Washington’s champion filly of 2014 and 2015, Ethan’s Baby started her 2016 campaign by winning or placing in three allowance tests at Turf Paradise. She then returned to Emerald Downs where she reeled off three second place finishes, including narrow losses in the Hastings Stakes (nose behind Estellara) and Washington State Legislators Stakes (threequarters of a length behind B C Z Middleton). The five-race older filly and mare stakes division at Emerald Downs has provided five different winners this year. Ethan’s Baby, who was named to honor the close connection the Hansens’ young son Ethan shares with his favorite horse, is the first foal out of Hope and Vow, who was also bred by the Hansens. The couple own and operate the successful Scatter Creek Training Center in Tenino. They had purchased Hope and Vow’s dam, Shawn’s Hope, a daughter of Liberty Gold—Cozzene’s Angel, at the 2004 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale. Stakesplaced Cozzene’s Angel’s first foal, Toccet, had become a Grade 1-winning juvenile the year after the mare had been purchased by Terry and Mary Lou Griffin for $35,000 (bred to Aggressive Chief) at the 2000 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. The Griffins sold three foals out of her for a combined $136,000 and then sold Cozzene’s Angel, bred to Pulpit, for $1,350,000 at the 2005 Keeneland January sale. Since then, the once Washington-based mare has been bred to Giant’s Causeway, Sadler’s Wells, Fastnet Rock (Aus), Galileo (Ire) and Mastercraftsman (Ire), the sire of her yearling filly.
FIND JOY
KENT STAKES, Emerald Downs, June 26, $50,000g ($50,000), three-year-old fillies, 1 1/16 miles, 1:43.40, track fast.
Forty Niner, by Mr. Prospector Distorted Humor Danzig’s Beauty, by Danzig Drosselmeyer Moscow Ballet, by Nijinsky II Golden Ballet Golden Jewel Box, by Slew o’ Gold Halo, by Hail to Reason Southern Halo Northern Sea, by Northern Dancer Hurricane Hannah Pentelicus, by Fappiano How About Now Peaceful Intention, by Hold Your Peace RACE RECORD: 2 wins at 2 and 3, $73,335. Also: 3rd Anoakia S., Seattle S. SIRE: DROSSELMEYER (2007), by Distorted Humor. G1 SW, 5 wins, $3,728,170. Stands in Kentucky. 1st DAM HURRICANE HANNAH (2001), by Southern Halo. 3 wins at 2 and 3, $121,288. 5 other foals, 4 starters, 4 winners. 2nd DAM HOW ABOUT NOW (1994), by Pentelicus. 3 wins at 2 and 3, $166,376, Schuylerville S.-G2, 3rd Comely S. Half-sister to Jules Intention ($304, 872), March Twelfth ($180,043), Never Fail ($146,670). 13 other foals, 8 starters, 8 winners, including LOVELY LIL (5 wins, $299,890, Go for Wand H.-G2, etc.), LITTLE ROCKET (5 wins, $213,584, Susan B. Anthony S., etc.), SWEET SWEET (4 wins, $191,341, Bouwerie S. [R], etc.), War Paint (12 wins, $265,881, 2nd Wadsworth Memorial H., etc.).
From the first crop of classic winner Drosselmeyer, Find Joy was sold for $55,000 at the OBS April two-year-old sale. After she won her first start by 4 1/2 lengths – in a Pimlico maiden special weight race – she was consigned to the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale where David P. Taylor Jr. purchased her for $185,000. In her second start for Taylor, Find Joy ran third in the Anoakia Stakes at Santa Anita. Her first win for the Seattle resident came in the Kent Stakes. She is the sixth winner for Hurricane Hannah, who after winning a maiden special weight race at Saratoga at two, took allowance wins at each of New York’s two other major tracks. Find Joy’s second dam, Grade 2 winner How About Now, is a half-sister to the dam of successful Washington sire Abraaj.
GUINEVERE’S FINALE
FIND JOY, 120, Drosselmeyer—Hurricane Hannah, by Southern Halo (Ky) ............. David P. Taylor Jr. $27,500 Princess Kennedy, 119, Sun King—Pat Hand, by Copelan (Ky) .........................David A. Thorner $10,000 Brookys Star, 117, Giant’s Causeway—Freedom Star, by Street Cry (Ire) (Ky)................. Jethorse LLC $7,500 Margins: 1 1/4, 1, 2 1/2. Also started: My Heart Goes On 119 ($3,750), Profound Moment 119 ($1,250), Sunrise Glow 118, Roda Song 110. Trained by Frank Lucarelli. Bred by Eico Stable. Ridden by Isaias Enriquez.
BOEING STAKES, Emerald Downs, July 17, $50,000g ($50,000), three-year-old and up fillies and mares, mile, 1:36.06, track fast. GUINEVERE’S FINALE (2011), 119, Tale of the Cat—Guinevere, by Fit to Fight (Ky) .........................................Oak Crest Farm LLC $27,500
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Morning Coffee (2012), 119, Quiet American— Missbelle O’s Tale, by Tale of the Cat (Ky) ..................................Whieldon Thoroughbreds $10,000 Chronologic’sghost (2012), 117, Parading—Platinum Streak, by Fight Over (Ky)..... J C Racing Stable $7,500 Margins: 3/4, 3 3/4, 1/2. Also started: Curly Girly 119 ($3,750), Locket 120 ($1,250), Alli Leigh 119, Ethan’s Baby 119, B C Z Middleton 119, Estellara 123, Chocolatier 119, She’s Reddy 119, Peppy Miller 121. Trained by David Martinez. Bred by Oak Crest Farm LLC. Ridden by Javier Matias. Storm Bird, by Northern Dancer Storm Cat Terlingua, by Secretariat Tale of the Cat Mr. Prospector, by Raise a Native Yarn Narrate, by Honest Pleasure Chieftain, by Bold Ruler Fit to Fight Hasty Queen II, by One Count Guinevere Assagai, by Warfare Captive Queen Captive Audience, by Native Dancer RACE RECORD: 6 wins, 2 to 5, $116,656. SIRE: TALE OF THE CAT (1994), by Storm Cat. G2 SW, 5 wins, $360,900. Stands in Kentucky. 1st DAM GUINEVERE (1995), by Fit to Fight. 8 wins, 2 to 5, $248,510, Washington horse of the year, champion three-old, champion older filly or mare, Brown Bess H.-G3, Washington Oaks, etc. 4 other foals, all winners. 2nd DAM Captive Queen (1979), by Assagai. 3 wins at 2 and 3, $28,585, 2nd Mazarine S. Half-sister to BOLD CAPTIVE ($82,640, dam of SKYWALKER $2,226,750, Breeders’ Cup Classic-G1, Santa Anita Derby-G1, Longacres Mile-G2, etc.; ROYAL CAPTIVE. $225,575; PAC MANIA, $163,044, Malibu S.-G2, etc.; DANZANTE, $87,475; NIDD, $85,134, G3 SW in France), BOLD STORM ($60,951), Cajun Moccasin ($50,929). 8 other foals, 5 starters, 5 winners.
Guinevere’s Finale is the last runner out of 1998 Washington horse of the year Guinevere, who was also the final foal out of her dam. Both mares were bred and raced by Jack and Theresa Hodge’s Oak Crest Farm in Enumclaw. The Hodges also bred 1993 Washington horse of the year Peterhof’s Patea. Guinevere’s Finale is one of 75 black-type winners for Ashford Stud’s Tale of the Cat. The 22-year-old son of Strom Cat is the sire of three US champions: Gio Ponti, She’s a Tiger and Stopchargingmaria. Guinevere’s Finale won her first start, a maiden special weight race at Emerald Downs, during her two-year-old season. In her next outing she took a $65,000 claiming race at Santa Anita the following June. Each of her four other wins have come at Emerald. After being bumped at the start, Guinevere’s Finale hung out mid-pack for the first six furlongs before making her bid in the last eighth to win her first stakes race at odds of 23-to-one. “In this race, she surprised me,” said winning rider Javier Matias. “She ran really good for me this time, it was a tough race going against fillies that have run in California and everywhere else. “When you have a good day, you just say keep going, and everything has gone really well so far. The feeling is so great to win two stakes races in one day.” Matias was also aboard Karula in her win for the Hodges in the Angie C. Stakes.
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