2014 WTBOA Election Results

   Incumbents Rosalia DiPietro, Dr. Duane Hopp and Candi Tollett have been re-elected for a three-year position on the WTBOA board of directors. Joining them will be newcomer Steve Zerda for the 2014-16 term.

   Two positions were up to be filled on the WTBOA Sales Committee. Newcomer Nina Hagen joins incumbent Bryson Cooper on this important committee.

   Congratulations to all elected and thank you to each WTBOA member who ran this year.

WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News

   2013 Washington leading two-year-old sire, Lucky Acres' Matty G, sired his eighth juvenile winner of the year, from 15 starters, when Larry Ramnarine-owned and -trained Ifsowhynot won a maiden claiming race at Portland Meadows on November 13. Bred in Washington by Oak Crest Farm, the new winner is out of Millfleur, by Green Dancer.

   2012 Washington champion racemare E Z Kitty went gate-to-wire to score her 13th victory in a mile turf allowance at Turf Paradise on November 19. Voted Emerald Downs' leading older mare this past season, the five-year-old daughter of Woodstead Farm's He Tops has now earned $281,342 in her 25 lifetime starts which also includes three seconds and four third place finishers. The talented dark bay distaffer out of the Lost Code mare Envision the Cat was bred by Jerry and Peggy Woods and races for Highlander Racing Stable LLC. Guided to the two-length win by Scott Stevens, EZ Kitty hails from 2013 leading Emerald trainer Jeff Metz's stable. Finishing second in the race was Dr. George Todaro's stakes-winning Cell Line Forever, a six-year-old daughter of Globalize.

   Five-year-old mare Rossi Reserve won a 6 1/2-furlong race at Betfair Hollywood Park to claim her fourth 2013 win, and 11th overall, on November 10. Bred in Kentucky by Northwest Farms LLC, the daughter of Eddington-Strong Credentials, by Carson City, has earned $152,530. Northwest Farms also had another winner on the Hollywood Park card when three-year-old first-time starter Five Palms took a six-panel maiden special weight race in his first outing. Raced by Michael Pegram and partners, the son of Unbridled's Song is out of Grade 2 stakes winner and Emerald Downs champion Ema Bovary (Chi).

Oregon Championship Day 2013

   Oregon Championship Day, which featured four Thoroughbred stakes and the Baxter Andruss Futurity for Quarter Horses among its ten-race card restricted to Oregon-bred runners, was held at Portland Meadows on November 17. The day's activities also featured a jockey autograph session, a Craft Beer Festival and activities for children in the Horseplay Kids Zone.

   The $28,500 Quarter Horse stakes was won by Ron E. Raley-owned, -bred and -trained Thinkin of Girls, a gelded son of Carters Cartel.

   Bob and Pat Cosgrove's Jet Set Kitten made it two in a row after the daughter of Jet West-Karlee's Kitten, by Pioneering, went gate-to-wire to win the $15,000 Janet Wineberg Stakes by 9 3/4 lengths. Finishing second and third in the six-furlong race were two first-time starters sired by Grindstone: Margaret Root's Dreamstone and Cheryl Weaver and Kim Donovan Weaver's Sacredtone. Jet Set Kitten is trained by Jonathan Nance and was ridden by Eliska Kubinova. She has earned $16,857 and her final race time over a wet fast track was 1:11.30.

   The $15,000 Bill Wineberg Stakes went to Hurliman Enterprises LLC's Maddie's Gold, who was adding his second stakes win and fourth stakes placement in five starts. Ridden by J. Torres and trained by Debora Fergason, Maddie's Gold, the first of three offspring of Harbor the Gold to take a stakes on the Sunday card, was bred by George J. Hurliman out of four-time Oregon champion Moonlit Maddie, a 1998 daughter of Abstract. Finishing 5 3/4 lengths behind him in second in the six-furlong race was Larry and Gay Welliver's first-time starter Stoney River, another from the first Oregon crop of classic winner Grindstone. Oscar L. Holguin's Softstar, by Soft Gold (Brz), ran third in the field of five. Final race time was 1:11.75.

   Seven three and up runners went to the post for the $15,000 Lethal Grande Sprint Championship Stakes, in which Hurliman Enterprises LLC's 2012 Oregon champion older horse Midda's Gold Touch defeated Eric Jensen's 2012 Oregon horse of the year and champion two-year-old filly Calypsonoted, by Harbor the Gold, by a head in a time of 1:11.85. Rounding out the top three was Dan Warden, Debbie Pearce and Gordon Goruk's multiple stakes winner Promiscuous Lad, a six-year-old gelding by Kinsman (Ire).

   The second of three Championship Day stakes winners ridden by Torres, Midda's Gold Touch improved his record to 11-5-8 from 35 starts. The five-year-old gelded son of Harbor the Gold-Ashleys Attitude, by Jazzing Around, who was bred Bar C Racing Stables Inc. and also conditioned by Fergason, has earned $94,942.

   The final stakes of the day was the $15,000 Oregon His Stakes for three-year-old colts and geldings traveling 1 1/16-miles. Heavy favorite (at ten cents on the dollar) Jack the Pirate drew out for a sunning 18 1/4-length tally over Dennis Van Dorn's Two Socks, by Free At Last. Leo and Frieda Maelfyt's Van Glorious, by Baquero, ran third in the race run in 1:47.61.

   Bred by Robert and Debra Clary and raced by Robert, Jack the Pirate has now taken half of his ten starts and earned $37,607. Torres was aboard the Blaine Wright trainee, a son of Harbor the Gold out of Tres Netta Joe, by Tre Hombre, for the easy victory.

Delano Added to Gibson Thoroughbred Farm Stallion Roster

   Elwin and Patti Gibson have purchased multiple allowance winner Delano to stand at their Gibson Thoroughbred Farm in Thorp for the upcoming 2014 breeding season.

   Trained by Bill Mott through most of his career, three-year-old Delano won his first start, a six-furlong maiden special weight race against older runners over Belmont Park's turf course, by over three lengths. After finishing second in two allowance sprints at Saratoga, Delano next reeled off turf allowance wins at Churchill Downs and Fair Grounds and earned just shy of $100,000.

   Delano is a son of the recently deceased Unbridled's Song, a handsome son of Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Unbridled. Unbridled's Song won both the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and Florida Derby en route to earnings of just over $1.3-million and became one of the top commercial sires of his generation. Among his 103 stakes winners and earners of $89-million are champions Midshipman and Embur's Song.

   Double Cat, by Storm Cat, the stakes-winning and Grade 3-placed dam of Delano, is one of four stakes winners and six stakes horses produced out of champion and three-time Grade 1 winner Hollywood Wildcat, a daughter of Kris S. who earned over $1.4-million. Each of Hollywood Wildcat's stakes winning sons - Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) winner War Chant, Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Ivan Denisovich (Ire) and Ministers Wild Cat - have become successful sires.

   A full brother to $104,017 allowance winner Newstouse, Delano is one of four winners for Double Cat, who produced a full brother to Delano in 2012.

   In 2006, Double Cat had been sold while carrying Delano for $1,150,000 at the November Keeneland Breeding Stock Sale.

   Delano will enter stud next year for a $1,000 fee, which includes a $200 booking fee and a live foal guarantee. Special consideration will be given to stakes-winning or stakes-producing mares and the Gibsons will also offer a multiple mares discount.

More November Kentucky Breeding Stock Sales Results 

   Hip 1291, a filly from the second crop of Arkansas Derby (G1) winner Line of David and from the family of Washington stakes winners Sweet Saga and Cielator, sold for $25,000.

   Dave Mowat's Ten Broeck Farm purchased an Eskendereya filly out of a half-sister to two-time Grade 1 winner Street Boss for $130,000 and a filly from the first crop of Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner Sidney's Candy for $95,000.

   Theline and Doug Scheumann's Grousemont Farm sold two weanling fillies: a Tapit daughter of a winning half-sister to Grade 1 stakes winner Laragh and Grade 3 stakes winner Summer Front for $285,000; and a Scat Daddy filly out of $233,827 stakes winner and stakes producer Sweet Monarch for $115,000.

   Edward and Theresa DeNike sold a Harlan's Holiday colt, the first foal out of a winning Grand Slam mare, for $75,000. The DeNikes also sold stakes winner Cougarstown, bred to Mizzen Mast, for $80,000. Cougarstown is a daughter of $328,765 stakes winner and WTBOA sale alumni Fair Apache.

   2008 WTBOA summer sale graduate Jen's Guinness R N, a half-sister to Washington champions Atta Boy Roy and The Great Face, was sold bred to Awesome Again for $90,000.

   Horseplayers Racing Club purchased a weanling Corinthian filly out of a half-sister to Swaps Stakes (G2) winner Tres Borrachos and $149,570 stakes winner Chinglish.

   Darryl Tollett signed for a Ready's Image filly, a half-sister to eight winners, including Grade 3-placed, $190,913 earner Motel Dancing.

   Duane and Sue Hopp purchased a weanling colt by Successful Appeal, the first foal out of a winning half-sister to English stakes winner Desert Phantom.

   Mary Lou and Terry Griffin added a colt by Flatter out of a half-sister to four stakes horses, including Grade 3 winner Cause to Believe, to their Griffin Place.

   Rick and Debbie Pabst purchased $130,092 earner Witchy Meeting, a daughter of General Meeting, bred to Tiz Wonderful, for themselves and partner Patricia Murphy. Witchy Meeting is out of $170,277 winner Witchy, a half-sister to $596,673 four-time stakes winner Stormy Jack, and the dam of three stakes horses, including $428,671 stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Shaggy Mane.

   Halvorson Bloodstock Services LLC, as agent, signed for a trio of weanlings: a Proud Citizen-sired half-brother to stakes winner Bella Shamrock and from the family of the great Dahlia; a colt by Henny Hughes, whose $96,371 winning dam has already produced six winners, including three who have earned over $175,000 each; and a Rock Hard Ten filly, the first foal out of a winning half-sister to $381,186 stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Ladyecho.

   Elwin Gibson purchased three, with the assistance of agent Don Lockwood: a winning and producing Clever Trick mare; a three-year-old race prospect by Grand Slam; and stallion prospect Delano (see news item above).

   Among the other weanlings spotted with a connection to Washington were a Munnings' colt whose third dam is Washington champion and stakes producer Zama Hummer, who sold for $35,000; and a Sky Mesa colt who descends from Washington broodmare of the year Fool's Miss, which brought $22,000.

   Broodmare prospect Hong Kong Lake, a Friends Lake-sired half-sister to champion Summer Bird and who hails from the Beadah family, sold for $50,000.

   $50,586 winner and stakes producer Dee Dee's Wildcat, a daughter of Forest Wildcat out of stakes-placed Washington-bred filly Fancy Stockings, by Son of Briartic, was sold bred to Ice Box.

   Multiple Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed Elusive Diva, a daughter of Washington broodmare of the year Taj Aire, bred to Algorithms, was purchased by Calumet Farm for $75,000.

  Winner Guinevere's Reign, a daughter of Silver Deputy out of Washington horse of the year and Grade 3 winner Guinevere, sold bred to Hat Trick (Jpn) for $35,000.

   Pomerl, an unraced daughter of Honour and Glory out of Washington horse of the year, Grade 1 winner and multiple stakes producer Delicate Vine, was sold bred to Proud Citizen.

   Ready to Unleash, a $86,996 winning daughter of More Than Ready out of Washington champion two-year-old filly and multiple stakes producer Western Woman, was sold as a broodmare prospect for $25,000.

   Emerald Downs winner Smarty Kota, bred to First Defense, also sold for $25,000. The seven-year-old daughter of Smarty Jones was bred by Northwest Farms LLC, as was her half-siblings 2013 Grade 3 stakes winner Super Ninety Nine and Emerald champion distaffer Elusive Horizon.

   Graded stakes-placed and $202,895 earner Meadow Vista, a Meadowlake-sired half-sister to Gottstein Futurity winner Time to Pass, sold for $25,000. Among the 18-year-old mare's four winners is stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Bachata.

   2010 Washington most improved claimer, stakes winner and WTBOA sale graduate Sis's Sis was purchased as a broodmare prospect by Mersad Metanovic Bloodstock.

   Also noted was $80,180 earner Good Friday Gal, a six-year-old mare by Forest Camp bred to U S Ranger. Her dam, Grade 2 winner Stalcreek, is a half-sister to Washington champion Graceful Cat and a full sister to Ashcreek, dam of Washington champion La Tee.

   Winner Broadway Number, a Holy Bull mare out of 2001 Washington plater of the year and $391,739 earner Jazznwithwindy, by Jazzing Around, was sold bred to Milwaukee Brew.

   Four-year-old Cassandra J, a daughter of Bluegrass Cat bred to Gemologist, sold for $27,000. She is out of Grade 1 stakes winner Wildcat Bettie B., a daughter of WTBOA sale graduate and stakes winner One Number Short, by Katowice.

   Overall, the ten-day auction showed that of the 3,602 horses cataloged, 2,457 horses sold for $197,189,000 with an $80,256 average (up 35.5 percent) and $35,000 median (up 59.1 percent).

  Fourteen broodmares or broodmare prospects sold for$1-million or more, including sale topper Awesome Maria for $4-million. The 2013 RNA rate dropped to 14.5 percent. Bidding competition from foreign countries proved strong this year.

Quality Control Requirements Added for North American Non-Listed Black-Type Races 

   On November 20, 2013, the North American International Catalogue Standards Committee (NAICSC) issued a reminder that effective January 1, 2014, additional quality control requirements will be implemented for races in North America eligible for non-Listed black-type in catalogues compliant with guidelines required by the Society of International Thoroughbred Auctioneers (SITA).

   The NAICSC establishes the requirements for non-Listed black type races in sales catalogues produced in North America that are compliant with guidelines required by SITA.

   Races eligible for non-Listed black-type status include stakes races with a purse of $50,000 or more that are open or have  restrictions allowed by NAICSC (e.g., state bred, stallions' progeny, sales graduates or non-winners of a sweepstakes).

   The new requirements, which were first announced in November 2012, include the addition of a minimum Race Quality Score (RQS) for individual age/sex divisions. Statistics used in the evaluation of Graded and Listed races, including ratings provided by the North American Rating Committee, are not available for non-Listed black-type races. The RQS provides an alternative quality control measurement for these races.

   The RQS is a composite number compiled by using speed figures for the first four finishers in each race over three years. Four speed figures are used to compile the RQS and are provided by Bloodstock Research Information Systems (BRIS), Daily Racing Form (Beyer), Equibase and Thoro-Graph.

   A complete listing of non-Listed black-type races with their 2014 black-type status, their current RQS and the minimum RQS requirements for each age/sex division and additional information about the NAICSC and the new quality control requirements are available at www.northamericaniscs.com.

   WTBOA Sales Committee chairman Debbie Pabst checked the status of Emerald Downs black-type races and found that all of the stakes have qualified non-Listed black-type, including all of Washington Cup and the Northwest Stallion Stakes. She felt that the Emerald Downs stakes races appear to be mostly way above the minimum requirements.

Cavalia Presents Odysseo to Seattle Area in 2014 

   Cavalia's Odysseo will make its premiere under the White Big Top at King County's Marymoor Park on Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Internationally acclaimed Cavalia's second production is a 30-million dollar extravaganza which premiered in 2011. It takes the next step, leading viewers on a great journey where horses and humans, together, discover some of the planet's most unforgettable landscapes.

   With its latest creation, Cavalia marries the equestrian arts, stage arts and high-tech theatrical effects at never-before-seen levels. A veritable revolution in live performance, Cavalia's Odysseofeatures 63 horses and 47 artists in a larger-than-life theatrical production that sends hearts racing. This breathtaking ode to horse and man,imagined by one of the co-founders of Cirque du Soleil,is an absolute feast for the eyes that succeeds in delivering the spectacular with soul.

   Tickets for Cavalia's Odysseo are now on sale online at www.cavalia.net or by calling 1-866-999-8111.Follow Cavalia Inc.'s latest developments at www.twitter.com/cavalia or www.facebook.com/cavalia.

Other News

   Wallace Proux'sU Serious took her first outing, a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race run at Portland Meadows on November 10, by 4 1/4 lengths. Bred by Dr. Rodney Orr in Oregon, the new winner is a three-year-old daughter of Cahill Road-Jadelet, by Skip Away. Orr's homebred three-year-old Boyett won a 1 1/16-mile $62,500 claiming race by 1 3/4 lengths at Betfair Hollywood Park on November 15. Trained by Mark Glatt, the Oregon-bred son of Sharp Humor-Bella Cantu, by War Chant, has won his first start, an Emerald Downs maiden special weight race, by nearly four lengths last April. He has now earned $52,546 from seven starts with a 2-1-2 record.

   Mark Dedomenico LLC and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's Exit Stage Left became a stakes winner in his very first start after the two-year-old New Jersey-bred son of Noonmark-Hana J. took the $65,000 Golden Nugget Stakes at Golden Gate by a neck over Unusual Americaine on November 9. Ridden by Russell Baze, Exit Stage Left went off as the even-money favorite in the field of seven. Finishing fourth, and only about a length behind the winner, was Quadrun Stables LLC's previously unbeaten Pete's Slew, a Washington-bred son of Lucky Acres' Matty G.

   Anita Marie, a three-year-old daughter of Thisnearlywasmine who was bred in California by Remmah Racing Inc. and now owned by Dr. George Todaro and Jerry Hollendorfer, raced to a 3 1/4-length win, and her fourth victory, at Betfair Hollywood Park on November 10 in a $16,000 claiming race. She upped her earnings to $81,724.

   Gerado Prado's eight-year-old Quarter Horse Vodka With Ice won the $350,000 Back of America Challenge Championship (G1) at Los Alamitos on November 10. The Texas-bred gelding by Stroll had won both his starts at Emerald Downs last summer, including a victory in the Bank of America Emerald Championship Challenge, and has now won 12 races, including four of his six starts this year, and earned $340,708.

   Two-year-old Lucky Views, a California-bred son of Lucky Pulpit, won his initial outing, a six-furlong maiden special weight race at Betfair Hollywood Park on November 17. Bred by David and Marion Christensen, the new winner is out of the Forest Camp mare Deja Views, a half-sister to stakes winners Swingn' Notes and Time to Honor, who are all offspring of 1997 Washington champion three-year-old filly Timely View, by Just the Time.

   Randall and Rossi LLC's Grade 3 stakes winner Gallant Son took his eighth stakes win, and tenth victory overall, when the seven-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Malabar Gold won the $50,000 Oakland Stakes at Golden Gate Fields by 2 1/2 lengths on November 16. The Frank Lucarelli trainee, who was Emerald Downs champion two-year-old male in 2008, has earned $508,078. Finishing second in the six-panel race was Peter Redekop B.C. Ltd's Administer, a four-year-old son of Bernstein trained by Blaine Wright, who finished a half-length better than Dr. George Todaro and partners' Moonshine Bay, by Kela.

   Horseplayers Racing Club, Cavalli, Doddridge, Lottes and Lottes' two-year-old Maximinus, by Roman Ruler, went gate-to-wire to take a $50,000 maiden claiming race by 2 1/2 lengths at Betfair Hollywood Park on November 16. Two days earlier at Delta Downs, Above the Crowd Stable LLC and Horseplayers Racing Club LLC's Bluehard, by Smart Strike, won a 7 1/2-furlong claiming race in gate-to-wire fashion by nearly eight lengths.

   Three-year-old Red Zeus, an Arizona-bred son of Red Sky's, took his fifth stakes tally at Turf Paradise after winning the November 16 Jack Coady Sr. and Jeff Coady Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths. The $165,524 earner is out of the Washington-bred mare Crimson Cricket, by Crimson Slew...

   The November 2013 issue of California Thoroughbred, in their "A Blast from the Past" column, featured a story on former Washington stallion and 1992 California champion two-year-old male Individual Style.

   Former Longacres Park executive vice president and COO and current CEO and executive vice president of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Lonny Powell was interviewed in the November 2013 issue of Florida Horse in an article entitled "Around the Oval." In the feature photo, Powell is shown at Calder Race Course wearing a Longacres Doo-Dah pin on his lapel...National and Washington Racing Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, 50, who made a spectacular return to the races after a seven-year retirement, was named the Big Sport of Turfdom Award winner for 2013 by the Turf Publicists of America. The award, which has been presented since 1966, is bestowed upon a person or group of people who enhance coverage of Thoroughbred racing through cooperation with media and Thoroughbred racing publicists.

In Memoriam

Ray Sherman

  Ray Sherman, longtime head of security at Emerald Downs, passed away on November 17, 2013.

  Further details of his life will be reported when they become available.

  Ray's service will take place on Saturday, November 23, at 2:00 pm at Messiah Lutheran Church (410 H St NE, Auburn, WA 98002) with a reception immediately to follow.