WASHINGTON THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS AND OWNERS ASSOCIATION
 
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July 19, 2013

 

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Saturday, July 20, 2013
WTBOA ANNUAL MEETING

Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
THE PADDOCK SALE AT DEL MAR 

Del Mar, CA

(909) 629-3099; barretts.com 

 

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

THRUST INDUSTRY GRANT DEADLINE 

Auburn, WA

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Friday, August 9, 2013

WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING 

Auburn City Council Chambers

25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA

(360) 459-6462

 

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

CTBA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA YEARLING & HORSES OF RACING AGE SALE

(800) 573-2822 or (626) 445-7800; ctba.com   

 

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

The Tuesday following the Longacres Mile (G3)
WTBOA SUMMER YEARLING & MIXED SALE 

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Saturday, August 31, 2013

PRODIGIOUS FUND THOROUGHBRED SHOWCASE

MJ Ahladeff Sales Pavilion 

Auburn, WA

(253) 288-7000; emeralddowns.com 

  

Friday, September 13, 2013
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING 

Auburn City Council Chambers

25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA

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Saturday, October 5, 2013

PRODIGIOUS FUND THOROUGHBRED ONLY HORSE SHOW

Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
BARRETTS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE 

Pomona, CA

(909) 629-3099; barretts.com 

 

Friday, October 11, 2013
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING 

Auburn City Council Chambers

25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA

(360) 459-6462

 

Friday, November 8, 2013
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING 

Auburn City Council Chambers

25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA

(360) 459-6462 

 

 

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2013 WTBOA August Catalog Updates

   The WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale catalog is now online at http://www.washingtonthoroughbred.com/Sales/Cat_Summer&Mixed13.htm.

 The following catalog updates, in hip order, have occurred in July:

   Hip 27 - One Lucky Hoss earned his sixth win at Emerald Downs on July 12 and upped his earnings to $27,241. His half-sister by Sixthirteen is being sold by Charles Landells through Bar C Racing Stables.

   Hip 38 - Del Rio Harbor won a maiden special weight race at Emerald on July 13. He is a full brother to Washington champion Couldabenthewhisky and half-brother to stakes winner Bahati Gold. Hip 38, Del Rio Harbor and Couldabenthewhisky are all sons of Harbor the Gold from Bar C Racing Stables.

   Hip 43 - Harbor Wind upped his earnings to $44,822 with his third win, on July 13, at Emerald Downs. His half-brother by Parker's Storm Cat is being offered by Prisco Vacca Farms.

   Hip 59 - Private Password broke his maiden at Emerald Downs on July 14. His half-sister by Nationhood is being sold by Blue Ribbon Farms.

   Hip 77 - Spot On Babe, a three-year-old Washington-bred daughter of Tribal Rule out of Barbara Shinpoch Stakes winner Irene's Bonus Baby, won her initial outing - a 5 1/2-furlong maiden/$30,000 optional claiming (N) race by 3 3/4 lengths at Emerald Downs on July 6. Her breeders, Ron and Nina Hagen, have consigned her half-brother by Private Gold .

   Hip 83 - Three-year-old Sittin At the Bar annexed her fifth stakes race when the daughter of Into Mischief won the $100,000 Louisiana Legends Ladies Sprint Stakes at Evangeline Downs on July 6. She has a record of 6-2-1 from 11 starts and her earnings' column is $382,140. Her dam, $272, 283 stakes winner Fast Laner, is a half-sister to the Private Gold colt being offered by El Dorado Farms.

Other WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News

   Five-year-old Ivanho won an allowance/$62,500 optional claiming (N) race on the opening card at Del Mar on August 17.The Kentucky-bred gelding by Broken Vow-Mybrowneyedgal, by El Prado (Ire), who was ridden by Gary Stevens, took the 1 1/16-mile turf race by 2 1/4 lengths to improve his record to 5-9-2 from 27 starts. He has earned $231,870.

   One of the four "actors" playing the hero's steed Silver in the 2013 Disney movie The Lone Ranger is four-year-oldArctic Bright View, a son of Panoramic-Arcticanna, by Airdrie Apache, bred in Oregon by Dalene Knight's Painted Desert Farm. The unraced Arctic Bright View's grandam was Tropicanna Anna, who went through the WTBOA sales ring three times, the first time as a yearling in 1989. Tropicanna Anna was a granddaughter of champion racemare Open Fire.

WTBOA Sale Up On TrueNicks

   Twenty stallions with yearlings sired by and three broodmares bred to TrueNick subscribed stallions are represented in the upcoming August 20 WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale: Abraaj, Atta Boy Roy, Bellamy Road, Bluegrass Cat, Corinthian, Einstein (Brz), Good Journey, Grindstone, Hard Spun, Hold Me Back, Majestic Warrior, Nationhood, Parker's Storm Cat, Private Gold, Proud Citizen, Raise the Bluff, Rockport Harbor, Scat Daddy, Slew's Tiznow, Stormin Fever, Yes It's True and Zensational.

   Free TrueNicks reports for these horses are available at: http://www.truenicks.com/auctions/sale/WASSEP/2013-8-20/washington-thoroughbred-breeders--owners-association-2013-summer-yearling-sale/hips.

   If the sire of a yearling or cover stallion for a broodmare has not been subscribed, a report can be purchased. Among the options are a classic" report for $15 or an "enhanced" report for $25.

   Information included on the TrueNicks report includes a five-cross pedigree, foals bred on rated cross, highlighted by a list of the "Top 15 Foals Bred on Rated Cross," auction n results from the cross and other statistics.

Freshman Sire Nationhood Gets First Winner

   Zafari Nation became the first runner by freshman stallion Nationhood to reach the winner's circle when the two-year-old filly opened up by a clear margin to win a $12,500 maiden claiming race at Emerald Downs on July 13. Out of two-time Emerald stakes winner A Jazzy Venture, a daughter of Jazzing Around who earned $103,525, Zafari Nation races for her breeders Karen Angelos and Keith Swagerty and their partner Terry Pierce and is trained by Larry Pierce.

   Zafari Nation is one of 15 juveniles in the first crop sired by three-time stakes winner Nationhood, a son of champion sprinter Cherokee Run who stands at Rick and Debbie Pabst's Blue Ribbon Farm. A half-brother to $159,182 stakes winner Karis Makaw and Group 3-placed Irtahal, Nationhood stems from the immediate family of champions and/or Grade 1 winners Gold Beauty, Dayjur, Maplejinsky, Sky Beauty, Pleasant Home, Point of Entry and Pine Island.

   Nationhood is represented by seven yearlings in the WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale.

2013 Washington Racing Hall of Fame Inductees Announced

   Two horses and five individuals will be the honored inductees at the 11th Washington Racing Hall of Fame dinner and ceremonies scheduled for Saturday, August 17, at Emerald Downs.

   Male horse honors go to G & N Thoroughbreds' 12-time stakes winner Military Hawk. The 1987-foaled son of Colonel Stevens-S.S. Hawk, by Flying Lark, also placed in 25 other stakes while racing up and down the West Coast in a career that spanned from 1989 to 1997. One of only a handful of runners to win stakes at Longacres, Playfair and Yakima Meadows, the $686,128 earner - the second highest money earner in state history - and 1992 champion handicapper, was trained by Larry and Sharon Ross.

   Table Hands, the second highest ranked filly on the 1979 national Experimental Free Handicap, was one of four state champions bred by 2009 breeder inductees Wilbur and Marianne Stadelman. A daughter of leading state sire Table Run, Table Hands was one of a trio of champions out of 1979 broodmare of the year Hold Hands. Unbeaten at two, Table Hands won four stakes in five starts as a juvenile, including victories in the Grade 2 Hollywood Lassie and Del Mar Debutante stakes and was named Washington horse of the year and champion two-year-old. After her successful start, Table Hands finished her race career for Peter Brant and Joseph Allen. At three, she extended that streak to six after she won the Grade 3 Santa Ynez Stakes. She would start five more times, and though never finishing further back than fifth, her best efforts were a trio of third place finishes, led by her show position in the Grade 1 Santa Susana Stakes. In her 11 lifetime starts over three seasons Table Hands earned $290,595.

   Gallyn Mitchell, Emerald Downs all-time leading rider by wins (1,347), stakes wins (76) and earnings ($13,847,580), is the only rider to compete at the Auburn track in each of its first 18 seasons and had been among the top five riders in 16 of his first 17 years at Emerald. A native of Denver, Colorado, the 50-year-old reinsman - who is nicknamed "Booger" - began his riding career in 1980 and his first win came on January 29, 1981, at Santa Anita. Mitchell, who has two Longacres Mile (G3) wins to his credit, has an overall record of 2,628-2,453-2,375 from 17,003 starts with total earnings of $20,451,846. In a side skill, Mitchell has also appeared as a stuntman in various movies, including Seabiscuit and Little Big Man.

   Howard Belvoir took out his first trainer's license in 1963 at Exhibition Park and it was at the Vancouver track where he saddled his first winner. Since that time the Iola, Kansas, native (through July 14, 2013) has recorded a record of 1,900-1,988-1,955 from 14,798 starters who have earned $17,635,705. His most memorial year came in 2008 when his homebred Wasserman took the Longacres Mile en route to being named both Washington horse of the year and Emerald Downs horse of the meet. Belvoir was also honored that year as TOBA's small breeder of the year. Belvoir trainee Assessment won the Mile in 2009 to give him back-to-back winners of Washington's most prestigious stakes. One of his early stakes winners was eight-time stakes winner Red Eyed Express and among the many stakes winners he has trained are additional Washington champions Sundance Circle, Seattles Best Joe, Immigration, Mulcahy, Spite and Malice, Commercial Choice and Serenity Road.

   In 1983, John and Doris Konecny spent $20,000 for a yearling filly by Messenger of Song out of the tough Washington champion racemare Silky Steele at the WHBA sale. Although Whimsical Aire would never race, her descendants would lead to many trips to the winner's for the family's Czech-Mate Farm. Among those topnotch runners descending from Whimsical Aire are Washington champions Mahaska - and her 2011 champion daughter Quizzical, Handyman Bill and Enumclaw Girl, as well as Grade 2 stakes winner Elusive Diva. Both Whimsical Aire and her stakes-winning daughter Taj Aire were honored as Washington broodmares of the year. Another notable Czech-Mate broodmare was the *Vaguely Noble granddaughter Wicca, whose champion daughter Flame McGoon would be the first of three generations of Washington champions via Infernal McGoon and then Talk to My Lawyer.

   When the Konecny's son, Dr. Michael Konecny, returned from his research in South America, he too was "bit" by the horse racing bug. With even less mares than his parent's small band, Michael bred Washington horse of the year and Grade 1 stakes winner Tali'sluckybusride and Grade 2 winner Fast Parade. Springhurst, dam of "Tali" was named 2001 broodmare of the year. Among the other stakes winners bred at the Konecny family's Enumclaw nursery from 1987 through 2009 were: Zashrany, and her stakes-winning offspring Alert and Ready and Zatim, R. Baggio, West Walker, Just Diet (Washington's most improved plater of 1997), Little Eva and Cantil.

   Ralph Vacca, who has been actively involved in the Thoroughbred industry for over 60 years, will be honored with the Special Achievement Award. Born in Seattle and raised in Rainier Valley, Vacca began his lifelong love affair with the Thoroughbred as a teenager, walking hots and grooming runners at Longacres for Hall of Fame breeder and industry leader Frank Brewster.

   During his first sojourn to Kentucky Vacca worked with yearlings and broodmares at Claiborne and Stoner Creek farms. In 1950 he returned to Washington and a position as the WHBA's field secretary. After another stint in Kentucky where he worked for the Thoroughbred Record and Daily Racing Form, Vacca returned once again to his Washington roots where he was hired as the advertising manager for the Washington Horse and was later promoted as its editor. He was appointed the "interim" WHBA general manager in April of 1973, but by the end of that year had been given that position outright. He would serve as the head of the association until his retirement at the end of 2007. Along the way Vacca has always been an active ambassador to the sport, helped bring stallions and broodmares to the state, advised matings, helped pass important legislation and develop the THRUST and youth broodmare program and served on many committees, including the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation.

   The Washington Racing Hall of Fame is currently comprised of 61 well-deserving members, which include 17 equine athletes, 13 jockeys, 13 trainers, 12 breeders and six who have been given special achievement awards.

Washington Cup XI Receives Sponsorship Boost
   With five new title sponsors on board, a rejuvenated Washington Cup will feature six stakes races, each worth $50,000, on Sunday, September 8, at Emerald Downs.  
   The new sponsorships have raised Washington Cup XI's aggregate stakes purses to $300,000, a substantial raise from the $215,000 offered the last several years. 
   Contributing $15,000 each are: Northwest Farms,
Daily Racing Form, Comcast SportsNet, Jim Beam and Pegasus Training and Equine Rehabilitation Center. 
   "We're thrilled to announce these sponsorships," said Emerald Downs Director of Marketing Sophia McKee. "It's gratifying to see so many people step forward with commitments to support Washington-bred horses. 
   "The end result is that our horsemen will be running for more money, and bigger purses help the state's breeding industry." 
   First contested in 2003, Washington Cup annually celebrates the state's long and storied tradition for producing talented Thoroughbreds. Washington Cup features two stakes apiece for two-year-olds, three-year-olds and older horses that are either foaled in Washington or by a Washington-based stallion. 
   Washington Cup has been a showcase for several of the state's all-time greatest Thoroughbreds. The list of Emerald Downs' champions to win Washington Cup races includes state champions Noosa Beach, Wasserman, Atta Boy Roy, Queenledo, Ladyledue and Music of My Soul.
   The 2013 Washington Cup sponsors and sponsored races are: Northwest Farms, $50,000 Diane Kem Stakes for two-year-old fillies, six furlongs; Daily Racing Form, $50,000 Dennis Dodge Stakes for two-year-old colts and geldings, six furlongs; Pegasus Training Equine and Rehabilitation Center,$50,000 John & Kitty Fletcher Stakes for three-year-old fillies, one mile; Jim Beam,$50,000 Chinook Pass Stakes for three-year-old colts and geldings, one mile; Comcast SportsNet (CSN),$50,000 Belle Roberts Stakes for older fillies and mares, 1 1/16 miles; and the continuing sponsorship of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, $50,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic for three-year-olds and up, 1 1/16 miles. Courtesy of Vince Bruun, Emerald Downs.

Emerald Notes

Smooth Sailing

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In more than a bit of an upset, Greame Hope's Gosailgo - the longest shot in the four-horse field at nine-to-one - went gate-to-wire to win the $50,000 Boeing Handicap by five lengths. Final time for the four-year-old British Columbia-bred filly in the July 7 mile stakes was 1:35.08. Odds-on choice Exclusive Diva (Bernardini-Puxa Saco), who was looking to take her fifth stakes win at Emerald for Debbie Paxton and Northwest Farms LLC, had to settle for second place, 4 3/4 lengths the better of second choice, Highlander Racing Stables' E Z Kitty (He's Tops-Envision the Cat), in the widely strung out field. Fleur de Lis Stable LLC's Champagneandcavier, who had been named the top juvenile filly at the 2012 meet, lacked a closing response and finished another 6 1/2 lengths to the rear.

   Ridden by Debbie Hoonan, Gosailgo, a four-year-old daughter of Finality-Sailpast, by No Louder, trained by Robert Anderson, had finished third in the June 9 Washington State Legislators Stakes (won by Exclusive Diva) and fourth in the May 12 Hastings Handicap (won by E Z Kitty). A winner of her only race at two, Gosailgo won the restricted British Columbia Dogwood Stakes on 3 1/2 lengths last summer at three. The filly's other win came in a Turf Paradise allowance race last April and she now has a record of 4-1-2 in 11 starts and earnings of $96,739 for Hope, who resides in Burnaby.

   "She went up to the lead really easy," related Hoonan, who was returning to the races after nearly a month out due to a leg injury. "She was really game. Underneath me, she felt like she knew what she was doing, and that she was in charge. I was really surprised that (E Z Kitty and Exclusive Diva) didn't go to the lead. I thought they'd be out there wingin' and dingin,' but I guess they were trying to play a different game today and it worked in our favor."

 

Triple Triple

   The three-year-old filly division belongs to Stopshopping Debbie, Goin to the Window and Blueberry Smoothie, and in that order, as the three of Jerre Paxton's Northwest Farms fillies have now finished in those one-two-three positions in three consecutive stakes. Their most recent tour de force came

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in the July 14, Kent Handicap, when the unbeaten Stopshoppingdebbie narrowly defeated her stablemate, NWF and Debbie Paxton-owned Goin to the Window (Tapit-Queens Full) by a head in the 1 1/16-mile race. NWF and C and M Racing's Blueberry Smoothie (Giant's Causeway-Shampoo) finished another 3 1/4 lengths behind her in third in the field of four. Final time in the $50,000 race was 1:43.13. All three of the talented fillies hail from Tom Wenzel's successful barn.

   Stopshoppingdebbie, who has been ridden by Rocco Bowen throughout her stakes career, is the first filly since Paxton's Shampoo to sweep the first three stakes in the Emerald sophomore filly division. The Kentucky-bred daughter of Curlin-Taste the Passion, by Wild Again, is now four for four with earnings of $92,318.

   "I tried to slow down the pace, but I think I might have slowed it down too much," said Bowen. "She started to lose a little focus down the backside. She switched leads a little too late.

   "I think (Goin to the Window) got maybe a head on us, but my horse just dug back in. It definitely was a dogfight, which is good because now she knows what it's like."

 

Seattle Gold

   While the three-year-old stakes fillies have been the epitome of consistency, it's been a bit more helter- skelter in the sophomore male division. In the first race, the Auburn Handicap was won by Finallygotabentley with Mike Man's Gold running sixth and Music of My Soul scratched at the gate. Five weeks later Music of My Soul won the Coca-Cola Handicap with Finallygotabentley and Mike Man's Gold running sixth and seventh, respectively.

   The third race leading up to the August 11 Emerald Downs Derby was the $50,000 Seattle Slew Handicap, run on July 14 at a mile and a sixteenth. Elttaes Stable's Music of My Soul (Harbor the Gold-Julia Rose) went off as the $1.30-to-one favorite and nearly got the job done, but the victory spoils would go to Swag Stables and Gallo Stables' $18.40-to-one longshot Mike Man's Gold, who held on to a neck victory after leading at every call.

   Peter Redekop BC Ltd's Worldventurer (Wimbledon-Better Than Most), placed third, 2 3/4 lengths behind Music of My Soul, but a neck in front of Finallygotabentley in a race run in 1:42.92.

   A double stakes winner at two, Mike Man's Gold has won half of his ten starts and earned $105,126. Bred by Keith and Jan Swagerty's Swag Stables, the Washington-bred son of Liberty Gold-Chedoodle, by Slewdledo, races for Swag Stables and William Gallo's Gallo Stables of Jericho, New York.

   Mike Man's Gold, who is trained by David Martinez, was ridden to his latest victory by Javier Matias.

   "Nobody believed me that this horse would run well," said Matias. "I felt the first half of the race that we were going easy. I was nervous at the three-eighths, but when the other horse (Music of My Soul) hadn't gone by us at the quarter-pole, I was feeling really good. I asked him at the quarter-pole and he never quit. I think he's really coming back now."

 

Stats Through July 14

   Through the first 13 weeks of the 2013 season, Juan Gutierrez, who is riding with a top three percentage of 64, leads the Emerald jockey colony by wins (61) and money earned ($593,435). Following him in second in both categories is newcomer Isaias Enriquez with 59 wins and $517,759 in mount earnings. Rounding out the top five riders are Rocco Bowen (34 wins, $358,136), David Lopez (30 wins, $338,609) and Javier Matias (25 wins, $309,646).

   While trainer Jeffrey Metz continues to dominate with wins (25), he ranks third in money earned behind leader Tom Wenzel's $321,787, who has slightly over a third (50 vs. 140) the number of starters as Metz. Wenzel currently has a top three percentage of 72. Frank Lucarelli ranks second in both wins (22) and earnings ($207,057). Doris Harwood ranks fourth in wins (18) and money ($192,663). Chris Stenslie ranks third in wins with 19 and Jim Penney ranks fifth in money with $172,676.

 

Gemstones

   Constance Barnes' Max Cooper became the first four-time winner at the meet when he took an $8,000 claiming race on July 13. The Jeffrey Metz trainee, a five-year-old Florida-bred son of Max's Pal who reached the $100,000 plateau with this his seventh win overall and fifth in 2013, was ridden by Juan Gutierrez.

   Eliska Kubinova rode her 100th Emerald Downs winner on July 14 when she scored with Clemans Brook in race eight and then added win 101 with Fist Full of Green two races later.

Washington-breds of the Week at Emerald Downs

   Week 10 showcased the talents of David Breiwick's homebred Wowie Maui. The seven-year-old son of Harbor the Gold-Summer Straw, by Basket Weave, made his Emerald debut of the season on June 29 and scored a gate-to-wire five-length win in a $7,500 claimer for trainer Joe Toye and rider Eliska Kubinova. The now six-race winner was coming off three consecutive seconds in Quarter Horse mixed trials at Turf Paradise this past spring. A longtime Thoroughbred enthusiast, Brewick is the president of Ace Glavanizing Inc. He reports that Summer Straw, who is a 100 percent producer of winners from her first four foals, is also the dam of Kahului Bluff, a two-year-old colt by Raise the Bluff.

   In week 11, which included the Fourth of July holiday cards, John and Janene Maryanski's homebred Seventyprcentcocoa was named top Washington-bred after the five-year-old mare won a $25,000 claiming race by 1 1/2 lengths on July 7. It was the third win in four starts for the daughter of Private Gold-She'skickinupdust, by Slewdledo, at the current Emerald meet. The Blaine Wright-trained, Juan Gutierrez-ridden runner has a lifetime record of 6-3-4 from 17 starts and has earned $75,242 overall. The Maryanskis, Wright and Gutierrez also teamed together to win races with Newfound Man (July 6) and Rocky's Quest (June 30).

   WTBOA board member Darrin Paul earned week 11 honors as top owner with two winners from three starters, including wins by Paul homebred Jewel S., who won a race by 4 1/2 lengths on July 7, and Joy's Jaguar on July 4.

Russell Baze Scores Win 12,000

   Washington Racing Hall of Famer Russell Baze, 55, registered his 12,000th win on July 7 in the closing race at Pleasanton. The rider had three wins - including his ride on Skydreamin in the Everett Nevin Stakes -one second and one third from six mounts on the 11-race Sunday card. Only Brazilian Jorge Ricardo, who scored his 12,000th victory on May 26 and currently has 12,018 wins to his credit, has ridden more winners.

   Laffit Pincay Jr., who retired with 9,530 winning mounts in 2003, had surpassed Bill Shoemaker's previous record of 8,833 in 1999.

Multiple Stakes Winner Secret Romeo Standing at Southall Farm

   Secret Romeo, a multiple champion in Michigan who won 17 stakes and placed in an additional 11 while racing mainly in the Midwest before retiring to stud in 2005 in Michigan with earnings of $685,790, is now standing at Rick and Donna Southall's Southall Farm in Lake Stevens.

   Secret Romeo, a son of the stakes-winning Deputy Minister stallion Service Stripe, won races from five to nine furlongs. He set new track records at Great Lake Downs when winning the Michigan Futurity and Wink Novotny Memorial Stakes and equaled the seven-furlong mark at Tampa Bay Downs when winning the Super Stakes and equaled another track record in a mile allowance at Great Lake Downs.

   Secret Romeo's dam, the $54,030 winning Romeo mare Berry Point, also produced 2007 Michigan Futurity winner Berry's Pride and was named Michigan broodmare of the year in 2002. Berry Point is a half-sister to $151,922 stakes winner Shake Rag Ruthie and stakes-placed Alaura. This is also the family of Dominican Republic champions Roger Michael and Primavera.

   A sire of three stakes winners and four stakes-placed runners, led by $226,023 earner Brandys Secret, through July 14, Secret Romeo ranks seventh on the 2013 Washington leading sire list with four winners and $155,646 in earnings.

   His first Washington crop races in 2014.

   Secret Romeo will stand the 2014 season for a fee of $1,000 or $500 for stakes-winning or stakes-producing mares with a live foal guarantee.

2013 Washington Sire Leaders

   Through July 16, Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat continues to lead the Washington sire ranks with earnings of $589,149, of which $239,850 has been accumulated by his graded stakes-winning son Ben's Cat, one of a dozen winners for the son of Storm Cat this year.

  Deceased Cahill Road ranks second with $339,204 in earnings and 29 winners, the chief being stakes-placed Cariboo Road.

Matty G, who stands at Lucky Acres, ranks third with $335,053 and 21 winners.

  Woodstead Farm's He's Tops sits in the number four spot with $254,829. The best among his 16 winners is multiple stakes winner E z Kitty, who has earned $102,057 so far this year.

   Rounding out the top five is El Dorado Farms LLC's Private Gold with $177,431. Seventypercentcocoa, who has earned $27,943 in 2013, is the top earner among his 14 winners.

Three New Chefs-de-Race Added

   It was announced in July 2013 that three more stallions have been given chefs-de-race status, two North American stallions, Chief's Crown and Gone West - who are both out of Secretariat mares - and the top Irish stallion Montjeu, who died prematurely at age 16 in 2012.

   Chief's Crown (1982, Danzig-Six Crowns, by Secretariat), was the 1984 Eclipse Award winner as champion two-year-old colt. A half-brother to top Washington sire and Grade 1 performer Tribunal, Chief's Crown sired 53 stakes winners from 593 foals, including four champions and is the damsire of over 60 stakes winners, including five champions. He was given an intermediate/solid designation.

   Gone West (1984, Mr. Prospector-Secrettame, by Secretariat), who won the Grade 1 Dwyer Stakes, sired four champions among his 100 stakes winners from 1,263 foals and his daughters have produced nearly the same number of black-type earners. He was given an intermediate/classic designation.

   Montjeu (1996, Sadler's Wells-Floripedes [Fr], by Top Ville) is one of the 328 stakes winners and many champions sired by 12-time champion sire Sadler's Wells. A six-time Group 1 winner, whose victories included both the French and Irish Derbies and Prix de l'Arc de Triompe, Montjeu was voted champion three-year-old in France and champion older male in England, France and Ireland. Among his 122 stakes winners from his first 1,307 foals of racing age are multiple Grade/Group 1 winner St Nicholas Abbey (Ire), Epsom Derby (G1) winners Motivator, Authorized, Pour Moi and Camelot and Prix de l'Arc de Triompe victor Hurricane Run. Montjeu has been given classic/solid status.

   The total list of the now 220 chefs-de-race can be found at:

http://www.chef-de-race.com/dosage/chefs-de-race/chefs.htm. 

Other News

   On July 13, WTBOA Sale poster boy Smiling Tiger's three-quarter-sister She's a Tiger, won her second race and first stakes in two starts when the daughter of Tale of the Cat took the $150,500 Landaluce Stakes on the final summer card at Betfair Hollywood Park. The two-year-old filly, who races for Mark Dedomenico LLC, Allen J. Aldrich, Lisa Hernandez and Stuart Downey and was bred by Dr. Rodney Orr, took the six-furlong race by three-quarters of a length. The Jeff Bonde trainee, a $150,000 Keeneland September yearling, has earned $105,650.

  Stakes-placed Flying Squirrel, a six-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Orientate out of Washington broodmare of the year Nightatmisskittys, took her ninth win - and third mixed Quarter Horse race - in a 610-yard allowance race at Prineville's Crooked River Roundup in July 11. Bred by Dunn Bar Ranch LLC, the half-sister to Washington champions No Constraints and Sundance Circle and Canadian stakes winner Dandy Dora races for and is trained by Donald Young.

   Michael and Amy Feuerborn's homebred two-year-old Chu and You, a full sister to their champion two-year-old male of 2011 Chu and I, won her first outing, a $25,000 maiden claiming race, by 5 3/4 lengths at Emerald Downs on July 13. Both runners are by the pensioned You and I and out of the Volponi mare Bronze Charmer.

   Two-year-old Skydreamin is now two for two, both stakes, after the Kentucky-bred son of Sky Mesa-Unfinished Dream, by Silver Deputy, won the $50,000 Everett Nevin Stakes run at Pleasanton on July 7. Bred by Northwest Farms LLC, Skydreamin has earned $63,450 for Lorill Harlington, Alan Klein and Philip Lebherz. The Jeff Bonde trainee was ridden to his 5 1/2-length win by Russell Baze.

   Mark Dedomenico LLC and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's first-time starter Stop Smiling returned to the winner's circle at Betfair Hollywood Park after the two-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of It's No Joke-Starinthemeadow, by Meadowlake, won a five-furlong maiden special weight race by 1 1/2 lengths on July 6.

   Five-year-old Candy for Debbie, who has raced his entire career for Ron Maus and his Buffalo Stable, went over the $100,000 with his one-length victory in a 1 1/16-mile allowance test run at Pleasanton on July 6. The Kentucky-bred son of Candy Ride (Arg)-Crown of Gold, by Seeking the Gold, has won two of his four starts in 2013 and has a 10-3-3 record overall with $113,509 in earnings.

   Limo, a five-year-old son of Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat,took a six-furlong allowance race at Canterbury Park on July 8, upping his earnings to $62,088. He is trained by Glenda and Allen Roberts' son-in-law McLean Robertson.

   Great Bluff, a five-year-old daughter of Albert the Great-Time to Bluff, by Pine Bluff, who races for Above the Crowd Stable LLC and Horseplayers Racing Club LLC, won for the fifth time after she finished first in a mile starter/$10,000 optional claiming race over Louisiana Downs' turf course on July 5 and was haltered.

   Declaration of War, the four-year-old Group 1-winning half-brother to Gibson Thoroughbred Farm newcomer War Power, finished second in the �425,000 Coral Eclipse Stakes (G1-GB) run at Sandown Park in England on July 6. The Kentucky-bred son of War Front-Tempo West, by Rahy, who is trained by Aiden O'Brien, added �91,375to his coffers.

   Mark Dedomenico LLC and North American Thoroughbred Horse Company's Three Way Trade, a two-year-old son of Grand Slam-Silky Kitty, finished second by a neck to Deviance in the $48,085 New Westminster Stakes run at Hastings Racecourse on July 14.

   Six-year-old Washington-bred Private Swing, a son of El Dorado Farms LLC's Private Gold out of Sweet Swinging Ms, by Swing and Miss, won for the fifth time in six starts this year, and gained his 14th victory overall, after he took a 550-yard mixed allowance race at Grande Prairie on July 14. Raced and trained by Lyle Magnuson and bred by White Mountain Stable, Private Swing has combined earnings of $66,785. Two days earlier at the Canadian track, La Midnite Special, who is also owned and trained by Magnuson, won a six-furlong allowance by nearly four lengths. It was the third victory for the five-year-old gelding by High Brite-Lacrystal Classic, by La Saboteur, bred by Charles Landells.

   Mark and Ann Janlois, Dr. George Todaro and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's Olympic Blue, a three-year-old son of Olympio-Blue Corn, finished third in the second division of the Oceanside Stakes run on Del Mar's July 17 opening card. On the same card, Remmah Racing, Inc.-homebred Anita Marie, a three-year-old California-bred daughter of Thisnearlywasmine-Dee Dee's Princess, by Cryptoclearance, won a $20,000 six-furlong race and was claimed by GP Stables LP. She was one of 13 horses to change hands in the five claiming races run on the ten-race card.

New Graded Stakes Profiles Introduced on equibase.com

   Equibase Company LLC has introduced Graded Stakes Profiles in the Stats Central section on equibase.com. These free profiles are available for every graded stakes in North America and include details of the race's history back to 1976.

   Each profile lists the winning connections of each running of the race as well as the specific conditions of that year's edition including the name of the race, host track, grade, purse and distance.  Links to charts and replays are available from 1991 and 2007, respectively. Interesting facts such as the fastest winning time and the biggest margin of victory in the modern history (from 1976 to present) of the race are also included.

   "Fans now have easy access to the detailed history of the best races in North America in one central location within Stats Central," said Rhonda Norby, marketing and communications manager for Equibase Company. "It is a treasure trove of information because every winning horse, trainer, jockey and owner listed within those pages are active links to that individual's profile page."

   Graded stakes listed throughout equibase.com are now links to that race's specific profile.  The   Graded Stakes Profiles are also searchable on the site and provide upcoming race information, including stakes nominations and handicap weights if available, once entries have been drawn for the race. The profiles are the latest addition to the Stats Central section of equibase.com, which includes expanded horse, jockey, trainer, owner and track profiles.