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News from the WTBOA
October 29, 2015
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Calendar
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
Thursday, December 31, 2015NORTHWEST RACE SERIES NOMINATIONS DEADLINEWTBOA, Auburn, WA (253) 288-7878; maindesk@wtboa.com;
Monday, January 11- Friday, January 15, 2016KEENELAND JANUARY HORSES OF ALL AGES SALELexington, KY (800) 456-3412; keeneland.com
Friday, January 15, 2016
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING
Auburn City Council Chambers, 25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA
(360) 459-6462
Wednesday, January 27, 2016BARRETTS JANUARY MIXED SALEDel Mar, CA (909) 629-3099; info@barretts.com; Monday, February 1, 2016NORTHWEST RACE SERIES EXTENDED DEADLINEWTBOA, Auburn, WA (253) 288-7878; maindesk@wtboa.com; Monday, February 1, 2016
THE JOCKEY CLUB DEADLINE TO NAME FOALS OF 2014
Lexington, KY
(859) 244-2700 or (800) 444-8521; Friday, February 12, 2016
WASHINGTON HORSE RACING COMMISSION MEETING
Auburn City Council Chambers, 25 W. Main St., Auburn, WA
(360) 459-6462
Saturday, February 27, 2016WASHINGTON ANNUAL AWARDSEmerald Downs, Auburn, WA (253) 288-7878; maindesk@wtboa.com; Monday, February 29, 2016WASHINGTON THOROUGHBRED FOUNDATION SCHOLASHIP DEADLINE (RACE FOR EDUCATION)Lexington, Ky (859) 252-8648; info@raceforeducation.org
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Introducing the WTBOA Broodmare Club - An Invitation to Participate
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
Memberships are being accepted until Friday, January 8, 2016. Your early membership will help us with our planning! Click here for a flier about the program. Click here for a membership form.
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Absolutely Cool Comes From Last to Win Bienvenidos Stakes Going Away
Karl C. Krieg's multiple homebred champion Absolutely Cool returned to his winter quarters at Turf Paradise after summering at Emerald Downs with an exciting come from behind victory in the $35,000 Bienvenidos Stakes on October 17. Trained by Valorie Lund and ridden by Jake Barton, Absolutely Cool scored a 2 1/4-length victory over Bourbon Street, a four-year-old son of Street Sense. Seven-year-old Jamaican Memories, by Slew City Slew, ran third, 2 1/2 lengths further back in the 6 1/2-furlong stakes, and just a neck in front Horseplayers Racing Club and Warlock Stables' Redsolocup, who had defeated Absolutely Cool when winning the Chinook Pass Sprint Stakes last September.
Washington's champion handicap horse and two-time champions sprinter, Absolutely Cool is an eight-year-old gelded son of Arizona stallion Absolute Harmony and one of two state champions out of Washington broodmare of the year Coup de Foudre, by Basket Weave. In 40 starts, Absolutely Cool has a record of 9-11-10 and earnings of $324,727.
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Aithon Stable's Belle Hill Wins Grade 3 Autumn Miss Stakes
Fresh off of being named Emerald Downs 2015 top sophomore filly - and three consecutive stakes wins at the Auburn oval - Aithon Stable LLC's Belle Hill defeated nine other three-year-old fillies to earn her first graded stakes victory in the Grade 3 Autumn Miss Stakes. The $101,250 turf race was run over a mile at Santa Anita on October 17 over a course listed as good. Two-time Emerald Downs riding champion Leslie Mawing rode the winner for trainer Larry Ross.
"It's always good to win . . . I've been watching the races downs here all week," said Mawing, who is based at Golden Gate Fields this fall. "It seemed like speed was holding, so I didn't want to be too far out of it. I wanted to keep my horse comfortable, but to be pushing her," he added in her first outing on grass. "She took to the turf good," just like her dam Sealy Hill had in 2008 when she almost won the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) over the same course.
Paulina's Love, by Mizzen Mast, finished a half-length back in second, while Singing Kitty, by Ministers Wild Cat, followed in third, 1 1/4 lengths back, but a neck in front of fourth place Majestic Heat. Suva Harbor, who had been stakes-placed at Emerald last summer, finished last.
A daughter of Sky Mesa out of Canadian Horse of the Year Sealy Hill, by Point Given, Belle Hill is a half-sister to Canadian champion female sprinter Hillaby. Canadian Triple Crown winner Sealy Hill, who is being offered at the upcoming Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, has a yearling filly by Giant's Causeway, a 2015 filly by Tiznow and is bred to Medgalia d'Oro.
Belle Hill is raced by James and Mary Holt-Perkins. The Issaquah couple had purchased their future racing star as an unraced two-year-old in 2014. In her seven starts for the Perkins, Belle Hill has a record of 5-0-1 and has earned $173,220.
"She got a great trip and a perfect ride," commented Ross after the race. "It looked like a good spot for her and her family's done well on it [the turf], so we decided to go with it. I didn't give Leslie any instructions, just confidence."
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WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News
Highlander Racing Stable LLC's Citizen Kitty, a three-year-old daughter of Proud Citizen out of Washington champion No Constraints, by Katowice, won an allowance/$25,000 optional claiming (N) race at Fresno on October 16. Trained by Jeff Metz and ridden by Anne Sanguinetti, the now $45,726 earner was bred in Washington by Dunn Bar Ranch LLC.
Portland Meadows stakes winner Quinnette, a six-year-old daughter of Stormy Jack-Unaflame, by Far Out East, bred in California by Petra Lewin's Rainbow Meadows Farm, finished second by a half-length in her second start of the year - a mile allowance/ $20,000 optional claiming (N) race at Santa Anita on October 22. In 34 starts she has a record of 8-7-4 and earnings of $143,798.
Three sale graduates broke their maidens over the final full weekend in October. On October 24, three-year-old Never Everever (Matty G-Nevercomesagain, by Ascot Knight), who was bred in Washington by Clemans View Farm, took his first win by 4 1/2 lengths at Northlands Park; and Bananappeal, a four-year-old Kentucky-bred gelding by Successful Appeal who races for Horseplayers Racing Club, won at Golden Gate. On Sunday, three-year-old Nine Point Nine went gate-to-wire to take a $50,000 maiden claiming event at Santa Anita. The daughter of Tribal Rule-Cielo Dulce, by Cahill Road, was bred in California by Stormy Hull and Ginger Samples.
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Dr. George Todaro, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, David Bersen and John Stuart's Never Ends, a three-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by Successful Appeal, added a gate-to-wire 2 1/4-length tally in an allowance/$62,500 optional claiming (N) race at Santa Anita on October 23 to improve her record to 3-4-1 in ten starts and her earnings to $138,850. Todaro and Hollendorfer's Grade 3 stakes winner G. G. Ryder earned his fourth stakes victory in the $50,000 Bull Dog Stakes at Fresno on October 18. The four-year-old California-bred son of 2008 Mt. Rainier Handicap winner Chhaya Dance has won 11 races and earned $434,714. Dang, Dedomenico, Todaro, et al.'s Southern Freedom, a four-year-old son of Pure Prize, won an allowance/$80,000 optional claiming (N) race run at 12 furlongs over Santa Anita's turf course on October 22. It was the Kentucky-bred's sixth win and he has earned $207,490.
Stormy Liberal, a graded stakes-placed full brother to El Dorado Farms LLC's freshman sire leader Coast Guard, won an allowance/$40,000 optional claiming (N) race at Santa Anita on October 24. The gelded son of Stormy Atlantic-Vassar, by Royal Academy, upped his earnings to $109,820 with his win in the 6 1/2-furlong turf event.
Two-year-old Patton Proud won a maiden special weight race in his debut in a 6 1/2-furlong race at Keeneland on October 24. The Steve Asmussen trainee, a colt by Eskendereya out of stakes winner and Emerald Downs champion older mare Elusive Horizon, by Elusive Quality, was bred in Kentucky by the late Jerre Paxton's Northwest Farms LLC.
Wesley Ward's three-year-old filly Bombo Gesture, by Afleet Alex, took a seven-furlong maiden special weight test at Keeneland on October 23 for the Washington Hall of Fame trainer.
Grade 1 stakes winner Lochte, a five-year-old gelding by Medaglia d'Oro, added a nearly four-length victory in the $75,000 Spider John Stakes on October 25 at Gulfstream Park, increasing his earnings to $696,247 with his eighth win. He is the first foal out of $152,110 stakes winner Lemon Kiss, who won the 2008 Emerald Downs Distaff for DeBurgh and Dedomenico.
Ben's Cat, the pride and joy of his home state Maryland and Gibson Thoroughbred Farm stallion Parker's Storm Cat, finished second by a nose, while giving winner Jack's in the Deck eight pounds, in the $100,000 Maryland Million Sprint Handicap held on Maryland Millions Day at Laurel Park on October 17. The now nine-year-old Ben's Cat - who races for breeder-owner-trainer King Leatherbury - has earned $2,490,405 with a record of 30-9-4 in 52 starts.
Dynabeaver, a three-year-old son of Grindstone bred in Oregon by Dr. Jack and Margaret "Cookie" Root, won a nine-furlong starter allowance at Keeneland on October 18. The gelding races for Laurie Lukas and is trained by her father D. Wayne Lukas. It was his second win; his first had been at Ellis Park.
Former longtime Washington trainer Chuck Peery had a winner at Keeneland on October 16 with two-year-old The Right Thing.
Mrs McDougal, a Grade 2-winning half-sister to Tip the Hat Farm stallion Primal Instinct, finished third in the $150,000 Pin Oak Valley View Stakes (G3) run at Keeneland on October 24. The three-year-old daughter of Medaglia d'Oro-Distorted Passion, by Distorted Humor, has earned $229,880 in seven starts with a 3-0-1 record.
Bar C Racing Stables Inc. and Desert Rose Racing LLC's homebred Washington champion Del Rio Harbor finished second by a half-length to Dontmesswithkitten in the $26,586 Harbour View Stakes run at Hastings Racecourse on October 25. The four-year-old son of Harbor the Gold-Bahati, by Horse Chestnut (SAf) - who is trained by Marshall Allen and was ridden by Pedro Alvardo - improved his record to 7-5-4 from 21 starts and upped his earnings to $238,778.
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ARCI Compliance Committee Set and Working
In late September 2015, the chairman of the board of directors of the Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI) announced the members of the recently formed committee that will work with individual commissions to complete the implementation of the ARCI medication reforms.
The 12 members of the ARCI Compliance Committee, as it will be officially known, were invited by Chairman Mark Lamberth, who has assigned the committee members to three working teams, with each team reviewing the regulatory policies of a set of racing jurisdictions. The regulators assigned to those teams are as follows: Team A: John T. Ward Jr. (Kentucky Horse Racing Commission), Jonathan Zachem (Florida Division of Pari-mutuel Wagering), Judy Wagner (Louisiana State Racing Commission) and Domenic DiCera (Illinois Racing Board); Team B: Rick Baedeker (California Horse Racing Board),Jeff Colliton (Washington Horse Racing Commission),Tom DiPasquale (Minnesota Racing Commission) and Dr. Corinne Sweeney (Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission); Team C: Mike Hopkins (Maryland Racing Commission), Duncan Patterson (Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission), Robert Williams (New York Gaming Commission) and Frank Zanzuccki (New Jersey Racing Commission).
The committee teams will begin by completing a thorough review of the medication policies in each United States jurisdiction, and then will work state-by-state to advance the ARCI medication reforms.
The jurisdictions assigned to each team are as follows: Team A: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming; Team B: Arizona, California, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington; Team C: Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia.
Lamberth stated that the three teams will meet on a regular basis. The committee will report to the ARCI board of directors during their meeting in December.
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Fasig-Tipton October Fall Yearling Sale
Fasig-Tipton cataloged 1,485 yearlings at their October Fall Yearling Sale held in Lexington on October 19-22. From that total 1,234 went through the sales ring with 854 selling for a $29,369,300 total and $34,390 average. The median was $15,000. RNAs were a high 34.5 percent overall as the average and median dropped from 2014 figures ($35,850 and $18,500).
The $410,000 sale topper was a colt by Tapit out of the stakes-winning Smart Strike mare Apple Charlotte.
Only a few Pacific Northwest connections were noted. The Candy Ride (Arg) colt purchased for $32,000 by John Brocklebank as agent at this past August's WTBOA Sale, resold for $50,000. Since the catalog, the colt's two-year-old half-brother Street Vision had won and then placed in a stakes at Santa Anita the weekend before the Kentucky auction.
A Ghostzapper colt out of a $116,100 winning daughter of Washington champion and Grade 2 winner Classy Cara was purchased by Zayat Stables for $60,000.
A Super Saver colt whose third dam was WTBOA sale topper and Grade 3 stakes winner Collect Call - the dam of Grade 2 stakes winner and sire Old Fashioned - was sold for $100,000.
Brewer Thoroughbreds, as agent, purchased a Girolamo colt out of a stakes-producing half-sister to Grade 3 winner and Grade 1 producer Antoniette for $55,000.
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Barretts conducted their fall sale of yearlings and horses of racing age, which also included a few broodmares, on October 27, 2015, at Del Mar. With the 13 late entries, a total of 305 horses were hipped.
Topping the venue was Hip 119, a colt by Good Journey out of Grade 3-placed stakes producer Southern Oasis which was sold to John Daley, agent for D. P. Racing, for $140,000. Hip 129, a Street Boss colt out of Storm Queen, was purchased for $120,000 by Jeff Bonde. The third six-figure yearling was Critter Creek Farm-bred and -raised (Stormy Hull and Ginger Samples) She's So Pretty, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Stormin Fever out of Cielo Dulce and a half-sister to Barbara Shinpoch Stakes winner Sweet Saga, which sold for $100,000. The yearling, who had been a late out at the August WTBOA Sale, was signed for by Greg Gilchrist, agent. The filly's three-year-old half-sister Nine Point Nine had won a $50,000 maiden claimer just two days prior at Santa Anita.Gilchrist was the leading buyer at the venue, purchasing three horses for an $182,000 total.
Two other yearlings which sold at the WTBOA summer sale and were re-entered at the California sale failed to meet their reserves: the Coil-Mia F Eighteen filly ($90,000 RNA) and the Harbor the Gold-Carrie's a Jewel colt ($42,000 RNA).
Three-time leading Emerald Downs trainer Jeff Metz purchased three colts as agent. The colts were sired by Thorn Song, Papa Clem and Awesome Gambler. The Papa Clem colt is out of the $300,851 stakes-winning Peterhof mare Lookn Mighty Fine.
Overall, 175 horses sold for $2,542,300. Of the 213 yearlings, 125 were listed as sold for a $17,160 average with 69 RNAs and 19 outs. From 46 horses of racing age, 30 sold for a $9,970 average with ten outs and six RNAs. Twenty-nine broodmares were cataloged with 20 selling for a $4,910 average with six RNAs and three outs.
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News from The Jockey Club
The Jockey Club Releases 2015 Report of Mares Bred Statistics
The Jockey Club released Report of Mares Bred (RMB) statistics for the 2015 breeding season on October 22, 2015. Based on RMBs received through October 13, 2015, The Jockey Club reports that 1,449 stallions covered 34,627 mares in North America during 2015.
Based upon historical reporting trends, The Jockey Club estimates an additional 2,000 to 3,000 mares will be reported as bred during the 2015 breeding season.
The number of stallions declined 6.3 percent from the 1,547 reported at this time in 2014, and the number of mares bred increased 0.3 percent from the 34,540 reported at this time last year.
The number of stallions covering 100 or more mares increased from 97 in 2014 to 105 in 2015. These stallions accounted for a greater percentage of the total mares reported bred this year - 41.8 percent of all mares bred in 2015 versus 36.4 percent of all mares bred in 2014 as reported at this time last year. RMB statistics for all reported stallions in 2015 are available through the Fact Book section of The Jockey Club's website at jockeyclub.com.
Further book size analysis shows a 15.2 percent increase in the number of mares bred to stallions with a book size of 100 or more in 2015 when compared to 2014 as reported at this time last year; a 13.9 percent decrease in mares bred to stallions with a book size between 75 and 99; a 0.9 percent decrease in mares bred to stallions with a book size between 50 and 74; a 22.2 percent decrease in mares bred to stallions with a book size between 25 and 49; and no change in mares bred to stallions with a book size fewer than 25.
Uncle Mo led all stallions with 221 mares bred in 2015. Rounding out the top five were Scat Daddy, 217; Into Mischief, 210; Shanghai Bobby, 202; and Temple City, 199.
Kentucky traditionally leads North America in Thoroughbred breeding activity. During 2015, Kentucky's 208 reported stallions covered 17,448 mares, or 50.4 percent of all of the mares reported bred in North America. The number of mares bred to Kentucky stallions increased 3.7 percent compared with the 16,826 reported at this time last year.
Of the top 10 states and provinces by number of mares reported bred in 2015, Kentucky, California, Ontario and Maryland stallions covered more mares in 2015 than in 2014, as reported at this time last year.
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Stanley Allen Gillman 
Longtime industry leader Stan Gillman passed away peacefully on September 14, 2015. Stan was born January 5, 1933, in Seattle, the youngest child of Joseph and Bella Gillman. He grew up in the Mt. Baker and Magnolia neighborhoods of Seattle and graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1951. He subsequently obtained dual degrees in business and accounting from the University of Washington.
After a two-year stint in the US Army, Stan returned to Seattle to begin what would be a 50-year career in public accounting. This included working for Peterson & Sullivan and as a partner with Laventhol & Horwath until the mid-1970s, when he started his own firm. He left public accounting for a time to serve as the CFO of Timberland Industries until it was purchased by Weyerhaeuser. At this point he returned to his private practice which he pursued until his retirement in November of 2014.
Stan, who had been introduced to local horse racing as a young boy by his father, became involved in the horse racing community by buying his first mare, New Vintage, in 1980. He purchased a home in Kent with some land and set about learning the horse racing world from the ground up, which was his approach to life. With much research he bred mares and raised, sold or raced their foals. He joined the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association and served on its board of trustees for several years.
In addition to serving local horsemen for many years as an accountant, he was contacted by the Thoroughbred Times, a national weekly Thoroughbred publication, to write monthly columns regarding the business of owning, racing and breeding in the industry. For the last several years he participated in racing through Thoroughbred partnerships. He also served on the board of the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation and was a board member of Rainier Therapeutic Riding.
Stan was always interested in new ideas and new people and found great joy in mentoring and helping people solve their problems by being interested in who they were and what they were trying to accomplish.
He enjoyed traveling (both in the US and Europe) and sailing when possible with the San Juan Islands a favorite destination. He always had a book in his hand and was constantly learning and expanding his universe, which he passed on to others in conversation, e-mails and notes. One of his core beliefs was that one needed to grow as a human being as long as we were here on this earth. He did that. He was a loving husband, father, grandpa and uncle and will be missed by all who knew him.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Pearl Rosenthal. Stan is survived by his wife of 33 years, Gerri; his children, Joel (Caroline) Gillman, of Bellingham; and Marcia (Rusty) Tassinari, of Carlsbad, California; four grandchildren, Madeline and Sam Gillman and Gabriella and Anthony Tassinari; and his sister, Rosalie Gillman, of Seattle.
In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be made to the ACLU, the Pike Place Market Clinic or to a charity of your choice.
There will be a celebration of Stan's life on November 23 at 5 p.m. at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, 2033 6th Ave., Seattle.
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