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October 3, 2014

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Saturday, October 4, 2014

THOROUGHBRED HORSE SHOW

Donida Training Center

Auburn, WA

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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

BARRETTS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE

Pomona, CA

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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING

Auburn City Council Chambers
25 W. Main St.,
Auburn, WA
(360) 459-6462

 

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

2014 BREEDERS CUP FOAL DEADLINE

Lexington, KY

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Saturday, October 18, 2014
PONY UP RESCUE EQUINE ANNUAL FUNDRAISER AND DINNER AUCTION
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Gig Harbor, WA
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Monday, October 20 - Wednesday, October 22, 2014

FASIG-TIPTON KENTUCKY FALL YEARLING SALE

Lexington, KY

(859) 255-1555; [email protected]; fasigtipton.com

 

Friday, October 31 - Saturday, November 1, 2014

BREEDERS' CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, CA

(877) TIX-4CUP or [email protected]

 

Monday, November 3, 2014

FASIG-TIPTON NOVEMBER SALE

Lexington, KY

(859) 255-1555; [email protected]; fasigtipton.com

 

Wednesday, November 5 - Saturday, November 15, 2014

KEENELAND NOVEMBER BREEDING STOCK SALE

Lexington, KY (800) 456-3412; keeneland.com

 

Friday, November 14, 2014

WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING

Auburn City Council Chambers
25 W. Main St.,
Auburn, WA
(360) 459-6462

 

Sunday, November 23, 2014

$21,000 STALLION STAKES

Portland Meadows, OR

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Monday, December 15, 2014

2014 BREEDERS CUP LATE FOAL DEADLINE

Lexington, KY

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Monday, December 15, 2014

2014 BREEDERS CUP STALLION NOMINATION DEADLINE

Lexington, KY

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

NORTHWEST RACE SERIES NOMINATION DEADLINE

WTBOA, Auburn, WA

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Monday, January 12 - Friday, January 16, 2015

KEENELAND JANUARY HORSES OF ALL AGES SALE

Lexington, KY (800) 456-3412; keeneland.com

 

Saturday, January 31, 2015

NORTHWEST RACE SERIES LATE EXTENSION DEADLINE

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Emerald Notes

Daytona Speedway

Daytona Beach

Reed Palmer Photo

  The final sprint stakes of the 2014 meet fell to the juvenile set with the 64th running of the Washington Stallion Stakes, now in its most recent incarnation as the NWSS Cahill Road Stakes. While the field of seven starters in the six-furlong, $50,000 race did not include a previous stakes winner, it did offer two promising sons of Harbor the Gold: stakes-placed Moby - a gelding out of the multiple stakes-placed and 21-race winner Last Thoughts; and impressive 5 3/4-length maiden special weight winner Daytona Beach, the first foal out of the Ihtimam mare Hit a Star, who won the 2007 Belle Roberts Stakes and a dozen other races.

  Slight ($1.70-to-one) favorite Daytona Beach, ridden by David Lopez, went to the early lead and proceeded to head the pack at every call, including the most vital one at the finish line where he defeated second betting choice ($1.80-to-one) Moby by 5 1/2 lengths. Final race time was 1:09.81. Moby, who races for Blue Diamond Stable and Janet Johnson, was earning his third stakes placement since winning his fourth start, a $25,000 maiden claimer in which Daytona Beach ran second. Finishing another 4 1/2 lengths further back in third place was Alan Bozell and Michael J. Phillips' Eight Ball Parker (Parker's Storm Cat-Monacas Baby).

  "He's such a nice horse that he just pulled me to the lead," said Lopez. "I was asking him down the stretch a little bit, and at one point I looked back and was about seven lengths in front. I just stopped riding and let him finish the race."

  Bred by Jeff and Doris Harwood and Mullan and Pat Chinn, the new stakes winner races in the colors of Jeff Harwood and the Chinns' Vital Signs Stable for whom Daytona Beach has a record of 2-1-0 from five starts and $41,152 in winnings.

 

Prime Number

Prime Engine

Reed Palmer Photo

  One of the highlights of each racing season is the historic Gottstein Futurity, and with this its 77th running, it is the second longest continuously held stakes in the Pacific Northwest after the Longacres Mile (G3) - which will be offered for the 80th time during Emerald Downs 20th season next year.

  A field of six settled into their stalls for the 1 1/16-mile race, which included three unbeaten colts: four-time winner and three-time stakes winner Trackattacker, who had won his previous outings by a combined 36 1/4 lengths; Prime Engine, who had recorded a 83 Beyer rating (the second highest in track history for a juvenile runner) when taking a September 13 maiden special weight race by 10 1/4 lengths; and fellow maiden special weight winner (August 24) Old Fashioned Grit.

  Three-to-five favorite Trackattacker got quickly out of the gate and had opened up a two-length lead at the quarter pole. Stalking the early leader was second betting choice Prime Engine, with Isaias Enriquez in charge of steering the chestnut colt. At the half-mile post, Leslie Mawing still had Trackattacker in the number one spot, though his lead had dwindled to a half-length. As the runners reached the six-furlong marker, Prime Engine had assumed the lead. He quickly drew off by eight lengths in the stretch and finished up 5 1/2 lengths in front of Delbert J. Kelly, Mort Robbins and trainer Roy Lumms' clearly second best Private Boss (Private Gold-Irene's Bonus Baby), who was adding his fourth stakes placement in his six-race career. Vital Sign Stable (who had taken the Cahill Road Stakes with Daytona Harbor just one race earlier) homebred filly Val de Saire (Harbor the Gold-Follow Your Shot) ran third, 3 1/4 lengths behind Private Boss, but three lengths the better of fourth place Bolshoi's Bluff. Old Fashioned Grit and Trackattacker completed the order of finish. The final time for the $65,000 stakes was 1:44.49.

  "The horse responded beautifully. By the five-eighths pole, I tapped my horse and we left Trackattacker in the dust," said Enriquez. "By the three-eighths pole, I saw Mawing tapping his horse on the shoulders and shaking his reins at him, and I said 'he's beaten.' I've been riding horses all over the country, and he's the nicest two-year-old I've ever been on."

  Mark Dedomenico LLC's Prime Engine had gone through three sales rings before settling down to make his Emerald debut. The Redmond-based horseman had purchased the son of Northern Afleet-Gravy Train's Song, by Unbridled's Song, for $110,000 as a yearling at the Keeneland September auction (he had earlier been sold for $54,000 at the 2012 Keeneland November sale). After breaking and conditioning the colt at his Pegasus Thoroughbred Training and Equine Rehabilitation Center, Prime Engine had been consigned to Barretts' March Two-year-olds in Training Sale where he had been a $145,000 RNA. Trained by Mike Puhich, the Gottstein winner was bred by Gene Tenbrink in Kentucky and with his $35,393 winner's share, Prime Engine has now earned $45,211.

 Since the Gottstein moved to Emerald Downs during its 1996 inaugural season, Prime Engine became the first runner to win the championship event off of only one previous start. It also marked the 15th time in those 19 years that the favorite has lost.

 Trackattacker has been responsible for some unique betting results this year. Besides setting track records for the lowest stakes payoffs in each of his prior starts, he also set show record wagering marks in the both the WTBOA Lads and Daily Racing Form Dennis Dodge stakes - a total of $618,88. In the Gottstein, a "bridge jumper" bet most of the approximately $150,000 show pool on Trackattacker, and with that runner finishing last, the final show payoffs for the top three runners were the second highest in track memory: $29.80, $96.40 and $87.

 

Gemstones

 Rancho Viejo and Jerry Carmody's six-year-old Dare Me Devil became the 16th runner to take four wins at the current meet when he won a $40,000 claimer by 2 1/4 lengths on September 20, earning an 89 Beyer rating. The Washington-bred gelding by Devil On Ice-She Can Too, by Western Fame, had finished second in the $50,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic Stakes to Mike Man's Gold in his previous start. Bred by Andria Mengucci, trained by Rigoberto Velasquez and ridden by David Lopez, Dare Me Devil has now earned $122,955. Included among his dozen wins was a victory in the 2013 Oregon HBPA Sprint Stakes run at Portland Meadows.

 The following day, Oregon-bred Kenzie Carolina, who also races for Rancho Viejo and Carmody, is trained by Velasquez and was ridden by Lopez added her fourth win of the meet with a 4 1/4-length tally in a $12,500 mile claimer. The five-year-old stakes-placed daughter of Baquero-Icicle Angel, by La Saboteur, who was bred by Dr. Jack and Cookie Root, has now won 12 races from her 31 lifetime starts and earned $80,082.

 Minus her unbeaten stablemate Stopshoppingdebbie, Debbie Paxton and Northwest Farms LLC's 2012 Emerald champion Goin to the Window scored a 1 1/4 length win over the other stakes-winning filly in the Northwest Farms' triumvirate, Blueberry Smoothie, in a mile allowance/$40,000 optional claiming (N) race on September 21. It was the third win for the four-year-old daughter of Tapit-Queens Full, by Indian Charlie, who was the runner-up in six of her stakes meetings with "Debbie." In 12 lifetime starts, Goin to the Window has earned $128,993. The race marked the final career start for Goin to the Window.

 Stopshoppingdebbie is scheduled to make her next start in the $100,000 LA Woman Stakes, a Grade 3 event to be held at Santa Anita Park on October 4. The 6 1/2-furlong race will serve as the daughter of Curlin's final prep for the $2-million Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) to be held at the Arcadia track on October 31.

 Rider Jose Zunino won the first race (April 12) of the 2014 Emerald Downs meet aboard Poly Squat and bookended the meet with a victory aboard Miners Thunder in the meet's September 28 finale.

 Howard F. Gibson-owned and -trained Come On Cozzene, a five-year-old daughter of Devine Cozzene-Wonders to Come, by Deputy Minister, bred in Washington by Elwin and Patti Gibson, became the meet's fourth five-time winner with her 1 1/2-length tally in a 5 1/2-furlong claimer on September 26. The now six-race winner has earned $23,531.

 Four-year-old Blueberry Smoothie, the third of the Northwest Farms LLC trio of stakes-winning fillies, finished her race career with a closing day nose win over two-time meet champion Chu and You, a three-year-old daughter of You and I. The daughter of Giant's Causeway-Shampoo, by Gulch - who raced for NWF and C and M Racing - ran 14 times with a record of 2-4-7. Besides winning the 2012 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes, Blueberry Smoothie placed in eight other stakes, all won by one of the other of her stablemates, and earned $135,342.

 At the conclusion of the 75-day meet, Jeff Metz earned his second consecutive trainer of the meet award with 49 wins, eight more than leading money-earning conditioner Frank Lucarelli, who had 41 wins and $517,744 in monies won. Jim Penney ranked second in earnings, with $456,154, and third in wins with 32. Ranking third in monies was Doris Harwood with $441,914. Harwood, along with Alan Bozell and Vince Gibson, tied in 11th place with 19 winners each. Metz was fourth on the money list with $383,052. Tom Wenzel, who with along with Neil Knapp and Joe Toye had 18 winners, ranked fifth in earnings with $363,479. Ranking fifth in winners was Rigoberto Velasquez. Among the top 30 trainers plying their trade this season at Emerald, Monique Snowden had the highest win percentage after her charges won seven out of 25 starts (28 percent).

 Leslie Mawing earned his second Emerald title with a dominating 102 victories, 32 more than second place Rocco Bowen with his 70 winning rides. The 40-year-old rider from Johannesburg, South Africa, who led the 2011 standings at the Auburn oval in both wins and earnings, also led the leaderboard in both 2014 monies won, with $1,225,072, and in stakes wins, with 11. Numbered among those stakes winners who benefited from the Mawing touch were 2014 meet-end champions Stryker Phd, Noosito and Trackattacker. Unbeaten Stopshoppingdebbie's regular rider, Bowen also finished second in the earnings category with $725,288. 2013 leading rider Isaias Enriquez was third in wins (57) and fourth in monies ($597,234). Juan Gutierrez's $678,108 money totals placed him fourth in that category and he tied with Eliska Kubinova in wins with 51. David Lopez held fourth place in winner's circle appearances, with 54 tallies and fifth in monies, $1,360 ahead of the track's all-time leading rider Gallyn Mitchell.


 

Washington-breds of the Week at Emerald Downs

 Horse honors for week 23 (September 12-14) went to first-time starter Another Winter, a two-year-old daughter of Washington horse of the year Demon Warlock out of two-time Portland Meadows stakes winner Royal Snowflight, by Mr. Easy Money. Bred and raced by Tim A. Floyd (Warlock Stables), James Broussard and Horseplayers Racing Club (#144), Another Winter went gate-to-wire to score an 8 3/4-length win in a $25,000 maiden claiming race on September 14. Ridden by Leslie Mawing and hailing from trainer Tim McCanna's barn, Another Winter earned $7,274 in the 5 1/2-furlong outing.

 In other week 23 honors, Jack Zaborac was named top owner; Marvin Pimentel earned the trainer title; Leonel Camacho-Flores was named top rider; and Ladislao Caro, who works for Jeff Metz, was named groom of the week.

 The final weekly honors (week 24, September 19-21), went to horse Poly Squat; owners Northwest Farms LLC and Debbie Paxton; trainer Roy Lumm; jockey Ronald Richard and groom Alonzo Salas, who works for Bill Tollett.

 Poly Squat, a five-year-old daughter of Raise the Bluff-Radio Caroline, by Siphon (Brz), became the third five-time winner of the meet when she took a 1 1/16-mile starter allowance race by four lengths on September 21. All 12 of her 2014 starts have come at Emerald for Jody Peetz's One Horse Will Do Corporation and Dr. Michael Konecny for whom she has a record of 5-2-1 and $23,192 earnings. Bred by Terry and Mary Lou Griffin at their Buckley-based Griffin Place, Poly Squat is trained by Chris Stenslie and was ridden to all five wins by Jose Zunino. 

 

2014 Emerald Downs Seasonal Honors

Horse of the Meet                                         Stryker Phd

Top Washington-bred                                   Stryker Phd

Top Older Horse                                           Stryker Phd

Top Sprinter                                                  Dare Me Devil

Top Older Filly/Mare                                     Stopshoppingdebbie

Top Three-year-old Male                              Noosito

Top Three-year-old Filly                               Chu and You

Top Two-year-old Male                                Trackattacker

Top Two-year-old Filly                                  Ethan's Baby

Top Claimer                                                  Dare Me Devil

Race of the Meet                                          Emerald Downs Derby

 Leading Jockey (by wins)                             Leslie Mawing (11)

Leading Jockey (by earnings)                       Leslie Mawing ($1,225,072)

Leading Jockey (by stakes wins)                  Leslie Mawing (11)

Leading Trainer (by wins)                             Jeffrey Metz (49)

Leading Trainer (by earnings)                       Frank Lucarelli ($517,744)

Leading Trainer (by stakes wins)                  Doris Harwood (5)

Leading Owner (by wins)                              Saratoga West (19)

Leading Owner (by earnings)                       REV Racing LLC ($170,578)

Leading Owner (by stakes wins)                  REV Racing LLC (4)

Leading Horse (by wins)                               He's a Cruiser, Poly Squat, Marvin's

                                                                      Magic and Come On

                                                                      Cozzene (tie, 5)

Leading Horse (by earnings)                         Stryker Phd ($165,000)

Leading Horse (by stakes wins)                    Stopshoppingdebbie, Stryker Phd

                                                                      and Trackattacker (tie, 3)

Leading Sire (by wins)                                  Harbor the Gold (54)

Leading Sire (by stakes wins)                       Harbor the Gold (9)

Top Riding Achievement                               Leslie Mawing (leader in number of

                                                                      wins and stakes wins)

Top Training Achievement                            Tom Wenzel (unbeaten

                                                                      Stopshoppingdebbie)

Lindy Award                                                  Eliska Kubinova

Durkan Award                                               Alan Bozell and Doris Harwood

Top Exercise Rider                                       Alfonso Velador


 

2014 British Columbia Derby a True West Coast Affair

  A field of 10 faced the starter for the $135,225 British Columbia Derby (G3-Can), a nine-furlong race run on September 14 at Hastings Racecourse. Peter Redekop BC, Ltd's Alert Bay, a California-bred son of City Zip went off as the $1.55-to-one favorite and scored a two-length win over BC-bred Koffee Grinder, a son of Oregon sire Grindstone. Finishing another two lengths back in third was Washington-bred Del Rio Harbor, a son of Oregon-based Harbor the Gold who races for his breeders/owners Pam and Neal Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stable Inc. of Oregon, and Melodie Bultena and her husband Doak Walker's Desert Rose Racing LLC of Washington.

  Alert Bay, who won the Real Good Deal Stakes at Del Mar last August while under trainer Blaine Wright's care, improved his record to 4-1-1 from ten starts and has earned $317,378. Three-time stakes winner Koffee Grinder has won four races and $132,804, while 2013 Washington champion Del Rio Harbor - a four-time Washington stakes winner - has earned $195,841. 

South America's Jorge Ricardo Defeats Russell Baze in Brazilian Champions Challenge
  The leading North American - 56-year-old Russell Baze - and leading South American - 52-year-old Jorge Ricardo - jockeys faced off in a Champions Challenge held at Jockey Club Rio Grande do Sol in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on September 18, 2014, with Ricardo defeating Baze in a 37-36 decision. The two riders each rode in five races, with each assigned the favorite in two of the five races.

  Baze won the first race, with Ricardo fourth. In the second race, Ricardo finished second, with Baze fourth. Baze won the third race and Ricardo took the fourth race. Ricardo then won the fifth race "by open lengths" aboard Rei Do Tango.

  Ricardo took 26 straight jockey titles in Rio de Janeiro before moving to Argentina in 2006. The Brazilian also holds the title (477 wins) for a single season in his native country, which occurred in the 1992-93 race year. In his 36-year riding career, Ricardo has won more than 12,000 races.

Through September 28, 2014, Baze has been aboard 12,370 North American winners, including 261 this year. Ricardo led Baze before being seriously injured in a riding accident last year and had spent time off the track recovering from lymphoma in 2009. Ricardo currently ranks slightly behind the National and Washington Racing Hall of Fame jockey.

Parker's Storm Cat Runners Place in East Coast Stakes
  Parker's Storm Cat's leading runner and multiple Maryland champion Ben's Cat finished third, beaten by three-quarters of a length and a nose, in the $100,000 Laurel Dash Stakes on September 27 as the 124-pound race highweight. With his $10,000 purse, Ben's Cat has now earned $2,175,990 and has a record of 3-1-1 from six starts this year and 37-5-4 from 43 lifetime outings.

  On September 18, Parker's Project, an eight-year-old son of Parker's Storm Cat-Let's Canoodle, by Oh Say, finished second by a length to Demonstrative in the $150,000 Lonesome Glory Handicap (G1-NSA) at Belmont Park. It was Parker's Project's first start since winning the Marcellus Frost Hurdle (G2-NSA) at Percy Warner on May 12, 2012. Bred and trained by Jonathan Sheppard, the Pennsylvania-bred gelding improved his record to 3-6-3 from 19 starts and has earnings of $158,442.

2014 Top Ten Washington Sires
   For the fourth year in a row, Gibson Thoroughbred Farms' Parker's Storm Cat leads the Washington sire ranks. Through September 30, the son of Storm Cat and half-brother to major sire Malibu Moon has sired the earners of $624,376. The leading earner among his 23 winners is graded stakes winner Ben's Cat, who has contributed $313,350 to his totals.

 Former leading Washington sires Matty G and the late Cahill Road fill in the two-three spots. Matty G, who stands at Lucky Acres, has 25 winners of $463,677, led by Format V's $47,515 contribution. Cahill Road's top runners among his 23 winners is Sunrise Legacy, who is responsible for $38,115 of his $382,921 total.

 El Dorado Farms stallions Raise the Bluff and Private Gold both have 19 winners, with Raise the Bluff leading Private Gold $338,251 to $335,548 in earnings.

 West Coast Training Center's Liberty Gold ranks sixth with a dozen winners and $194,342.

 Blue Ribbon Farm's second crop sire Nationhood has ten winners and $188,825 to place seventh.

 Woodstead Farm stalwart He's Tops has 14 winners and $154,761 in monies won.

 Pensioned You and I holds the nine slot with nine winners and $152,104 in earnings.

 Rounding out the top ten is El Dorado Farms' second crop sire Abraaj, who has five winners and a $124,706 total.

Pegasus Two-year-old Sale Graduate Now Two-time Grade 1 Winner
  Belle Gallantey, a $30,000 graduate of the 2011 Pegasus Thoroughbreds Two-year-olds in Training Sale, earned her second grade one win for Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables and Gary Aisquith on Belmont Park's September 27 "Super Saturday" card.

 The five-year-old daughter of Eddie Read Handicap (G1) winner After Market out of $147,843 earner Revealed, by Old Trieste, who was ridden by Jose Ortiz, was an impressive 8 1/4-length winner over favorite Stopchargingmaria in the nine-furlong $400,000 Beldame Stakes (G1).

 "I think she's a pretty versatile filly where she can sit and come from behind," said winning trainer Rudy Rodriguez, who also won the Grade 2 Kelso Handicap with Vyjack on the same afternoon card. "She is a very nice filly and she showed it today," he added of the now nine-race winner and $1,111,270 earner.

 Belle Gallantey has been entered in the exclusive Fasig-Tipton The November Sale coming up on November 3 in Lexington.

WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News
  Justanother Bob, a six-year-old California-bred son of Game Plan-Sister Adiba, by Pirate's Bounty, added his ninth win in the $8,112 B Cup Three Year Old and Upward Classic Stakes at Lethbridge on September 27 and upped his earnings to $43,170. On the same card, Washington-bred, but non-WTBOA sale horse, Up Your Plan, a seven-year-old daughter of Moon Up T.C. bred by Larry O. Hillis, ran third in the $7,977 B Cup Fillies and Mares Sprint Stakes, pushing the 12-race winner's earnings to $61,639.

 Corky's Luck, a three-year-old gelding by Lucky Acres' Kentucky Lucky-Jazzabet, by Jazzing Around, bred in Washington by Steve and Sally Meredith and who is trained by Greg Tracy, went gate-to-wire to take a 6 1/2 furlong allowance by 8 3/4 lengths at Northland Park on September 26 and the "rapidly improving" runner now has a record of 2-3-0 from five starts and earnings of $21,120

   Stakes-placed Touch the Sun, a six-year-old gelded son of Bertrando-Sweethrtofsigmachi, by General Meeting, bred by Dr. Duane and Sue Hopp, took his sixth 2014 race on September 21 when he won a 14-furlong starter allowance at Northlands Park by 11 1/4 lengths and improved his lifetime record to 14-6-7 from 46 starts and his earnings to $120,679.

  F L K C Stables' four-year-old Southern Solution became the 18th four-time winner during the 2014 Emerald Downs meet after taking a $15,000 claiming event by nearly two lengths on September 27. Southern Solution's previous win had come on September 20 when he had won a $3,500 starter allowance by nearly ten lengths and earned a 91 Beyer rating. Bred in Washington by John Parker and Candi Tollett, the gelded son of Southern Africa-Kimora, by Navarone, has a lifetime record of 9-1-2 from 19 starts and has earned $59,166. Since being claimed exactly one year prior his most recent win, out of another winning appearance at the $15,000 level, the now Roy Lumm trainee has forged a record of 4-1-2 from 12 starts.

2014 Prodigious Fund Thoroughbred Showcase Recap
  The second Prodigious Fund Thoroughbred Showcase was held at the WTBOA Sales Pavilion, located at Emerald Downs racetrack in Auburn, on September 13.

Forty-three horses were originally entered for the day's event and were listed for sale as suitable for such diverse future jobs as: dressage, hunter/jumper, eventing, 4-H, barrel racing, trail, light riding, companion horse, broodmare and polo. Of those, 14 have found new homes as the result of the event, three were outs and another three have attracted major interest.

Those Thoroughbreds finding new homes are (in alphabetical order): Appealing Artie, Bartab, Belt, Bumpy, Country Rules, Harbored Rumors, Jamocha, Milieux, Miss Fast Eddie, Photo Safari, Port Wakefield, Queen's Run, Scalding Passion and Stealth Fighter.

   For further information on the horses in the Thoroughbred Showcase or the Thoroughbred Horse Show to be held at Donida Farm Equestrian Center in Auburn on October 4, please go to www.facebook.com/prodigiousfund or contact Sophia McKee at [email protected] or (253) 288-7719.

Keeneland Catalogs 4,026 Horses for November Breeding Stock Sale
  The 2014 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, scheduled to run from November 4-14, will offer 2,082 broodmares and broodmare prospects, 1,589 weanlings, 350 horses of racing age and five stallions.
  Catalog pages are now available on the Keeneland website at www.keeneland.com. Print catalogs will be mailed the week of October 13.
Keeneland September Yearling Sale
  After 12 days, the 2014 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, which was comprised of six catalogs and 4,181 individuals, saw 2,744 of the 3,605 yearlings that went through the ring sell for $279,960,500 and with a $99,312 average. While the gross was slightly down (-1.9 percent) from the 2013 sale when 2,744 yearlings sold for $280,491,300, the average dropped 2.9 percent from 2013's $102,220. The 2014 average was still the second highest figure in the last six years for the Kentucky marathon. The 2014 median remained steady at $50,000.

  Among the 13 yearlings selling for a million or more was the Curlin filly out of stakes winner Leslie's Lady, who has already produced two-time champion Beholder and Grade 1 winner and good sire Into Mischief. The bay was purchased by Jon Fergason for $1.1-million. The filly's second dam is a half-sister to Washington-bred stakes winner and WTBOA sale horse Melanyhasthepapers. Beholder increased her earnings to $3,368,300 when the four-year-old daughter of Henny Hughes won the $300,000 Zenyatta Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita on September 27 to give her a 10-3-0 record from 15 starts.

  The top bid at the sale came on September 11 when M. V. Magnier went to $2.2-million to secure a War Front-sired half-brother to Acorn Stakes (G1) winner Contested.

  The top consignor was Lane's End, with 211 selling for $28,581,700. The leading buyer was John Ferguson, who signed for 22 individuals with a gross of $7,880,000. The leading sale sire was 2014 national leader Tapit, whose 36 sons and daughters brought a $603,472 average and a $21,725,000 total.

 

Local Buyers

 On the local level, Washington trainer and Pegasus Thoroughbred Training Center manager Michael Puhich signed for 15 yearlings for a $1,138,000 total, ranging in price from $10,000 to $200,000. The seven fillies are sired by: Colonel John, Desert Party (two), Include, Mineshaft, Tiznow and Zensational. The eight colts are by: Bernardini, Candy Ride (Arg), Desert Party, Lonhro (Aus), Majestic Warrior, Ready's Image, Sky Mesa and Zensational. In addition, Puhich's employer Dr. Mark Dedomenico purchased three yearlings under his own name for a $190,000 total: a colt by Haynesfield and fillies by Haynesfield and Tiz Wonderful.

 Among the current or former Washington trainers seen buying were: Vann Belvoir (a colt by Brother Derek), Mike Chambers (colts by Exchange Rate and Rock Hard Ten and fillies by Broken Vow and Discreet Cat), Mark Glatt (five colts by Forestry, Kitten's Joy, Munnings, Sidney's Candy and Super Saver and a filly by Midnight Lute), Valorie Lund (colts by Hat Trick [Jpn] and Shakespeare and a filly by Archarcharch), and Tim McCanna (a colt by Quiet American and fillies by Street Boss and Tiz Wonderful). Team Forster, which is led by former Emerald Downs trainer Grant Forster, purchased a Broken Vow filly out of 2008 Angie C. Stakes winner Super Dixie. Forster had trained both Super Dixie's two-time Washington champion dam Youcan'ttakeme and Youcan'ttakeme's full brother No Giveaway, Washington's 2005 horse of the year.

 Prominent Bellevue horseman Chris Randall's name was seen on tickets for a colt by Regal Ransom and fillies by Archarcharch, Majestic Warrior, Old Fashioned and U S Ranger.

 WTBOA board member Darrin Paul purchased a filly by Proud Citizen and Emerald Downs Vicki Potter signed for a Munnings colt for Rising Star Stable.

 Montanan Al Bell, who bred and raced Washington champion Maharesred and his stakes-winning half-sister Cappucino Bay (who later foaled outstanding racehorse and sire Medaglia d'Oro) bought three colts and seven fillies for a $382,000 total.

 

Washington Consignors

 Jerre Paxton's Northwest Farms LLC eight-horse consignment sold four, including a Tapit colt out of 1999 Emerald champion and three-time Emerald champion producer Taste the Passion for $375,000. The Yakima-based entity also sold a Smart Strike half-sister to Grade 3 stakes winner Super Ninety Nine and 2009 Emerald champion Elusive Horizon for $200,000; Elusive Horizon's Eskendereya colt brought $170,000; and two-time Emerald stakes winner Dinner At Arlene's Elusive Quality colt sold for $60,000. Paxton also RNA'd the Curlin half-brother to 2012 Emerald champion Goin to the Window; Emerald champion and Grade 2 winner Ema Bovary (Chi)'s Curlin colt; stakes-placed Seeking Ema's (a Emma Bovary daughter) Uncle Mo filly; and the Eskendereya colt out of Emerald champion and stakes producer Smarty Deb.

 Among the other sale consignors were Michael and Amy Feuerborn, of Maple Valley, who offered five yearlings. While their full sister to 2012 Emerald horse of the meeting Class Included was a $67,000 RNA, the Maple Valley sold a half-brother (by Hold Me Back) to Washington champions Chu and You and Chu and I for $40,000; a colt by Proud Citizen out of 2004 Emerald champion Bianconi Baby also brought $40,000; and their Smoke Glacken filly out of Redrunnedaway was purchased for $27,000. Their final offering, a colt by Hold Me Back out of stakes-placed Cliff's Secret, was a $32,000 RNA.

 

Other Washington Connections

  A Scat Daddy half-brother to Allaire Farms' stakes-placed stallion Rallying Cry, whose first foals hit the track in 2015, sold for $55,000. A half-brother to Munger Farm's stakes-placed sire Nacheezmo, sired by Australian Horse of the Year Lonhro (Aus), sold for $45,000.

 A colt by Candy Ride (Arg) out of a stakes-winning half-sister to Bar C Racing Stables Inc.'s top stallion Harbor the Gold sold for $450,000.

 A Pulpit colt out of a stakes-winning and stakes-producing half-sister to successful El Dorado Farms LLC's stallion Private Gold sold for $500,000.

 A Flatter filly out of 2001 Washington champion Graceful Cat and a Grand Slam colt out of Graceful Cat's winning half-sister Acquiesce were also listed as sold.

 Grade 2 stakes winner Washington Bridge, who was raced in partnership by Mark Dedomenico, had her first foal sell, a filly by Unbridled's Song, for $350,000. Her dam, WTBOA sales graduate, stakes winner and multiple stakes producer Stirling Bridge's Majesticperfection filly brought $300,000.

 The winning Washington-bred mare Our Dani, dam of five-time Grade 1 winner You, had a Uncle Mo colt sell for $75,000.

 2000 WTBOA summer sales topper and Grade 3 stakes winner Collect Call, who is the dam of Grade 2 stakes winner and sire Old Fashioned, had a Distorted Humor filly which was an $175,000 RNA. Her $58,200-winning daughter Kauai Call's Hard Spun filly sold for $75,000.

 Also sold was a Candy Ride (Arg) filly out of 2003 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes winner Sala de Oro, a stakes-producing half-sister to Washington champion No Turbulence and additional stakes winner Hall of Gold. The three stakes-winning sisters were all bred by Barbara Radcliff's Coal Creek Farm.

 Three Medaglia d'Oro yearlings descending from Reines-des-Course and Washington broodmare of the year Beadah sold. A half-sister to 2014 leading sire Tapit brought $400,000, as did a half-brother to graded stakes winners Dixie Chatter and Rumor (her second dam is champion two-year-old filly and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Stakes [G1] winner Phone Chatter). A colt out of Beldame Stakes (G1) winner Life At Ten sold for $140,000.

 Grousemont Farm sold a Distorted Humor filly out of Grade 1 winner Downthedustyroad for $120,000. A Giant's Causeway colt, whose third dam was Grousemont-bred stakes winner Future Bright (whose dam Pro Tab was a stakes-winning half-sister to Washington horse of the year Rock Bath) sold for $82,000. Kickin' the Clouds, the dam of the Giant's Causeway yearling, is a stakes-placed half-sister to David Heerensperger's 2014 Grade 2 winner Fire With Fire and also to Grade 3 winner Cosmonaut.

 Another longtime Washington horseman, L. Neil Jones - one of only two Washington-based breeders, the other being Dave Mowat, to breed a classic winner - bred a colt by Candy Ride (Arg) out of his Group 3 winner Beauty O' Gwaun (a three-quarter sister to Jones' 2000 English St. Leger Stakes [G1] winner Millenary) which sold for $165,000.

 Brooklynsangel, a Washington-bred half-sister to Grade 1 juvenile stakes winner Toccet and a 2002 WTBOA summer sale yearling bred and consigned by Terry and Mary Lou Griffin, had a full brother to G2 stakes-placed Tiny Woods sell for $30,000.

 2005 Kent Handicap winner Gins Majesty had a filly from the first crop of Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner Sidney's Candy sell.

 A Super Savor half-sister to $151,282 Emerald Downs stakes winner Briartic Gold, a gelding by Son of Briartic bred by Grousemont Farm, sold for $70,000.

 Susan and Allen Branch, daughter and son-in-law of John and Doris Konecny, sold a filly by Speightstown out of $260,183 stakes winner It Tiz for $160,000 and a colt out of stakes-placed No Lullaby for $30,000. No Lullaby is a daughter of Washington broodmare of the year Taj Aire and a half-sister to four stakes winners, including $484,510 Grade 3 winner Elusive Diva, who had a Afleet Alex colt in the sale.

   If a Washington connection was inadvertently missed, please call it to our attention and we will be happy to include it in the next newsletter.

2015 Barretts Select Juvenile Sale on New Date
  Barretts has moved the date of their select two-year-old sale from its traditional March date to February 23. It will be the California Thoroughbred auction company's final sale at the Fairplex, Pomona site.

  Beginning with their May 27 two-year-old sale, future Barretts sales will be held at Del Mar.

2014 Del Mar Fall Meet
  The California Horse Racing Board has granted the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club a 15-day fall meet. The seaside track, which is stepping in to help fill the void left by the closing of Hollywood Park, will offer its first fall meeting since 1967. The 2014 meet will run November 7-30 and feature 14 stakes, including nine graded events, during its "Old Hollywood" themed stand.
Other News
  Dr. George Todaro, et. al's unbeaten 2013 champion Shared Belief continued his streak, when after a bit of a rough journey, the gelded son of Candy Ride (Arg)-Common Hope, by Storm Cat, once again defeated older runners in the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes (G1) held at Santa Anita on September 27. Now seven for seven, Shared Belief, who has been ridden in his last three starts by Mike Smith, has earned $1,552,200. The November 1 Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) is the next race up for the talented gelding according to trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.

 Steve Melen, Mark Schlaich, Todaro and trainer Hollendorfer's two-year-old Seattle Firm won a mile maiden special weight over Golden Gate's turf course on September 11. The new winner is a California-bred daughter of Council Member-Summerfield, by Affirmed.

(Ike) Boone Family Trust, Circle Arrow B and Michael Boone's Brando the Birdman, a three-year-old gelded son of Tribal Rule-Touching, by Kris S., bred in California by the Boone Family Trust, won a six-panel allowance/$20,000 optional claiming (N) race at the Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos by 2 1/4 lengths on September 13. The Vann Belvoir trainee - who had won two of three outings at two - improved his record to 3-1-0 from five lifetime starts and upped his earnings to $81,850.

 Two-year-old Wake Up Nick, a California-bred son of Cindago, remained unbeaten in five starts, which now includes four stakes wins at three California tracks, when he won the $100,000 Barretts Juvenile Stakes, run at the fall Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos, by nearly three lengths on September 14. The $308,784 earner's dam, Storm Hearted, is out of a half-sister to El Dorado Farms LLC's stakes winner and successful stallion Private Gold and three other stakes winners.

 Favorite Tale, the three-year-old son of Tale of the Cat who won the $300,000 Gallant Bob Stakes (G3) at Parx Racing on September 20, is one of three stakes winners - all graded - and 21 stakes winners overall produced from daughters of the Newberg, Oregon-based Oakhurst Thoroughbreds' classic winner Grindstone. Favorite Tale, who is out of graded stakes-placed Tricky Elaine - a half-sister to Horse of the Year Favorite Trick - has now won half of his ten starts and earned $369,826.

 Wesley Ward-owned and -trained two-year-old filly Hooligan, by Exchange Rate, broke her maiden in her second start, the filly division of the $60,000 Jamestown Stakes at Laurel Park on September 13.

 Four-year-old War Correspondent, a full brother to 2013 co-highweight European older horse and $1,847,592 earner Declaration of War and stakes-placed War Pact and half-brother to stakes winner Vertiformer and Gibson Thoroughbred Farm stallion War Power, won a mile turf allowance/$30,000 optional claiming (N) race by four lengths at Monmouth Park on September 14. The Joseph Allen homebred has a 3-1-1 record in five starts and has earned $70,868.

 2014 Gulfstream Park Handicap (G1) winner Lochte won the $75,000 The Vid Stakes at Gulfstream Park on September 13 to improve his record to 4-3-5 from 17 starts. The four-year-old gelded son of Medaglia d'Oro out of 2008 Emerald Distaff Handicap winner Lemon Kiss, by Lemon Drop Kid, has earned $439,832.

 Three-year-old You Make Me Sing, a daughter of Unbridled's Song, won a 7 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race over Indiana Downs' turf course on September 25. The half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner and $2.1-million earner You is out of Our Dani, a 1993 winning daughter of Homebuilder bred in Washington by Jerry Woods and John Link.

 Au Clair de Lune, a two-year-old British Columbia-bred daughter of Lucky Acres' Matty G-Ceebett's Dancer, by Moscow Ballet, took a $16,000 maiden claiming race at Hastings Racecourse by 3 3/4 lengths on September 13.

  Locket, a four-year-old British Columbia-bred daughter of Rosberg, became the fourth stakes winner out of the Ascot Knight mare La Belle Creole when she won the $45,075 Delta Colleen Handicap by nearly four lengths at Hastings on September 14. The $114,761 earner is a half-sister to $215,876 earner Suva, $145,512 earner La Belle Fleur (by Son of Briartic) and $106,938 earner Gotta Find Bubba. All four of the stakes-winning siblings were bred by WTBOA members Ernie and Marlene Braithwaite, of Surrey, BC, and I. Melvin and Georgina Gorasht, of Seattle, who also race Locket.

 Maftool, the two-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Hard Spun who took the �50,000 Somerville Tattersall Stakes (G3) at Newmarket by 2 1/2 lengths on September 25, is out of With Intention (by Mr. Greeley), an unraced half-sister to El Dorado Farms LLC sire and stakes winner Abraaj and two other stakes winners. Maftool, a $260,000 Keeneland weanling purchase who races for Godolphin, has two wins and two seconds (including a runner-up finish in the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes at Kempton) from four starts and earnings of �45,009. Either the Group 1 Dubai Dewhurst Stakes (Newmarket, October 17) or Group 1 Racing Post Trophy (Doncaster, October 25) may be next on his schedule according to trainer Saeed bin Suroor.

 Super Ninety Nine, a son of Pulpit-Exogenetic, by Unbridled's Song, bred in Kentucky by Jerre Paxton's Northwest Farms LLC, will enter stud at Josh and Mike Pons' Country Life Farm in Maryland next spring as property of Spendthrift Farm and Country Life. At three, Super Ninety Nine won the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes and ran third in the Santa Anita Derby (G1). He retires with three wins and $378,260 in earnings.

The Jockey Club Releases 2013 Breeding Statistics
   The Jockey Club reported that 2,230 stallions covered 36,656 mares in North America during 2013, according to statistics compiled through September 9, 2014. These breedings have so far resulted in 21,697 live foals of 2014 being reported to The Jockey Club.

The Jockey Club estimates that the number of live foals reported so far is approximately 90 percent complete. The reporting of live foals of 2014 is down 1.4 percent from last year at this time when The Jockey Club had received reports for 22,001 live foals of 2013.

In addition to the 21,697 live foals of 2014 reported, The Jockey Club had also received 2,692 No Foal Reports for the 2014 foaling season. Ultimately, the 2014 registered foal crop is projected to reach 22,000.

The number of stallions declined 6.8 percent from the 2,392 reported for 2012 at this time last year, while the number of mares bred decreased 3.3 percent from the 37,908 reported for 2012.

The 2013 breeding statistics are available alphabetically by stallion name through the Resources - Fact Book link on The Jockey Club homepage at jockeyclub.com.

In Washington, The Jockey Club reports that 317 mares were bred in 2013, down from 405 mares covered in 2012 (-21.7 percent). The number of stallions covering mares dropped from 39 to 33 in the same time period.

Oregon had a slight gain in mares bred from 142 in 2012 to 150 in 2013, while the number of stallions dropped from 17 to 13.

In Idaho, the number of mares bred dropped 29 percent, from 141 in 2012 to 108 in 2013 and their number of stallions covering mares went from 30 to 22.

Meanwhile, the figures from British Columbia show an 8.3 percent drop in mares bred, 288 in 2012 versus 266 in 2013. Stallions covering mares in 2012 to 2013 went from 32 to 27.

The Jockey Club's Executive Vice President and Executive Director Matt Iuliano noted that the breeding statistics do not represent live foals born in each state or province, but are a count of live foals by conception area, regardless of where the foals were born. He also stated that the statistics do not represent the final fertility record of any stallion or conception area.

 Kentucky annually leads all states and provinces in terms of Thoroughbred breeding activity. Kentucky-based stallions accounted for 43.3 percent of the mares reported bred in North America in 2013 and 51.1 percent of the live foals reported for 2014.

 The 15,857 mares reported bred to 258 Kentucky stallions in 2013 have produced 11,089 live foals, a 3.4 percent increase on the 10,726 Kentucky-sired live foals of 2013 reported at this time last year. The number of mares reported bred to Kentucky stallions in 2013 increased 1.8 percent.

 Among the 10 states and provinces with the most mares covered in 2013, half produced more live foals in 2014 than in 2013 as reported at this time last year: Kentucky, California, New York, New Mexico and Texas.

 The statistics include 338 progeny of stallions standing in North America, but foaled abroad, as reported by foreign stud book authorities. Ninety-one live foals by North American stallions were reported from Republic of Korea, 71 from Saudi Arabia, 42 from Great Britain, 30 from Japan and 28 from Ireland. Remaining countries on the list are: Venezuela, 23; Philippines, 15; France, nine; India, seven; Turkey, six; Russia, four; Uruguay, three; Argentina, three; Qatar, two; Jamaica, two; Germany, one; and Barbados, one.

 The report also includes 73 mares bred to 13 stallions in North America on Southern Hemisphere time; the majority of these mares have not foaled.

In Memoriam
                       

Sally Marie Dunker
  Sally M. Dunker (nee Eliuk) passed away in her 101st year on August 31, 2014. A long-time resident of Kent, she was her husband's right-hand man with their Thoroughbreds racing across America.

 After settling in Kent she was employed by Washington State Child Services.
She is survived by her son, Mike Dunker; daughter, Stephanie Mundeling; grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

 

Aaron U. Jones

 Longtime nationally prominent horseman Aaron Jones died of heart failure at his home in Eugene, Oregon, on September 22, 2014.The noted lumberman and philanthropist was three days shy of his 93rd birthday.

 He was born in Utopia, Texas, in 1921, one of five children. When he was not quite five, he saw his mother murdered. Soon afterward he and his brothers were placed in an Arizona children's home where their father paid for their room and board. When a fire destroyed the elder Jones auto repair shop, he took his sons to live on an uncle's Oregon farm to keep them from being adopted.

 Except for their time spent in school, the boys worked the farm from dawn until dusk.

 Aaron graduated from Toledo High School - one of only two students from his class to head to college at the University of Oregon, where he received a degree in physical education in 1947.

 With studies interrupted by World War II, Aaron oversaw a US Army supply depot in the Philippine Islands. After the war, he returned to Eugene where he married Jean "Deanie" Bauman and they had three daughters.

 After his first marriage ended, he married Marie Phillips in 1970.

 While in his 20s the young Jones got into the lumber business after previously working in real estate and as a carpenter. In 1953 he founded Seneca Sawmill Company, which grew into the Seneca Family of Companies, which currently employs approximately 300 people. The Jones sawmills came to be regarded as among the most technologically advanced in the world and Jones had more than 25 patents in sawmill technologies to his name. He designed and patented mill machinery which maximized the amount of lumber he could get out of a single log and he "pretty much invented the total computer-controlled sawmill" and was "committed to reducing waste" and to "long-term self-sufficiency."

 In 1971, Jones entered the Thoroughbred world at the fifth WTBA Summer Yearling Sale, where he purchased four yearlings for a total of $48,000, including three of the top five selling yearlings, led by the record-breaking sale topper, a colt by Sword Dancer. That colt, Tumalo, would win four races and earn $39,050 for Jones before entering stud at the Stallion Station in Lexington.

 Later in 1971, Jones would purchase five mares and eight weanlings for $113,000 at the Keeneland November sale.

 His first stakes winners - both trained by Charlie Whittingham - were *La Zanzara and Miss Musket. In 1982 Jones had his first national champion in older male Lemhi Gold. His second followed four years later with Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Tiffany Lass. Riboletta (Brz) earned the Eclipse Award for champion older filly in the Jones' colors in 2000.

 One of the couple's biggest days in racing came in 2004, when Jones-bred Ashado and Speightstown won Breeders' Cup races at Lone Star Park, ensuring their year-end titles as champion three-year-old filly and sprinter. They achieved their third homebred Breeders' Cup winner in 2011, when 2010 Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Drosselmeyer took the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1).

 Among the many other top stakes winners bred, sold and/or campaigned by the Joneses are: Danebo, Forestry, Forest Danger, Sunriver, Master Command and Shaniko.

 Several stallions bred by Jones would enter stud in Washington, including: stakes winner Cajun Prince (who stood at El Dorado and DanDar farms) and Paskanell (Guy Bar Farms), both half-brothers to Lemhi Gold; and Valsetz, an unraced son of Jones-raced Grade 1 winners Valdez and *La Zanzara, who also stood at Guy Bar.

 Jones also helped secure stallions for his longtime partner Taylor Made Farms, among them Saint Ballado.

  "He was a great businessman and a very good horseman. He really understood horses, conformation and pedigrees," said Frank Taylor, who forged a strong personal relationship with Jones.

 In 2005, the Joneses were recognized with the P. A. B. Widener Award, which honors the top Kentucky-based breeders.

 He is survived by his wife, Marie; daughters, Rebecca Jones, Kathleen Jones-McCann and Jody Jones; stepdaughter, Suzanne Penegor; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

 

John Joseph Logan

 Long-time horse owner and Quarter Chute Caf� regular John Logan died of congestive heart failure on September 6, 2014, at age 73.

 He was born in Seattle on January 10, 1942, to Edward and Georgette Logan.

 John was a road and traffic engineer for King County for 30 years, retiring in 1992. He then opened his own consulting business as an expert witness, instructor and engineering consultant. In addition to serving on several national civil engineering boards and committees, John was a member of the Knights of Columbus for over 50 years and was a past Grand Knight of Columbus Council 676.

 In his semi-retirement, he owned and raced horses at Emerald Downs for the last ten years with his trainer and "partner in crime" Dino Apostolou.

 He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Edward Logan Jr. John is survived by his wife, Barbara G. Logan; brother, Frank D. (Jackie) Logan; sister-in-law, Joyce; son, John J. (Linda) Logan Jr.; Katherine B. Logan, Scott J. Stidell and Kimberly K. (Michael) Stidell; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and five nieces and nephews.