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News from the WTBOA
September 24, 2015
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Saturday, October 3, 2015
THE PRODIGIOUS FUND THOROUGHBRED AND HALF-THOROUGHBRED HORSE SHOW
Donida Training Center
Auburn, WA
The Prodigious Fund, Emerald Downs
Sunday, October 4, 2015
EL DORADO FARMS OPEN HOUSE AND STALLION PRESENTATION
Enumclaw, WA
(360) 825-7526; eldoradofarms@tx3.net
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
Sunday, October 25, 2015
KING COUNTY 4-H SPEC-TACK-ULAR TACK SALE
WTBOA Pavilion, Auburn, WA
(253) 797-1914 or (253) 334-9933
Consignments taken on Saturday, October 25
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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Washington Cup, Emerald Downs annual homage to the Washington breeding and racing industry, is held early each autumn and this season's celebration fell on Sunday, September 13. Now in its 13th renewal, the always exciting race card was led by the $60,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic with four additional $50,000 stakes.
Cup for a Cup
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| Redsolocup
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After the cancellation of the Pegasus Training Center Stakes due to lack of entries, the Redmond horse center added its sponsorship to the 6 1/2-furlong Chinook Pass Sprint Stakes, which started off the Washington Cup action.
In what turned out to be the biggest upset of the day, Warlock Stables and Horse Players Racing Club #96's Redsolocup - at $23.70-to-one - scored a rail-skimming win over Karl Krieg's champion Absolutely Cool (Absolute Harmony-Coup de Foudre), defeating the eight-year-old runner by a half-length. Mark Malnati and Robert McKay's Trick Or Retreat (Harbor the Gold-Retreat After Me) finished a length back in third place, as race favorite Del Rio Harbor faded to fifth.
Jose Zunino was aboard the former claimer for his 1:14.52 win.
"This is the first time I've ridden Redsolocup, but I watch all the replays and he always tries hard," said Zunino. "When I was at the quarter pole, he saw a hole and he went for it. I saw Absolutely Cool coming up on the outside, and I thought Redsolocup was done, and we would run second or third. But I tapped him a couple of times and he responded for me."
It marked the second Washington Cup win for 2013-15 Emerald leading trainer Jeffrey Metz.
Bred by Tim Floyd's Warlock Stables, along with the Scott Gruender-led syndicate Horse Players Racing Club and fellow partners Keith Briggs and Kelly Dougan, Redsolocup became the first of three 2015 Washington Cup winners foaled and raised in Spokane. Floyd also raced Redsolocup's sire Demon Warlock, Washington's horse of the year in 2004.
Floyd came up with his runner's name "when the Toby Keith song 'Red Solo Cup' was doing well on the charts. I liked it, and it seemed to fit with the dam's name since it had a 'bar' in it, tying it to drinking from a Red Solo Cup,"
With his $25,000 first prize, Redsolocup - who is the first foal out of the Valid Wager mare Trainingat the Bar - has now earned $63,764 in 18 starts with a 4-1-5 record.
Good Investment
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| Invested Prospect
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Four of the eight two-year-old fillies contesting the six-furlong Northwest Farms Stakes had won their last start, including nine-to-ten favorite Invested Prospect, who had taken a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight by over eight lengths on August 29 on a sloppy track.
Invested Prospect set a pressured pace under the guidance of Juan Gutierrez with early fractions of :21.36, :44.23 and :56.77 as she led from gate-to-wire, holding off the late surge of Oak Crest Farm LLC (Jack and Theresa Hodge) homebred Cape Grace (Abraaj-Queen's Fourteen) by a neck. Coal Creek Farm (Barbara Ratliff) homebred My Heart Goes On (Albertus Maximus-My Untamed Heart) was third in the blanket finish and only a neck behind Cape Grace. Final race time was 1:10.26.
"I think it was a little fast-paced on the backside, but Invested Prospect is a nice filly," said Gutierrez. "It's the second start in her life, so she was a little tired as she came to the wire. She's going to be a nice filly."
Invested Prospect's win provided trainer Blaine Wright with his second Washington Cup triumph. Owned by John and Janene Maryanski and Gerald and Gail Schneider's Riverbend Farm, Invested Prospect had been purchased by the partners for $25,000 at the 2014 WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale. The filly had been consigned by her breeder Dunn Bar Ranch LLC, the nom de course for Charles Dunn.
Dunn also bred and raced Invested Prospect's dam, 2007 Washington champion two-year-old filly No Constraints, who won two stakes as a juvenile, including the same stakes won by her daughter.
Invested Prospect, who has now earned $36,225, is the latest in a trio of 2015 stakes winners sired by El Dorado Farms LLC stallion Abraaj, who leads the 2015 Washington juvenile runners list.
One Again
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| Mach One Rules
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In the most impressive race on the card, R. E. V. Racing (Roy and Ellie Schaefer) two-year-old Mach One Rules dominated a field of seven other runners with a nearly five-length victory in the six panel Captain Condo Stakes presented by the Daily Racing Form. He also capped a juvenile meet-high 83 Beyer rating for his 1:08.31 finish.
Ridden by Leslie Mawing for trainer Frank Lucarelli, Mach One Rules led at every call with fractions of :21.60, :43.73 and :55.65. John Parker's California-bred, but Washington-sired, Gold Rush Dancer (Private Gold-Dances On Water) was next best, coming home five lengths in front of third place finisher, Big Bill, Clemans View Farm and Bre Skeslien's Viewingthegold (Harbor the Gold-Kittyzallwet).
"He's just a stone-cold runner," said Mawing. "As a jockey you get on horses that you can just feel off the bat that they have talent, and this horse has talent. You know, I've been doing this for 20-odd years, and I know my horses pretty well. From day one, I was really impressed with Mach One Rules. Compared to past runners, he's right up there with the best that I've ridden."
Mach One Rules is the sixth son of Harbor the Gold to take the Captain Condo Stakes in the past eight years. The 2015 winner is also the fourth Captain Condo winner bred by Pam and Neal Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stables Inc., from whose consignment at the 2014 WTBOA sale Roy Schaefer purchased Mach One Rules for $40,000.
The second foal out of three-race winner Felice the Cat, Mach One Rules follows Koala Beach - a full brother to Viewingthegold - as the second Captain Condo winner sired by Harbor the Gold and out of a Distinctive Cat mare.
Now unbeaten in three starts, Mach One Rules has earned $68,450.
Madame Reigns
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| Madame Pele
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Kama'aina Thoroughbreds' Madame Pele came through with her third convincing Washington Cup win in the Comcast SportsNet Handicap. The now five-year-old daughter of Salt Lake-Striking Scholar, by Smart Strike, holds the record for Washington Cup wins. She had won the 2013 Comcast SportsNet Stakes - then run exclusively for three-year-old fillies - by 3 1/2 lengths and the 2014 Pegasus Training Center Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths. Her 2015 win was by a 2 1/4-length margin.
Trained by Jim Penney, in his fourth win in the stakes and ninth Washington Cup win overall - both of which are records - Madame Pele tracked early leaders Citizen Kitty and Wickedizaswickeduz until making her move with a sixteenth of a mile to go and then drawing off to win the 6 1/2-furlong race in 1:15.69. John Parker's Among the Stars (Harbor the Gold-Sweethrtofsigmachi) finished second, one length the better of Karl Krieg's three-to-ten favorite Lady Rosberg (Rosberg-Enter Laughing).
Madame Pele was ridden by leading Washington Cup jockey Juan Gutierrez, who recorded his 17th and 18th Washington Cup wins on the Sunday card.
Madame Pele, a two-time Washington champion, was purchased for $14,000 by Zack and Beth Correra from breeder Char Clark's consignment to the 2011 WTBOA summer sale. The four-time stakes winner of $196,397 - who had finished second in her first Washington Cup race, the 2012 Diane Kem Stakes - improved her record to 6-4-5 from 29 starts. She was the second of three 2015 Washington Cup winners raised in Spokane.
Madame Pele was sired by Salt Lake and is the second foal and state champion out of the unraced Smart Strike mare Striking Scholar, who was voted Washington broodmare of the year in 2014 after the exploits of Stryker Phd and Madame Pele.
Victory Stryke
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The Muckleshoot Tribal Classic Stakes has a long tradition in Washington, debuting in 1942 at Longacres as the Washington Championship.
Two years ago, a highly thought of young runner by the name of Stryker Phd earned his first stakes victory in the 71st running of the Washington classic. After bypassing the race in 2014, Stryker entered the 2015 race with an impressive, all stakes record - led by two tallies in the Longacres Mile (G3) - of seven straight Emerald victories,
The one-to-five favorite in the field of five, Jim and Mona Hour's Stryker Phd was once again partnered by Leslie Mawing. Until You broke first in the 1 1/16-mile race, pressed closely by Westley. By the time the field neared the quarter pole, Last Rose Stable's Noosito (Harbor the Gold-Julia Rose) had taken a slight lead. Racing just off the leaders, Stryker Phd moved five-wide through the second turn, and with a determined rally passed his tenacious rival to score a three-quarters of length victory in 1:40.75. Mark Dedomenico LLC and North American Thoroughbred Horse Company Inc.'s seven-year-old Jebrica (Liberty Gold-Peaceful Wings) finished another six lengths behind them in third place. Stryker Phd earned a 97 BRIS Speed Rating for his ninth lifetime win.
"I'm so familiar with Stryker Phd's running style, and I know he's got a kick, especially around the turn, so I wasn't too concerned," said Mawing in his tenth Washington Cup win. "I knew Noosito was going to give me a hard time, but once I get the lead, Stryker Phd's heart just gets bigger and bigger."
Stryker Phd's win in the Muckleshoot Classic gave winning trainer Larry Ross his record fifth win in the race, one more than Hall of Famer Jim Penney.
Bred by the Spokane partnership of Char Clark Thoroughbreds and Todd Havens, Stryker Phd and Madame Pele have now provided Clark with five Washington Cup win photos.
All three of the top three finishers in the Classic are WTBOA summer sale alumni and Stryker Phd, a $45,000 purchase by the Hours, has earned $515,651 in his 22 starts. The six-year-old gelded son of Bertrando-Striking Scholar, by Smart Strike, now ranks eighth highest on the list of all-time leading WTBOA sale graduates and just passed Captain Condo's $511,695 to put him in eighth in monies earned among all Washington-foaled Thoroughbred runners.
Errata
It should be noted that while not winning a Washington Cup race - he did finish second aboard Among the Stars in the Comcast SportsNet Stakes - Leonel Camacho-Flores booted home winners in five of the six remaining races on the Washington Cup card.
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Among the two-year-old maiden race winners over the September 19-20 weekend was Ron Crockett Inc.'s filly Jerre to Carrie, by Congrats, who went gate-to-wire to win a six furlong maiden special weight race by 5 1/2 lengths; and Rick Pasko's homebred first-time starter John Paul's Bet, by He's Tops - a full brother to graded stakes-placed Jack Hes Tops - who took a five-furlong maiden allowance by a nose. Tom Wenzel trains Jerre to Carrie and Junior Coffey conditions John Paul's Bet.
Multiple Canadian stakes winner Quatre Cat, a three-year-old daughter of El Dorado Farms LLC's stallion Abraaj, made her first start outside of Hastings Racecourse in the allowance feature on the Sunday, September 20 card and came away with a head victory over Bar C Racing Stables Inc.'s Caliente Gold in the 6 1/2-furlong test. Bred in British Columbia by Rob McDonald, Quatre Cat improved her record to 6-3-1 in 11 starts and she has earned $161,159.
John and Janene Maryanski's Cliff's Turn became the fifth graduate of the 2014 WTBOA Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale to win a Sales Incentive Program (SIP) bonus or SIP allowance race when the two-year-old came home with a 2 1/4-length tally in a mile maiden special weight race on September 12. Trained by Blaine Wright and ridden by Juan Gutierrez, the Kentucky-bred gelding by The Cliff's Edge-Star Turn, by Theatrical (Ire), was consigned by Hidden Brook, agent, to the August venue.
Where We At's Ain't Tellin became the second horse at the 2015 meet to win five races - joining Coach Royal - when the four-year-old Florida-bred took a $15,000 claiming race on September 12. Trained by Jim Penney, the gelding by Lewis Michael is a contender for claimer of the meet honors after winning races this season at the $4,000, $7,500 and $12,500 levels. He was ridden to his 4 1/2-length win by Juan Gutierrez. With this win and the tally by Follow My Tracks in the next race. Penney has now won 450 races at Emerald Downs to rank fourth overall in the trainer rankings.
For the third straight weekend, no stakes for Thoroughbreds were run around the Auburn oval. The Labor Day weekend was instead highlighted by the $54,000 Bank of America Emerald Downs Championship Challenge for three-year-old Quarter Horses going 440 yards. Kennewick breeder, owner and trainer Bill Hoburg's BH Lisas Boy eclipsed his own new track record of :21.492, set on August 23, 2015, when the Idaho-bred gelding by Mighty Invictus-Apollo Snowbound, by Snowbound, took the race in :21.376 and by 1 3/4 lengths with Javier Matias in the saddle. Alota Action finished second in the field of nine.
In other news in the racing Quarter Horse world, Washington-bred three-year-old Heza Dasha Fire became the richest Washington-foaled runner on record when he scored a 1 1/2-length victory in the 400-yard $180,290 Golden State Derby at Las Alamitos on August 23. The two-time Futurity winner - which included the $962,956 prize he earned in the Ed Burke Million Futurity (G1) - is owned and was bred by Kathy, Don and Shawn Meneely, also of Kennewick. The gelding by Walk Thru Fire has won eight of nine starts and earned $1,041,940.
The Labor Day Thoroughbred feature, a 6 1/2-frurlong allowance, was won by One Horse Will Do Corporation, Brewer Thoroughbreds LLC and trainer Chris Stenslie's Perhaps a Pie, a three-year-old Florida-bred daughter of Tale of Ekati who defeated 2014 Washington champion two-year-old filly Ethan's Baby by a head. Julie Couton was up on the filly in one of five winning rides on the holiday card.
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Week 21 horse honors went to Allen Gideon's homebred trainee Maggie's Special, an eight-year-old daughter of Spiker-Bella Capini, by Consigliere (GB), who won a $10,000 claiming race by a nose over Hetty on September 7. It marked the second win in a row for Maggie's Special. who had won a like-valued race on August 22. The only named foal out of non-winner Bella Capini, Maggie's Special improved her record to 5-8-11 from 37 starts and has earned $89,708. Sired by Bella Capini's winning half-brother Spiker, by Raisor's Edge, Maggie's Special's second dam, Sheesa Zeesa, by Regal Bearing (GB), won four races and produced three other winners. Sheesa Zeesa was one of eight multiple winners - including a trio who took nine wins apiece - out of the unraced Rising Market mare Zeesa's Dividend.
Owner honors for the week went to Pam and Neal Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stable. Bill Hoburg was named top trainer and jockey honors were bestowed on Julien Couton. Ismael Fernandez, who works for Jeff Metz, was named groom of the week, and freelancer Jose Raudales was voted top exercise rider.
Top Washington-bred honors for week 22, which encompassed a competitive Washington Cup card on September 13, went to Kama'aina Thoroughbreds' Madame Pele, who became the first three-time Washington Cup winner after taking the Comcast SportsNet Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths. A two-time Washington champion and half-sister to two-time Longacres Mile (G3) legend Stryker Phd, the five-year-old daughter of Salt Lake out of Washington broodmare of the year Striking Scholar, by Smart Strike, was bred by Char Clark Thoroughbreds of Spokane. Madame Pele gave Washington Hall of Fame trainer Jim Penney his record ninth Washington Cup victory. Rider Juan Gutierrez, with his wins in the Northwest Farms Stakes on Invested Prospect and Madame Pele, upped his tally to a record-breaking 18 victories in the 13-year championship series. Madame Pele has now earned four stakes victories among her six lifetime wins and earned $186,397.
Roy and Ellie Schaefer's R. E. V. Racing - whose Mach One Rules was an impressive winner of the Captain Condo Stakes presented by the Daily Racing Form - was named owner of the week. Trainer honors went to Rigoberto Velasquez, who saddled five winners. Leonel Camacho-Flores was named top jockey. Matt Johnson, who works for Arturo Arboleda, was named the best groom and exercise rider honors went to Brad Balcom, who rides in the morning for Robbie Baze.
Ted Turner, Mike Strickland and Dennis Robert Besett's G's Gold, a three-year-old filly by Harbor the Gold-Sarah's Game Plan, by Game Plan, bred by Elliott Simkins, was named top Washington-bred for week 23 (September 18-20). Trained by Rosie Simkins, G's Gold was ridden to her 2 1/4-length win in a $15,000 maiden claiming race by Julien Couton. G's Gold is the second winner from four named foals out of $22,508 winner Sarah's Game Plan. Her other winner, Stormin Parker, won five races and earned $26,701. Sarah's Game Plan is a half-sister to $91,995 stakes-placed Plain James and three other winners. G's Gold's third dam, Sodeartomyheart, produced seven other winners, including $226,761 stakes winner Que Facil Corazon and stakes-placed Music to My Heart and Country Heart.
Owner honors went to Rick Pasko and Craig Walters was named trainer of the week. Rocco Bowen was named top jockey and Les Shannon, who works for Alan Bozell, was named groom of the week.
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Fear of the Cat Becomes Second Stakes Winner for Abraaj
Fear of the Cat became the second stakes winner for El Dorado Farms LLC's Abraaj after he went gate-to-wire to take the $45,173 CTHS Sales (BC Division) Stakes for two-year-old colts and geldings by one length on September 7 at Hastings Racecourse. The odds-on favorite in the field of seven going 6 1/2 furlongs, Feat of the Cat earned $25,749 for his first victory and improved his record to 1-2-1 from four starts. The British Columbia-bred gelding out of Imaflashycat, by Tale of the Cat, who was bred by Rob McDonald, has total monies of $40,891.
We Found Gold, a gelding by Sungold out of the multiple stakes producing Staff Writer mare Page Design, ran second. Finishing in third place was the Second in Command gelding Timber King, whose dam, Chilli Chines, by Katowice, also produced 2013 Longacres Mile (G3) winner Herbie D.
On the same card, Quatre Cat finished second in the $45,173 CTHS Sales (BC Division) Stakes for three-year-old fillies, a 1 1/16-mile event. The multiple stakes-winning daughter of Abraaj-Four Girls, by Foxhound, was also bred in British Columbia by McDonald.
English and United Arab Emirates Group 3 winner Maftool, a three-year-old colt by Hard Spun, finished second in the $342,429 International Bosphorus Cup (G2) held at Veliefendi in Turkey on September 6, beaten a half-length by four-year-old English-bred Connecticut. Out of the unraced Mr. Greeley mare With Intention - a half-sister to Abraaj and two other stakes winners - Maftool, who races for Godolphin, has earned $735,164 during his international career.
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2016-18 WHBPA Board of Directors
Bellevue lawyer and longtime horseman Pat LePley was elected WHBPA president and will officially take over the position from Ron Maus on October 13, 2015. Maus, along with Jack Fabulich, Debbie Pabst, Sue Spooner and Keith Swagerty will serve as owner directors. The trainer directors are: Robbie Baze, Diane Garrison, Jeff Metz, Greg Moore and Blaine Wright. All will serve a three-year term.
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Other WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News
Two-year-old Raise a Dancer, who was bred in Washington by Ron McCormack and Ron Hagen and is trained by Greg Tracy, ran second in the $39,349 Bird of Pay Stakes on September 9 to unbeaten Bootleggers Wife. In four starts, Raise a Dancer, a daughter of El Dorado Farms LLC's Raise the Bluff-Crowning Camilla, by Formal Dinner, has a 2-1-0 record and has earned $20,874 for Derby Quest Farms Ltd and Shot in the Dark Racing Corp.
2015 leading Washington freshman sire Coast Guard, who holds court at El Dorado Farms LLC, had his third winner when Marqula, a colt out of Marquet Formula, by Marquetry, bred by Tall Cedars Farm LLC, won a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Golden Gate Fields by 3 1/4 lengths on September 4. The Jeff Bonde trainee races for the partnership of Alan Klein, Philip Lebherz and Richard Meister. Russell Baze was aboard the winning Washington-bred who earned $15,600 for his first tally.
2007 sale graduate Thirteengoldhearts, a gelding by Liberty Gold-Macarena Girl, by Cryptoclearance, bred by Dr. Bo and Linda Weeks, won two late summer stakes. The first was the $11,600 Norm Goeringer Memorial Stakes, a mile and 70 yard event which he took by eight lengths at White Pine Racing on August 22. On September 12, he added a half-length victory in the $5,000 T. J. Fackrell - Spa Boy Memorial Stakes at the same distance at Black Foot. In 60 starts, he has a 12-22-10 record and has earned $79,607.
Second Shot, a two-year-old son of El Dorado Farms LLC's Raise the Bluff-Laurelhurst Laurel, by Jackpot, won a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Thistledown on September 12. The new winner was bred in Washington by Carnation Racing Stable and Ron Crockett Inc.
On September 13, the well-traveled Pebble Beach Baby, a five-year-old daughter of Rock Hard Ten bred by Jill Heerensperger, won an allowance/$40,000 optional claiming race at the Thoroughbred meeting at Los Alamitos. Pebble Beach Baby, whose dam Sarna, by Son of Briartic, is a multiple stakes producer, began her career as a two-year-old at Emerald Downs. This past March Pebble Beach Baby won a starter stakes at Aqueduct. Now owned by Marisa Lizza Racing, she has earned $218,166 in 31 starts.
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2015-16 Portland Meadows Meet Opens on October 5
The 2015-16 Portland Meadows meeting opens on October 5 and runs through February 16 on a Monday-Tuesday schedule with a noon post time.
The opening day races include two $9,000 stakes at 5 1/2 furlongs for runners three and up: the Diamond Lake Handicap (fillies and mares) and the Frog Lake Handicap. The 27 Thoroughbred stakes schedule also includes seven stakes on the December 27 Oregon Championship Day, the $25,000 Portland Mile on January 26 and the $20,000 Oregon Derby on February 9. Click here for a complete stakes schedule.
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Idaho Courts Rule Instant Horse Racing Illegal
On September 10, 2015, overruling Governor Butch Otter's veto of the bill, Idaho's Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous decision that the state must enforce legislation banning instant horse racing terminals. In their ruling the court stated that Otter failed to complete his veto within the required five-day span which allows for a bill to become law - even if the governor fails to sign it - unless it is vetoed within the legal timeframe.
There are about 250 instant racing terminals installed in three locations throughout the state.
"I stand by my word, as well as my earlier decision to veto this legislation. It is clear the Senate took up my veto and voted to uphold it. While I disagree with today's ruling, I will continue working toward a solution that ensures a viable live horse racing industry in Idaho," said Otter.
The action marks the end of a long legal battle taken on by the casinos to eliminate competition from the historic racing terminals.
"We are currently reviewing all of our options and assessing the significant impact that complying with the court's order will have on the immediate and long-term future of Les Bois Park," said John Sheldon, president of Treasure Valley Racing, which operate the Boise-based horse track.
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CTHS British Columbia Sale Average Up Nearly 20 Percent
The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (British Columbia division) held their annual yearling and mixed sale on September 9, 2015, at the Thunderbird Show Park in Langley, BC. Eighty-seven yearlings, one weanling, one horse of racing age and two broodmares were cataloged for the annual event.
Topping the venue for $65,000 was a colt from the first crop of US champion two-year-old Hansen out of British Columbia champion two-year-old filly Victory With Class, who was consigned by Jamie Demetrick and purchased by the sale's leading buyer (three for $114,000) Glen Todd. Peter Redekop Ltd signed for the highest priced filly, a daughter of Rosberg out of stakes-placed Archery, for $59,000. The third highest price of $55,000 was paid for a Forestry colt out of two-race winner Snow Patches purchased by Curtis Landry and Don Danard. The final price over $50,000 was for a filly from the second crop of Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) winner Drosselmeyer, the first foal out of $202,306 earner Queen On Line, which was sold to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for $51,000.
Overall, after seven outs and 23 either not sold or RNA'd, 61 yearling changed hands for a $1,047,400 total and $17,170 average. The average showed a 19.71 percent increase over 2014's $14,344 and the median rose 64.71 percent from $8,500 last year to $14,000 in 2015.
Bryan and Carol Anderson, who sold the Drosselmeyer filly, were the leading consigners with two offerings bringing a $78,000 total.
Of the four non-yearlings offered, the three-year-old gelding was withdrawn and the weanling and one of the mares were RNAs, leaving only the Forestry mare Greenwich, carrying a foal from the only crop of the late stallion Shrug, who changed hands for $4,400.
All monies listed are in Canadian funds, which is currently about 75 percent of what a US dollar is worth. In 2014, the Canadian dollar to US dollar exchange rate was approximately 89 cents.
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Photo Submissions Sought for 2016 WTBOA Calendar
Gear up your cameras and scour your files for photos you'd like to submit for the 2016 WTBOA calendar! We invite your submissions!
Last year we featured the stunning photos of Emerald Downs track photographer Erin Palmer. This year we're headed back to the farms, so send us your best photos for consideration - mares and foals, foals and their antics and in all their cuteness, yearlings, action shots of yearlings, bucolic farm shots, seasonal photos, possibly OTTBs in their after-racing lives or careers, etc. The calendar won't necessarily be limited to just farm shots, so if you have excellent and/or artistic racing or race-related shots that you'd like to submit, feel free to send those along as well.
Photos should be high resolution (300 dpi), 9" x 12" landscape format.
Deadline for submission of photos is Tuesday. October 20, 2015. They may be submitted via e-mail or other electronic means, such as DropBox or HighTail. Or you may mail them on CD, DVD or thumb/flash drive to:
2016 WTBOA Calendar
WTBOA
3220 Emerald Downs Dr.
Auburn, WA 98001
If you send a thumb/flash drive and wish to have it returned, please include the appropriate self-addressed stamped envelope and/or feel free to pick it up at our office at your convenience.
Payment includes our extreme gratitude and the admiration of those who view and enjoy the calendar, as well as ten copies of the calendar to sell or give as gifts. We will, of course, credit all of your photographs in the calendar. If you would like to have your contact information, such as phone number and/or e-mail address, included, please be sure to provide that information as well.
Also, if you know of someone who might want to help sponsor the production costs of the calendar, we would welcome their support. Please have them contact us, or let us know and we will be happy to contact them.
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On September 19, Rozamund Barclay's homebred two-year-old Algenon, a Kentucky-bred son of Aragorn (Ire)-Alpine Yodel, by Swiss Yodeler, earned his second win in four starts, when ridden Russell Baze, when he won an allowance/optional $32,000 claiming (N) race by four lengths at Stockton. The Len Kasmerski trainee has earned $47,200.
Dr. George Todaro and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's five-year-old Pleasantly Perfect gelding Perfect Set won a mile allowance/$62,500 optional claiming (N) race at the fall Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos, upping his earnings to $187,845 with his sixth win on September 20.
In his first start since finishing third to Stryker Phd in the 2015 Longacres Mile (G3), Peter Redekop BC Ltd's multiple grade stakes winner Alert Bay, a four-year-old gelding by City Zip trained by Blaine Wright, added a 2 1/4-length win in the $63,605 Rolling Green Stakes run at Golden Gate Fields on September 7. Ridden by Russell Baze, it marked his ninth win in 18 tries and upped his earnings to $834,495. Finishing second in the 1 1/16-mile turf test was Dr. George Todaro and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's multiple stakes winner G. G. Ryder, a $395,014 earning four-year-old colt by Emerald Downs stakes winner Chhaya Dance.
Horse Players Racing Club LLC had their 36th win of the year on September 17 when Seeing Silver, a four-year-old Louisiana-bred daughter or Sightseeing, took a mile and 70 yard race at Louisiana Downs.
Queen of the Hill, a half-sister to 2007 Washington champion older mare Gemstone Rush, by Wild Rush, took her seventh lifetime win in a 6 1/2-furlong allowance at Charles Town on September 5. The six-year-old California-bred daughter of Salt Lake-Quarry Hill, by Relaunch, has earned $141,450.
Two-year-old filly Ruthless Quality, by Elusive Quality, remained unbeaten in two starts after she won the $300,000 Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies Stakes by one-length on September 5. She is out of the A. P. Indy mare Ruth E., a daughter of three-year-old champion filly Ajina. Sired by Strawberry Road (Aus), Ajina is a full sister to Kobla, the dam of four-time Grade 1 winner and 2014 leading freshman sire Quality Road and to Gibson Thoroughbred Farm stallion Linchpin, whose first foals will arrive in 2016.
Broodmare Our Dani, a winning daughter of Homebuilder bred in Washington by Jerry Woods and John Link, had her sixth winner on September 16 after her two-year-old Uncle Jerry - from the first crop of champion and leading freshman sire Uncle Mo - won a mile maiden special weight by three lengths at Presque Isle Downs in his second start. Our Dani is also the dam of multiple Grade 1 winner and $2.1-million earner You, by former Washington leading sire You and I. On September 17, Our Dani's six-year-old son Seve, by Giant's Causeway, won a seven-furlong allowance at Churchill Downs to increase his earnings to $168,423. Our Dani has also produced winners by Storm Cat, Unbridled's Song and Candy Stripes.
Jeffrey Stoddard's Impeached, a four-year-old filly by Northern Afleet out of Washington champion Best Judgement, by Demons Begone, had her second win at Churchill Downs this summer when she went gate-to-wire to take a mile turf starter allowance by 2 1/4 lengths on September 19. Bred by Terry and Mary Lou Griffin in Washington, the now five-race winner and $93,492 earner had finished second in the $50,000 Ellis Park Turf Stakes this past July.
On September 13, 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 by a nose to Touching Promise in the Delta Colleen Handicap at Hastings. She has earned $157,532 with her ninth stakes placement.
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.
Lillian Russell, a half-sister to Chef de Race sire Mr. Prospector and dam of former prominent Washington sire Katowice, has been named Reine-de-Course by Ellen Parker, founder of the elite broodmare grading system.
Washington State University veterinary school graduate Dr. William McGee, now 98, a co-founder of the world renown Hagyard-Davisson-McGee Veterinary Hospital - now known as the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute of Lexington - was profiled in the September 12, 2015, issue of The Blood-Horse in an article titled "The Royal Treatment," by Amanda Duckworth. Among McGee's first patients after he graduated from Pullman in 1940 was the great Man o' War. The article includes a photo of McGee with racing's most recent super horse, American Pharoah.
Former Oregon stallion Gallant Son, a graded stakes winner of over $550,000 while racing for Chris Randall, will stand his second season at stud at Daehling Ranch in Elk Grove, California. The nine-year-old son of Malabar Gold-Explicity, by Exploit - who won the 2008 Gottstein Futurity six lengths - will stand for a $2,000 fee in 2016.
Lucky Acres' stallion Kentucky Lucky, 15, was humanely euthanized on September 13, 2015, due to recumbency issues. Owned by the late Roy Dane and Steve Meredith, the son of Seattle Slew entered stud in 2003 at Paulson Thoroughbred Ranch and was later moved to Meredith's Lucky Acres. A half-brother to stakes-placed Chaplinesque and Cityrap, Kentucky Lucky was the second foal produced out of Silent City, a Grade 2-placed daughter of Carson City and half-sister to $275,960 stakes winner Exclusive Patriot. Kentucky Lucky's last foals were born in 2011. Among his runners are stakes winner Lucky to Be a Riot and stakes-placed Flying Lucky.
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The Jockey Club Releases 2014 Breeding Statistics
The Jockey Club reported on September 17, 2015, that 2,103 stallions covered 37,244 mares in North America during 2014, according to statistics compiled through September 14, 2015. These breedings have resulted in 22,104 live foals of 2015 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 2015 is up 1.9 percent from last year at this time when The Jockey Club had received reports for 21,697 live foals of 2014.
In addition to the 22,104 live foals of 2015 reported, The Jockey Club had also received 2,598 No Foal Reports for the 2015 foaling season. Ultimately, the 2015 registered foal crop is projected to reach 22,000.
The number of stallions declined 5.7 percent from the 2,230 reported for 2013 at this time last year, while the number of mares bred increased 1.6 percent from the 36,656 reported for 2013.
The 2014 breeding statistics are available alphabetically by stallion name through the Resources - Fact Book link on The Jockey Club homepage at jockeyclub.com.
"The breeding statistics are the number of live foals by conception area, regardless of where the foals were born," said Matt Iuliano, executive vice president and executive director, The Jockey Club. "The statistics do not represent live foals actually born in each state or province, and they do not represent the fertility record of any stallion."
Kentucky annually leads all states and provinces in terms of Thoroughbred breeding activity. Kentucky-based stallions accounted for 45.9 percent of the mares reported bred in North America in 2013 and 53.6 percent of the live foals reported for 2014.
The 17,088 mares reported bred to 256 Kentucky stallions in 2014 have produced 11,853 live foals, a 6.9 percent increase on the 11,089 Kentucky-sired live foals of 2014 reported at this time last year. The number of mares reported bred to Kentucky stallions in 2014 increased 7.8 percent compared to the 15,857 reported for 2013 at this time last year.
Among the ten states and provinces with the most mares covered in 2014, only three produced more live foals in 2015 than in 2014 as reported at this time last year: Kentucky, California and Florida.
The statistics include 390 progeny of stallions standing in North America but foaled abroad, as reported by foreign stud book authorities at the time of publication. In this category, 124 live foals by North American stallions were reported from Saudi Arabia, 81 from Republic of Korea, 58 from Ireland, 41 from Great Britain, and 21 from Philippines. Remaining countries on the list are Japan, 13; India, 11; Venezuela, 11; Mexico, 9; Russia, 7; Trinidad and Tobago, 6; Brazil, 3; Australia, 2; Germany, 2; Argentina, 1.
In Washington, through September 1, 2015, a total of 275 mares were reported bred to 25 stallions and there are 276 Washington-bred two-year-olds in 2015.
The report also includes 149 mares bred to 27 stallions in North America on Southern Hemisphere time; the majority of these mares have not foaled.
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Randy Michael Colton
Randy Colton, 61, passed away in his sleep of a heart attack at his home in Phoenix, Arizona, on September 3, 2015. Randy was born July 8, 1954, in Corona, California, the third oldest of eight children born to Richard and Margaret Colton. He attended elementary school in La Puente, California; junior high at Arcturus Junior High, Ft. Richardson, Alaska; and Lakeland High School in Rathdrum, graduating in 1972. He was an Idaho state wrestling champion at Lakeland High.
Randy began his career as a jockey while in high school on the Montana fair circuit and at Turf Club in Coeur d'Alene. After high school he rode at numerous race tracks around the Northwest, including Playfair, where in 1979 he set a new win record with 109 tallies from 509 mounts. As a result, Randy was named Northwest Professional Athlete of the Year.
The following year Randy finished second in the rider standings after shattering his foot in a spill at the track, but returned to rank third on the jockey list with 75 wins in 1981. He finished second in the Spokane track standings with 133 winning mounts in 1983. He also successfully rode at Yakima Meadows.
Randy married Tina Marie Sattler in Spokane in August 1973. They raised their two children there and in Philadelphia.
In the late 1980s Randy moved to Philadelphia where he booked mounts for his brother, successful rider Robert Colton. After retirement from horse racing in 1993, Randy owned a horse supplement business and most recently was involved with an international water trading company.
He was a volunteer for the March of Dimes and at hospitals for terminally ill children. He also coached soccer for boys and girls and Babe Ruth baseball.
He loved God, his family and all the people he came in contact with throughout his lifetime.
Randy is survived by his mother, Margaret; two children, Ginni Marie (Jared) Delong, of Trinidad, California, and Levi Michael (Laurie) Colton, of Phoenix; grandson Blue River Delong; seven siblings: Rick (Pam), Penny (Lawrence) Bradbury, Patsy (Paul) Morton, Robert, Pamela (Larry) Heuett, Peggy (Jerrald) Barsten, and Priscilla (Craig) Routson; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Stanley A. Gillman
Longtime industry leader Stan Gillman passed away on September 14, 2015. He had been battling multiple myeloma for several months and more recently complications from pneumonia. The former WTBOA secretary/treasurer and board member also served on the board of the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation.
Gillman served horsemen and others for many years as a certified public accountant based is Seattle.
He leaves his wife, Gerri, among others.
A more complete tribute will be written when information becomes available.
C. R. "Chay" Knight
Chay Knight, 80, passed away on July 31, 2015, after a long illness at his home in Clovis, California. He would have been 81 on August 4. Born in Ventura, the longtime trainer began his career in racing conditioning Quarter Horses. Among those short-distance specialists who benefited from his skills was two-time world record holder and champion Kaweah Bar.
Knight was a frequent visitor to Washington and in 1977 chose a Drum Fire yearling colt out of the then WHBA Sale. Later named in his honor, Knights Choice would win the Gottstein Futurity and be Grade 2-placed en route to being named Washington champion two-year-old while trained by Knight, who also conditioned 1982 Washington champion two-year-old filly Time of Sale for the late Jerre Paxton. She would provide her trainer with his lone stakes score at Del Mar, in the Sorrento Stakes. He also trained Malibu Stakes (G2) winner Raise a Man for the Yakima horseman.
Among Knight's other stakes winners were 1981 Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner Splendid Spruce, who would run seventh behind Pleasant Colony in the Kentucky Derby (G1), and 1979 Hollywood Juvenile Championship (G2) winner Parsec.
From 1976 until he saddled his last runner on November 23, 1997, at Hollywood Park, Equibase credits Knight with a record of 113-97-82 from 763 starters and over $2.4-million in earnings. He had another 103 wins with Quarter Horse runners
His wife, Mary is a successful bloodstock agent, and two of their sons, Terry and Barry, are both successful trainers. In addition, he leaves two other sons, Greg and Chris.
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