WASHINGTON THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS AND OWNERS ASSOCIATION
 
Gate-to-Wire Newsletter
News from the WTBOA
March 25, 2015 

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

WTBOA SUMMER YEARLING EARLY BIRD DEADLINE

WTBOA, Auburn, WA (253) 288-7878; [email protected];

wtboa.com


Wednesday, April 1, 2015

SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE ARTS, THE HORSE AND A WHOLE LOT MORE

(253) 288-7878;

[email protected]


Monday, April 6, 2015

KEENELAND TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN TRAINING SALE

Lexington, KY

1 (800) 456-3412; keeneland.com

 

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

NORTHWEST RACE SERIES STALLION NOMINATION DEADLINE (foals of 2016)

(253) 288-7878; wtboa.com;

[email protected]


Wednesday, April 15, 2015

NORTHWEST RACE SERIES EXTENDED NOMINATION DEADLINE FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS (foals of 2016)

(253) 288-7878; wtboa.com

[email protected]


Friday, April 17,2015

WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING

Auburn City Council Chambers

25 West Main St., Auburn, WA

(360) 459-6462

 

Saturday, April 18, 2015

EMERALD DOWNS OPENING DAY

Auburn, WA

(253) 288-7000; emeralddowns.com

 

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

BARRETTS MAY TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN TRAINING SALE

Del Mar, CA

(909) 629-3099; [email protected]; barretts.com

 

Friday, June 12, 2015

WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING

Auburn City Council Chambers,

25 West Main St., Auburn, WA

(360) 459-6462

 

Sunday, July 19, 2015

BARRETTS PADDOCK SALE AT DEL MAR

Del Mar, CA

(909) 629-3099; [email protected];

barretts.com


 

 

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WTBOA Summer Yearling & Mixed Sale
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015

The Tuesday following the Longacres Mile (G3)

 

IT PAYS to SELL WITH
"the little sales company that could"

 

The sales company that brought you these
2014 Washington Champions

 

HORSE OF THE YEAR
& Champion Handicap Horse
STRYKER PHD

 

Champion Older Filly Or Mare
MADAME PELE

 

Champion 3YO & Champion 3YO Colt/Gelding
NOOSITO

 

Champion 3YO Filly
FIND YOUR SPOT

 

Champion 2YO & Champion 2YO Colt/Gelding
TRACKATTACKER

 

The WTBOA Summer Yearling Session
has experienced a steady INCREASE
in GROSS SALES, AVERAGE and MEDIAN
and a decrease in RNAs, 2012-14

 

 

2012

2013

2014

Gross Sales

$883,200

$1,212,600

$1,300,500

Average Price

$11,776

$15,546

$16,056

Median Price

$5,000

$9,500

$10,500

RNAs

36

23

18

 

Nominate your yearlings by April 1, 2015,
to take advantage of the "Early Bird" Summer Yearling
Nomination Fee ($125 per yearling, non-refundable)

 

Or if paid by April 30, 2015, nomination fee is $150

 (non-refundable)

 

Click here for Nomination Form

Contact 253-288-7896 or [email protected] for more information

 

WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News

  Four-year-old Among the Stars, who finished third in the 2014 Comcast SportsNet Handicap at Emerald Downs last September, took a March 22 six-furlong allowance race by one-length at Turf Paradise, ridden by Juan Gutierrez to expand her record to 4-2-5 from 17 starts and $71,431 in earnings. The daughter of Harbor the Gold-Sweethrtofsigmachi, by General Meeting, who was bred in Washington by Dr. Duane and Susan Hopp, now races for Roy and Tammy Brewer, Kany Levine and Ken Nugent. In the race following Among the Star's win, six-year-old Just Have'n Fun, won her eighth race and upped her earnings to $90,608. The daughter of Lucky Acres' Matty G-Just an Angel, by Demons Begone, was bred in Washington by Renee Larrabee.

  Trainer Mark Glatt and partners G. Jarnig, M. Medley, C. Medley, R. Orr and E. Schweiger's Spin Forty, a three-year-old gelding by Hard Spun out of stakes winner Sweet Fourty, by Sweetsouthernsaint, bred in Washington by Debbie and Rick Pabst, took a seven-furlong $30,000 maiden claiming race by 2 1/2 lengths on March 21 at Santa Anita in his first start since last August at Del Mar.

  Pebble Beach Baby, a five-year-old daughter of Rock Hard Ten bred by Jill Heerensperger in Kentucky, won the $60,000 Sis City Stakes at Aqueduct on March 21. The half-sister to $172,628 stakes winner Stealth Attack, $279,745 graded stakes-placed Yacht Spotter and $162,559 stakes-placed Skyrider improved her record to 6-6-4 from 29 starts and has $189,216 in earnings. Her dam, Sarna, by Son of Briartic, was a 1997 WTBOA summer sale graduate bred in Washington by Rick and Debbie Pabst.

Other News

  In a letter dated March 23, 2015, Les Bois Park Racing has sent a notice to their employees that layoffs will begin the end of May and that the Idaho track will close on June 30 after a ban on the previously approved instant-racing betting terminals was passed by the Idaho Senate with the state House due to vote before the end of March.

  Four-year-old Lady Luciano earned her first stakes-placement after the daughter of Frost Giant finished third in the $78,400 Karakorum Elektra Stakes at Aqueduct on March 21. The $158,324 earner is out of Delaware Park and Golden Gate Fields allowance winner Miriam's Song, a Washington-bred daughter of the recently deceased Peterhof. Lady Luciano's second dam, Washington-bred stakes winner Exit's Baby, is also the dam of 2002 Washington champion and Longacres Mile (G3) winner Sabertooth.

  Five-year-old Charismatic Pulpit, a son of Pulpit out of 2005 Emerald Downs champion and stakes winner Karis Makaw, who is a Charismatic-sired half-sister to stakes winner and Washington sire Nationhood, won a allowance at Mountaineer Park on March 23 to give him his fourth win and $108,983 in earnings.

  Wesley Ward is planning to take Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) winner Hootenanny to Newmarket for the May 2 Two Thousand Guineas (G1). The Selah-born trainer is thinking about taking Dave Mowat's Grade 1 winner Sunset Glow to England as well.