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News from the WTBOA
August 7, 2015
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Calendar
Saturday, August 8, 2015
WASHINGTON RACING HALL OF FAME
Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA
(253) 288-7000;
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
CTBA'S NORTHERN CALIFORNIA YEARLING AND HORSES OF RACING AGE SALE
Alameda County Fairgrounds, Pleasanton, CA
(800) 573-2822 Ext. 243; cookie@ctba.com; ctba.com
Friday, August 14, 2015
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING
Auburn City Council Chambers
25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA
(360) 459-6462
Saturday, August 15, 2015
BARRETTS SELECT YEARLING SALE
Del Mar, CA
(909) 629-3099; info@barretts.com; barretts.com
Sunday, August 16, 2015
LONGACRES MILE (G3)
Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA
(253) 288-7000; emeralddowns.com
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
WTBOA SUMMER YEARLING AND MIXED SALE
(253) 288-7878
maindesk@wtboa.com; wtboa.com
Friday, September 11, 2015
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING
Auburn City Council Chambers
25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA
(360) 459-6462
Saturday, September 19, 2015
THE PRODIGIOUS FUND THOROUGHBRED SHOWCASE
WTBOA Sales Pavilion
Auburn, WA
The Prodigious Fund, Emerald Downs
(253) 288-7000; emeralddowns.com
Saturday, October 3, 2015
THE PRODIGIOUS FUND THOROUGHBRED AND HALF-THOROUGHBRED HORSE SHOW
Donida Training Center
Auburn, WA
The Prodigious Fund, Emerald Downs
(253) 288-7000; emeralddowns.com
Friday, October 9, 2015
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING
Auburn City Council Chambers
25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA
(360) 459-6462
Thursday, October 15, 2015
BREEDERS' CUP FOAL NOMINATION DEADLINE
Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31
BREEDERS' CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Keeneland, Lexington, KY
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
BARRETTS FALL YEARLING AND HORSES OF RACING AGE SALE
Del Mar, CA
(909) 629-3099;info@barretts.com; barretts.com
Friday, November 13, 2015
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING
Auburn City Council Chambers
25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA
(360) 459-6462
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HORSE FOR SALE
Free 3YO Matty G colt out of Darrledfiredancer. Perfectly sound. Contact 253-254-9357.
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Reminders
WTBOA Summer Yearling & Mixed Sale
Sonoma Valley Wine Country Get Away
Trip for Two
Sells at live auction just prior to Hip 1
at the WTBOA Sale, Tuesday, August 18
Funds raised benefit the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation
WTBOA Sales Incentive Program
Allowance Race
Saturday, August 29, 2015
For eligible two-year-olds; $20,000 purse
Washington Cup XIII
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Note: Some of the conditions have changed,
but each race still pays through 8th place
For more information, contact the WTBOA office
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After Coal Creek Farm homebred My Heart Goes On handily won a maiden special weight race on July 5, she earned a $5,000 breeder incentive bonus from Shadwell Farm for being her freshman sire Albertus Maximus's initial winner. Next up on her agenda was a try for an additional $10,000 bonus from the Kentucky-based farm if she could become her Grade 1-winning sire's first stakes winner.
A field of five juvenile fillies made their stakes debut in the $50,000 Angie C. Stakes on July 26. Two others of which also had Emerald maiden allowance wins to their credit - Princess Kennedy and one-to-two race favorite Kiss My Lulu. The two additional entrants in the six-panel event had finished second to those previously mentioned two fillies in their winning efforts.
My Heart Goes On, partnered by Juan Gutierrez, went to the lead after bobbling at the start and proceeded to lead at every call, just outlasting David Thorner's homebred Princess Kennedy (Sun King-Pat Hand) who was "full of run" to finish second by a head. Pegasus Too's Kiss My Lulu (Coast Guard-Runaway Lulu) came in two lengths behind in third place. Final race time was 1:11.25.
Trained by David Martinez, Washington-bred My Heart Goes On has earned $36,025.
"David (Martinez) told me to just break and let her run; whatever she's comfortable with is OK. I thought it would be a little more competitive on the backside, but she showed a lot of speed," said Gutierrez of his 56th Emerald stakes win.
My Heart Goes On is the third Emerald Downs stakes winner raced by Barbara Ratcliff of Bellevue and is a third generation homebred for Ratcliff, who, with her late husband Ronald, had purchased the filly's unraced great-grandam Katherine Jean - while carrying her first foal - for $12,000 at the 1990 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale through Halvorson Bloodstock. That first foal, the winning Sauce Boat filly Lorrains Love, would later produce 2012 Washington broodmare of the year Coup de Foudre. Among Katherine Jean's other foals were $240,570 stakes winner Hilltown, $89,481 stakes winner Newfound Man, stakes-placed runners Hamilton Island and Royal Riyadh, and 2001 twin fillies by Dayjur - winner One for You and unplaced One for Me. One for You's first six foals are all winners and include stakes-placed For You My Heart, Somewhere With You, 2015 Emerald maiden special weight winner Dedicated to You and $64,072 earner and four-time winner My Untamed Heart, a filly by Value Plus whose first foal is My Heart Goes On. My Untamed Heart's second foal is a 2015 colt by Alternation.
A photo of My Heart Goes On was featured in the Shadwell Farm ad for Albertus Maximus which appeared in the July 18, 2015, The Blood-Horse and in the farm's ad celebrating his first stakes winner in the July 29 Thoroughbred Daily News and August 1 issue of The Blood-Horse.
Trainer Howard Gibson and Jeff and Teresa Lynd's Coach Royal became the first four-time winner of the meet after he took his third race in a row in a $10,000 Emerald claiming race on July 25. Ridden by Francisco Duran to his 3 1/2-length win, the six-year-old Kentucky-bred gelding by Lemon Drop Kid, has a 6-2-3 record this year from 12 starts, has won eight races and has $227,125 lifetime earnings.
Emerald Racing Club's Tribal Waters provide the 187-member club with their second win of the season when he took a $12,500 claiming race by three lengths on August 1. The four-year-old Tribal Rule gelding was winning for the third time in 13 starts and has lifetime earnings of $48,153, of which $9,326 has been earned while trained by Larry Ross for ERC.
Owner/trainer Nancy Betts and jockey Janine Smith each notched their first win at Emerald Downs when two-year-old Dashing Don, a California-bred gelding by Popular who had taken a maiden special weight race at Hastings Racecourse on May 23 in his first start, made it two for two after winning a 5 1/2-furlong allowance at the Auburn track on August 2. He took both races by a head margin.
Through August 2, Jeff Metz continues his stronghold on trainer title with 39 wins, 17 more than second place Frank Lucarelli. The California horseman also leads in monies with $344,911, with Lucarelli again in the number two spot with $315,461 in earnings. Blaine Wright, in third place by wins, boasts an impressive 21-15-15 from 86 starts to give him a 24.4 win percentage and a 59.3 top three percentage. Wright also ranks fourth in money earned with $242,244. Howard Belvoir has saddled 20 winners to rank fourth in that category, but ranks third in monies with $272,322.
Julien Couton has 68 wins and $734,285 in mount purses to continue his quest for the 2015 Emerald Downs leading rider title. Juan Gutierrez is second in wins with 55, but third in monies with $575,977. Ranked only a scant $250 below Couton in earnings is Leslie Mawing who ranks third in wins with 50 trips to the winner's circle. Rocco Bowen and Joe Steiner are tied with 29 wins in a distant fourth, though Bowen leads Steiner $422,041 to $369,746 in purses earned.
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Horse honors for week 15 were bestowed on My Heart Goes On (see above), an unbeaten two-year-old filly bred and owned by Barbara Ratcliff's Coal Creek Farm, who won the Angle C. Stakes on July 26 in her second outing.
Carol Dronen was named top owner for the final week in July, with trainer honors going to Manny Ortiz. Jennifer Whitaker was named rider of the week and Jose Saldivar, who works for Doris Harwood, earning the top exercise rider spot. Ladislao Caro, who is employed by trainer Blaine Wright, was voted best groom.
Week 16 horse honors went to two-year-old Ryan Walt, a full brother to two-time 2015 Emerald winner Arrom Bear. Both bred by Dayton horseman Tim Donohoe, who has consigned their half-brother by Atta Boy Roy to the August 18 WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale.
Ryan Walt has made four starts for the partnership of trainer H. R. "Pat" Mullens and his longtime clients R. A. Larson and Ed Zenker, with a 1-1-1 record. In his most recent outing, on August 2, the juvenile colt won a $25,000 maiden claiming race by a dominating 5 3/4 lengths while ridden by Leonel Camacho-Flores.
Ryan Walt is from the third crop of 2013 Washington leading freshman sire Nationhood, a stakes-winning son of sprint champion Cherokee Run. Nationhood stands at Blue Ribbon Farm in Buckley.
His dam, Lite Nite, a $134,532 winning daughter of 1982 Horse of the Year Conquistador Cielo, has produced eight other winners from her dozen foals, including Emerald Downs stakes-placed runners Arrow Junction and Have'n a Lark.
The best owner title went to Ron Maus's Buffalo Stables and Jim Penney was named the top trainer. Other honors were earned by jockey Julien Couton; groom Martin Caposono, who works for Manny Ortiz; and exercise rider Manuel Gonzalez, who works out of Howard Belvoir's shedrow.
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Abraaj Runners in the News
Oak Crest Farm LLC's homebred two-year-old filly Cape Grace took a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race by 4 1/2 lengths in her race debut on August 1 at Emerald Downs. The Washington-bred daughter of El Dorado Farms LLC's Abraaj is the second foal and first winner out of the Woodman mare Ocean's Fourteen. Ridden to her win by Javier Matias, Cape Grace is trained by David Martinez.
Quatre Cat, at odds of .95-to-one, added her fourth stakes win when she took the $38,196 British Columbia Cup Dogwood Handicap at Hastings Racecourse, drawing clear by two lengths on August 3. The three-year-old daughter of Abraaj out of Four Girls, by Foxhound, who was bred by Rob McDonald, improved her record to 5-2-1 from nine starts and has earned $138,374.
Abraaj's two-year-old Fear of the Cat, who had run second in a Hastings maiden special weight race in his first outing on July 1, finished second by a half-length to Stanz in Command in the $38,196 British Columbia Cup Nursery Stakes. The British Columbia-bred gelding out of Imaflashycat, by Tale of the Cat, has earned $11,327 in his two starts.
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WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News
2015 Queen's Plate-G1 (Can) winner Shaman Ghost, who races for Stronach Stables and was bred in the name of his Adena Springs, next ran second, beaten a neck by Breaking Victory, in the $383,500 Prince of Wales Stakes (G3-Can) at Fort Erie on July 28. In eight starts Shaman Ghost has a 4-1-0 record and has earned $688,311. His second dam was $122,694 earner and 1996 WTBOA Winter Sale yearling Shay, who won two stakes in 1998: the Arches of Gold Handicap at Golden Gate Fields and the King County Handicap over three-time Emerald Downs champion and 2015 Washington Racing Hall of Fame inductee Ropersandwranglers. A daughter of Incinderator, Shay was bred in Kentucky by Tom Caldwell out of his Alki Breeders' Cup Stakes winner Lookin Like a Lady, a full sister to Mexican and Oregon two-year-old filly champion Cinefila.
Eight-year-old Newfound Gold, a Kentucky-bred gelding by Newfoundland-Binntastic, by Lyphard's Wish (Fr), who was a $9,500 RNA at the 2008 WTBOA summer sale, added a 7 3/4-length win in a $12,500 claiming race at Del Mar on July 28. In 46 starts he has earned $215,659 with a 13-16-9 record.
Four-year-old Hugo too Slow, an Oregon-bred son of Harbor the Gold-Flying Memo, by Memo (Chi), took a six-panel allowance race at Grande Prairie on July 26. Bred by Bret and Julie Christopherson, the gelding has earned $22,750.
Spin Forty, a three-year-old Washington-bred son of Hard Spin-Sweet Fourty, by Sweetsouthernsaint, bred by Rick and Debbie Pabst, won a $50,000 claiming race at Del Mar on July 25 for trainer Mark Glatt, Gordy Jarnig, Eric Schweiger, Dr. Rodney Orr and M. Medley. Ridden by Tyler Baze, the gelding has won three of seven starts and earned $71,478.
Three-year-old My Grandson, a Washington-bred son of Grazen-Creole Delights, by Bertrando, bred by Prisco and Elisabeth Vacca, won a five-furlong $25,000 maiden turf race at Santa Rosa on July 31 for owner Jeffery Sengara. He is trained by Jerry Hollendorfer.
Seven-year-old Majorca Gold earned his 14th lifetime victory in a six-furlong allowance at Grande Prairie on August 2. Bred in Washington by Dale Mahlum, the gelded son of El Dorado Farms LLC's Private Gold-Majorca, by Salem Drive, has earned $67,752.
Jon Sather's homebred Birdsone, a four-year-old gelded son of Birdstone out of multiple Washington champion and WTBOA sales graduate Ladyledue, by Slewdledo, won a mile allowance at Thistledown by nearly seven lengths on August 3. It marked the third win for the Grant Forster trainee who has earned $66,101.
John Parker's four-year-old Among the Stars took her fifth win of the year on August 2 when she scored a 5 1/4-length win in a starter/$25,000 optional claiming race at Emerald Downs. Bred by Dr. Duane and Susan Hopp at their Castlegate Farm in Graham, the daughter of Harbor the Gold-Sweethrtofsigmanchi,by General Meeting, has a 7-2-5 record from 23 starts lifetime and has earned $98,095. Stakes-placed at Emerald at three, the filly is now trained by Candi Tollett and was ridden to her most recent victory by Gallyn Mitchell.
Also on August 2 at Emerald, Ain't Tellin' became the second four-time winner of meet when the four-year-old Florida-bred son of Lewis Michael-Darling Dixie, by Dixie Brass, went gate-to-wire to take a $10,000 claiming race by 3 1/4 lengths for owner Where We At and trainer Jim Penney. Consigned by DiPietro Thoroughbreds to the 2012 WTBOA Sale, Ain't Tellin' has earned $21,525 of his $24,825 total this year.
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4,164 Yearlings Cataloged for Keeneland September Sale
Keeneland has cataloged 4,164 yearlings for its 72nd annual yearling sale, which will be held in Lexington on September 14-26. The sale breaks down with 2,168 colts, 1,995 fillies and one gelding.
This year, Book 1 will cover three, instead of four sessions and there will be a total of 12 sessions overall.
The online catalog will be available beginning August 11 and print catalogs will go in the mail the week of August 24, www.keeneland.com.
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Sale PPs Now Live on TDN Website
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Pony Up Rescue for Equines Fundraiser and Dinner Auction
Pony Up Rescue for Equines Annual Fundraiser and Dinner Auction will be held on October 10, 2015, at the Canterwood Golf and Country Club in Port Orchard.
Pony Up Rescue for Equines rehabs, rescues and rehomes horses in Western Washington. They take horses in who have suffered from starvation, neglect and abuse, as well as off the track Thoroughbreds who have been displaced. They offer services within the local community to help owners in need, such as help with hay or euthanasia costs. Pony Up Rescue also seeks to educate the general public regarding horse welfare issues. Throughout the year they hold "gelding" clinics, dental clinics and vaccination clinic. These clinics are held at reduced and subsidized costs to help horse owners.
The annual fundraiser helps to support the recue group's intake horses through the winter months with hay, grain, veterinary and farrier costs.
The fundraiser includes dinner, cocktails, a huge dessert selection, a fabulous silent auction and a live auction of larger items after dinner. In order to make the silent and live auctions a success, they ask business owners for donations and sponsorships. The donations support the auction and give businesses great publicity. All donors will be included in fundraising program, listed on Pony Up's Facebook page and will be prominently displayed with your item. All donations are tax deductible per IRS regulations as we are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity.
Table sponsorships are $250 per table and with that sponsorship the table is dressed with your name, your brochures and business cards (and also listed on the evening's program).
If you wish to make a donation of an item or become a table sponsor, please contact Pony Up Rescue at (206) 910-2136 or e-mail Rosemary@ponyuprescue.com. Gift certificates (with business cards) may be mailed to: PO Box 1023, Olalla, WA 98359. Kindly put an expiration date on all donated gift certificates. UPS ship to: Pony UP, 239 Bruen, Bremerton, WA 98312, attn: Rosemary Collins.
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AAEP Announces Initiative to Enhance Horse Health, Racing Integrity
The American Association of Equine Practitioners announced on July 29, 2015, a multi-part initiative to protect the health and welfare of the racehorse and help ensure the long-term viability of the racing industry in the United States. The central component of the AAEP's Prescription for Racing Reform is the association's commitment to identifying non-race day treatment alternatives for exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH).
The AAEP Racing Committee held a strategic planning session in late February to address key issues affecting the health of the racehorse. The result was the development of the Prescription for Racing Reform, a 10-point plan designed to both protect the health of racing's equine athletes and strengthen the integrity of the sport.
Key points of the initiative include: Investigating efficacious management strategies for exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage that do not require race-day medication administration. The AAEP supports the use of furosemide to control the negative effects of EIPH in racehorses. However, race-day administration of any medication is seen by many as problematic for the sport.
The AAEP will pursue alternative treatments for EIPH by:
1. Facilitating a meeting of scientists, including experts in the fields of equine EIPH, pulmonary function and human sports medicine, with the stated goal of identifying research priorities which may yield effective alternatives to current EIPH treatment protocols.
2. Pursue funding for identified research projects.
Banning the use of anabolic steroids in racehorses in training. Anabolic steroids are already banned for horses actively competing. The AAEP supports the complete discontinuation of systemic anabolic steroid use in horses currently in training.
Restricting administration of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to 48 hours before racing. Current NSAID rules in most jurisdictions allow 24-hour administration before racing. Research indicates that the residual anti-inflammatory effect of NSAID administration remains at 24 hours. To ensure pre-race examinations are not influenced by the prior administration of an anti-inflammatory medication, the AAEP endorses restricting NSAID administration to 48 hours pre-race.Other points of the plan address compounded medication, veterinary list reciprocity and stiff sanctions for rules violators.
"Our desire to investigate non-race day treatment alternatives for EIPH serves both the horse and the industry and we are committed to developing a strategy that goes beyond the simple cessation of race-day medication," said Kent Carter, DVM, 2015 AAEP president. "As doctors of veterinary medicine, we want to contribute to the success of the racing industry but must remain committed to protecting the health and welfare of the horse as our foremost priority."
The AAEP Racing Committee is chaired by Dr. Scott Hay, a private practitioner based in Florida. Other members of the committee are Drs. Rick Arthur, Keith Berkeley, Larry Bramlage, Robert Burgess, Alan Chastain, Nancy Goodman, John Kimmel, Keith Latson, Patti Marquis, Melissa McKee, Paul Nolan, Foster Northrop, Scott Palmer, Andy Roberts and Mary Scollay.
For more information about the initiative, please contact Sally Baker, AAEP director of marketing and public relations, at (859) 233-0147 or sbaker@aaep.org.
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Blood-Horse Launches Blood-Horse Daily
The Blood-Horse unveiled Blood-Horse Daily, a free app that features Thoroughbred news and information delivered for smartphone Apple and Android platforms on August 5, 2015.
"The Blood-Horse has made its unique content available on both a daily and weekly basis over a long period of time and the creation of the Blood-Horse Daily app enables us to leverage the best technology available to a publisher and share that content as quickly and as widely as possible," said John K. Keitt Jr., chief executive officer and publisher of Blood-Horse magazine. "The breaking news, analysis and commentary, along with entries, results and a variety of sire, racing and sales lists, will provide readers with timely access to information they need to know."
"Our goal with Blood-Horse Daily is to provide a concise rundown of the most important topics in Thoroughbred breeding, racing, and sales," said Ian Tapp, editor of Blood-Horse Daily. "We will focus on key issues and their impact on the Thoroughbred industry, delivered in a format designed for the on-the-go reader."
To access Blood-Horse Daily through a smartphone, customers can download the free Blood-Horse Daily app from the Apple Store or on Google Play.
A downloadable version summarizing the day's major news in the Thoroughbred breeding and racing industry will be available by email. Readers can sign-up at BloodHorse.com for the link to download the newest version to be sent automatically by e-mail each evening. For additional information on Blood-Horse Daily editions visit BloodHorse.com/Daily or visit BloodHorse.com/DailyFAQs.
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WesleyWard-owned and -trained 2014 Eclipse Award-winning female sprinter Judy the Beauty finished third in the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Handicap run at Saratoga on August 29 in her second start of the year. The six-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper has run 20 times with a 9-8-2 record and $1,740,922 in earnings.
Wild Dude, the five-year-old son of Wildcat Heir who took the $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) at Del Mar on July 26, is out of the winning Doneraile Court mare Courtly Choice. His second dam is Washington-bred stakes winner I'maknightschoice, a daughter of Knights Choice bred by the late Jerry and Carol Many. Multiple graded stakes winner Wild Dude has a record of 6-3-4 from 16 starts and has earned $724,887.
Two-time champion Beholder, whose third dam was former Washington broodmare One Last Bird, took her third renewal of the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (G1) (formerly known as the Lady's Secret Stakes), emulating the great Zenyatta's record in the Del Mar event, with a seven-length tally on August 1. The five-year-old daughter of Henny Hughes-Leslie's Lady, by Tricky Crick, improved her record to 13-3-0 from 18 stars and has earned $3,656,600.
Horseplayers Racing Club LLC's (HRC) multiple stakes-placed Glamoride added win number six in an allowance/$17,500 optional claiming (N) race at Louisiana Downs on July 30 and pushed her earnings to $185,810. Her latest win gave HRC its 26th win of the year. On July 24, HRC's four-year-old filly Diamonds and Oil won a $12,500 mile turf claiming race at Louisiana Downs by nearly two lengths. It marked the third win for the Kentucky-bred daughter of Suave. The Renton-based partnership scored wins at Emerald Downs on July 25 with three-year-old Washington-bred runners Another Winter, a three-year-old filly by Demon Warlock who won by three and is owned in partnership with Warlock Stables and James Broussard; and $25,000 maiden winner Kaabraaj, a son of Abraaj who scored nearly a five-length win for HRC and Saratoga West Stable. Both the Washington runners are trained by Jeff Metz.
On August 5, Above the Crowd Stable LLC and Horseplayers Racing Club LLC's Oh Baby Oh Baby scored her second win for the partnership since being claimed on March 1. The four-year-old Louisiana-bred filly by Orientate-Tumble Me Right (Jpn), by Forty Niner, earned her fifth lifetime win after taking an allowance/$25,000 optional claiming race by 12 1/4 lengths in gate-to-wire fashion. She has now earned $120,155.
Karl C. Kreig's homebred Makinmymark, who he co-owns with trainer Valorie Lund, took her sixth win in 15 lifetime starts in an allowance/$25,000 optional claiming (N) race at Canterbury Park on July 25. The six-year-old Washington-bred daughter of Makors Mark-Cranberry Slough, by Crimson Slew, has earned $113,844. The mare is among the entrants for the Hoist Her Flag Stakes to be run at Canterbury on August 9.
Madeforlucky, by Lookin At Lucky, earned his second graded win in the $750,000 West Virginia Derby (G2) held at Mountaineer Park on August 1. The now $875,200 earner stems from Washington broodmare of the year Beadah and his dam Home From Oz is a full sister to 2014 and current leading national ($10.3-million) sire Tapit.
WTBOA member I. Melvin Gorasht and E. M. and M. Braithewaite's homebred stakes winner Locket, a five-year-old British Columbia-bred daughter of Rosberg, finished second in the $57,294 Pegasus Distaff Handicap at Hastings Racecourse on August 3 and has now earned $142,344.
Tropics, the now seven-year-old horse by Speightstown who is the fourth stakes winner for Washington broodmare of the year Taj Aire, a Washington-bred daughter of Taj Aire bred by John and Doris Konecny, ran fifth in the £155,625 Qatar Stewards' Cup Handicap at Goodwood on August 1 for trainer/owner Dean Ivory. Tropics has won eight races, including four English stakes, and earned $763,395. Taj Aire's 11 raced foals have total earnings of $1,839,192. Ivory commented after the race that Tropics may be coming to Kentucky to run in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1).
Xtreme Denigray, the three-year-old Alberta-bred gelding who won the $32,572 Alberta Derby at Grande Prairie on July 26, is out of a $123,880 stakes-winning daughter of top Oregon sire Baquero. Xtreme Denigray has a record of 3-4-5 from 13 starts and has earned $60,072.
Brazilian champion Bal a Bali (Brz)'s remarkable recovery from laminitis was the subject of the cover and featured story in the July 25, 2015, issue of The Blood-Horse. The five-year-old son of Put It Back is a great-great grandson of 1979 Washington horse of the year and Washington Racing Hall of Fame inductee Table Hands. In five generations, the Brazilian Triple Crown winner is only inbred 4x4 to the Francis S. mare Gonfalon.
Prominent California horse trainer Jerry Dutton, 87, passed away on July 30. Among the many stakes winners he trained was the late Tim Roe's multiple Washington champion and Grade 2 winner Zama Hummer.
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