The chestnut mare's most recent tally came in the John C. Mabee Stakes, a nine-furlong race run on August 12, when City to City rallied deep in the stretch to nip All Star Heart by a nose.

It marked the fourth Grade 2 victory for the Kentucky-bred who has now five stakes wins, a trio of stakes seconds and four stakes thirds among her 29 outings.

  City to City - who, with her 1:46.50 time, narrowly missed the stakes record of 1:46.34 -- has earned $679,726 for the partnership of Mark Dedomenico LLC, William DeBurgh and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer. Dedomenico had paid $50,000 for the filly out of the Storm Cat mare Stormbow from the El Dorado Farms consignment at the 2008 WTBOA September sale.

  Corey Nakatani, who dropped his whip right before the wire, was aboard City to City for the close win.

  "Jerry and his crew just had this mare right," said Nakatani. "They gave her time and had her ready to go." He also added, "Yeah, I lost my whip on the turn. But actually, I threw it away. She was running so good I knew I wouldn't need it."

  "This was a really nice win for City to City and she deserves it, too," commented Hollendorfer. "She overcame a lot. She had a really severe injury two years ago here. I never thought she'd ever race again, but she overcame it. And she's just been good ever since."

Washington-owned Filly Wins Daisycutter Handicap

  On the Friday before the Mabee, Dave Mowat - under his Ten Broeck Farm Inc. - won the $85,000 Daisycutter Handicap with Nechez Dawn at the Southern California track. A three-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Indian Charlie-Valid Annie, by Valid Appeal, trained by Jeff Bonde, Nechez Dawn went gate-to-wire to score a half-length tally in the five-furlong turf event. She has now won three of her four starts and earned $108,180.

  As of August 11, The Jockey Club is projecting a 2013 North American registered Thoroughbred foal crop of 24,700, the same number that was projected for the 2012 crop one year ago. It was also announced that foal crop projections for 2010 and 2011 have been revised downward by 1,500 foals for each year.

  The foal crop projection, traditionally announced in mid-August, is computed by using Reports of Mares Bred (RMBs) received to date for the 2012 breeding season. RMBs are to be filed by August 1 of each breeding season.

  Like the 2012 foal crop projection, the 2013 is the smallest foal crop since 1971, when 24,301 foals were registered.

  "We have revised downward the estimates for the foal crops of 2010 and 2011 by 1,500 foals each," said Matt Iuliano, The Jockey Club's executive vice president and executive director. "The rate of registered foals produced from the number of mares bred has not met historical rates for these two foal crops."

  The projected foal crop for 2010 is now 28,500 and the estimate for 2011 is now 25,500.

  Stallion owners who have not returned their RMBs for the 2012 breeding season are encouraged to do so as soon as possible. Submission of RMBs can be accomplished quickly and easily through Interactive Registration^TM, 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. 

Aspen

  The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (TIP), which sponsors Thoroughbred-only classes and divisions and high point Thoroughbred awards at open horse shows and competitions, announced on August 16 the recipients of its two non-competition awards for 2012: the TIP Young Rider of the Year Award and the TIP Thoroughbred of the Year Award.

  Created and announced in October 2011, TIP recognizes and rewards the versatility of the Thoroughbred through sponsorship of Thoroughbred classes and high point awards at sanctioned horse shows. The Jockey Club committed $100,000 to TIP for the pilot program in 2012, for which 167 horse shows from 26 states and two Canadian provinces were approved.

  The Thoroughbred of the Year Award recognizes a Thoroughbred that has excelled in a non-competitive career, such as equine-assisted therapy or police work.

  This year's recipient is Maud Star, aka Aspen, a 1989 Arizona-bred gelding who raced 32 times, won four races and earned $10,185 in his four years of racing.

  Aspen is a therapeutic riding horse at the Rainier Therapeutic Riding Center in Yelm, Washington, which provides therapeutic horsemanship lessons to wounded, active-duty and veteran members of the military. Aspen is the oldest horse in the program and has helped more than 26 riders overcome the wounds of war, including post-traumatic stress, brain injuries, anxiety disorders and other physical injuries.

  According to Elisia Mutter, the executive director of the Rainier Therapeutic Riding Center, "Aspen is a program favorite who stands quietly for riders as they overcome their fears and anxieties of working with a large horse for the first time. His quiet insistence that his handlers ask him for things correctly helps these amazing people once again have the confidence to be a leader."

  The young rider award, which recognizes a rider 18 or under who owns or leases a Thoroughbred for use in 4-H, Pony Club or other activities, was split among three riders, Sydney Luzicka, Kendyl Shantz and Elizabeth Spann.

  Luzicka, who is 12 and has been riding since she was three, plans to use the award funds to attend clinics and horse shows. "It is my dream to be able to ride with the best clinicians in the USA and soak up all their knowledge," she wrote in her essay. "It is also my dream to compete against the best riders."

  Luzicka, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, rides an off-track Thoroughbred named Olive Way, aka Catnip or All That Glitters, a 1996 mare that she purchased from the Minnesota Retired Racehorse Project.

  Shantz, a 17-year-old from Bridgewater, New Jersey, rides Canyon of Heroes, aka Hero, a 2005 gelding who raced 23 times and retired at age five.

  "I've never trained a horse from scratch, and Hero's never been a sport horse but he proves to me in the ring and on the trails he's intelligent, courageous, diligent, willing and trusting." Shantz wrote in her essay. "Though everyone thought I was crazy to buy him ... now not only do we prove them wrong, we surprise ourselves with what we're accomplishing. I couldn't have bought a better horse."

  Shantz plans to use her TIP award funds to help with college, clinics and shows.

  Spann, an 11-year-old from Lake Mills, Wisconsin, who rides 12-year-old off-track-Thoroughbred Who's the Fox, aka Fable, writes about the TIP award, "This award says that I am a caring and compassionate individual who takes good care of my horse and I care about my barn. It will also show that I will do as much as possible to promote second careers for OTTB and help other people get involved with riding."

  Spann wants to use her TIP award to help other riders join Pony Club and take lessons, and to attend the Pony Club regional camp and annual meeting.

  Yellow Chumaree, a three-year-old Idaho-bred daughter of Homer Thoroughbreds' Chumaree out ofMagical Slew, by Slewvescent, won her fourth stakes after taking the $20,350 Idaho Cup Distaff Derby at Les Bois Park on August 11. It was her seventh win in 13 starts and she has earned $59,024 for her owner-breeder Tom Dougherty.

  Four-year-old Indian Gracey won the $75,000 California State Fair Sprint Handicap at Sacramento on July 21. A Florida-bred daughter of Ocean Indian out of the unraced Matty G mare Miz Betty Grace, Indian Gracey had placed in the Grade 1 Oak Leaf Stakes at two and has now earned $145,360 in eight starts with a record of 3-2-2.

  Three-year-old Tribal Tribute, who won the $50,000 Robert Dupret Derby at Santa Rosa on August 4, became the second 2012 California stakes winner bred by Ken and Jan Heidt's K & J Farm. Following Silky Sullivan Stakes winner Summer Hit, Tribal Tribute, a California-bred gelding by Tribal Rule out of Clarify, by Eastern Echo - who is trained by Tim McCanna - has earned $66,332 in the Heidts' colors.

  Fe Heidour-year-old Shrug, who won the $100,000 Green Flash Stakes at Del Mar on August 15, is the second stakes winner out of Babeinthewoods, a $100,920 stakes-placed daughter Woodman out of Grade 1 winner and Washington horse of the year Delicate Vine. A Kentucky-bred son of Medaglia d'Oro, Shrug has won four races and earned $190,360.

  Dr. George Todaro and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's Zeewat, a two-year-old Pennsylvania-bred son of Harlan's Holiday-Delizia, by Distant View, remained unbeaten in two starts after he won the $75,250 Cavonnier Juvenile Stakes at Santa Rosa by 2 1/2 lengths on August 12. Ridden to the win by Russell Baze, Zeewat has earned $60,700/

  2011 Washington most improved plater of the year Chukchi Sunrise - in her first start in three months - finished second in a five-panel allowance/$50,000 optional claiming race at Santa Rosa on August 12. The six-year-old daughter of Russellthemussell-Kalowna Sunrise, by Aloha Prospector, who was bred by Russell Moore's Seawind Stables LLC, improved her record to 9-5-5 from 31 starts and has earned $128,124.

  Get Happy Mister, the two-year-old son of First Samurai who won the $100,000 Gold Rush Futurity on August 19 at Arapahoe Park - in his fourth wins in as many starts - hails from a prominent Washington family. His fourth dam, Yang, produced Washington champion and leading sire Knights Choice, stakes winner Hi Chaparral and stakes-placed Tyler Jennings, as well as winner My Kinda Lady, the third dam of Get Happy Mister. My Kinda Lady produced Get Happy Mister's stakes-placed second dam Kinda Beau, who in turn produced four stakes winners and Get Happy Mister's stakes-placed dam Sara Margaret, a daughter of Elusive Quality.

  Frank L. Gaunt's Stormy Lucy, who won the Golden Poppy Stakes at Golden Gate Fields last May, finished second, only a half-length behind winner Lady of Shamrock, in the $300,000 Del Mar Oaks (G1) on August 18. Trained by Frank Lucarelli, Stormy Lucy - a three-year-old daughter of Stormy Atlantic-Here Comes Lucinda - has earned $176,045.

  Point of Entry, the four-year-old Dynaformer colt who won the $500,000 Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap (G1) at Saratoga on August 18, descends from champion sprinter Gold Beauty. Point of Entry is a half-brother to Alabama Stakes (G1) winner Pine Island, their dam Matlacha Pass is a granddaughter of Alabama Stakes (G1) winner Maplejinsky - a half-sister to champion Dayjur. Dayjur's full sister Elhasna is the dam of Emerald Downs champion racemare Karis Makaw and her $181,820 stakes-winning half-brother Nationhood, who holds court at Blue Ribbon Farm and whose first foals are yearlings of 2012.

  Six-year-old Little Shiney became the fifth 2012 stakes horse for Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat after she finished third in the restricted Sadie Hawkins Stakes at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races on August 11. Stakes-placed at four and five, the West Virginia-bred mare out of Oh Shiney, by Chimes Band, has won six races and placed another 19 times en route to earnings of $232,010.

 Former Washington sire Court Trial is the damsire of 13 stakes winners, including five-year-old Tune Me Out, a Florida-bred gelding by Concorde's Tune who won the $150,000 Oceanport Stakes (G3) at Monmouth Park on July 20. The first stakes winner out of $117,748 winner Pleasant Courtney, Tune Me In has earned $289,845.

  Four-year-old Naples Bay, a daughter of Giant's Causeway out of Washington-bred stakes winner Cappucino Bay, won her third race on August 17 in a 1 1/16-mile turf allowance at Monmouth Park. Naples Bay, who has earned $120,170, her half-brothers - $5.7-million Grade 1 stakes winner and major sire Medaglia d'Oro and $344,285 stakes-placed Expresso Bay - as well as Cappucino Bay and her Washington champion half-brother Maharesred, were all bred by Montanans Al and Joyce Bell.

  Three-year-old In Lingerie, the daughter of Empire Maker who won the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan and Grade 3 Bourbonette stakes and finished third in the TVG Coaching Club American Oaks (G1), ran second in the $600,000 Alabama Stakes (G1) run at Saratoga on August 18. In Lingerie is a daughter of Grade 2 winner Cat Chat - who is out of Herman Sarkowsky's champion Phone Chatter - and the Todd Pletcher trainee has a record of 3-2-1 from six starts and has earned $412,265.

 Three-year-old High End Man, the son of Joey Franco who won the Richmond Derby Trial Handicap at Hastings Racecourse on August 17, is out of the Washington-bred Jumron (GB) mare Angie's Legacy, who was bred by Ron Crockett.

  Mark Dedomenico LLC and North American Horse Corporation's three-year-old Evelyn's Dancer scored her third stakes victory at Hastings Racecourse on August 1 when she took the Hong Kong Jockey Club Handicap by 2 1/4 lengths. The Kentucky-bred daughter of Songandaprayer-Seraphic Too, by Southern Halo, improved her record to 5-2-1 from ten starts and has earned $157,652.