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News from the WTBOA
September 4, 2015
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Sunday, September 13, 2015
WASHINGTON CUP XIII
Saturday, September 19, 2015
THE PRODIGIOUS FUND THOROUGHBRED SHOWCASE
WTBOA Sales Pavilion
Auburn, WA
The Prodigious Fund, Emerald Downs
Saturday, October 3, 2015
THE PRODIGIOUS FUND THOROUGHBRED AND HALF-THOROUGHBRED HORSE SHOW
Donida Training Center
Auburn, WA
The Prodigious Fund, Emerald Downs
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
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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WA Cup and WA Brews
featuring
the best of Washington-bred horses
and Washington craft beer
Join us for
Washington Cup XIII
A day of great racing and
over 30 brews to taste in the Park
at Emerald Downs
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Note: Some of the Washington Cup conditions have changed,
but each race still pays through 8th place
For more information, contact the WTBOA office
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Washington Cup XIII View Room Packages Available
Emerald Downs is offering an Owners' and Breeders' Hospitality View Room Package for the Sunday, September 13 Washington Cup card. The package includes admission, official programs, tip sheets and reserved seating for eight (at a cost of $350 for a table of eight and $40 for each additional guest) in the View Room, which is located on the fourth floor and offers exceptional views of the paddock and the track. The package also includes a double entrée buffet, personalized invitations (by request) and a discount at The Gift Horse.
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WTBOA Sales Incentive Program Two-year-olds Score
Among the trio of two-year-old races run over the final weekend of August at Emerald Downs were the WTBOA Sales Incentive Program (SIP) allowance and two maiden special weight races. One race was taken by a first-time starter while the other two races went to stakes-placed maidens.
John and Janene Maryanski and Riverbend Farm's filly Invested Prospect, one of two new juvenile winners for El Dorado Farms LLC's Abraaj over the weekend and a daughter of Dunn Bar Ranch LLC's champion No Constraint, by Katowice, was making her first foray on an afternoon card. The Blaine Wright trainee, who went off as the heavy favorite, scored a gate-to-wire win, finishing 8 1/2 lengths in front at the wire in the 5 1/2-furlong test. Invested Prospect, who was also bred by Charlie Dunn's Dunn Bar Ranch, in addition earned a $1,000 SIP bonus and received a newly inaugurated Emerald Buy Here/Win Here bonus.
In the 5 1/2-panel SIP allowance, which offered a $20,000 purse, Sabers Drawn Racing's already twice stakes-placed maiden Wando Cat, a Kentucky-bred gelding by Wando-Summer Ally Cat, by Hold That Tiger, who is trained by Frank Lucarelli, scored a head win over Last Rose Stable 2's Timberfaller. Wando Cat was also a recipient of the Buy Here/Win Here program bonus.
The other maiden special weight race of the afternoon was won by another previously stakes-placed maiden, Viewingthegold, a Washington-bred gelding by Harbor the Gold-Kittyzallwet, by Distinctive Cat, who took his six-furlong test by 2 1/4 lengths. The full brother to $159,398 stakes winner Koala Beach is owned by Big Bill, Bre Skeslien and breeder Clemens View Farm and trained by Jose Navarro.
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More WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News
On August 27, 2014 WTBOA sale graduate Freedom Hill became the second first-time juvenile starter to break his maiden at Del Mar when he took an $80,000 maiden claiming race. A member of the Griffin Place LLC sale consignment - for breeder Kate Lantaff's Epona Equine LLC - he is trained by Mark Glatt, who co-owns him with Dr. Rodney Orr. The Kentucky-bred son of Summer Bird-Adorable Lydia, by Carson City, earned $26,400 in his half-length tally.
Two-year-old Raise a Dancer won for the second time in three tries when she took a $20,000 claimer by an impressive 9 1/4 lengths at Northlands Park on August 29 for Derby Quest Farms Ltd and Shot In the Dark Racing Corp. Bred by Ron McCormick and Ron Hagen, she is a Washington-foaled daughter of El Dorado Farms LLC's Raise the Bluff-Crowning Camilla, by Formal Dinner.
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For the second straight weekend, no stakes were run around the Auburn oval. The Saturday, August 29, feature - a mile allowance - was won by Rancho Viejo and Lisa Baze's three-year-old Oregon-bred colt Its Allabout Jerry. It marked the third Emerald win of the season for the son of Grindstone-Icicle Angel, by La Saboteur, bred by Dr. Jack and Cookie Root. In his seven starts during the 2015 meet, Its Allabout Jerry has a record of 3-2-1 and has earned $40,833. He was one of two winners on the Saturday card for trainer Rigoberto Velasquez, who also saddled Rancho Viejo and Jerry Carmody's 2014 claimer of the meet Dare Me Devil, a seven-year-old Washington-bred son of Devil On Ice, to his 15th victory after his 6 1/2-length win in a $15,000 claimer Dare Me Devil, who was also Washington's most improved plater of 2014, has earned $153,825.
In his first win of the year, Bar C Racing Stables Inc. and Desert Rose Racing LLC's homebred Del Rio Harbor brought home a nearly four-length tally in the six-furlong Sunday, August 30, feature. Voted both Washington and Emerald Downs champion two-year-old male runner in 2013, the four-time stakes-winning son of Harbor the Gold-Bahati, by Horse Chestnut (SAf), improved his record to 7-4-3 in 18 starts and earnings to $227,091. Julien Couton was aboard the Marshall Allen trainee.
Jeff Metz saddled three winners on the card, pushing his 2015 Emerald win total to 50, one more than his Emerald career-high total of 49, which was set in 2014.
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Emerald Downs Weekly Washington Honors
Seven-year-old Big Bad Brown earned state-bred honors for week 20. Bred by Rick and Debbie Pabst at their Blue Ribbon Farm in Buckley, the son of Tribunal-Brown, by Demons Begone, has a record of two wins and two seconds, including his August 30 three-quarter length tally in a $3,500 claiming race, in his eight starts in 2015. The Jim Penney trainee scored his first two victories as a three-year-old at Emerald in 2011, where he also finished third in the Chinook Pass Stakes. In 42 lifetime starts, Big Bad Brown - a half-brother to $174,907 Belle Roberts Stakes winner Sweet Nellie Brown and three other winners - has a record of 12-8-9 and earnings of $96,018. Big Bad Brown currently races for the Pabsts and William Douglas Stenberg. Brown, who was also bred by the Pabsts, is one of nine winners - including three stakes winners and one stakes-placed runner - out of the Wig Out mare Broas.
Trainer Marshall Allen, who saddled two winners during the week, was named top trainer and Allen employees Jofre Burmudez (groom) and Juan Villa (exercise rider) were also acknowledged.
Jockey of the week honors went to Natasha Coddington and Triumph Stables LLC was named best owner.
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Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat's top winning Ben's Cat and his owner/breeder/trainer and recent National Racing Hall of Fame inductee King Leatherbury were profiled in the September 3, 2015, issue of the Thoroughbred Daily News in a feature story titled "King and the Cat: the Pride of Maryland," written by T. D. Thornton.
Al and Saundra Kirkwoods' well-bred three-year-old filly Midnight Belle, a half-sister to Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic (G1) winner Unrivaled Belle, took a mile maiden special weight race over Del Mar's turf course by 8 1/4 lengths on August 28. The Mark Glatt trainee is by Bernardini and out of Bertrando's $605,130 graded stakes-winning daughter Queenie Belle.
Mark Dedomenico LLC and his partners Jerry Durant and Michael House had two sophomore runners run third in Del Mar stakes over the final weekend in August. On August 29, the partnership's Desert Dynamo, by Desert Party, finished less than a length behind winner Gimma Da Lute in the $100,000 El Cajon Stakes. On the following day's card, the trio's Rattataptap, by Tapit, ran third behind Stellar Wind in the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes.
Horseplayer's Racing Club's four-year-old filly Diamonds and Oil added win number four after taking an about 1 1/16-mile turf allowance at Louisiana Downs on August 28 and upping the Kentucky-bred four-year-old daughter of Suave earnings to over $44,000.
Grade 2 stakes winner Valid added another $90,000 to bring his totals to $699,107 after he won the $151,500 Philip H. Iselin Stakes (G3) by 3 1/2 lengths at Monmouth Park on August 30. The five-year-old gelded son of Medaglia d'Oro is one of two graded stakes winners and five stakes horses out of $145,170 stakes winner Grand Prayer, by Grand Slam, whose unraced dam Lyrical Prayer is a half-sister to Washington broodmare of the year and Blue Ribbon Farm matron Peaceful Wings, a now 23-year-old daughter of Halo who has produced 13 runners and 12 winners, including four stakes winners.
Four-year-old My Miss Sophia finished third, beaten only a length, in the $400,000 Ketel One Balleston Spa Stakes (G2) run at Saratoga on August 29. Winner of the 2014 Gazelle Handicap (G2) and runner-up in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), the daughter of Unbridled's Song is a half-sister to 2015 Florida Derby (G1) winner Materiality and to David Thorner, Lee McMillan and Mary McMillan's winning Giant Causeway mare Lilies So Fair. Eight-year-old Lilies So Fair, whose first foal is the two-year-old unraced Smoke Glacken filly My Fair Lily, has a colt by Proud Citizen cataloged in the upcoming Keeneland September Yearling Sale. With her third stakes placement, My Miss Sophia has earned $557,540.
Born in a Breeze, the three-year-old son of Leonnatus Anteas, who earned his first stakes victory in the Vice Regent Stakes at Woodbine on August 30, is out of the You and I mare Trufflesfromheaven. Three days later You and I became the maternal grandsire of another new stakes winner when Melmich, a four-year-old gelding by Wilko-Little Swoon, won the $84,263 OLG Elgin Presented by Bear Stables Stakes, also at Woodbine, by two lengths. The runner has a record of 7-5-1 in 17 starts and has earned $233,311.
Three-year-old Always a Miracle, a son of Gibson Thoroughbred Farm's Parker's Storm Cat-Behr It and Grin, by Behrens, bred in Washington by Dennis Trenkenschuh., took a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Grande Prairie on August 29.
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News from The Jockey Club
Application Period for TIP 2016 Now Open
The application period for 2016 horse shows to apply for Thoroughbred Incentive Program (TIP) awards is now open. TIP offers high point awards and classes for Thoroughbreds in multiple disciplines, including dressage, eventing, hunter, jumper, pleasure and Western. The TIP application period for 2016 shows is open through September 30, 2015. Shows should apply even if the information is tentative. Early applications are appreciated. More information and the online application are available at tjctip.com.
In 2015, TIP is offering awards for registered Thoroughbreds at over 700 shows in 44 states and Canadian provinces.
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. For more information about TIP, please visit tjctip.com.
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Dr. William "Bill" W. Lien
Dr. Bill Lien, 92, passed away on August 13, 2015. Born in Stanwood on December 7, 1922, he was one of three sons of Trygve and Bess Lien.
Bill graduated from Stanwood High School, after which he served as a fighter pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Upon his return home, he attended Washington State College where he earned his degree in veterinary medicine. In 1951 he established the Lien Animal Clinic, a small animal clinic, in West Seattle.
He married Elaine Harris in 1952 and they had two children, Todd and Laurie.
Bill bred many good horses at his Wood N Brook Farm in Redmond, among them 1996 stakes winner Robmeister, 17-race (including three stakes) winner Tanya's Toad, the Portland Meadows stakes-winning half-siblings Big Toad and Tangerine Girl, and stakes-placed Top Toad and Kiss the Toad. Among his favorite runners was Trygve, a Groton colt named after the veterinarian's father, who won the Bouncing Kim purse at six furlong in 1:07 2/5 at Longacres in 1979 and was also stakes-placed at four at Pomona. The Liens also stood the winning The Axe II stallion Stake Knife, a half-brother to Fair Grounds Oaks winner Shadycroft Lady and Trygve.
Among the final foals bred by the longtime horseman are three-year-old Trygve's Besst, a son of Parker's Storm Cat who has placed at Emerald Downs this season, and the runner's yearling half-bother by War Power. Both are products of Tanya Darling, who is also the dam of the aforementioned Tanya's Toad.
Many of his homebred runners sported a "toad" theme, which was inspired by his son Todd's nickname.
The last racehorse Bill campaigned was multiple winner Oldtimer's Vision, a four-year-old son of Pollard's Vision who he raced through the end of the 2014 Emerald Downs meet with partner and trainer Neil Knapp. He also raced two-year-old winner Aqaba, by Horse Chestnut (SAf), in partnership with trainer George McIvor in 2008. Before that, his horses were conditioned by the late N. E. "Nub" Norton. From 2000 to 2014, when Equibase listed Lien in their records, he had 31 wins individually and another five in partnership.
Bill was well known for his great sense of humor.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Elaine. He is survived by his second wife, Susan; son, Todd Lien and his wife Jodi; daughter, Lori Everett and her husband Dr. Albert Everett Jr.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
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