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December 31, 2015
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Thursday, December 31, 2015
NORTHWEST RACE SERIES NOMINATIONS DEADLINE
WTBOA, Auburn, WA
(253) 288-7878;
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, 2016
NORTHWEST RACE SERIES EXTENDED DEADLINE
WTBOA, Auburn, WA
(253) 288-7878; 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, 2016
WASHINGTON ANNUAL AWARDS
Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA
(253) 288-7878; Friday, April 1, 2016
WASHINGTON THOROUGHBRED FOUNDATION
SCHOLASHIP DEADLINE (RACE FOR EDUCATION)
Lexington, Ky
(859)252-8648;
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Happy New Year! from the Board and Staff of the WTBOA
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Stallion Register
The Stallion Register statistical and photo pages
are now available online.
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Stallion Season Auction
Attention Mare Owners: We are now accepting bids for the 2016 Stallion Season Auction!
Click here for a list of available stallions and for more information.
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NWRS Nominations due December 31!
Don't forget to nominate your yearlings and weanlings to the 2016 and 2017 NWRS by December 31.
Click here for a nomination form and for more information.
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WTBOA Broodmare Club
Memberships to the WTBOA Broodmare Club are being
accepted until Friday, January 8, 2016.
If you are interested in joining the WTBOA broodmare club or have any questions, please contact the WTBOA at
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2016 WTBOA Calendars are Available Now!
We wish you all a wonderful 2016!
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WTBOA Sale Juveniles Run One-Three in Gold Rush Stakes
In just his third start, David P. Taylor Jr.'s Mana Strike rolled to a 2 1/4-length victory in the $75,000 Gold Rush Stakes run at Golden Gate Fields on December 5. After trailing the field for the first three-quarters, the Frank Lucarelli trainee charged clear down the center in the stretch to finish the mile race in 1:38.36.
"I'm excited," said Lucarelli. "I think he's got an excellent future." The California Derby on January 16 and the El Camino Real Derby on February 13 are under consideration for the new stakes winner's next outings.
Fellow Washingtonian Rozamund Barclay's homebred Algenon, by Aragorn (Ire), finished second in the field for trainer Len Kasmerski.
Following two lengths further back in third place in the field of six was Alan Klein, Phillip Lebherz and Richard Meister's Marqula.
Mana Strike and Marqula were both bred in Washington and are 2014 WTBOA Summer Sale graduates.
Mana Strike, a gelded son of Papa Clem-Kirkela, by Giant's Causeway, was bred by Bar C Racing Stables Inc. The $32,000 purchase had won a six-furlong maiden special weight race by four lengths at Golden Gate on October 3 in his first outing. Mana Strike has earned $63,600. The runner's four-year-old half-brother Kenai King, by Harbor the Gold, finished second in the Frog Lake Handicap on October 4 at Portland Meadows to give him two stakes placements and up Kenai King's earnings to $53,230.
Marqula, a $15,000 September yearling, is the second stakes horse sired by El Dorado Farms LLC's freshman stallion Coast Guard. Bred by Jean Welch - Tall Cedars Farm - Marqula is out of the Marquetry mare Marquet Formula. Marqula next ran second in an allowance/$40,000 optional claiming (N) race at the Albany track on December 26, pushing his earnings to $36,000.
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Absolutely Cool Adds Another Sprint Stakes Tally at Turf Paradise
Multiple state champion Absolutely Cool probably cemented his third Washington sprint title after the Karl C. Krieg homebred went from last to first to win the $35,000 Luke Kruytbosch Stakes by a nose on November 14 at Turf Paradise. Carol and James Bolin's nearly 40-to-one longshot Jamaican Memories, by Slew City Slew, finished second. Horseplayers Racing Club and Warlock Stables' Washington-bred Redsolocup, a four-year-old gelding by Demon Warlock-Trainingat the Bar, by Valid Wager, ran third in the field of ten older runners going six furlongs.
Washington's champion handicap horse and two-time champion 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 41 starts, Absolutely Cool has a record of 10-11-10 and earnings of $345,342.
On December 10, Krieg's homebred Love Cautiously, a daughter of Under Caution and half-sister to Washington champions Makors Finale and Absolutely Cool, won a $16,000-$14,000 maiden claiming race by 1 1/4 lengths at Golden Gate Fields. The four-year-old Washington-bred is trained by Blaine Wright.
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Joe Steiner Finalist for George Woolf Award
Rider Joseph Steiner, 51, is among five finalists for one of Thoroughbred racing's most prestigious awards. Steiner joins Joe Bravo, Javier Castellano, Victor Espinoza and Gerard Melancon as 2016 finalists for the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. Presented annually, the Woolf Award recognizes those riders whose careers and personal character earn esteem for the individual and the sport of Thoroughbred racing. The winner will be announced in February following a vote of jockeys nationwide.
"Out of 13,000 jockeys in the country, I'm one of the five they picked," Steiner said. "I was so surprised. What an amazing honor."
Steiner has enjoyed an eventful year. Returning home to the Northwest after several years in Southern California, Steiner flourished at Emerald Downs, finishing fifth with 41 wins, including his 1,000th career victory on April 19. Off the track, Joe and wife Dagmar celebrated the birth of son Jonah Michael Joseph in July. The family lives in Tacoma.
Steiner rode briefly this fall at Golden Gate, but is back home and looking forward to the 2016 season at Emerald Downs.
"I feel great, and I'm having more fun now than I ever have in my whole career," he said.
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2016-18 WTBOA Board and Sales Committee Elections
Spokane horseman Tim Floyd was elected as the newest member of the WTBOA Board of Directors. He, along with incumbents Nina Hagen, Debra Pabst and Keith Swagerty, will serve a 2016-18 term. The other members of the 12-person board are: William Brewer, Mary Lou Griffin, Dana Halvorson, Dr. Duane Hopp, John Parker, Candice Tollett, Jennifer Webber and Steve Zerda.
Longtime breeder and industry member Greg Luce, as well as incumbents Griffin and Susan Hopp, were elected to the Sales Committee for a three-year-term. They join fellow members Bryson Cooper, Hagen, Halvorson, Pabst and Webber. In February a liaison to the committee will be appointed by the current WTBOA president.
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Stall Applications for 2016 Emerald Downs Meeting
Emerald Downs is now accepting stall applications for its 20th anniversary season to be run April 9 through September 11, 2016.
Stall applications have been mailed to horsemen and also may be submitted online at emeralddowns.com. Completed applications are due January 19.
The 70-day meeting marks Emerald Downs' 20th anniversary of its 1996 opening. A special day of racing on Monday, June 20, will celebrate exactly two decades of racing at Emerald Downs.
The 2016 stakes schedule, including the 81st renewal of the Longacres Mile (G3) will be announced in January.
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All Horses Stabled at Emerald Downs Required to Have a Coggins Test Done After December 1, 2015
Season's Greetings Horsemen,
Emerald Downs Racing LLC has applied with the Washington Horse Racing Commission and been approved for 70 days of live racing for 2016. Opening day will be Saturday April 9, 2016, and closing day is September 11, 2016. We expect to open the backstretch for horsemen to prepare their stalls on Saturday January 30, 2016, and the track surface will open for training on Monday February 1, 2016.
On October 7, 2015 the WHRC Equine Medical Director Tricia Arnold sent out a letter to all horsemen advising them of a recently confirmed case of Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) involving a horse at Emerald Downs. The horse was deemed positive through both ELISA and AGID Coggin's testing. Ultimately the horse had to be euthanized. Since October 7, 2015, there have been another 12 horses that have tested positive and they have also been euthanized. So far all the infected horses belong to the same stable.
Dr. Arnold's letter states, "It is highly unlikely that this disease was transmitted between horses at Emerald Downs." It further states, "The infectious agent causing EIA may take up to 60 days to become detectable after infection." Therefore, she recommends that all horses that were stabled at Emerald Downs have a Coggins test done after December 1, 2015.
Effective with the opening of the Emerald Downs stables for 2016
Emerald Downs is now making it mandatory that every horse coming onto the grounds have a current (December 1, 2015, and after) negative Coggins test. Stable security will collect the Coggins test paperwork on each horse as the horses arrive at the gates and then pass the paperwork off to stable superintendent Vern Baze for his further identification and approval.
The negative Coggins test paperwork will then go into each trainers file in the race office to be attached to the horses' registration papers.
Horses arriving at the stable gates without a Coggins test dated after December 1, 2015, will be quarantined in the portable stalls until such time that blood can be pulled and a negative Coggins result can be achieved. Once the negative results are determined the quarantined horses can then join the resident population in the trainers' assigned stalls. Emerald Downs also suggests that each horse should be current with their rhino and flu vaccinations.
Please be prepared to provide negative Coggins for each horse coming on Emerald Downs grounds.
Thank you,
Emerald Downs Race Office Staff
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National HBPA Supports AHC Welfare Code
The National Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Association is the latest organization to endorse the American Horse Council's (AHC) Welfare Code of Practice.
The AHC Welfare Code of Practice is a broad set of principles designed to establish good welfare procedures for organizations to follow to "Put the Horse First." The code outlines in broad strokes what principles organizations are committed to in breeding, training, competing, transporting, enjoying and caring for their horses. The code encourages everyone to consider the health, safety and welfare of their horses in all aspects of their activities, including the social and ethical issues.
"The National HBPA along with its supportive affiliates and members strongly support the Welfare Code of Practice established by the American Horse Council. The embodiment of the Code to 'Put the Horse First' rings true with our membership and supports our mission statement. Being a part of the Welfare Code should be an indication to everyone looking at the equine industry as a whole, that our goal is to uphold the health and welfare of the horse," said Eric J. Hamelback, CEO of the National HBPA.
The AHC's code is not intended to supersede an organization's rules or regulations. Any organization's more specific rules still govern activities sanctioned and regulated by the organization. Rather the code is a compliment to any such rules and restates the principles to be followed by breed registries, trade associations, various disciplines and the horse community as a whole in pursuing their equine activities.
To review the AHC Welfare Code of Practice, a list of the 52 organizations supporting the code and a FAQs page, please visit the AHC website at horsecouncil.org.
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Congress Passes Three-year Tax Depreciation for Racehorses and H-2B Visa Improvements Backed by NTRA
Important tax incentives for horse owners - including a key provision that extends three-year tax depreciation for all racehorses through 2016 - were passed by Congress in mid-December as part of comprehensive budget and tax legislation.
The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act of 2015 maintains the three-year recovery period for racehorse purchases that has been a top legislative priority for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) since the provision's initial enactment as part of the 2008 Farm Bill. Most recently, the NTRA successfully secured inclusion of three-year depreciation in the 2014 tax extenders package that expired at the end of 2014.
"The NTRA applauds the efforts of Congress in recognizing the important role of three-year depreciation for purchasers of young racehorses," said NTRA President and CEO Alex Waldrop. "Owners and breeders can now invest with confidence knowing that this important tax incentive will be available for at least the next two years."
The provision allows taxpayers to depreciate, on a three-year schedule, racehorses 24 months of age and younger when purchased and placed into service, as opposed to a seven-year schedule. The accelerated schedule better reflects the length of a typical racehorse's career and is more equitable for owners.
The PATH Act also retroactively extends two other provisions that spur investment in racehorses and depreciable farm equipment.
"Bonus depreciation" will remain set at 50 percent and may be used by business owners who purchase and place in service qualified new depreciable property. Yearlings that an owner purchases and puts into a training program are one example of eligible property. Bonus depreciation is set at 50 percent for 2015, 2016 and 2017, at 40 percent for 2018 and at 30 percent for 2019.
The "Section 179 expense allowance" will be set at $500,000, with a $2-million threshold for qualified new or used property purchased and placed in service by small business owners in many industries. Total purchases of qualified property that exceed $2-million reduce the taxpayer's expense allowance dollar for dollar. Broodmares may be eligible for expensing and are an example of used property because of their prior use as a racehorse or broodmare. The comprehensive budget and tax legislation will make the Section 179 expense allowance incentive permanent at this level.
Provisions backed by the NTRA that offer relief for H-2B visa employers such as horse trainers were also approved by Congress as part of the omnibus appropriations bill.
Of particular interest to trainers and others in the Thoroughbred industry who rely on H-2B workers are these beneficial provisions:
H-2B returning workers are exempt from the annual 66,000 H-2B cap;
Those paying H-2B wages are allowed the use of private wage surveys, which are not allowed under current H-2B rules;
Seasonal employment is clearly defined as 10 months of employment, as opposed to nine months in the current H-2B rules;
The Department of Labor (DOL) is prevented from implementing the provisions of current H-2B rules related to corresponding employment and the 3/4 guarantee requiring a set number of work hours; and
DOL is prohibited from implementing a burdensome new enforcement scheme related to auditing of employers and certifying officer (CO) assisted recruitment.
"We applaud Congress for recognizing the need for more H-2B visas, which will allow trainers and other major employers in the Thoroughbred industry to properly hire the workers they need," said Waldrop. "Thoroughbred racing and breeding still need comprehensive immigration reform but these changes to the H-2B visa program are a step in the right direction."
The H-2B visa program is used by many industries, including horse racing, to access temporary seasonal workers when domestic help is unavailable. Horse trainers typically use the program to hire grooms and other barn help. The lack of documented H-2B workers has significantly hindered the ability of horsemen to hire qualified backstretch employees.
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More WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News
Two 2015 Emerald Downs sophomore alumni ran two-three in a $50,000 claiming race run at Del Mar on November 8. WTBOA alumni and 2015 Auburn Handicap winner Fooled Again, a Kentucky-bred son of Scat Daddy-Valour Road, bred by Oak Crest Farm and who races for Todd and Shawn Hansen, finished second to winner Great Lou. Running another neck behind Fooled Again in third was Horseplayers Racing Club and Warlock Stables' two-time Emerald winner Kaabraaj, a gelded son of El Dorado Farms LLC's Abraaj-Kaaaching, by River Special, bred by Clemens View Farm. Craig Dollase trains Fooled Again and Jeff Metz conditions Kaabraaj. On December 11 Kaabraaj scored his third win in an allowance/$62,500 claiming race at Golden Gate, increasing the gelding's earnings to $56,020 with his length victory.
Newfound Gold, an eight-year-old gelded Kentucky-bred son of Newfoundland-Binntastic, by Lyphard's Wish (Fr),went gate-to-wire to win a $22,500 claiming race at Del Mar on November 21, pushing his earnings to $260,059 with his 16th win. Newfound Gold has been haltered out of each of his last three wins, including his November tally by trainer Wesley Ward for owners Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey.
Jeff Cissell's two-year-old filly Coastal Diva earned her second win on November 13 after the daughter of El Dorado Farms first-crop sire Coast Guard went gate-to-wire to score a victory in a 5 1/2-furlong $12,500 claiming race at Golden Gate. Trained by Tim McCanna, the Washington-bred winner is out of Jean Welch's good Crafty Prospector mare Crafty Diva
Two-year-old Trini Brewnette earned her second victory in three starts when she won the $94,125 South Ocean Stakes at Woodbine on November 14. After running at the back of the pack for the first six furlongs of the 1 1/16-mile test, the Canadian-bred daughter of Milwaukee Brew defeated Neshama, by Sligo Bay (Ire), by a head. Trini Brewnette is the second foal out of Canadian champion two-year-old filly and $517,217 earner Dancing Allstar, a 2005 daughter of Millennium Allstar. Dancing Allstar is out of Washington-bred High On Believen, who was sired by Honor Grades and out of Washington champion juvenile filly Candles n Moonlite, by Knight in Savannah. High On Believen was bred by 2014 Washington Hall of Fame inductee Gunshy Manor and Royal Match Stud. Trini Brewnette has earned $78,428.
After finishing second in her first start at Emerald Downs last June, Walter Thompson's Grindstone Shine took her second start, a six-furlong maiden $12,500 claimer at Turf Paradise, by 2 1/4 lengths on November 29. Bred by Linda Weeks and Tina McKail, the two-year-old daughter of Grindstone is the fourth winner from four starters - including $161,566 stakes winner Mighty Cahill - produced out of Bates Monarch, by Bates Motel. Steve Bullock trains the new winner.
Exit Sixty Slew, a two-year-old Washington-bred daughter of El Dorado Farms LLC's Abraaj out of Slew Tunes, by Slewdledo, bred by Nina Hagen and Holly Sturgeon, finished second in a maiden $30,000 claiming race at Del Mar on November 28 for owner/trainer Blaine D. Wright.
Luke Lindsey's Iwannabeadivatoo, a three-year-old daughter of Pulse Ranches' Preachinatthebar-Fast Rio, by Boca Rio, who was bred by Robert F. Pulse, won the $9,400 Paulina Lake Handicap by 1 1/4 lengths at Portland Meadows on December 1. The Roddina Barrett trainee improved her record to 2-2-3 from eight starts and has earned $$21,660. Lisa A. Baze's eight-year-old Washington-bred mare Clemens Brook, by Petersburg, ran second in the six-panel event with Ronald C. Bacon's British Columbia-bred Bamboo Dream, by Finality, third in the field of six.
Karen Kirshner's Cat Camille, a two-year-old filly by Gibson Thoroughbred Farm stallion Parker's Storm Cat-Creole Delights, by Bertrando, bred in Washington by Prisco Vacca, finished second to W. J. Fergason and Jeri Johnson's unbeaten Kentucky-bred Mr. Shobiz in the six-furlong Foster Lake Handicap on the same card. Oregon-bred Sam the Lion, a son of Sixthirteen who races for Robert A. Clary, ran third.
Mandrell, a two-year-old daughter of Grade 1 winner Country Star and granddaughter of Washington horse of the year and Grade 1 winner Rings a Chime, won her first outing - a mile, maiden effort at Kempton in England on December 15. The daughter of Dubawi (Ire) scored her three-length win for Godolphin.
Two-year-old Tribal Zen, a daughter of Tribal Rule-Zenovit, by Private Gold, bred in Washington by Nina and Ron Hagen, went gate-to-wire to take a $12,500 maiden claiming race at Golden Gate on December 11 for Mario and Laura Villarreal.
Six-year-old Quinnette, who was bred in California by Petra Lewin's Rainbow Meadows Farm, won a mile starter allowance at the Los Alamitos Thoroughbred meet on December 17. A stakes winner at Portland Meadows,the daughter of Stormy Jack out of the late Unaflame, by Far Out East, has earned $167,988.
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Oakhurst Thoroughbreds Brings Second Derby Winner to Oregon
2005 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Giacomo has joined 1996 Derby winner Grindstone at Dr. Jack and Margaret "Cookie" Root's Oakhurst Thoroughbreds in Newberg for the 2016-18 breeding seasons. The son of Holy Bull is being moved from Heritage Stallions in Maryland as part of the Stronach family's efforts to boost breeding and racing in Oregon.
"I really think Giacomo will help Oregon breeding, generate some excitement and attract some breeders, including outside of Oregon," said Jack Root of the three-year lease.
Bred by Jerry and Ann Moss and raced by the Mosses and Stronach Stable, Giacomo also won the San Diego Handicap (G2) and placed in six other stakes, including a third in the Preakness Stakes (G1) en route to earnings of $2,537,316. He is one of a trio of stakes winners - along with Grade 1 winner and $2,358,270 earner Tiago and Grade 3 winner and $474,250 earner Stanwyck - out of the stakes-winning Stop the Music mare Set Them Free.
The sire of 17 stakes winners, the gray/roan Giacomo will stand the 2016 breeding season for a fee of $2,500 live foal.
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Lent Enters Stud at Emerald Acres for 2016
Lent, an allowance-winning son of Pulpit and half-brother to Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) winner Fort Larned, will enter stud at Emerald Acres in Aldergrove, British Columbia, for the 2016 breeding season.
Lent won his second start, and first outing at three, in a mile maiden special weight race at Churchill Downs and then added a 4 1/2-length allowance tally at the Louisville track at four. He retired with earnings of $87,729.
Stemming from the Seattle Slew sire line through his most illustrious son - A. P. Indy - Lent was sired by Grade 2 stakes winner, prominent sire and current noted sire of sires Pulpit, whose 77 stakes winners include 2014-15 leading sire Tapit, Sky Mesa and the earners of nearly $72-million.
Out of the winning Broad Brush mare Arlucea, Lent is a half-brother to five other winners, including three-time Grade 1 winner and $4.4-million earner Fort Larned, two-time Grade 1-placed juvenile Izarra and $155,236 stakes-placed Moonport.
Lent's second dam was the twice US champion and 13-time Grade 1 winner - including two editions of the Breeders' Cup Distaff - Bayakoa (Arg), grandam of four-time Grade 1 winner Affluent, who earned nearly $1.5-million.
Lent will stand for $1,000C live foal, which includes a $200C booking fee.
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Keeneland Catalogs 1,756 Horses for 2016 January Sale
The five-day 2016 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale will run from January 11 through 15 with 624 broodmares, 181 broodmare prospects, 720 short yearlings, 251 horses of racing age and 11 stallions and stallion prospects cataloged. Among the offerings will be the final two horses in the Northwest Farms LLC's dispersal.
Both online and print catalogs are available. For more information go to keeneland.com.
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Dr. George Todaro and partners' 2013 Eclipse Award-winning juvenile Shared Belief died suddenly on December 3 after a bout with colic. He had been rushed to UC Davis, but surgeons failed to save the gallant little horse. The five-time Grade 1 winner had recently returned to training after suffering a hip fracture in April. The four-year-old Candy Ride (Arg) gelding had won ten of 12 starts and earned nearly $3-million.
Two-year-old Moon Gate Warrior won a mile maiden special weight race at Churchill Downs on November 12. Sired by Bernardini, he is the first foal out of stakes winner J Z Warrior, by Harlan's Holiday. The Kentucky-bred, $160,000 Fasig-Tipton October Sale yearling was bred by Grousemont Farm.
Grade 1 stakes winner Lochte, a five-year-old gelding by Medaglia d'Oro, added a four-length win in the $100,000 Tropical Turf Handicap (G3) at Gulfstream Park on November 21 to increase his earnings to $755,767 with his ninth 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. The day before Lochte's latest victory, his two-year-old half-brother Knights Key, by Giant's Causeway, won his initial outing, a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Churchill Downs.
On November 24, Above the Crowd Stable LLC and Horseplayers Racing Club's Oh Baby Oh Baby, a four-year-old Louisiana-bred daughter of Orientate, went gate-to-wire to annex an allowance/$20,000 optional claiming (N) race at Delta Downs by five lengths. The winner of seven races lifetime has earned $169,902.
Debra Gruender's homebred first-time starter Melangeofgold took a $24,000 maiden claiming race at Golden Gate on November 15. The two-year-old Washington-bred daughter of Harbor the Gold is the fifth winner - and the third by Harbor the Gold - out of the Slewdledo mare Ms. Melange. The new winner is trained by Tim McCanna.
Al and Saundra Kirkwood's four-year-old Q'Viva, a California-bred daughter of Tribal Rule, took her third win in an allowance/$20,000 optional (N) claiming race at Del Mar on November 14. The Mark Glatt trainee has earned $162,050.
Fred and Cindy Desimone,of Snohomish, Glyn C. Kelly and Anne MacLennan's Star Student earned his first stakes victory in the $50,000 Oakland Handicap run at Golden Gate on November 14. Dr. Rodney Orr's homebred stakes winner Ankeny Hill, who hails from Mark Glatt's barn, finished second. The five-year-old Ankeny Hill has earned $280,225.
Star Student added an allowance win at Golden Gate on December 12 to his November stakes tally. Trained by Dan Markle, the five-year-old Kentucky-bred gelding by Student Council, improved his record to 5-6-3 from 19 starts and has earned $130,167.
Both runners began their racing careers at Emerald Downs as three-year-olds.
Four Times Lucky, a British Columbia-bred filly from the first crop of El Dorado Farms LLC's Abraaj won a $16,000 claiming race at Turf Paradise on November 23. Four Times Lucky next took an allowance/$20,000 optional claiming race at the Phoenix track in gate-to-wire fashion on December 10 to mark her tenth victory. A full sister to multiple stakes winner and recently named top BC-bred sophomore filly Quatre Cat, Four Times Lucky has earned $68,205.
Shock the Clock, a five-year-old gelding by Pulpit out of three-time stakes winner Sweet Monarch, by Wavering Monarch, bred by Grousemont Farm and raced in partnership by Ty Scheumann and trainer Valorie Lund, won a mile maiden $30,000 optional claiming race over Turf Paradise's grass course on November 17.
Mark Dedomenico LLC, Jerry Durant and Michael House's Grade 3-placed Rattataptap, a three-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Tapit, took an allowance/$62,500 optional claiming (N) race by 4 1/2 lengths at Del Mar on November 21 while ridden by Tyler Baze. A full sister to Grade 3-placed, $160,732 earner I'll Wrap It Up, Rattataptap has won three races and earned $144,686.
Dedomenico's first-time juvenile starter Daring Darling, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Tiz Wonderful-Darling's Darling, by Bernardini, who was a $90,000 Keeneland September sale yearling, won a six-furlong maiden special weight race at the Los Alamitos Thoroughbred meet on December 19.
National Racing Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer saddled his 7,000th winner when Kiss N Scat, a two-year-old daughter of Scat Daddy who races for the conditioner with partners Steve Melen, Steve Taub and George Todaro, took an allowance/$40,000 optional claiming race at Golden Gate on November 26. Only the late Dale Baird (9,445 wins) and Steve Asmussen have also reached that plateau.
Todaro, Hollendorfer and the trainer's wife Janet Hollendorfer had a two-year-old homebred win his first start, a maiden special weight race at Golden Gate on December 12. Life is a Trip, ridden by Russell Baze, went gate-to-wire to win the 5 1/2-furlong test by 2 1/4 lengths. The gelded son of Many Rivers-Tadita, by Indian Charlie, was bred in California.
Demon Warlock had another juvenile maiden special weight winner at Portland Meadows when Washington-bred Demonsdarlin, a homebred runner for Tim Floyd's Warlock Stables and Mike Nist, won a 5 1/2-furlong race by two lengths on November 23. The new winner, out of the Ihtimam mare Joanie's Hit, is trained by Roddina Barrett. On the same Rose City card, Rogelio Gonzalez's homebred two-year-old Fifty Caliber, an Oregon-bred son of Harbor the Gold-Misty Medo, by Slewdledo, won a five-furlong maiden special weight in gate-to-wire fashion. Saul Rodriguez trains the winner.
Charles Essex-owned and -trained Rocket Birdie, a four-year-old daughter of Rockport Harbor-Oriental Bird, by Orientate, bred in Washington by Elwin and Patti Gibson, won a six-panel maiden special weight race at Portland Meadows by 3 1/4-lengths on November 24.
Portland Meadows carded three more of their "Lake" stakes on December 1. See "More WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News" above for reports of the first two stakes. The final race of the trio was the Detroit Lake Handicap, a six-furlong, $9,400 race for runners three and up. Delp, Barnes and Barnes' seven-year-old It Doesn't Add Up, a Kentucky-bred son of Speightstown, took his 14th win and increased his earnings to $120,513 with his three-quarter length tally over Breckenridge and Jarvis-Meehan's Lord, Rosberg, by Rosberg, with Sutherland's Every Nites a Blur, by Second in Command, running third. The latter two are both three-year-old British Columbia-bred geldings.
Four-year-old filly Little But Lucky, a daughter of Lucky Pulpit bred by Al and Saundra Kirkwood in California, took her fourth victory in nine starts after winning a 5 1/2 -furlong allowance at Turf Paradise by nearly six lengths on November 23.
Melmich, a son of Wilko out of the You and I mare Little Swoon, won the Grade 3 Valedictory Stakes by 10 1/2 lengths at Woodbine on November 29. The four-year-old gelding has a record of 9-5-1 from 20 outings and has earned $340,296. Melmich's second dam, Littlesuruki, won the 1996 Janet Wineberg Stakes and the Oregon-bred mare placed in five other stakes at Portland Meadows.
On November 22, Dr. Rodney Orr's Raised a Secret, a five-year-old California-bred son of Songandaprayer, finished second by a half-length to Solid Wager in the $100,250 Cary Grant Stakes at Del Mar, pushing his earnings to $419,610.
2014 Brazilian Horse of the Year and Triple Crown winner Bal a Bali (Brz), who traces in female line to Washington horse of the year Table Hands, ran second to Midnight Storm in the $350,000 Seabiscuit Handicap (G2) at Del Mar on November 27, improving his record to 13-1-1 in 17 starts. The five-year-old son of Put It Back out of Brazilian champion broodmare In My Side has earned $667,478.
Former Washington trainer Ed Moger had his first Grade 1 victory when Stormy Lucy - who had begun her race career at Emerald Downs for the late Frank Gaunt - won the Matriarch Stakes at Del Mar on November 9. The six-year-old daughter of Stormy Atlantic now races for Moger's brother, Washington resident Steve Moger. Stormy Lucy has won five stakes, placed in six others and earned $771,700.
Two-year-old Dreams to Reality - who was bred in Kentucky by Dr. Rodney Orr - was one of two juvenile daughters of champion two-year-old Lookin At Lucky to take maiden wins on December 3. Out of the stakes-placed Salt Lake mare Dream Sweeper. Dreams to Reality's tally came in a mile race at Aqueduct.
Three-year-old Washington-bred Quarter Horse gelding Heza Dasha Fire, a son of Walk Thru Fire raced by his breeder S-Quarter K LLC, continued to rack up the wins and dollars after taking the 440-yard, $600,000 Champion of Champions Stakes at Los Alamitos by 1 1/4 lengths on December 12. The richest Washington foaled runner on record has earned $1,689,388 with 11 wins in 12 starts.
David Thorner's homebred Princess Kennedy, the Emerald Downs champion two-year-old filly at the 2015 meet, ran second in the $50,000 Letellier Memorial Stakes run at Fair Grounds on December 19, 1 1/2 lengths behind Above Fashion, by Paddy O'Prado in the six furlong stakes. Now trained by Michael Stidham, Princess Kennedy, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Sun King-Pat Hand, by Cape Town, has earned $62,238 with a record of 2-2-0 from seven starts.
Above the Crowd and Horse Players Racing Club LLC's four-year-old filly Oh Baby Oh Baby 7 1/2-furlong $69,000 Lookout Stakes for Louisiana-bred runners by four lengths at Delta Downs on December 18. It was the eighth win for the daughter of Orientate who has earned $208,902. 2015 has been a breakout year for Scott Gruender's Renton-based HPRC and his various partners across the country.
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News from The Jockey Club
End-of-Year Deadline for Registration Approaching
The Jockey Club reminds owners of unregistered yearlings and two-year-olds that the requirements for registration must be completed by December 31, 2015, to avoid additional late registration fees.
The late registration fee increases from $550 to $800 after December 31 of the yearling year and from $800 to $2,025 after December 31 of the two-year-old year.
Interactive RegistrationTM (IR) is the most efficient means to complete the Application for Foal Registration and other registration requirements. IR enables customers to check the status of their applications and, through the Registration Center, view and resolve outstanding conditions of registration.
Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit VII
Scheduled for June 28, 2016
The Jockey Club and Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation today announced that the seventh Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit will be held Tuesday, June 28, in Lexington, Kentucky.
The summit, which brings together a cross-section of the breeding, racing and veterinary communities, again will be underwritten and coordinated by The Jockey Club and Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation and hosted by the Keeneland Association.
The first summit was held in October 2006. Subsequent editions were held in March 2008, June 2010, October 2012, July 2014, and July 2015. Summits will continue to be held annually.
"This year we plan to bring back the summit committee meetings the day after the summit as we have in the past with the first few editions," said Edward L. Bowen, president, Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation. "This will help keep ideas fresh and keep committee members focused on initiatives to improve the welfare and safety of our equine and human athletes."
The summit will be held in the Keeneland sales pavilion and it is open to the public; a live webcast will also be available. A formal agenda and a list of speakers will be announced at a later date.
Among the major accomplishments that have evolved from the previous six summits are the Equine Injury Database; the Jockey Injury Database; the Racing Surfaces Testing Laboratory, which provides science-based testing of racing surfaces to enhance safety for horse and rider; a uniform trainer test and study guide; the racing surfaces white paper and publication of educational bulletins for track maintenance; the publication of stallion durability statistics; the Hoof: Inside and Out DVD, available in English and Spanish; a model rule banning toe grabs greater than 2 mm and elimination of all traction devices on front shoes approved and passed in August 2008; and the movement by state racing commissions to create regulations that void the claim of horses suffering fatalities during a race.
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Richard "Rick" S. Pasko
Longtime Washington horseman Rick Pasko, of Black Diamond, passed away of heart attack in Auburn on November 18, 2015, at age 80. He was born on April 29, 1935, in Hamtramck, Michigan, and later graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in business and advertising.
In 1965 he married Sharon Johnson and the couple had two daughters and a son.
His creative abilities in the advertising field led him to Seattle where he joined an advertising agency. Rick always found ways to contribute to the community and he started the milk carton boat race on Green Lake which still exists today
Founder and operator of Meridian Valley Real Estate, Pasko named his farm Meridian Valley Farm.
A WTBOA member since 1979, Rick was also an active WHBPA board member for many years.
In 1978, Rick purchased a yearling filly by Captain Courageous, the first foal out of future Washington broodmare of the year Fool's Miss. That filly, Missa Bet, would win a stakes at Yakima Meadows and produce two-time stakes winner Timely Bet. Among Timely Bet's 13 winners was stakes winner Ippodamia - named after the Paskos vacationed in Greece. After being claimed, Ippodamia would produce Grade 1 winner Georgie Boy. Another of Timely Bet's daughters, Castle Bet, is the dam of stakes winner Castello d'Oro and Grade 3-placed Jack Hes Tops.
Castle Bet was also the dam of Rick's final winner, John Paul's Bet, who won his debut at Emerald Downs last September.
In 2015, the Paskos sold three yearling descendants of Missa Bet at sales in California and Washington.
. Rick and Sharon's horses won races at Longacres, Emerald Downs, Turf Paradise and Santa Anita.
He served as president of the Seattle Advertising Federation, was an executive board member of the Seattle Better Business Bureau and later served on the Multiple Listing Service Real Estate Board.
Rick and Sharon also enjoyed traveling and had a winter home in Tucson, Arizona.
He was a lifelong athlete and he enjoyed watching and coaching his five grandchildren in their sports and activities.
Rick was a member of Meridian Valley Country Club and St. George Episcopal Church in Maple Valley.
He will be remembered for his compassion and love for others and his dedicated efforts to help those suffering with Parkinson's disease. He was a godly man and wished for peace throughout the world.
In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the Michael J. Fox Foundation or the American Parkinson's Disease Association.
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