Two-year-old Dr. Vincentstein, a Washington-bred son of Delineator-Marquet Formula, by Marquetry, bred by Jean M. G. Welch, went gate-to-wire to win a 5 1/2-furlong $30,000 maiden claiming race at Del Mar on November 14. It was the fourth start for the gelding, which currently races for Holly and David Wilson. The $34,970 earner was ridden to the win by Tyler Baze.

  Aerial Dancer, a three-year-old full brother to Washington champion Spanish Highway and stakes winner Ashby Hill, won an about one mile maiden/$30,000 optional claiming (N) race over Turf Paradise's grass course on November 17. Bred by Terry and Mary Lou Griffin, the gelded son of Cahill Road-Prado's Joy, by El Prado (Ire), races for Sheehy LLC.

  Nicole Michelle, a two-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Zensational-Fighting Countess, by Ringside, who races for Gloria Ballestrasse and Terry Morris and is trained by Tim McCanna, won a six-panel $25,000 maiden claiming race at Golden Gate Fields on November 21.

   Linchpin, a full brother to four-time Grade 1 winner and 2014 freshman sire leader Quality Road has been purchased by Elwin and Patti Gibson to stand at their Gibson Thoroughbred Farm.

  A $650,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase in 2011, Linchpin is a son of leading sire and world record setter Elusive Quality, a $413,284 earning son of Grade 1 winner and important sire Gone West. Elusive Quality has so far sired 116 stakes winners. Gone West, the sire of 101 stakes winners, is in turn is one of 181 (15.4 percent) stakes winners sired by the highly influential Mr. Prospector.

  Among Elusive Quality's best runners are eight champions, including dual classic winner Smarty Jones, and $2.2-million earner Quality Road, whose impressive racing record also includes winning or placing in an additional six other graded stakes with an 8-3-1 record in 13 starts. As of November 23, Quality Road is the leading freshman sire in North America with $1,492,686 in earnings and ranks fifth on the juvenile list. The three-time track record setter has 13 winners in his first crop, led by Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) winner Hootenany, Nashua Stakes (G2) winner Blofeld, Canadian stakes runners-up Roaming and Quality Laneand Overprepared, who finished third in the $100,000 Smart Halo Stakes at Laurel Park on November 15.

  Quality Road and Linchpin are out of Kobla, a full sister to champion three-year-old filly and stakes producer Ajina. Kobla is also the grandam of $372,647 earner and multiple group-placed King Ledley.

  Second dam Winglet is a Grade 2-winning half-sister to stakes winners Dance Bid and Northern Plain. Winglet, by Alydar, is also the dam of Grade 3 stakes winner Rob's Spirit and is the grandam of $209,930 stakes winner Bank of Eight.

  Linchpin will enter stud in 2015 for $1,000 live foal, with a $200 booking fee and special consideration to black-type mares or is offering a second mare at half-price.

    The Thorp nursery has also added Running Tap, a $274,100 stakes-placed son of 2014 North American leading sire Tapit to their stallion roster. Stakes-placed at two, when he finished runner-up to Der Meister in the $75,000 Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes, Running Tap had begun his winning career with a 2 1/2-length victory in a maiden special weight race at Saratoga. Finishing second in that 5 1/2-furlong race was future Grade 1 winner Justin Phillip, who earned nearly $1.3-million. Del Mar Derby (G2) winner Banned, who earned mere dollars short of $600,000, also made his debut in the race.

  Running Tap was also a gate-to-wire allowance winner at both Penn National and Parx Racing. His other two tallies came at Saratoga and Belmont Park. All 19 of his placements and the bulk of his earnings came at sprint distances. His final outing came in an April allowance at Emerald Downs last April.

  Running Tap is one of four winners from five foals out of the winning Wild Again mare Wild Flo. Her dam, three-time stakes winner Playcaller, by Saratoga Six, produced ten winners, including Hollywood Starlet Stakes (G1) winner Diplomat Lady, Comely Stakes (G2) winner and Grade 2 stakes producer Dream Land and stakes-placed stakes producer Foxcaller.

  Running Tap's third dam was five-time stakes winner Delice, a daughter of twice leading sire What a Pleasure out of three-time stakes winner Swoonalong.

  Three-time stakes winner Shrug, a six-year-old son of Grade 1 winner and leading sire Medaglia d'Oro, has been retired to stud at Jim and Sandra Loseth's Emerald Acres in Aldergrove, British Columbia, for a $2,000 (Canadian funds) fee with a $200 booking fee and a live foal guarantee.

  A $300,000 Keeneland September yearling, Shrug won six races and earned $285,640.

  One of 63 stakes winners for his sire, he is one of four winners produced out of the $100,920 stakes-placed Woodman mare Babeinthewoods, a daughter of Grade 1 winner and Washington horse of the year Delicate Vine. Babeinthewoods is also the dam of stakes-placed Mystic Wood and grandam of Del Mar Derby (G2) winner and $447,805 earner Rendevous.

  At two, Shrug won his second start, a six-furlong maiden special weight race at Del Mar. At three, he was a 1 1/16-mile allowance winner at Hollywood Park. At four, he added a victory in the five-panel Green Flash Stakes at Del Mar, won a 6 1/2-furlong allowance at Hollywood Park and ran second in the Oakland Handicap at Golden Gate Fields.

  At five, after running third in the Albany Stakes at Golden Gate, the bay horse was sent north to Hastings Racecourse where he took the 6 1/2-furlong George Royal Stakes and the 1 1/16-mile Sir Winston Churchill Stakes. He also finished second to 2013 Longacres Mile (G3) winner Herbie D in the John Longden 6000 Handicap.

  At Thanksgiving, it seems appropriate to thank those who have donated to the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation (WTF).

  We would like to acknowledge and thank Dixie Hitchcock for her generous donation to the WTF in memory of her husband and former WTF president, Richard Hitchcock. 

  Another thank you goes out to Michael Pollowitz for his donation as well. Michael purchased the Breeders' Cup trip that was auctioned off at the WTBOA Summer Sale, with the proceeds going to the WTF and their efforts in charitable giving. Michael donated back the funds that were allocated for air miles and hotel accommodations. We so appreciate this kind gesture.

  Thank you also to Ken Alhadeff, who once again generously donated to the WTF through the MOJO Fund, which honors the memory of Ken's father and mother, Morrie and Joan Alhadeff, and his grandfather Joseph Gottstein.

  He's All Heart, bred by the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation as part of the Broodmare Lease Program, had a successful 2014 and continues to give back to the WTF through Breeders' Awards. From nine starts in 2014, he had a record of 4-2-1, with earnings of $18,825, netting $1,878.75 in Breeders' Awards for 2014. He's All Heart won the 2011 edition of the Muckleshoot Tribal Classic and has lifetime earnings of $128,352.

  We are always receptive to donations from you, our valued members, and grateful. With your donations, you are helping to build a solid foundation for the Thoroughbred industry through:

• THRUST Industry Grants, The Race For Education Scholarships and WSU Veterinary Scholarships
• Support for Rainier Therapeutic Riding for PTSD Soldiers and Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center
• Support for The Prodigious Fund and Backstretch Daycare Center
• Equine Art Show and The Horse and the Whole Lot More Art Scholarship
• Emerald Downs Internship Program
• Broodmare Lease and Youth Programs

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  Register at Fred Meyer Community Rewards or AmazonSmile. Then, every time you shop at AmazonSmile or use your Fred Meyer Rewards Card, you will be helping Washington Thoroughbred Foundation earn a donation at no cost to you!

  Or make a direct donation today. The Washington Thoroughbred Foundation is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. No one on our board receives any compensation for their time served. Our address is 3220 Emerald Downs Dr., Auburn, WA 98001.

  For more information, contact us at (253) 288-7878 or info@thoroughbredfoundation.org or visit thoroughbredfoundation.org.

  Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours,
  Karla Laird, President, WTF

  Another high-priced broodmare prospect with a connection to Washington offered at the premier Kentucky sale was 2014 Gazelle Stakes (G2) winner and Kentucky Oaks (G1) runner-up My Miss Sophia, who sold for $2,150,000. The daughter of Unbridled's Song earned $418,300 in her six career starts. Her dam, two-year-old stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Wildwood Flower, by Langfuhr, is the dam of three other winners from her three named foals, including her second foal, the 2007 Giant's Causeway mare Lilies So Far.

   Just off the track, Lilies So Fair sold for $12,000 as a broodmare prospect at the 2012 Keeneland January sale. She was purchased by the partnership of Lee McMillin, of Amende Place farm in Paris, Kentucky, McMillin's mother and Yakima attorney and former WTBOA president David Thorner. Lilies So Far produced a filly by Smoke Glacken in 2013, a colt by Proud Citizen in 2014 and was bred back to two-time Horse of the Year Curlin.

  All in all, 3,213 of the 4,027 horses cataloged sold for a $205,899,500 gross and $81,966 average (up 2.13 percent) at the November Keeneland sale. The median remained steady at $35,000. The RNA rate was 21.82 percent. A total of 18 horses brought seven figures, including the $3.9-million sale topper Aloof (Ire), a group-winning daughter of Galileo (Ire) who was sold bred to War Front. Naples Bay, a graded stakes winning half-sister to Grade 1 winner and major stallion Medaglia d'Oro commanded the second highest bid.

  Dr. Duane and Susan Hopp's second filly purchase was a weanling half-sister to $119,340 stakes-placed Jazz from the first crop of Whitney Handicap (G1) winner Tizway.

   On day 11, WTBOA member Richard Kessler signed for a young Tapit mare bred to Posse, whose $111,237-winning dam is a half-sister to $1.2-million stakes winner Agnes Wing and $272,657 stakes winner Sea Span.

   Two-time Washington champion Absolutely Cool earned his 17th stakes placement when he finished second in the $35,000 Caballos Del Sol Handicap at Turf Paradise on November 15. The seven-year-old gelding by Absolute Harmony-Coup de Foudre, by Basket Weave, who was bred and is raced by Karl Krieg and is trained by Valorie Lund, had won the 2012 renewal of the stakes and finished third in the six-furlong sprint last year. Ridden by Rocco Bowen, Absolutely Cool improved his record to 7-9-8 from 30 starts and has earned $223,348.

  Mark Dedomenico LLC, Dr. George Todaro and partners' three-year-old filly Rever de Vous, who was stakes-placed at Santa Anita at two, won an allowance/$25,000 optional claiming (N) race in gate-to-wire fashion at Golden Gate Fields on November 14. The Kentucky-bred daughter of Distorted Humor, who was ridden to her 1 1/4-length win by Russell Baze, has a record of 2-1-2 in six starts and earnings of $56,270.

  Though Dedomenico's 2014 Gottstein Futurity winner Prime Engine ran eighth of 11 in the $1-million Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes (G3) on November 22, his and North American Thoroughbred Horse Company's two-year-old filly Majestic Presence, by Majestic Warrior, finished third by 2 1/2 lengths behind Grade 1 winner Take Charge Brandi in the $400,000 Delta Downs Princess Stakes (G3) on the same card. Finishing seventh behind winner Ocho Ocho Ocho in the 1 1/16-mile Jackpot was Al and Sandee Kirkwood's stakes-placed Red Button, a son of Distorted Humor.

    The Kirkwoods' homebred three-year-old filly Danceinthenightaway went gate-to-wire to take a five-furlong allowance by 3 1/4 lengths at Del Mar on November 23. Unraced at two, the Mark Glatt trainee, a California-bred daughter of Indian Charlie, is unbeaten in two starts and has earned $78,480.

  On November 24, Tappingintherain, a four-year-old daughter of Tapit bred by the Kirkwoods and raced and trained by Glatt, took her second win in a 6 1/2-furlong allowance test at Turf Paradise , where she defeated Dr. George Todaro's Decatur Princess, by Broken Vow, by 6 1/2 lengths.

  Washington Quarter Horse breeder Abigail K. Kawananakoa's homebred two-year-old filly A Goddess Thru Fire won the Corona Chick Handicap at Los Alamitos on November 14. The California-bred daughter of Walk Thru Fire has won four of six starts and earned $88,245. Kawananakoa also races multiple graded Quarter Horse stakes winner Significant Heart, a four-year-old California-bred daughter of Corona Cartel who took her eighth win in the Las Damas Handicap (G3) at Los Alamitos on November 21, upping her earnings to $240,267.

  John Xitco, Dan Agnew and James Galvin's Square Dancer, a four-year-old Florida-bred gelding by Circular Quay trained by Mike Chambers, won an about seven-furlong allowance over Turf Paradise's grass course on November 19 to up his earnings to $91,745.  Terra Firma Farm's full brothers Tale Spinner and Kahului Bluff, both Washington-bred sons of Raise the Bluff-Summer Straw trained by Joe Toye, ran second and sixth.

  Temeeku, a three-year-old daughter of Unusual Heat bred by the Marion Christensen and her late husband David, won a 1 1/16-mile maiden special weight over Del Mar's turf course by 2 1/4 lengths on November 21. The California-bred distaffer has earned $52,706.

  Claire and Jack Lein's stakes-placed homebred mare She's Stella Marie, a five-year-old Kentucky-bred half-sister to $219,546 stakes winner Posse Power, won an about mile allowance over Turf Paradise's grass course on November 22. Trained by Robertino Diodoro, the daughter of Leroidesanimaux (Brz) has earned $55,233.

  Five-year-old I Keep Saying, a stakes-placed Washington-bred son of Yankee Gentleman out of Washington-bred stakes winner Arco Iris, by Basket Weave, bred by sisters Jill Fabulich and Kay Cooper, went gate-to-wire to win a six-furlong $40,000 claiming race at Golden Gate on November 23. Racing for the Penney family's Homestretch Farms Inc., trained by Jim Penney and ridden by Russell Baze, I Keep Saying improved his race record to 7-4-4 from 20 outings and upped his earnings to $107,213.

  Battled, a four-year-old gelding by Master Command out of 2004 Washington champion three-year-old filly Grinch earned his third win in eight starts in a six-panel allowance race at Laurel Park on November 20. A $300,000 Barretts May Two-year-olds in Training graduate, Battled has earned $105,070. He is one of two winners - the other being $177,380 earner Whosville - out of Grinch, a multiple stakes-placed daughter of Salt Lake who was bred by Tod C. Manley and earned $164,284 while racing.

  It was announced in mid-November 2014 that the Seattle-based mobile on-line gaming company Big Fish Games has been purchased by Churchill Downs Inc. for a reported $885-million. According to Churchill Downs CEO William Carstanjen, "The mobile-online gaming space gives us new products, new customers, new geographies. We don't think we could expect to be successful dipping a toe into the water, and felt we needed to go big and start with scale. And with more expertise and experience."

TIP Performance Award Forms must be Postmarked by 

December 20, 2014

  The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (TIP) announced today that owners of Thoroughbreds eligible for TIP Performance Awards must submit the appropriate forms by Saturday, December 20, 2014.

  TIP will recognize the Thoroughbreds that accumulated the most points between December 1, 2013, and November 30, 2014, at all horse shows in various award categories and divisions.

Horse shows do not have to offer TIP awards to be included.

  All results are self-reported by owners and/or riders and the forms must be postmarked by the December 20 deadline.  Additional information, including the forms, is available at tjctip.com/Default.asp?page=25.

  In addition to the discipline-specific awards, awards will also be offered for the top Maryland-bred Thoroughbred (sponsored by the Maryland Horse Breeders Association), the top Ontario-bred Thoroughbred (sponsored by the Ontario Division of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Sales), the top New York-bred Thoroughbred (sponsored by the New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc.) and the top Washington-bred Thoroughbred (sponsored by the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association).

  An award will also be presented to the top Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance-Accredited Organization Adoptee (sponsored by the TAA).

  Created and announced in October 2011, TIP recognizes and rewards the versatility of the Thoroughbred through sponsorship of Thoroughbred classes and high point awards at sanctioned horse shows, performance awards, and non-competition awards. Additional information about TIP is available at tjctip.com.

TrackMaster Introduces the Pocket Handicapper Suite

  TrackMaster announced on November 20, 2014, that it has launched a free iPhone App called the TrackMaster Pocket Handicapper Suite, which includes nine different handicapping products. The new App is now available in the iTunes store.

  "This new iPhone App brings handicappers the convenience of having a wide array of handicapping tools whenever and wherever they want them," said David Siegel, president of TrackMaster. "And with all purchases going directly through the customer's iTunes account, there is no need for any additional registration."

  Highlights of the Pocket Handicapper Suite App include the following Thoroughbred offerings: selections from the Turf Club Analysts, Walker Group and FAST Sheets, Railbird and FlashNet reports and the Pocket Handicapper PPs.

  On the Harness side, Chatsworth and FAST selection reports are included along with FlashNet and the Pocket Handicapper PPs.

  "Handicappers are going to find this to be a terrific tool," said Mike Tanner, executive vice president of the United States Trotting Association. "Whether they are at the track, an OTB or playing online, all the information they need to make an informed wager is literally in the palm of their hand."

  TrackMaster, a wholly owned subsidiary of Equibase Company LLC, provides a full range of handicapping products for the three major racing breeds - Thoroughbred, American Quarter Horse and Standardbred. Equibase Company LLC is a partnership between subsidiaries of The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of North America and serves as the Thoroughbred industry's official database. Additional information about the companies is available at trackmaster.com and equibase.com.

Marie Chalice Monroe

  Marie C. Monroe, of Wapato, passed away peacefully at age 93 on November 20, 2014, in Yakima. She was born in Hobson, Montana, on August 4, 1921. After graduating from high school in 1939 in Lewiston, Montana, she attended business school.

  Marie broke a steer to ride at age eight because they didn't have a horse at the time. Just a few years later the young horsewoman rode a Thoroughbred to victory in Lewiston and continued riding at fairs for a short time.

  Her brother Cal introduced her to a young cowboy named Floyd Monroe, who had been a decorated tail gunner in World War II. The couple married in 1947 in Reno, Nevada, and later moved to San Francisco. They had one son, Troy.

  After several years in California they moved back to Floyd's 400 deeded acres in Browning, Montana, and purchased their first cattle. As their herd grew, they bought more land and found themselves in need of horses to work the cattle and also for Floyd to ride in rodeos. Among those first equines were the Quarter Horse mares Tammy Lee and Miss Lola Lee, from whose foals they raised and broke and sold at sales in Denver and San Francisco.

  In 1961 the Monroes purchased a two-year-old Quarter Horse named Printers Devil. A son of Thoroughbred Custus Rustus, the bay colt was sent to Bob Pulse for most of his racing career. He obtained a 95SI and won three stakes and several handicap races. Marie also used him for ranch work and showed him in halter and performance events. Printers Devil became the 22nd Triple A AQUA champion and was a successful sire.

  On March 17, 1963, Floyd was killed in an automobile accident by a drunk driver. Marie was seriously injured in the accident.

  In the 13 years following Floyd's death Marie ran 250 cattle on their ranch and continued to run and show horses. She bred at least 29 ROM Quarter Horses, as well as successful sire and AQHA champion Go Benny Go.

  In 1976 Marie moved to Harrah, near Yakima, where she maintained a 22-acre farm, lay-up facility and stallion station. While still active in the Quarter Horse world, Marie began to diversify into Thoroughbred racing. Her foundation Thoroughbred mare was Kidoka, a 1966 winning daughter of Crazy Kid. She produced seven foals, all winners, led by two-time Playfair stakes winner Tizza Teeser, who would produce stakes-placed My Pink Polly and Teeville Music, a six-race winner by Sensitive Music. The latter almost killed Marie after kicking her in the stomach while he was being trained at Longacres.

  The sharp dresser and consummate horsewoman's best Thoroughbred runner was the Noholme Way horse Holme Run Kid, who she not only bred and owned, but trained to ten wins from 1984-85. After winning a maiden special weight race at Longacres, Holme Run Kid won six stakes at Playfair and Yakima Meadows, including the Playfair Mile Handicap and the Yakima Valley Derby.

  Niftys Tee Time, who won four races at Emerald Downs this year, became the final winner she bred.

  She received many awards for her work in Quarter Horses and ­­­­­­­­­­­­­in 2006 the WHBPA honored Marie in a winner's circle ceremony at Emerald Downs for her many years and many contributions to Washington's racing and breeding industry.

  Marie also raised and showed llamas with her brother Cal and sister-in-law Hazel Pimlott for about 20 years. 

  She was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd; and son Troy. Marie survived by grandson, Tad Monroe; and granddaughters, Jodie Hicks and Heather Wells; five great-grandchildren; and five nieces and nephews.

  Her memorial service is scheduled for January 3, 2015 at the Harrah Community Church in Harrah. Another service will be held later in the spring in Cut Bank, Montana.

  Remembrances may be made to Tranquility Farm, PO Box 210, Tehachapi, California 93581.

  Family and friends of Marie have set up a website at http://www.forevermissed.com/findmemorial?q=marie+monroe. For more information, you may contact Gail Pimlott at Gailformonroe@gmail.com.

Frederick Earl Walters

  Frederick E. Walters, 90, passed away on October 26, 2014.  He was born on September 17, 1924. Fred served with the U. S Navy during three wars: World War II, Korean War and Viet Nam War.

  He and his wife Ruth raised three sons, including twin boys, in San Diego before relocating to the Pacific Northwest, where he worked for The Boeing Company in the material planning division. Although they resided in Edmonds, San Diego was always home, the couple took frequent trips back to the Southern California city where they enjoyed walking on the seaboard and watching the various Navy ships that Fred knew so well.

  A lover of horses, Fred spent more than 20 of his golden years post-retirement as a racehorse trainer at Longacres and Emerald Downs. He not only found great joy in the daily care and exercise of the Thoroughbred runners, but admired their graceful gallops, often critiquing their stride and educating his loved ones on the art and beauty of their movement. It was then you'd see his eyes light up. This was "his thing;" everybody has one, and his was racehorses. 

  Ruth spent countless hours preparing the stalls, feeding and with the daily maintenance of their four-legged friends, while Fred managed training schedules and relationships with the jockeys. Forever an optimist, he always believed their horses would win, and if they didn't, he believed they would the next time.

 Between 1992 and 2007 Fred had a training record of 14-18-26 from 190 starts. Among his winners was Dancing Target, a filly by On Target who was Walters' final trainee. Her final start came on September 15, 2007, at Emerald Downs. His final winner as an owner came with Country Ledo, who he raced in partnership with R and R Inc. and was trained by Howard Belvoir.

   Fred's time away from the track was often spent saltwater fishing or at family gatherings watching football, enjoying outdoor barbeques or holiday festivities. 

  He may have been easy-going, but he had an ornery streak in him that struck from time to time. It added to his charm - he wasn't afraid to be passionate about the things most important to him, including his independence. 

  He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Ruth; three sons, eight grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren.