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News from the WTBOA
October 16, 2015
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Calendar
Friday, October 23 - Sunday, October 25, 2015
THOROUGHBRED MAKEOVER AND NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Retired Thoroughbred Racehorse Project
Kentucky Horse Park
Lexington, KY
(410) 798-5140; (410) 798-(410) 798-5140
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
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - Date changed 8/23
BARRETTS FALL YEARLINGA ND HORSES OF RACING AGE SALE
Del Mar, CA
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
December 15, 2015
2016 BREEDERS' CUP NORTH AMERICAN STALLION DEADLINE
Lexington, KY
(800) 772-3287 or (859) 514-9423
December 15, 2015
2015 LATE BREEDERS' CUP FOAL NOMINATION DEADLINE
Lexington, KY
(800) 772-3287 or (859) 514-9423
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Introducing the WTBOA Broodmare Club - An Invitation to Participate
Dear Fellow Horse Enthusiasts,
We would like to announce an exciting new program brought to you by the WTBOA.
Have you ever wanted to follow a foal from birth to the racetrack, while experiencing the excitement of breeding and selling horses, but didn't have the knowledge, time or money to get started?
The WTBOA Broodmare Club gives you the opportunity to do just that while minimizing your risk. Similar to the Emerald Racing Club, the WTBOA Broodmare Club is offering shares in two in-foal broodmares. Members will be able to follow the mares as they give birth and raise their foals. Mares will be bred back to local stallions and then sold in the 2016 WTBOA summer mixed sale. The foals will be kept at the farms where they were born until they are yearlings and then offered at the 2017 WTBOA sale.
For a $500 buy-in, WTBOA Broodmare Club members will receive:
- One share in two mares in foal for 2016 and their resulting foals
- Access to the farms where the mares are boarded
- Updates via social media
- Frequent blog entries explaining various facets of breeding, raising and sales prepping horses
- In-depth education on all aspects of breeding and raising a foal
- Monthly progress reports and pictures of the mares and foals
- Monthly financial reports describing all the costs associated with breeding and raising the Washington Broodmare Club horses
- Up close access to the WTBOA sales
- Share in sales proceeds
- Club will be overseen by WTBOA board members Will Brewer, Jenny Webber and Candi Tollett
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For the second straight season, Jim and Mona Hour's Longacres Mile hero and fan favorite Stryker Phd was voted horse of the meeting, top older horse and best Washington-bred. He is only the second horse, joining fellow Washington-bred and Mile winner Noosa Beach, to garner two horse of the meet titles in the 20 seasons of racing at Emerald Downs.
Larry Ross, who trains Stryker Phd, also conditions Aithlon Stables LLC's brilliant Belle Hill, the unanimous choice for top three-year-old Emerald filly honors.
Another repeat winner for the season was trainer Jeff Metz. Since coming to Emerald Downs in 2013, the California native has led the trainer rankings with consecutive growing numbers starting with 42 in 2013, 49 in 2014 and a record-tying 66 in 2015.
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Tom Wenzel-trained distaffers earned three meet-end titles: Karl Krieg's Lady Rosberg, top older mare; Dr. George Todaro's Kikisoblu, top sprinter; and David Thorner's Princess Kennedy, top two-year-old filly.
Among the other male runners, Dr. Mark Dedomenico's Prime Engine earned three-year-old honors; R. E. V. Racing's unbeaten Mach One Rules was named top juvenile male; and five-time winner Coach Royal, who races for the partnership of trainer Howard F. Gibson and Jeff and Teresa Lynd, was awarded top claimer.
Among the riders, Julien Couton, in his first season at the Auburn track, was the leading rider with 100 wins to his credit.
The Rush Is On
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Too long a bridesmaid, John Parker's Gold Rush Dancer timed it just right as he drew clear to take the $65,000 Gottstein Futurity - in its 78th running - by 5 1/2 lengths. Washington-bred fillies My Heart Goes On (Albertus Maximus-My Untamed Heart), who races for her breeder Coal Creek Farm, and Cape Grace (Abraaj-Ocean's Fourteen), a homebred for Oak Crest Farm, finished two-three in the field of seven juveniles going 1 1/16 miles on the September 27 closing day card. Both fillies are trained by David Martinez.
Ridden by Julien Couton, Gold Rush Dancer finished the challenge in 1:43.45 over a fast track.
"He was a little bit all over the place," said Couton of the runner who gave him his 100th win at Emerald Downs. "But he has so much talent, and he's going to get better as he gets older."
Bred in California by Parker and trained by Bill Tollett, Gold Rush Dancer is a son of El Dorado Farm stallion Private Gold. Parker had purchased Gold Rush Dancer's unraced dam, Dances On Water, for $1,000 at the 2012 Barretts January Mixed Sale, while carrying her first foal. That filly was future three-race winner Dances With Effie. Gold Rush Dancer is the mare's second foal. Dances On Water, a 2007 daughter of In Excess (Ire), is a half-sister to $213,030 restricted stakes winner Drought Breaker and five other winners. Gold Rush Dancer's second dam, Water Trade, was an unraced daughter of Cee's Tizzy. His third dam, Northern California fair stakes winner Water War, by Crystal Water, produced two winners from seven foals.
In addition to his Gottstein win, Gold Rush Dancer convincingly won a maiden special weight race by three lengths at first asking and then finished second by a half-length to Barkley in the Emerald Express Stakes. In his next two outings, he managed a third in the WTBOA Lads Stakes and the runner-up spot in the Captain Condo Stakes. Both of those races were taken by the unbeaten (see story below) Mach One Rules. Gold Rush Dancer has now accumulated $74,093 in his five starts.
On the same card, Parker's stakes-placed Among the Stars, a four-year-old daughter of Harbor the Gold, won an allowance/$40,000 optional claiming race at a mile. Parker finished second in the owner standings with 15 wins.
Mach Moves
R. E. V. Racing's unbeaten two-year-old Mach One Rules continued his streakwith a 4 3/4-length victory in the Northwest Stallion Cahill Road Stakes as part of the closing day card. Ridden by Leslie Mawing - in his tenth stakes win of the meet -- and trained by Frank Lucarelli, Mach One Rules went gate-to-wire to score his fourth win in 1:10.50. Trainer H. R. "Pat" Mullens, R. A. Larson and Ed Zenker's Ryan Walt (Nationhood-Lite Nite) finished second, 10 1/2 lengths the better of John Parker's third place Possible Spider (Abraaj-Lasting Kiss). All three runners are WTBOA Sale graduates.
"This was probably the easiest race in my riding career," said Mawing. "All I had to do is not fall off."
Bred by Pam and Neal Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stables Inc. in Washington, Mach One Rules is a gelded son of Harbor the Gold-Felice the Cat, by Distinctive Cat. He has now eared $93,826.
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Gallyn Mitchell Retires
The Gallyn MitchellPurse, offered as the fifth race on the Sunday closing card, honored the track's all-time leading rider, who is retiring after a brilliant 33-year-career that includes 1,419 wins at Emerald Downs. Mitchell, 53, is the only jockey to ride during all 20 seasons at Emerald Downs and also is No. 1 with 80 stakes wins at the Auburn oval.
An emotional Mitchell thanked horsemen, fans, and especially his family, including wife and agent Denise, for his remarkable career. Mitchell said he may have one final mount next month in an out of town stakes race. Overall, Mitchell has 2,742 wins and nearly $22-million in earnings.
The track is planning an official retirement ceremony for Mitchell during the 2016 season.
2015 Lindy and Durkan Award Winners
For the first time since the prestigious Lindy Award for jockeys was renamed in his honor, former longtime Longacres and Emerald Downs clerk of scales Lindy Aliment - who passed away this past spring on May 29 - would not be on hand to congratulate its worthy winner. 2015 Emerald leading stakes rider and 2011/2014 leading rider Leslie Mawing earned the votes of his peers in the jockey colony to be honored with the 2015 Lindy Award.
The Martin Durkan Award for 2015 was shared by trainers Rosie Simkins and Rigoberto Velasquez. The award, which is named in honor of the late state senator and longtime racing proponent, is voted on by Emerald Director of Racing Bret Anderson and his staff, who look for leadership, cooperation, sportsmanship and excellence on the track. It marks the seventh time since 1975 that the award has been shared by two or more trainers.
Gemstones
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Michael and Amy Feuerborn's speedy homebred Scat Daddybaby, a five-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Scat Daddy, took his second race in a row when he wired a 6 1/2-furlong allowance race on September 26. Gallyn Mitchell was aboard the Robert Baze trainee who has now won seven races and earned $115,189.
On the same card, Coal Creek Farm homebred half-brothers Dedicated to You, a three-year-old son of Purim, and five-year-old Until You, by Jazil, won back to back races for trainer David Martinez. Dedicated to You won a mile allowance while partnered by Javier Matias and Until You, ridden by Jose Zunio, took a $22,500 claimer. Both runners are Washington-breds out of One for You, by Dayjur. Matias also won the final race on the card with Dixie Hitchcock and David A. Bennett's Dallon's Gold, a four-year-old Washington-bred son of Private Gold. Matias's win on the Howard Belvoir trainee gave him his 1,000th career winner.
In the final race of the day on the final card of the 70-day meet, 2012-13 Emerald leading trainer Jeff Metz pulled off his 66th win with Surprise Sale to tie the track's single season record which was set by Tim McCanna in 2008 with a 91-day meet. Metz's Saratoga West was also the leading owner at the 2015 meet with 24 wins.
"It's amazing . . . words can't describe it," Metz said in the winner's circle. "It's an awesome feeling. It's like two weeks of pressure building up, and to get (the record) is great."
Valid Keiki Wins and Earns SIP and Emerald Buy Here/Win Here Bonuses
David Taylor's Valid Keiki, a colt by Successful Appeal out of Rumpus Room, by Eddington, drew off by four lengths to take his first outing, a 5 1/2-urlong maiden special weight race, at Emerald Downs on September 27. Trained by Frank Lucarelli - with his tenth two-year-old win of the meet - and ridden in his gate-to-wire victory by Leslie Mawing, Valid Keiki earned a $1,000 Sales Incentive Program bonus for Taylor. Taylor, along with the colt's 2014 WTBOA Sale consignors' Dr. Duane and Susan Hopp, also spilt a $7,300 Emerald Buy Here/Win Here bonus for the Kentucky-bred's win.
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WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News
Two-year-old first-time starter Mana Strike, a Washington-bred son of Papa Clem-Kirkela, by Giant's Causeway, raced by David P. Taylor Jr. and trained by Frank Lucarelli, won a six-furlong maiden special weight race by four lengths at Golden Gate Fields on October 3. The gelding was bred by Bar C Racing Stables Inc. The following day at Portland Meadows, the runner's four-year-old half-brother Kenai King, by Harbor the Gold, finished second in the Frog Lake Handicap to give him two stakes placements and up his earnings to $53,230
Master's Bluff, a five-year-old son of El Dorado Farms LLC's Raise the Bluff out of Last S A, by Peterhof, bred in Washington by Matt and Hally Moore and Tony Burlingame, took the B Cup Three Year Old and Up Classic Stakes at Lethbridge by 2 1/2 lengths on September 26. It marked his tenth win and the now two-time stakes winner has earned $61,592.
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Portland Meadows opened their 2015-16 season on October 4 with two 5 1/2-furlong $9,000 stakes races. The Diamond Lake Handicap, for three and up fillies and mares, was won by Lawrence R. O'Brine and breeder Martin Pietila's Society Girl. The five-year-old Washington-bred daughter of Soft Gold (Brz)-Crimson Date, by Encino, has won four Portland stakes among her eight victories and earned $58,646. She is trained by Jim Fergason and was ridden by Jorge Rosales. The Frog Lake Handicap, for three and up runners, was taken by Rancho Viejo and Lisa Baze's Carl Command, a five-year-old Oregon-bred son of Rogue S. A winner of nine races, including the 2014 Lethal Grande Sprint Championship, the Rigoberto Velasquez trainee has earned $47,531. He was ridden by Jennifer Whitaker.
Belleatthebar, a two-year-old daughter of Pulse Ranches stallion Preachinatthebar-Smart Belle, by Avenue of Flags, bred in Washington by Bob Pulse, took a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race by five lengths at Portland Meadows on October 13. Owned by Tab Young and trained by Marcie Riley, the new winner was ridden by Javier Matias.
Kiss N Scat, a two-year-old daughter of Scat Daddy raced by Steve Melen, Steve Taub, Dr. George Todaro and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, took a six-furlong maiden special weight race by 2 1/4 lengths at Golden Gate Fields on September 26. Todaro, Hollendorfer, David Bersen and John Stuart's Never Ends, a three-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by Successful Appeal, won a nine-furlong allowance/$40,000 optional claiming (N) race at Santa Anita on October 9 to give her two wins and earnings of $103,850.
Blaine Wright trainee Alert Bay took the $200,750 City of Hope Stakes (G2) over Santa Anita's turf course on September 27. It marked the tenth win in 19 starts for the four-year-old gelding by City Zip who has now earned $954,495 for Peter Redekop Ltd.
Bluegrass Bronco, a three-year-old son of Bluegrass Cat, won for the second time in three tries when he took an allowance/$40,000 optional claiming (N) race at Santa Anita on September 26 to push his earnings to $62,050. He is one of seven winners out of stakes winner Chitka, a half-sister to stakes winner and Washington sire Houseofroyalhearts, who stands at Magnum Farms.
Two-year-old Washington-bred Quarter Horse Ima Fearless Hero won the $385,000 PCQHRA Breeders Futurity at Los Alamitos on October 3. The gelded son of Valiant Hero was bred and is raced by S-Quarter K LLC.
Wild Dude, a five-year-old son of Wildcat Heir added another Grade 1 score after he won the $300,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship at Santa Anita on October 3. He is out of the winning Doneraile Court mare Courtly Choice and his second dam is Washington-bred stakes winner I'maknightschoice, a daughter of Knights Choice bred by the late Jerry and Carol Many. Wild Dude has won seven races and earned $954,887.
Two-time champion Beholder, whose third dam was former Washington broodmare One Last Bird, added yet another Grade 1 (her ninth) victory when the five-year-old daughter of Henny Hughes-Leslie's Lady, by Tricky Creek, won the $300,750 Zenyatta Stakes by 3 1/4 lengths at Santa Anita on September 26. Gary Stevens was once again aboard the Richard Mandella-trained champion in the 1 1/16-mile race who improved her record to 15-3-0 from 20 stars and brought her earnings to $4,436,600.
In their third meeting in a row, two-year-olds Nyguist and Swipe again ran one-two in a graded stakes in California. Nyquist, a colt from the first crop of champion Uncle Mo, won the $300,750 Frontrunner Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita by three-quarters of a length over Swipe. Nyquist, who races for Reddam Racing LLC, is out of the Forestry mare Seeking Gabrielle, whose second dam is stakes winner Fulbright Scholar, a half-sister to the second dam of Washington champions Stryker Phd and Madame Pele. Swipe is a son of champion Birdstone and out of the Grand Slam mare Avalanche Lily. Bred in Washington by Dr. Duane and Susan Hopp, Avalanche Lily, who was a $55,000 2001 WTBOA Sale RNA is a half-sister to Gottstein Futurity winner Horatio. Unbeaten in four starts, Nyquist has earned $513,600 while Swipe has accumulated $258,370.
Two-year-old Street Vision, a half-brother to the Candy Ride (Arg)-Emmy's Storm yearling colt consigned by Bar C Racing Stable Inc. and purchased by John Brocklebank as agent at the 2015 WTBOA Sale, took a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Santa Anita by 1 3/4 lengths on September 27. The winner is trained by Mark Glatt. The Candy Ride colt has been reentered in the October Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Yearling Sale, as has the 2015 WTBOA Sale topper, the Into Mischief-Campanita filly bred by Mary Lou and Terry Griffin.
Al and Sandy Kirkwood's Cadet Roni, a three-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Colonel John, won a starter allowance at Santa Anita by 3 1/4 lengths on October 8, upping her earnings to $60,340. Finishing third in the 6 1/2 furlong race was 2012 WTBOA Sale graduate Alyeska, by Kodiak Kowboy. Cadet Roni is trained by Mark Glatt and Alyeska hails from Kathy Walsh's barn.
Dr. Rodney Orr's Raised a Secret won the $100,000 Harris Farm Stakes on October 11 at Fresno in his first stakes triumph. The five-year-old California-bred son of Songandaprayer had placed in three previous stakes, including the 2012 Gottstein Futurity. It marked his fifth win and pushed his earnings to $400,810. On October 12, Orr's Golden Atlantic, a three-year-old gelding by Stormy Atlantic, went gate-to-wire to take a Santa Anita maiden special weight race by 2 1/2 lengths. Both runners are trained by Mark Glatt.
Four-year-old Moon Zoom, a Washington-bred gelding by Prospected-Moon Pursuit, by Pursuit, owned by Shawna Whiteside, trained by Jason Homer and bred by Homer Thoroughbreds, won a maiden $32,000 claiming race by 3 1/4 lengths at Fresno on October 9 in his second start.
Forest Chatter, who was bred by 2015 Washington Racing Hall of Fame inductee Herman Sarkowsky, as were the runner's sire Dixie Chatter and dam Wild Forest, won the $100,000 California Flag Handicap at Santa Anita on October 12 for the Seattle businessman's longtime friends and partners in Thoroughbreds, Pam and Martin Wygod. It marked the fifth win in ten starts, and first stakes victory, for the four-year-old gelding who has earned $230,510.
Council Rules, a three-year-old daughter of Dream Star Farm's Council Member, earned her third victory in a starter allowance at Fresno on October 15. Bred in California by Karen & Mickey Taylor LLC, the $38,445 earner is out of the Fast Play mare Playful Sara.
Super Majesty, the three-year-old daughter of Super Saver who won the Dogwood Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs on September 19, is out of $223,720 stakes winner Gins Majesty. A daughter of Go for Gin, Gins Majesty won the 2005 Kent Handicap, as well as the Ballerina Breeders' Cup Stakes (G2-Can), for Quadrun Farms and trainer Tim McCanna. Super Majesty, a $400,000 Fasig-Tipton Florida sale two-year-old, has a record of three wins and one second in four starts and has earned $133,860. Gins Majesty has a yearling colt by Bluegrass Cat (also consigned to the October Fasig-Tipton sale in Kentucky), a 2015 colt by Overanalyze and was bred to Pioneerof the Nile for 2016.
Horseplayers Racing Club LLC and Nancy Vainer's Boom Box, a three-year-old Illinois-bred colt by Straight Line, took his third win in a $16,000 claimer at Arlington Park on September 25.
Mark Dedomenico LLC, Jerry Durant and Michael House's Desert Dynamo finished second by a half-length to Shotgun Kowboy in the $420,000 Oklahoma Derby (G3) run at Remington Park on September 27. The Kentucky-bred colt by Desert Party earned $80,000 for his runner-up effort.
Four-year-old Grade 2 stakes winner My Miss Sophia finished third in the $400,000 First Lady Stakes (G1) at Keeneland on October 10. 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. My Miss Sophia has earned $597,540.
Wesley Ward owned and trained 2014 Eclipse Award winner Judy the Beauty finished third in the $250,000 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes (G2) run at Keeneland on October 3. The six-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper has won or placed in 16 graded stakes and earned $1,765,022 in her 22 starts. Ward-owned and -trained two-year-old Deep in a Dream, by Quiet American, won a 1 1/16-mile maiden $75,000 claiming race by 1 3/4 lengths at Keeneland on October 14.
Grade 1 stakes winner Lochte, a five-year-old gelding by Medaglia d'Oro, took the $75,000 Mr. Steele Stakes at Gulfstream Park by 4 1/4 lengths on September 29. The $650,212 earner is the first foal out of $152,110 stakes winner Lemon Kiss, who won the 2008 Emerald Downs Distaff for DeBurgh and Dedomenico. Lemon Kiss has a yearling filly by Speightstown and a 2015 colt by Distorted Humor.
Grade 2 stakes winner Valid earned his third stakes win of the year in the $75,000 Groomstick Stakes at Gulfstream Park on September 26. The five-year-old gelding by Medaglia d'Oro, who has earned $618,026, is one of two graded stakes winners out of stakes winner Grand Prayer, by Grand Slam, whose dam Lyrical Prayer is a half-sister to Washington broodmare of the year Peaceful Wings.
The third dam of Amelia's Wild Ride, the four-year-old son of D'wildcat who won the $150,000 Woodford Stakes Presented by Keeneland Select (G3) at the Kentucky track on October 3, is $87,767 earner Untilthemusicstops, a full sister to top sprinter and Washington sire Jazzing Around. Amelia's Wild Ride has won nine races - including a trio of stakes - and earned $443,840.
Two runners bred by Washington Racing Hall of Fame breeders, and both out of stakes-winning and stakes-producing mares, won on the East Coast on October 10. Four-year-old Slip By, a gelding by Curlin out of Fortune Pending bred by Theline and Doug Schuemann's Grousemont Farm took his fourth victory in an allowance/$35,000-$40,000 optional claiming (N) race at Laurel Park, upping his earnings to $145,800 for his breeders. At Delaware Park, three-year-old Blame It On Ed, a daughter of Blame-Puxa Saco bred by the late Jerre Paxton's Northwest Farms LLC, won an allowance, giving her three wins and earnings of $62,175. The following day at Santa Anita, Grousemont Farm-bred Cautious Giant, a four-year-old gelded son of Giant's Causeway, took an allowance/$62,500 optional claiming race in his third victory. The Kentucky-bred has earned $144,900.
Former Washington horseman, Tom "Bomber" Doutrich, now the racing secretary for the California fair circuit, was profiled in an article titled "Back to Basics," written by Jack Shinar, in the October 2015 issue of California Thoroughbred. Doutrich was also the former agent for successful jockey turned trainer Vann Belvoir.
It was announced in late September that leading British sprinter Tropics, a seven-year-old son of Speightstown, and the fourth stakes winner for Washington broodmare of the year Taj Aire, has been retired for the season. According to his owner/trainer Dean Ivory "Tropics is in good form, but he has had a little hiccup. He has got a bit of a sprained tendon and it is better if we don't risk it with him and sit tight for next season. We thought about running him [in the Group 1 British Champions Sprint], but we thought it would be better to give him time off and bring him back in the spring."
Seven-year-old Washington-bred mare Wine Not Whiskey, a daughter of Matriculate-Whiskey Till Dawn, by Whiskey Wisdom, bred by Jack Porter and Ed Wilkerson, took a six-furlong allowance $25,000 optional claiming race by nearly two lengths at Northlands Park on October 10. It marked her tenth win and pushed her earnings total to $85,503.
Karl Krieg's 2015 Emerald Downs top older filly and 2014 Washington champion Lady Rosberg (Rosberg-Enter Laughing) finished third in the $77,251 Ballerina Stakes (G3-Can) at Hastings Racecourse on October 12. She had now earned $182,997, of which $126,400 was accumulated in 2015. Finishing second in the nine-furlong test was E. M. and A. M. Braithwaite and I. M. Gorasht's Locket, a five-year-old daughter of Rosberg who has run five times this year and been a stakes runner-up in each effort. Locket has earned $172,872 for her owner/breeders. It turned out to be a very good day for Rosberg, a stakes-winning son of A. P. indy, for in addition to his two-three in the Ballerina, his offspring won four of eight races run, including stakes wins with Snuggles in the Fantasy Stakes and Crazy Prospect in the Ascot Graduation Stakes.
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El Dorado Farms Holds Annual Open House
On a beautiful early fall afternoon, Sunday, October 4, 2015, a large crowd visited Nina and Ron Hagen's El Dorado Farms for the Enumclaw-based farm's annual open house where they enjoyed hospitality, good food and beautiful horses. Heading the afternoon's event was the showcase of the El Dorado stallions. Through the end of September, El Dorado stallions ranked among the leaders in Washington. Abraaj, Private Gold, Coast Guard and Raise the Bluff rank in the first four spots on the juvenile list with freshman sire Coast Guard topping state first-year sires. On the 2015 general sire list, Private Gold, Raise the Bluff and Abraaj hold the two through four spots.
New to the farm roster is Elttaes Stables' two-time Washington champion Music of My Soul, who was retired to stud late this past spring. Elttaes Stables, the nom de course for Ken and Marleen Alhadeff, announced 2016 incentives to breed to the $120,252 stakes-winning son of Harbor the Gold. Owners who breed their mares to Music of My Soul during the 2016 breeding season will be eligible for four drawings, to be held on July 4, 2016, including Seahawk tickets, 5th Avenue Theater packages, $1,000 refunds for 2016 breedings to the stallion and Majestic Bay Theater movie packages.
Alhadeff also announced incentives that will benefit Music of My Soul's Washington-bred progeny and the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation. The breeder of the first Washington-bred winner sired by Music of My Soul will receive a $1,000 bonus or a complimentary breed-back and an additional $1,000 will go to the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation. Alhadeff will also donate $2,500 to the Foundation for the first stakes winner by Music of My Soul, and every time a Washington-bred Music of My Soul wins at Emerald Downs, he will provide a $250 donation to the MOJO Fund to benefit backstretch charitable programs to help families. As Alhadeff stated, "It's all about the state of Washington and Washington-breds."
In addition, El Dorado Farms will offer two individual breeding bonuses (at the stallion's multiple mare discount fee) for the 2016 breeding season to the four other stallions: Abraaj, Coast Guard, Private Gold or Raise the Bluff. Please contact Nina Hagen for further information regarding these incentives.
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2015 Keeneland September Yearling Sale
Keeneland's annual marathon of yearling race prospects, held September 14-26, featured 4,164 yearlings, just slightly down from the 2014 sale figure of 4,181. When the dust had finally settled, 2,745 horses had changed hands for a $281,496,100 gross and a $102,549 average (up 3.3 percent). The median remained steady at $50,000. Top price for the venue, which saw RNAs rise to 875 (24.2 percent), was the $2.1-million bid for the Tapit-Silver Colors colt purchased by Whisper Hill Farm LLC. A total of 11 yearlings, six fillies and five colts, brought a million or more.
Northwest Farms Dispersal
The first horses in the complete dispersal of late Washington Racing Hall of Fame breeder Jerre Paxton began with a dozen well-bred yearlings, many with familiar ties to racing at Emerald Downs. Topping the dispersal was a filly by Union Rags out of Exogenic, dam of Grade 3 winner Super Ninety Nine and 2009 Emerald champion Elusive Horizon, which sold to the Japanese powerhouse Shadai Farm for $430,000. A Tapit filly out of Emerald champion Taste the Passion - dam of three champion Emerald distaffers - sold for $330,000. Gottstein Futurity winner Smarty Deb's Bodemeister colt - a half-brother to Auburn Handicap winner Finallygotabentley - brought $155,000. US Bank winner Bisbee's Prospect's colt, also by Bodemeister, sold for $125,000.
The other eight yearlings and their prices were: Trappe Shot-Seeking Ema colt, $67,000; Union Rags-Puxa Saco colt, $65,000; First Samurai-Girl Warrior colt, $60,000; Candy Ride (Arg)-Kids Kooler filly, $50,000; Uncle Mo-Elusive Horizon colt, $45,000; Arch-Elusive Noise colt, $45,000; Creative Cause-A. P. Investment colt, $40,000; and Bodemeister-Clear in the West colt, $35,000.
In addition, a filly by Tapit out of Northwest Farms-bred Grade 2 winner Arena Elvira, sold for $190,000.
Hall of Fame breeder Grousemont Farm (Theline and Doug Scheumann) sold four, led by a Distorted Humor colt out of Group 3 winner Middle Club (GB), which went to Shadwell Estate Co. for $450,000. The other three sold were: a Distorted Humor-sired half-sister to French champion two-year-old and sire Elusive City; a Union Rags filly out of stakes winner Midnight Visit; and a Uncle Mo colt out of stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Sweet Monarch.
Washington Champion Families
A Tale of the Cat filly out of a young daughter of Washington champion three-year-old filly Graceful Cat brought $75,000 and a Midnight Lute filly out of Grade 2 stakes winner Irish Gypsy - a granddaughter of Washington horse of the year and Grade 1 winner Delicate Vine - sold for $235,000. A Majesticperfection colt out of a $131,751 earning young granddaughter of Grade 2 winner and champion Zama Hummer sold for $30,000 and a Proud Citizen filly out of two-time Washington champion Youcan'ttakeme stakes-winning daughter Super Dixie sold for $32,000.
Michael and Amy Feuerborn sold a Dialed In half-sister to Washington champions Chu and You and Chu and I for $140,000. The Maple Valley couple also sold a filly by The Factor out of Emerald Downs champion A Classic Life - dam of Emerald horse of the meet and $464,325 stakes winner Class Included - for $90,000.
Two yearlings from the family of Grade 2 winner and horse of the year Table Hands were offered. A colt by Broken Vow brought $90,000 and a filly by Speightstown sold for $60,000.
An Awesome Again filly out of Washington champions Atta Boy Roy and The Great Face's winning half-sister Jen's Guinness R. N. also sold, as did an Algorithms filly out of Washington broodmare of the year Taj Aire's Grade 3-winning daughter Elusive Diva.
2008 state champion Enumclaw Girl's Bodemeister filly was a $37,000 RNA.
Several members of Washington broodmare of the year Beadah were offered. Among them was a Medaglia d'Oro filly which brought $450,000; a Distorted Humor half-sister to Grade 1 winner Life At Ten which sold for $170,000; and a Hard Spun colt out of Life At Ten which was a $650,000 RNA.
Families of Pacific Northwest Sires
Among those yearlings linked to local stallions were: a Smart Strike filly out of Harbor the Gold's (Bar C Racing Stable) stakes-winning half-sister Cloudburst which bought $335,000; a Blame colt out of a half-sister to the dam of European champion Declaration of War and War Power (Gibson Thoroughbred Farm), which sold for $310,000; a Tapizar colt out of a stakes-producing half-sister to Abraaj (El Dorado Farms), which sold for $160,000; a Union Rags colt out of a stakes-winning and stakes-producing half-sister to Private Gold (El Dorado Farm), which brought $110,000; a Tapit half-brother to Rozamund Barclays' Grade 3 stakes winner Northern Causeway , which sold for $110,000; an Into Mischief half-brother to Parker's Storm Cat (Gibson Thoroughbred Farm), which sold for $105,000, while a filly by the same sire out of Parker's Storm Cat's stakes-producing sister Curriculum, sold for $75,000; and a Mineshaft colt out of a half-sister to Linchpin (Gibson Thoroughbred Farm) sold for $110,000. Two yearlings related to Houseofroyalhearts (Magnum Farm) were cataloged. A Stay Thirsty filly out of his stakes-winning half-sister Chitka sold for $35,000, while a Tapit colt from the family was a $535,000 RNA.
Other Yearlings with Washington Connections Offered
A War Chant colt and an After Market filly, both out of young half-sisters to L. Neil Jones' English highweight and classic winner Millenary and Group 3 winner Head in the Clouds, also changed hands.
David Thorner and partners' Proud Citizen-Lilies So Fair colt sold for $105,000.
A Speightstown half-sister to Grade 1 winner Lochte - both out of Emerald Distaff Handicap winner Lemon Kiss - sold for $230,000 and an English Channel filly out of former Gibson Thoroughbred Farm broodmare Cho Cho San - who produced stakes winners Blueskiesnrainbows (G2) and Cho Cho Cat - sold for $260,000.
A Harlan's Holiday colt from the family of 2015 Chinook Pass Sprint Stakes winner Redsolocup, and out of stakes winner and stakes producer Hatpin, sold for $190,000.
1996 WTBOA sale yearling, stakes winner and multiple stakes producer Stirling Bridge's Majesticperfection filly sold for $240,000. Another yearling with a WTBOA sales connection was the Gemologist filly out of a stakes producing half-sister WTBOA-sold stakes winner Shay which brought $55,000.
A Creative Cause colt out of Washington-bred stakes winner Cielator's Grade 1-producing half-sister Sweetest Smile sold for $50,000.
The War Front colt out of multiple Grade 3 winner Upperline, who was formerly raced in partnership by Jack and Theresa Hodge, was a $625,000 RNA. Another RNA, this time for $240,000, was the Giant's Causeway half-sister to 2015 Emerald Downs champion filly Belle Hill.
The Buyers
Rick and Debbie Pabst purchased a Speightstown filly, the first foal out of a $211,617 stakes-placed half-sister to two stakes winners, including Ashland Stakes (G1) winner Hooh Why.
Bob Cappelletti signed as agent for a Colonel John filly out of $116,660 stakes-placed Maria's Dance and a Trappe Shot filly, the first foal out of a $118,940-earning full sister to Grade 3-placed Holy Candy.
Where We At bought two: a Street Boss colt out of $146,466 stakes-placed Precocious Princess for $115,000; and a Sky Mesa filly who is a half-sister to $458,240 Grade 3 winner Magic Broomstick for $52,000.
Fred Desimone purchased a Shackleford filly, the first foal out of a half-sister to Grade 2 stakes winner and Grade 3 producer Belle of Perintown.
Lester Ellenz signed for a Discreet Cat colt out of a half-sister to $59,067 Australian stakes winner Skiddaw Peak.
Jim Fergason brought home a Cape Blanc (Ire) colt out of Grade 3 stakes winner Lemon Maid.
Halvorson Bloodstock signed for four yearlings: a Speightstown colt out of a daughter of grass champion Possibly Perfect; a Jersey Town filly, the first foal out of a daughter of Canadian champion juvenile filly Wavering Girl; a Shackleford filly out of a half-sister to Grade 2 winner House of Fortune and whose third dam is Delicate Vine; and a Twirling Candy filly half-sister to $124,150 earner Persuasive Devil and two other winners.
Rising Star bought five yearlings: a Drosselmeyer filly, the first foal out of a winning half-sister to Grade 1 winner Capo Bastone; a Lookin At Lucky colt out of a 100 percent producer of four winners; an Astrology filly out of a half-sister to stakes winner Malibu Way; a Congrats colt out of French stakes winner and Group 2-placed Black Escort; and a Quality Road filly out of $586,773 Grade 3 stakes winner Dance Away Capote.
Trainer Valorie Lund purchased two yearlings: a Trappe Shot colt out of a half-sister to stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Lyin' Heart; and a Regal Ransom colt, the first foal out of a winning daughter of five-time US and Chilean graded stakes winner Quilma (Chi).
Chris Randall signed for six: a Paddy O'Prado half-sister to stakes-placed Purims Faith; a Coil filly out of a full sister to Hollywood Oaks (G2) winner and multiple Grade 1-placed Lethal Heat; a Tale of Ekati half-sister to stakes-placed Indigo Beauty; a Drosselmeyer filly out of a 100 percent producing (five winners) half-sister to three stakes winners, including Grade 1 winner Pirate's Revenge and the stakes-winning dam of champion two-year-old filly Sweet Catomine and $1.8-million Grade 1 winner Life Is Sweet; a Big Brown filly out of a half-sister to stakes-placed Kick In; and a Congrats colt out of a producing half-sister to stakes winner Call Her Magic and to the winning dam of champion three-year-old filly Proud Spell.
Trainer Tim McCanna bought eight, led by a $270,000 Jersey Town filly out of a $119,625 winning half-sister to Grade 2 stakes winner Capital Plan. The filly's third dam was international champion and stellar broodmare Dahlia. The other yearlings are: a colt by MacLean's Music out of Argentine Grade 1 winner and two-time stakes producer Reina Victoriosa (Arg), who is also a half-sister to the dam of Horse of the Year Invasor (Arg); a Scat Daddy filly out of a producing daughter of Canadian champion two-year-old Choral Group; a City Zip filly out of stakes-placed stakes producer Redmond; an Archarcharch colt out of a producing half-sister to Grade 2 winner Night Patrol; a Stroll colt who is a half-brother to $112,288 stakes-placed Julie Darlin; a Pleasantly Perfect colt out of Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed Millie's Quest; and a War Chant folly out of a winning daughter of Grade 2 stakes winner Grande Melody (Ire).
Trainer Mark Glatt bought seven, led by a $100,000 Twirling Candy filly out of Grade 3 $182,020 earner Honest Answer and an $85,000 First Samurai colt out of $202,972 stakes winner Secret Wish. He also purchased fillies by Kitten's Joy, Sky Mesa, Temple City and Bodemeister and a colt by Include.
Trainer Mike Chambers signed for nine, led by an $80,000 Bodemeister colt and a $50,000 Exchange Rate filly. The seven other yearlings were colts by Tapizar, Tale of the Cat, To Honor and Serve, Sky Mesa and Midas Touch (GB) and fillies by First Samurai and Drosselmeyer.
Due to the scope of the sale, we apologize if we missed someone and would be happy to do an addendum in our next e-newsletter.
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Robert L. Maus
Bob Maus 55, passed away on October 5, 2015, of frontal temporal dementia.
He worked for Gene Colin at Ferguson Construction for many years, concluding his work life as its long-time safety manager.
Bob was involved in the Thoroughbred industry for his entire adult life. He first became a racing fan in the 1970s while still attending West Seattle high School. His older brothers Ron and Rick also became involved in racing.
Among his successful runners were: two-time Portland Meadows sprint stakes winner Elgrayceono, who he raced in partnership with John Good and Joe Withee; multiple Golden Gate Fields winner Starcast; Emerald Downs winners Belle of Nassau, Lady Latifea and Whos Calling Now; and I Sea Alertly, who also raced for a time for Maus during his long career.
Bob is survived by his son, Bobby; daughter, Brina (Joe) Hatcher; grandchildren, Braxton and Sadie; former wife, Lisa; parents, Allen and Barbara Maus; brothers; Ron (Debbie) and Rick (Patricia); and sister, Janet (Kirk) Stallman.
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