June 12, 2011, after a long illness. Born October 18, 1933, in Port Orchard she was one of four children of Carl Bertil and Minnie (Hoglund) Holmberg.

  Ann became immersed in horses at a young age and convinced her father, who was involved in road construction, to help put up the Silver Spurs Saddle Club riding arena in Kitsap County in the late 1940s.

  In the early 1960s, Ann and her first husband, Wayne Martin, and their four children moved to an old dairy farm in Sequim where they built the Quartermoon riding arena. Ann taught riding lessons there and prepared her top Quarter Horse gaming horses, many of which she bred, at the horse facility.

  In the late 1970s, she and her husband, Jim Beam, got involved in Thoroughbreds through Ann's sister Marilyn Holmberg, who was the bookkeeper at the WTBOA office. Ann and Jim successfully raced Spirit Rules and Fill My Cup. Ann and Jim also managed the WTBOA's sale hospitality center in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

  In 1975, Ann rode from Sequim to North Platte, Nebraska, with three teenagers for five months on the first half of the two-year bi-centennial wagon train.

  Ann also liked to sew, sing and dance and could play the accordion, piano, vibra-harp, drums and banjo.

  In August, she was honored at the annual state championship show of the Patterned Speed Horse Association, as one of the association's original riders and organizers.

  Ann was preceded in death by her son, Norman Martin. She is survived by her husband, Jim; daughter, Waynora, sons, Arvid and Lance Martin; sister, Marilyn (Thomas) Holmberg Gates; brothers, John A. (Bernice) Holmberg and C. Michael Holmberg and his significant other, Pat Rothwell; and extended family.

 

Charlyn "Lynn" Taketa

  Lynn Taketa, of Vancouver, Washington, died on August 11, 2011, after a freak accident when she was kicked in the head by a loose horse during morning training hours at Portland Meadows.

  Lynn, 61, the wife of former jockey Jerry Taketa, had only recently taken up training and had saddled two winners from seven starters during the 2010-11 Portland Meadows meeting.

  A former longtime Equine Art Show committee member, Lynn and Jerry owned and operated Taketa Art and Framing in Vancouver for many years. The couple also were supporters of the THRUST scholarship program.

  Services for Lynn will be held on Tuesday, August 23 at 12:30 p.m. at the Evergreen Memorial Garden Cemetery located at 1101 NE 112th Ave, Vancouver, Washington 98684. Their phone number is (360) 842-6060.