Mike and Jeanette Orsborn's group-placed Rallying Cry will enter stud for the 2012 breeding season at Barbara and Robert Meeking's Allaire Farms in Poulsbo.

  The Orsborns are generously offering a unique opportunity to support Thoroughbred rescue and retirement, instead of standing Rallying Cry for a set fee; they are making the stallion available through a donation of $200 to Second Chance Ranch (www.secondchanceranch.org) or another approved non-profit Thoroughbred rescue.

  "After watching several horses get injured in so many ways and not be given a chance after their injuries, I realized we couldn't be responsible for everyone in the industry, but that in our little corner of the world, we could try and make a difference," said Mike Orsborn. "It was Barbara's idea, knowing how much we care about 'second chances' for the horses, to charge only the $200 donation for Rallying Cry's stud fee for his first season. We so hope other horsemen hear the 'Rallying Cry' and will donate to this very special cause."

  A son of Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) winner War Chant, Rallying Cry was well-traveled during his five-year racing career. He began his career in England where he won his initial outing, a seven-furlong maiden weight for age race at Newmarket, and later added a win in a mile weight for age race at Kempton Park. He also journeyed to France that year where he finished fifth in a Group 1 race.

  At three, Rallying Cry traveled to the United Arab Emirates where he made three starts at Nad Al Sheba, finishing second in the UAE Two Thousand Guineas (G3) and running fourth in the $2-million UAE Derby (G1), behind UAE Triple Crown winner Asiatic Boy, before returning to England.

  His four-year-old debut came at the spring meet at Keeneland, where he won a six-panel allowance race and defeated future Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G2) winner and $3.4-million earner Chamberlain Bridge, also a son of War Chant. Rallying Cry also finished second in the 5 1/2-furlong Troy Stakes at Saratoga and ran third in the six-furlong Inside the Beltway Stakes at Belmont Park.

  Sent to Hastings Racecourse as a five-year-old, Rallying Cry won six races on the West Coast. After racing in five different countries, Rallying Cry finished his career with a record of 9-11-5 from 39 starts and earnings of $331,490.

  Successful on dirt, grass and all-weather surfaces, Rallying Cry won from five-to-8.5 furlongs.

  War Chant, a son of leading sire Danzig out of champion Hollywood Wildcat, by Kris S., earned $1.1-million and has sired 20 stakes winners, including Santa Anita Derby (G1) victor and $3-million earner Midnight Interlude, $1.3-million earner Molto Grande, $1-million earner Central Coast and 2011 stakes winner Footloose Man, who won the International Invitation Cup (G1) in Qatar.

  Rallying Cry is one of seven winners produced out of Group 3 stakes winner Turning Wheel, a daughter of Seeking the Gold. Turning Wheel is also the dam of English and North American stakes-placed Carinae, dam of Serbian three-year-old filly highweight Carina Nebula; French stakes-placed Imago Muni; and Irish stakes-placed Atlantic Swing.

  Rallying Cry's second dam, Misinkie, a daughter of Nijinsky II, is a half-sister to stakes winner and sire Clever Trick and two other stakes winners. Among Misinkie's foals are Norwegian Two Thousand Guineas (G2) winner Space Cruiser, stakes winner and Group 1-placed Minds Music; Group 1-placed Ajfan, the dam of three-time Singapore highweight Big Maverick; and stakes-placed stakes producer Nutbush One.

  Former Washington jockey, Jeremy Best, the 36-year-old son of former top Pacific Northwest rider Frank Best, was awarded the 2011 Race Track Chaplaincy of America's White Horse Award, which is presented annually during the Breeders' Cup World Championships to a backstretch worker who has done something heroic on behalf of a human or horse.

  The younger Best, a member of the starting gate crew at Remington Park, rescued Roy Brooks, a 69-year-old Quarter Horse jockey, during an incident in the Oklahoma track's starting gate on April 17, 2011. Brooks' mount, Fit Ta Fly, panicked in the gate and started thrashing wildly as the horse became entangled. Best pulled Brooks to safety.

  Jeremy was also among the White Horse finalists in 2010 after he helped save an 83-year-old neighbor who was pinned under a car.

  Both Jeremy and Frank rode at Longacres during the final 1992 season. Jeremy, who was born in Sunnyside, had his initial winner at Yakima Meadows. Frank Best, a Soap Lake native who started at Coeur d'Alene, was the seventh leading jockey of all time at Longacres, winning 602 races from 5,652 mounts.