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On Saturday, Oct. 5 and Saturday, Oct. 19, the Seabiscuit Heritage Foundation will host guided walking tours of Ridgewood Ranch in Willits…The Barretts Sales & Racing’s October Yearling Sale will be held at Fairplex in Pomona on Tuesday, Oct. 8, while nominations for the group’s March Sale of Selected Two-Year-Olds in Training close on Friday, Oct. 25. . .On Saturday, Oct. 12, the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation will host its annual “Day-AtThe-Races & Monte Carlo Night at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia. . .The closing date for the nomination of 2013 foals to Breeders’ Cup is Tuesday, Oct. 15. . .On Saturday, Oct. 19, the Thoroughbred Owners
of California (TOC) will hold its Northern California Annual Meeting at Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley, the same day that an Equine Herpesvirus-1 Workshop will be hosted by the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) and United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego…On Thursday, Oct. 24, the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) will hold its next monthly meeting at Santa Anita. . .Among last month’s theft of five trophies from the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York, was the 1903 Belmont Stakes Trophy won by Africander who was bred in California by James Ben Ali Haggin.
Gone, But Not Forgotten The dam of a Golden State champion and a stakes-winning California-bred both died in September. Little Hottie, the 15-year-old dam of 2011 La Jolla passed away away ininn Handicap (grade II) winner Burns, passed passed away passed SSS Sanger on Sept. 17. A winning daughter of Afternoon Deelites, she produced six foals in total, all by Unusual Heat, including the grade I-placed, six-time winner Brushburn. A few days earlier, Cal-bred Maui Mark was euthanized after fracturing a leg while training at Belmont Park in New York. A 2005 son of Harris Farms’ Unusual Heat and the Man From Eldorado mare Dalymount, the $435,155-earner was bred by Fast Lane ©Benoit Farms and won last year’s $100,000 M i Mark M k Mau Ma k California Cup Sprint Stakes.
Shirley McQueeney SSh r ey E een Moskow te McQueeney a member o the Ca orn a Thoroughbred Breeders Assoc at on (CTBA) rom 1998 to 2011 passed away a ter a ong ness at the age o 83 n Northern Ca orn a on Aug 25 ©K D The San Franc sco nat ve and Napa res dent was a eong an ma over and the breeder o Soc a Noe w nner o the Ca orn a Cup D sta Starter Hand cap n 1998 The w e o Dan e McQueeney or 57 years she s surv ved by her brother Haro d Moskow te s ster Jean Howe and her three ch dren ve grandch dren and our great grand ch dren
10 Years Ago Trapper, a three-year-old son of Iron Cat and Hold Your Peace’s five-time winner Ananda, scored his lone career stakes victory with a win in the $100,000 California Sprint Championship Handicap at Bay Meadows Racecourse on Oct. 4, 2003. Bred in California by Creston Farms, he raced through August of 2005, before retiring to stud in the Golden State with a record of 13-5-2-1 and $156,213 in earnings.
25 Years Ago On Oct. 9, 1988, the $21,340 Tulare Stakes at Fresno was won by the sophomore filly Image of Super who was posting a third and final lifetime stakes win for her breeders and owners Don and Gary Silvers. A daughter of Zanthe out of the multiple stakes-placed winner Super Sovereign, by Imperator, she retired after one more racing season with a bankroll of $74,010 and 15-6-2-3 record before becoming the 2001/2001 California Broodmare of the Year as the dam of the Golden State champion Super High and three other multiple stakes winners.
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50 Years Ago TT T winner of the $22,700 Tanforan Handicap at Tanforan on Oct. 26, 1963, was the California-bred gelding Milla’s Turk The who was by Turk’s Delight out of stakes winner Milla’s Abbey, a King’s Abbey (GB) full sister to the 1954 Tanforan Handicap winner Golden Abbey. Bred by the Estate of W. W. Naylor, the dual stakes-winning four-year-old would race 71 more times through 1969, prior to retiring with a record of 18 wins, 14 seconds, 15 thirds and $96,291 earned. 10 CAL FORN A THOROUGHBRED • OCTOBER 2013
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