Washington Thoroughbred Spring 2018

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MACH ONE RULES

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Spring 2018

Vol. 72 No. 1

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In This Issue Know Your Online WTBOA Resources ...........................................5 Get to Know the Face of Melodie Bultena, Pam Christopherson and Jim Engstrom

by Katie Peery..............................................................................8 2017 Washington Champions ....................................................10 Other 2017 Award Winners ........................................................16 2017 Champions Awards Dinner Pictorial ............................24, 29 Other Champion Nominees .........................................................28 Washington Racing Hall of Fame: Wesley Ward

by Emily Shields .........................................................................32 Northwest Hoof Prints: El Dorado Farms Open House .................36 Evaluating and Shoeing Foal Limb Deformities

by Jeff Cota ..............................................................................38 Washington-bred Foals of 2017 (Yearlings of 2018) ....................52 Northwest Race Series Eligible 2YOs of 2018 .............................53

STATISTICS Washington Champions (1983-2017)....30 Key Statistics in Washington..................42 Breeders’ Awards ..................................43 Owners’ Bonuses ..................................43 Top 50 Owners of Washington-breds in 2017 .............................................44 Top 50 Breeders of Washington-breds in 2017 .............................................45 Leading Washington-bred Money Winners of All Time ........................................46 History of WTBOA Sales........................48 Leading WTBOA Sales Earners of All Time ........................................49 Washington Sires of the Year 1986-2017 .......................................50

Washington Broodmares of the Year 1986-2017 .......................................50 Washington-bred Stakes Winners of 2017.............................................51 Races and Monies Won by Washington-breds .............................51

DEPARTMENTS Industry Snapshot ...................................6 Washington Foal Report ..........................9 News Items...........................................55 Business Cards ................................68-69 Calendar ...............................................70 Classified Ads .......................................70 Index to Advertisers ..............................70

ON THE COVER R. E. V. Racing’s 2017 Washington horse of the year Mach One Rules. The Frank Lucarelli trained son of Harbor the Gold—Felice the Cat, by Distinctive Cat, also earned honors as champion older horse and sprinter. The now five-year-old runner, who was previously named Washington’s champion two-year-old of 2015, was bred by Neal and Pam Christopherson’s Bar C Racing Stables Inc. Photo by Heather Sacha.

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Industry Snapshot 2018 Racing at Emerald Downs, Purses Boosted by Generous Donor

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n an unprecedented development, an a n o ny m o u s s p o n s o r h a s d o n a t e d $180,000 to be added to the 2018 stakes schedule at Emerald Downs Racetrack and Casino.

The donation will be used to fund a new six-figure stakes event for three-year-olds, and also to restore to $50,000 four stakes previously announced as $30,000 events for the 2018 season.

“This is truly astounding,” said Emerald Downs President Phil Ziegler. “This person wishes to remain anonymous and we certainly plan to honor that request.”

The $100,000 Getaway Stakes for three-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles will be run closing day, Sunday, September 23, while the first four stakes of the meeting – Seattle Stakes for three-year-old fillies, Auburn Stakes for three-year-old colts and geldings, Hastings Stakes for older fillies and mares and Governor’s Stakes for three-year-olds and up – have all been bumped back up to $50,000.

The revised schedule increases the stakes total to 29 and aggregate stakes purses to $1,630,000.

“An open stakes race for three-year-olds is perfect for our schedule,” Ziegler said.

“Except for the Washington Cup, we didn’t have a stakes for three-year-olds in August or September.”

Per the anonymous sponsor’s request, a portion of nomination, entry and starting fees for the Seattle, Auburn, Hastings and Governor’s stakes will be donated to four different Thoroughbred aftercare programs, and all of the entry and starting fees to the Getaway Stakes will be donated to the same charities: The Prodigious Fund, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farms and Thoroughbred Charities of America.

Emerald Downs Racetrack and Casino has announced a 67-day live racing season beginning Sunday, April 22, with first post at 2 p.m.

Emerald Downs and Hastings Racecourse Announce New “Northwest Triple” It was announced in February that Northwest three-year-olds will have their own triple crown this coming year.

Hastings Racecourse and Emerald Downs, which are separated by just 165 miles, will offer a $100,000 bonus for any horse that sweeps a new three-race series.

The “Northwest Triple” begins with the Muckleshoot Derby at Emerald Downs on

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Sunday, July 29, continues with the British Columbia Derby at Hastings on Saturday, September 8, and concludes with the debut of the Getaway Stakes at Emerald Downs on September 23. Additionally any horse with a top-three finish in all three races will receive a $10,000 bonus and any horse starting in all three races will receive a $1,000 bonus.

Hastings general manager Darren MacDonald said the Northwest Triple is a natural given the tracks’ proximity and race dates.

“We have some great racing in the Northwest and these bonuses should create a lot of excitement for owners, trainers and the fans,” MacDonald said.

Emerald Downs Vice President of Racing Jack Hodge believes the bonuses will help both tracks, “Our partnership with Hastings

grows each year and the horsemen have a chance now to run for some nice bonuses.”

Emerald and Hastings Also Team Up on Three Additional Bonuses* • $25,000 bonus for any horse sweeping the Longacres Mile on August 12 and BC Premiers on October 8.

• $25,000 bonus for sweeping the Washington Oaks on July 22 and British Columbia Oaks on September 8.

• $25,000 bonus for sweeping the Emerald Distaff on August 12 and Ballerina Stakes on October 8.

Hastings opens its 52-day season on Saturday, April 21, and Emerald Downs opens its 67-day meeting on Sunday, April 22. *Bonuses paid in Canadian dollars.

2018 EMERALD DOWNS STAKES SCHEDULE 29 Stakes • $1,630,000 DATE NAME CONDITION Sun. May 20 Seattle Stakes 3YO F Sun. May 27 Auburn Stakes 3YO C&G Mon. May 28 Hastings Stakes 3 & Up F&M Sun. June 3 Governor’s Stakes 3 & Up Sun. June 10 Kent Stakes 3YO F Sat. June 16 Washington State Legislators Stakes 3 & Up F&M Sun. June 17 Coca-Cola Stakes 3YO C&G Sun. June 24 Budweiser Stakes 3 & Up Sun. July 1 Irish Day Stakes 3YO F Sun. July 8 Seattle Slew Stakes 3YO C&G Sun. July 15 Mt. Rainier Stakes 3 & Up Sun. July 15 Boeing Stakes 3 & Up F&M Sun. July 15 Angie C. Stakes 2YO F Sun. July 15 King County Express 2YO C&G Sun. July 22 Washington Oaks 3YO F Sun. July 29 Muckleshoot Derby 3YO Sun. Aug. 12 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes 2YO F Sun. Aug. 12 WTBOA Lads Stakes 2YO C&G Sun. Aug. 12 Emerald Distaff 3 & Up F&M Sun. Aug. 12 Longacres Mile (G3) 3 & Up Sun. Aug. 26 Bank of America Challenge 3 & Up QH Sun. Sept. 2 WA Cup Juvenile Filly Stakes 2YO F WA Sun. Sept. 2 WA Cup Juvenile C&G Stakes 2YO C&G WA Sun. Sept. 9 WA Cup Sophomore Filly Stakes 3YO F WA Sun. Sept. 9 WA Cup Sophomore C&G Stakes 3YO C&G WA Sun. Sept. 16 WA Cup Filly & Mare Stakes 3 & Up F&M WA Sun. Sept. 16 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic 3 & Up WA Sun. Sept. 23 Gottstein Futurity 2YO Sun. Sept. 23 Getaway Stakes 3YO` *Plus $40,000 added for Northwest Race Series-eligible horses.

DIST. PURSE 6F $50,000 6F $50,000 6F $50,000 6F $50,000 6 1/2 F $50,000 6 1/2 F $50,000 6 1/2 F $50,000 6 1/2 F $50,000 1 1/16 M $50,000 1 1/16 M $50,000 1 1/16 M $50,000 1 1/16 M $50,000 5 1/2 F $50,000 5 1/2 F $50,000 1 1/8 M $50,000 1 1/8 M $50,000 6F $50,000 6F $50,000 1 1/8 M $50,000 1M $200,000 440 Y $30,000 6 1/2 F $50,000 6 1/2 F $50,000 1M $50,000 1M $50,000 1 1/16 M $50,000 1 1/16 M $50,000 1 1/16 M $50,000 * 1 1/16 M $100,000

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Get to Know the Faces of ...

by Katie Peery

WTBOA Board of Directors Melodie Bultena, Pam Christopherson and Jim Engstrom

Melodie Bultena

more time to do the fun things in life, not just the “have to’s.”

If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would it be?

Harry Truman, I think he would be very interesting to talk to.

What would you name the autobiography of your life?

“She’s at It Again.”

What did you do growing up that got you into trouble?

Birthplace: Glasgow, Montana Current residence: Kennewick Official title: Thoroughbred breeder and owner.

Pam Christopherson

Brief biography: (Ex: Growing up, education, what got you involved in the industry, goals): I have always had horses and I was raised on a farm in North Dakota. I competed in barrel racing and was the leader for Pony Club for 38 years. I managed the kitchen at Sun Downs in Kennewick where I met my husband Bill and that is where I got into horse racing.

What has been your most memorable experience since being a Thoroughbred owner?

Being partners with Pam and Neal Christopherson has been a wonderful experience. We have had so many fun horses, including champions Del Rio Harbor and Silver Patrona. I love to come up with off the wall names for our horses and one of my favorites was Chief Jafatica. His name stood for “Just another fine animal that I can’t afford.” The track announcer at Portland Meadows heard about the meaning of his name one day and announced it upon his win!

If you were granted three wishes what would they be?

I would wish for good health and happiness for my family and friends. Also

When I was little in North Dakota, we would get the (US) Cavalry studs in to breed to our broodmares and I was not allowed to be around them. One day when I was just three, I was found in a pen with one of these studs feeding him grain! I was paddled through my thick snowsuit and my pride was the most hurt!

What do you value most in life?

I value good health and the love of my family and friends.

What has been your most memorable experience since being a Thoroughbred owner?

I really enjoyed training.

When we got Harbor the Gold, that was one of my highlights. We had a friend that called us a dozen times from Overbrook Farm in Kentucky saying we just had to get this stallion and finally we gave in. He has brought success to us in racing and breeding as we watch his young stock top the sales and the racing charts. Harbor was the leading sire at Emerald Downs last year and it’s been so exciting for us.

If you were granted three wishes what would they be?

For my family to have good health and to race happy, healthy and nice horses.

Birthplace: Lebanon, Oregon Current residence: Hermiston, Oregon Official title: Breeding farm owner of Bar C Racing Stables Inc. Brief Biography: (Ex: Growing up, education, what got you involved in the industry, goals): I was raised in Sweet Home, Oregon, and have had horses since I was young. When I got married we started racing Quarter Horses and then Thoroughbreds. We raced all over the Northwest in Boise, Portland, Kennewick and Seattle. In 1981 Neal and I bought a 40acre ranch in Hermiston that became Bar C Racing Stables. For the last ten years we have been focusing on the Thoroughbred breeding industry and really love it.

If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would it be?

It would be hard to choose, probably some famous trainer. We had the opportunity to have dinner with the head veterinarian for the Darley Stud. He is also one of the head stewards in Ireland. It was very educational.

What would you name the autobiography of your life?

“The Ups and Downs of Horse Training and Breeding.”

What did you do growing up that got you into trouble?

No comment, ha ha!

What do you value most in life?

Family, friends and my horses.

Katie Peery is a lifelong horsewoman who grew up competing in the sport of eventing. She has always had a love for Thoroughbreds and racing and began working at the track in 2007. She works alongside her husband Kenny Peery, a lifelong Pacific Northwest horseman and trainer.

Katie spends a great deal of her time marketing and selling off-the-track Thoroughbreds (OTTBs) as they transitilon to new careers when they are ready to retire from racing. She has placed nearly 300 of these equine athletes across the country.

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Washington Thoroughbred

Jim Engstrom

Birthplace: Chicago, but grew up in San Diego Current residence: Lake Tapps O f fi c i a l t i t l e : R e g i o n a l d i r e c t o r of merchandising at Home Depot and Thoroughbred owner Brief Biography: (Ex: Growing up, education, what got you involved in the industry, goals): I grew up in Southern California and got my bachelor’s and graduate degrees from California State University. Del Mar’s “4 o’clock Fridays” brought us to the track. One guy had a family member who was a licensed owner. We got to the backstretch and Barry Abrams sold us the dream. When we moved

to Miami, Ralph Nicks and his wife got us a bit deeper; and upon moving to Washington we had a small piece of a horse before we had a home. We are the quintessential “ham and eggs” operation, living in the claiming world, looking for the budget buys at the sales, but that is the blue collar portion of the industry and I am happy to be there.

If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would it be?

Being a food nerd, hunter, history guy and lifelong Brazilian jujitsu practitioner, I would love to sit at a table with Anthony Bourdain, Theodore Roosevelt and Joe Rogan. That conversation would be nutty and the wine would probably be pretty decent.

What has been your most memorable experience since being a Thoroughbred owner?

Being new to the ownership game there have been some great moments. Riding along with Stryker Phd’s journey, thanks to his owners Jim and Mona Hour and trainers Sharon and Larry Ross; or our first win in our colors at Golden Gate Fields with Taelyns Prince. The top moment for us was our first win with our WTOBA Sale purchase, Seattle Smoke, and getting our colors to the winner’s circle at Emerald Downs for the first time.

What would you name the autobiography of your life?

“Get in, We’ve Got Stuff to Do” or “Do You Have an Alibi? Cool, Get on the Boat.”

I wish life these days was that exciting.

If you were granted three wishes what would they be?

I mean, come on, who doesn’t want to fly?

I guess the second would be for health for myself and my loved ones. The third is the tricky one . . . Do you go the altruistic route and eradicate disease, provide clean water to the world or eliminate homelessness, or do you go out guns a’ blazin’ and ask for three more wishes, a boat and 84 gazillion dollars?

Don’t judge me.

What did you do growing up that got you into trouble?

Pretty much everything. Being a latchkey kid in Southern California, sometimes I’d end up at Del Mar for opening day and sometimes I’d go surfing in Baja. It was a great place to be a kid. If my parents ask, I blame my elder siblings. They made me do it, Mom, I promise.

What do you value most in life?

The limited time I get to spend with my family and friends; trackside mornings watching the works; eating at Sally and Joe’s Quarter Chute Café; lunch out at the Ross farm and spending time with the retirees like Stryker Phd, Starbird Road and Norm’s Nephew. Those are my Zen times. I recognize how lucky I am to have become a part of this community . . . and come on, who doesn’t love when “the mountain is out?”

Washington-bred Foal Report WASHINGTON-BRED FOAL REPORT FORM

DANCE WITH EFFIE, by Chhaya Dance.

B. colt by Atta Boy Roy. 2/2. Owned by the Washington Broodmare Club. Mare owned by John Parker. Mare returned to Atta Boy Roy. Spring 2018

WASHINGTON THOROUGHBRED will continue to carry foal reports in 2018 as in the past. Please fill in the form below and mail it to the WTBOA offices, 3220 Ron Crockett Dr., Auburn, WA 98001, fax to (253) 288-7890 or e-mail complete information to sue@washingtonthoroughbred.com.

• Foal reports must be received by the 10th of the month prior to month of publication.

• If a picture is sent, it may be printed, but will not be returned unless a self-addressed stamped envelope is included.

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Name of Mare: ________________________________________________________ Her Sire: _____________________________________________________________ Color of Foal: _________________________________________________________ Sex of Foal: ___________________________________________________________ Sire of Foal:___________________________________________________________ Foaling Date: __________________________________________________________ Owner of Mare: ________________________________________________________ Mare Returned To: _____________________________________________________ 9

MACH ONE RULES Xpressbet Horse of the Year

Palmer Photography

Sport Horse Medicine Champion Older Horse Duane Weber Insurance Champion Sprinter R. E. V. Racing, owner Bar C Racing Stables Inc., breeder Frank Lucarelli, trainer Year 2015 2016 2017 Totals

Age 2 3 4

RACE RECORD Starts 1sts 2nds 4 4 0 7 0 4 8 3 3 19 7 7

3rds 0 1 1 2

Earnings $93,826 47,305 145,595 $286,726

2017 1st Budweiser S. (EmD) ($50,000) 1st Mt. Rainier S. (EmD) ($50,000g) 1st Muckleshoot Tribal Classic S.-R (EmD) ($50,000g) 2nd Longacres Mile H.-G3 (EmD) ($200,000g) 2nd Governor’s H. (EmD) ($50,000g) 2nd Oakland S. (GG) ($50,000) 2016 2nd Auburn H. (EmD) ($50,000) 2nd Coca-Cola S. (EmD) $50,000) 2nd Seattle Slew S. (EmD) ($50,000) 2nd WA Cup Three-year-old S.-R (EmD) ($50,000g) 2015 Washington Champion Two-year-old Washington Champion Two-year-old Colt or Gelding 1st WTBOA Lads S. (EmD) ($50,000) 1st Captain Condo S. presented by the Daily Racing Form-R (EmD) ($50,000g) 1st NWSS Cahill Road S.-R (EmD) ($50,000)

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fter a disappointing, though not unproductive, season at three, Mach One Rules returned to Emerald Downs, where by the end of the 2017 meeting, he was crowned horse of the meet.

A $40,000 2014 WTBOA summer sale yearling, Mach One Rule joins Trackattacker and multiple state champion (and now successful sire) Atta Boy Roy as the third state-bred champion raced by Roy and Ellie Schaefer’s R. E. V. Racing.

Conditioned by all-time Emerald Downs leading money-earning trainer Frank Lucarelli, Mach One Rules started his season in April with a third place finish in a $50,0000 optional claiming race. Mach One Rules next finished second, by a neck to his 2016 nemesis Barkley in the Governor’s Stakes.

The Budweiser Stakes yielded a different result, as Mach One Rules rallied to take the 6 1/2-furlong race by three-quarters of a length over Prime Engine. Barkley ran fourth, Boosted by the win, Mach One Rules came back four weeks later to annex the Mt. Rainier Stakes by two lengths.

The four-year-old son of Harbor the Gold was next sent off as the local favorite in the 82nd running of the Longacres Mile Handicap-G3, where he finished second to Gold Rush Dancer in the marquee event “with good energy.”

In his next start, Mach One Rules won the restricted Muckleshoot Classic Stakes and then was sent to California. While he didn’t fare very well in a $75,000 stakes over the Santa Anita turf course in October, Mach One Rules finished the year with a strong second – beaten only a nose by Right Hand Man – in the November Oakland Stakes run at Golden Gate Fields. His current SSI is a credible 3.43.

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Mr. Prospector, by Raise a Native Seeking the Gold Con Game, by Buckpasser Harbor the Gold Vice Regent, by Northern Dancer Harbor Springs Tinnitus, by Restless Wind Storm Cat, by Storm Bird Distinctive Cat Distinctive Sis, by Distinctive Pro Felice the Cat Kennedy Road, by Victoria Park Kering One Amiga La G., by Delaware Chief 1st Dam FELICE THE CAT, by Distinctive Cat. 3 wins at 3 and 4, $20,522. Dam of 3 other foals, 2 starters, 1 winner — Ninelives (c. by Sixthirteen). Winner at 2 in 2 starts, $34,158.

Moonee Beach. (g. by Harbor the Gold). Placed at 2, $5,265.

2nd Dam KERING ONE, by Kennedy Road. Unplaced. 6 other foals, 5 starters, 4 winners, including— SHANGHAI JOE (g. by Bartock [Ire]). Winner at 2 and 4, $59,993, Paul Cacci Eel Starter Sprint S. Byrmes. 2 wins at 5, $20,975.

Alternative. Winner at 4, $15,299.

3rd Dam AMIGA LA G., by Delaware Chief. 4 wins, 3 to 5, $80,175, Yosemite S. Half-sister to BOLD WINDY ($309,475, A Gleam H.-G2, etc.). 11 other foals, 8 starters, 6 winners— KINGDOM FOUND. 11 wins, 2 to 7, $810,863, San Pasqual H.-G2, San Carlos H.-G2, San Diego H.-G3, Ack Ack H., etc.

Admiral Minnie. 2 wins at 3, $84,710. Dam of 7 winners, inc.— ADMINNIESTRATOR. 8 wins, 3 to 6, $762,061, Barretts/CTBA Turf S-R, 2nd Quicken Tree S.-R,, 3rd San Luis Rey H.-G2, John C. Mabee California Cup Mile H.-R. ALMOST GOLDEN. 25 wins, 2 to 10, $427,270, Au Revoir H.twice, Inaugural H., “Cub” Klahr H., etc.

Starship Smokester. 3 wins at 3, $72,790. Dam of GREEN GRATTO (9 wins, 4 to 7, 2017, $1,136,372, Carter H.-G1, Toboggan S.-G3, Fall Highweight H.-G3, etc.).

Minnieprize. 6 wins, 3 to 6, $101,804. Dam of Al Kaateb. (Winner at 3 in KSA, 2nd Minister of Defense and Aviation Cup-G3).

Desert Violet. Unraced. Dam of Four Cards Too. (18 wins, 2 to 7, $206,005, 3rd Beau Brummel S. Granddam of Hawkers Gate ($63,007).

Nemisis. 4 wins at 3 and 4, $62,872. Dam of 6 winners, inc.— ROYAL NEMESIS. 18 wins, 3 to 11, $285,392, Babst/Palacios Memorial H.-R, 2nd Babst/Palacios Memorial H.-R, etc.

LESLEY BE JUDGED. 8 wins, 2 to 6, $266,836, Useeit S.-R, Muscoogee (Creek) Nation S.-R, etc.

Sister Baby. Unraced. Dam of 4 winners, including— HAMMERS TERROR. 10 wins, 2 to 7, $522,372, Mystic Lake Derby, Charlie Barley S., Brooks Fields S., 2nd Raymond Earl S., Miesque’s Approval S., 3rd Coolmore Lexington S.-G3, etc.

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CITIZEN KITTY Castlegate Farm Champion Older Filly or Mare Palmer Photography

Highlander Racing Stables LLC, owner Dunn Bar Ranch LLC, breeder Jeffrey Metz, trainer Gone West Proud Citizen

Year 2014 2015 2016 2017 Totals

Age 2 3 4 5

RACE RECORD Starts 1sts 2nds 1 0 0 12 2 1 5 2 0 8 3 4 26 7 5

3rds 1 2 2 0 5

Earnings $1,176 47,131 30,496 120,418 $199,221

2017 1st Emerald Distaff H. (EmD) ($65,000) 1st Boeing S. (EmD) ($50,000g) 1st Hasting S. (EmD) ($50,000g) 2nd Washington Legislators S. (EmD) ($50,000g) 2nd WA Cup Filly and Mare S.-R (EmD) ($50,000g) 2016 3rd Hastings S. (EmD) ($50,000)

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itizen Kitty is the second state champion produced out of Charlie Dunn’s homebred 2007 Washington champion juvenile filly and 2016 state broodmare of the year No Constraints. Not a bad record from the mare’s first three foals.

Placed in her only start at two, Citizen Kitty has scored five of her six victory laps at Emerald Downs. Her lone departure came in an allowance/optional claiming $25,000 race (N) at Fresno in October of her three-year-old season.

In her first two stakes attempts, also at three, she ran fourth in both the Irish Day Handicap and Comcast SportsNet Stakes at Emerald.

At four she added her first black-type, a third in the Auburn track’s Hastings Stakes.

Her championship season began at Turf Paradise, where the Jeff Metz trainee ran second in a 5 1/2-furlong allowance after a nearly eight-month layoff. Back at Emerald Downs, she next ran second to her champion half-sister Invested Prospect in an allowance/optional claiming test.

With Invested Prospect sent south in search of sprint stakes, Citizen Kitty was left at Emerald to uphold the family honor – and that’s just what she did. In her next five outings at the Auburn oval – all in stakes races – she posted a 3-2-0 record.

Citizen Kitty first redeemed herself in the June Hastings Stakes with a three-quarter-length score over B C Z Middleton, giving trainer Metz a one-two finish in the six-panel sprint.

A month later, Citizen Kitty finished second in the half-furlong longer Washington State Legislators Stakes to Profound Moment.

The Highlander Racing LLC of Bruce and Cass Maller – who had also raced 2013 Washington horse of the year E Z Kitty – next received top honors with their current champion in the nine-furlong Emerald Distaff, where she drew clear by 1 1/2 lengths and defeated nine other older fillies and mares in the $65,0000 test.

Citizen Kitty finished the season with a disappointing seventh and last in the Grade 3 Ballerina Stakes at Hastings Racecourse in October.

The $41,000 WTBOA Sales graduate has earned nearly five times her purchase price and has a 2.12 SSI. Spring 2018

Mr. Prospector, by Raise a Native Secrettame, by Secretariat

Green Forest, by Shecky Greene Drums of Freedom Danseuse Etolie, by Buckpasser Danzig, by Northern Dancer Katowice Lillian Russell, by Prince John No Constraints Al Mamoon, by Believe It Nightatmisskittys Skysweeper, by Ack Ack 1st Dam NO CONSTRAINTS, by Katowice. 3 wins at 2, $65,775, Washington champion two-year-old filly, Diane Kem S.-R, Northwest Stallion Knights Choice S.-R, 2nd US Bank S. Washington broodmare of the year 2016. Dam of 3 other foals, 2 starters, 1 winner— INVESTED PROSPECT (f. by Abraaj). 7 wins in 11 starts, 2 to 4, 2017, $122,425, Washington champion 3-year-old, Seattle S., Northwest Farms S.-R. I’m an Eight (g. by Haynesfield). Placed at 2, 2017, $8,785.

2nd Dam NIGHTATMISSKITTYS, by Al Mamoon. Unraced. Washington broodmare of the year 2007. 11 other foals, 9 starters, 9 winners, inc.— SUNDANCE CIRCLE (g. by Katowice.). 3 wins in 6 starts at 2, $50,943, Washington champion 2-year-old, Emerald Express S., NWRS Stallion Strong Ruler S.-R, 2nd WTBA Lads S. DANDY DORA (f. by Katowice). 5 wins in 9 starts at 2 and 3, $127,910, Bird of Pay S., Freedom of the City S., Chariot Chaser H., 2nd Mount Royal H., Emerald Downs S. Flying Squirrel (f. by Orientate). 6 wins at 4 and 5, $11,655, 3rd Ben Woodward Memorial S. Romanzo. 4 wins, 3 to 5, $114,860.

Sullivanitis. 7 wins, 3 to 6, $85,823.

Strawberriesinjune. 7 wins at 3 and 4, $42,474.

Buzznalawng. Winner at 2, $18,190.

3rd Dam SKYSWEEPER, by Ack Ack. Half-sister to PRIMARILY (Canadian broodmare of the year 2000, dam of POETICALLY, Canadian champion 2-year-old filly; PRIMALY, Canadian champion 2-year-old filly; CITRONNADE, G1; WHISKEY WISDOM, G2), BY AND LARGE, BUDE (dam of BODY CHECK, BODMIN MOOR). 10 other foals, 10 starters, 8 winners, inc.— FIRESWEEPER. 13 wins, 2 to 4, $363,394, Washington champion 2- and 3-year-old filly, Longacres Lassie S., Sacajawea H., Luella G. H., Autumn H., Mercer Girls H., Ingénue H., Hazel K. H., Green River Valley S., Mt. Wilson S.-R, etc. Dam of 8 winners, including June Jones ($37,939, 2nd Emerald Lassie S., Yakima Oaks, etc.; producer), Twenty Questions ($26,655, 2nd WTBA Lassies S., etc. producer), Jerre Jo Glanville ($17,841, 2nd Mercer Girls H.; dam of PARKVIEW LOVE, Always Fruitful), Newyearsresoltion (4 wins, $104,305; dam of ROCK ME BABY, granddam of No Distinction).

SERENITY ROAD . 6 wins at 3 and 5, $127,760, Washington champion sprinter, Hopeful H., Curragh Stock Farm H.-R, 2nd Ormondale H., Warren G. Magnuson H., etc.

Sky Verdict. 14 wins, 2 to 7, $138,655, WTBA Sales S.-R.

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RISQUE’S LEGACY

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Blue Ribbon Farm Champion Three-year-old The Levine Law Firm PLLC Champion Three-year-old Filly Karl C. Krieg, owner and breeder Tom Wenzel, trainer Tribunal Year 2016 2017 Totals

Age 2 3

RACE RECORD Starts 1sts 2nds 2 2 0 7 1 1 9 3 1

3rds 0 0 0

Earnings $35,685 40,175 $75,860

2017 1st Kent S. (EmD) ($50,000g) 2nd Seattle S. (EmD) ($50,000) 2016 Washington Champion Two-year-old Filly 1st WA Cup 2YO Filly S. presented by Comcast SportsNetR. (EmD) ($50,000g)

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arl Krieg’s Risque’s Legacy continued the family tradition by earning her second state championship. Her “aunt” Lady Rosberg had started the ball rolling when she took the first of her three titles in 2014.

Unfortunately, Risque’s Legacy is the only offspring her dam produced before her early demise. Lady Rosberg’s first foal just turned a year (a colt by Krieg’s champion Makors Finale – who is from another multiple champion family nurtured by the Oak Harbor horseman).

After taking her two juvenile races by a combined 12 lengths – which included a three-length tally in the WA Cup Two Year Old Filly Stakes – Risque’s Legacy began her 2017 campaign with a second place finish to Alliford Bay in the Seattle Stakes in May. Three weeks later, in what would be her champion defining race, the Tom Wenzel-trained filly won the Kent Stakes by a length over Retreat Yourself. Though she floundered for the rest of her season at Emerald, and later at Turf Paradise while under Valorie Lund’s care, her early accomplishments in open stakes gave her the nod for the title.

Risque’s Legacy was the first stakes winner for multiple Washington champion and Grade 2 sprinter Atta Boy Roy, Washington’s leading freshman sire in 2016 and leading juvenile sire in 2017. The son of Tribunal is also the sire of Emerald Downs stakes-placed fillies Targa and San Juan Star from his first crop and his second crop has so far yielded impressive Canterbury Park stakes winner Mr. Jagermeister – and the Minnesota-bred is currently his leading earner with a $103,00 total – and twice 2017 stakes-placed filly Faith Flys Again. The up and coming sire also ranked second to seven-time leading Washington sire Parker’s Storm Cat on the 2017 Washington general sire listing.

While Risque’s Legacy’s third and fourth dams may prove a little week on black-type, her fifth dam, the 1971 *Malicious mare Dark Roots, was a half-sister to 1968 Belmont Stakes winner and champion three-year-old colt Stage Door Johnny, who would turn out to be an influence for stamina as a sire.

Their dam, Peroxide Blonde, was sired by 1958 European Horse of the Year *Ballymoss, and her dam *Folie Douce was a daughter of Grand Steeplechase du Printemps winner Caldarium. *Folie Douce was quite a prominent broodmare, producing what today would be

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Atta Boy Roy Irish Toast Mingun Risque Humor

Deputy Minister, by Vice Regent Six Crowns, by Secretariat Synastry, by Seattle Slew Bix’s Bet, by Just the Time A. P. Indy, by Seattle Slew Miesque, by Nureyev

Distorted Humor, by Forty Niner Enter Laughing She’s So Free, by Solford

1st Dam RISQUE HUMOR, by Mingun. Winner in 2 starts at 3, $12,780. This is her only foal.

2nd Dam ENTER LAUGHING, by Distorted Humor. Winner at 3, $20,760. 3 other foals, all winners— LADY ROSBERG (f. by Rosberg). 8 win, 3 to 5 $183,997, Washington champion older filly or mare, champion turf horse– twice, Emerald Distaff H., Boeing H., Sun City H., Mesas H., Queen of the Green S., 2nd Glendale H., 3rd Ballerina H.-G3 (Can), etc.

Gatling Gun. 5 wins 3 to 7, $60,552.

Ros’s Girl. 4 wins in 8 starts at 3 and 4, $43,041.

3rd Dam SHE’S SO FREE, by Solford. Unplaced in 2 starts. 9 other foals, 8 starters, 4 winners— Amy Leighn. 2 wins at 3, $37,424, 2nd Ann Arbor S.-R, 3rd Regret S.-R. Producer.

Ryld. 3 wins at 2 and 3, $59,540.

Isn’t Life Grand. 4 wins at 5 and 8, $29,120.

Jaswinder. 3 wins at 3 and 5, $11,678.

4th Dam Asocial, by Ward McAllister. Winner at 3 and 4, $22,952, 2nd My Fair Lady S. Sent to Philippines in 1993. 7 other known foals, 4 starters, 3 winners, inc.— PROTOLOGIST. 4 wins at 2 and 3, $35,703, Stroh’s All West Futurity-R, 2nd Yellowstone Futurity S. Hamley. 5 wins, 3 to 5, $25,576.

group/graded winners of the highest order: *Mother Goose, who won the Princess Royal Stakes and also ran second in the 1958 English Oaks to Bella Paola; *Mi Carina, winner of the Prix de Royaumont and Prix Vermeille in France; and Sweet Folly, who annexed both the Gazelle and Ladies handicaps in New York.

Washington Thoroughbred

PULPITS POWER Clay Ward Agency LLC Champion Three-year-old Colt or Gelding Heather Sacha Photo

Below the Rim Stable LLC and Woodway Stable, owners Mr. and Mrs. Elwin F. Gibson, breeders Blaine Wright, trainier Pulpit Year 2016 2017 Totals

Age 2 3

RACE RECORD Starts 1sts 2nds 1 0 0 9 2 3 10 2 3

War Power 3rds 1 2 3

Earnings $1,200 44,457 $45,657

2017 1st WA Cup Sophomore S.-R (EmD) ($50,000g)

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ulpits Power placed in his only race at two, beaten one length in a maiden $8,000 claiming race in early September. Returned to the Emerald races the following April, he reeled off two consecutive seconds at the same level before winning a maiden $15,000 claimer by five lengths in early June for then owner Jack Stecker and owner/trainer Alan Bozell. Next came a third place finish at the $20,000 level, followed by a fifth in an allowance/$25,000 optional claiming race. In late July, the dark bay gelding ran second, beaten three-quarters of a length by Maurice Code, in a $15,000 level race. Racing at the same level on August 13, trainer Blaine Wright dropped a claim for the runner for Kevin Haynes’ Below the Rim Stable LLC and Paul Barbano’s Woodway Stable.

A field of seven started in the WA Cup Sophomore Stakes on August 27, and Pulpits Power amply took care of his cost to claim with his 1 1/2-length score in the mile race. In his final start of the meet and year, Pulpits Power finished fourth in an allowance/$40,000 optional claimer.

Pulpits Power is from the first crop of War Power, a threetime winner at Deauville in France and half-brother to European highweight Declaration of War, who sired four group/graded runners in his first crop last year, including top French colt Olmedo. He is also a half-sibling to two-time Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed War Correspondent, stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Vertiformer, and French stakes-placed War Pact.

War Power’s second dam produced Belmont Stakes (G1) winner and top flight first and second year sire Union Rags, the sire of twotime 2017 Grade 1 winner Paradise Woods.

Pulpits Power was bred by Elwin and Patti Gibson, who stand his sire at their Thorp-based Gibson Thoroughbred Farm. They also bred his unraced dam Parker’s Jewel, who produced another colt by War Power, All Powered Up, in 2015; a filly by Linchpin, named Linchpins Jewel, in 2016; and a colt by that same sire in 2017.

Stark Winter, the fourth dam of Pulpits Power, was a decent racemare, taking the restricted First Lady Handicap at Beulah Park and earning $61,180 in the mid-1970s, but it was in the breeding shed where she excelled. The daughter of Graustark produced nine winners, led by multiple Grade 1 grass winner Bien Bien ($2.3-million), twotime Grade 3 winner Dr. Schwartzman and $100,000-plus stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Fantasy Lover. Another of her daughters produced Donn Handicap (G1) winner and good sire Spring At Last.

The most recent runner from this female line to add a Grade 1 tally is Oh Susanna (Aus), a daughter of Street Cry (Ire) out of Grade 2 winner Sharp Susan, who took the Sun Met Celebrated with G. H. Mumm Stakes at Kenilworth in South Africa in January.

Spring 2018

Tempo West

A.P. Indy, by Seattle Slew Preach, by Mr. Prospector Rahy, by Blushing Groom (Fr)

Tempo, by Gone West Storm Cat, by Storm Bird Parker’s Storm Cat Macoumba, by Mr. Prospector Parker’s Jewel Pentelicus, by Fappiano Winter Jewel Winter Crown, by Cox’s Ridge 1st Dam PARKER’S JEWEL, by Parker’s Storm Cat. Unraced. Dam of 1 other foal of racing age.

2nd Dam Winter Jewel, by Pentelicus. Winner at 3, $59,064, 3rd Joseph A. Gimma S. 7 other foals, 7 starters, 5 winners— Polish Jewel (g. by Polish Pro). 11 wins, 2 to 7, $271,599, 3rd Great White Way S.-R. Foralltheglory. 4 wins, 3 to 5, $120,224.

Kid Knockout. 5 wins, 2 to 5, $55,871.

Medway. Winner at 4, 6 and 7, $55,037.

Favorite Jewel. Winner at 2, $11,050. Dam of— Desert Mystery (g. by Desert God). 9 wins, $248,939, 2nd New Merico Breeders’ Derby-R, etc.

Colors of Pompeii (f. by Trickey Creek). 4 wins, $122,875, 2nd Rio Grande Senorita Futurity-R. Dan’s Desert Jewel (c. by Desert God). 3 wins, $490,478, 2nd Commander and Chief Claiming S.-R. 3rd Dam WINTER CROWN, by Cox’s Ridge. 2 wins at 3, $78,930. 8 other foals, 5 starters, 3 winners— Polish Crown. Winner at 3, $51,300.

Tardy. Winner at 3, $52,140.

Jimmy’s Palace. Winner at 3 and 4, $20,188.

4th Dam STARK WINTER, by Graustark. 5 wins, 3 to 5, $61,180, First Lady H.-R, 3rd All-American H.-R. Half-sister to SILVER IN FLIGHT ($147,831), Saltwell. All a Dream. 8 other winners, inc.— BIEN BIEN. 9 wins, $2,331,875, Hollywood Turf Club S.-G1, Hollywood Turf H.-G1, San Luis Rey S.-G1, Swaps S.-G2, etc. Sire.

DR. SCHWATRZMAN. 9 wins, $380,362, Long Branch S,-G3-ecr, Royal Palm H.-G3, City of Miami S., etc. Sire.

FANTASY LOVER. 5 wins, $106,070, Wishing Well S., 2nd Mint Julep S., 3rd Falls City H.-G3, etc.

Winter’s Gone. Dam of SPRING AT LAST ($1,139,150, Donn H.-G1, etc.; sire), SHARP LISA ($658,100, Law Virgenes S.-G1, etc.), SHARP SUSAN ($478,326, Lake Placid S.-G2, etc.; dam of OH SUSANNA [Aus], in South Africa, to 2018.

Paddock S.-G1, Sun Met S.-G1, etc.; Indiano Jones, $145,583, 3rd Summer S.-G2, etc.).

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ELLIOTT BAY

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Bar C Racing Stables Champion Two-year-old Freight NW Champion Two-year-old Colt or Gelding

Year 2017

Age 2

RACE RECORD Starts 1sts 2nds 5 2 2

Rising Star Stable II, owner Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Pabst, breeders Howard Belvoir, trainer 3rds 0

Earnings $90,697

2017 1st Gottstein Futurity (EmD) ($65,000g) 1st WTBOA Lads S. (EmD) ($50,000) 2nd WA Cup Juvenile Colts and Geldings S.-R (EmD) ($50,000g)

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lliott Bay, a $14,500 purchase by trainer Howard Belvoir at the 2016 WTBOA Sale, is looking like quite the bargain. After finishing second in his June debut in a 4 1/2-furlong Emerald Downs maiden special weight race, the well-named runner served up the only blimp in his so far five race career when – after being bumped at the break – he finished fifth, at nearly 17-to-one, to winner and fellow longshot He’s Not Grey in the 5 1/2-furlong Emerald Express Stakes in July.

Elliott Bay made up for it in his next outing when he broke his maiden in the six-furlong WTBOA Lads Stakes in early August, defeating his paternal half-brother Sippin Fire by three-quarters of a length.

The two Harbor the Gold sons traded places in the WA Cup Juvenile Colts and Geldings Stakes, as Sippin Fire won the six-panel with Elliott Bay running second.

After Sippin Fire was waylaid due to injury, Elliott Bay went off as the second betting choice, narrowly behind unbeaten My Heart Awakens, among the field of eight contesting the Gottstein Futurity. Ridden by Jennifer Whitaker, who had been aboard the Rising Star Stable II’s colorbearer in each of his races, Elliott Bay pressed the early pace before opening up to take the 1 1/16-mile race by 1 1/2 lengths over Trump Itz and by doing so secured himself the title of champion juvenile male runner on the final day of the meet. Elliott Bay earned $52,250 of the $90,000 purse for his win in 1:48.03.

Elliott Bay is the seventh state champion bred or co-bred by Washington Racing Hall of Fame breeders Rick and Debbie Pabst.

Melba Jewel, the stakes-winning dam of Elliott Bay, had been acquired by the Pabsts from Chris and Diane Randall shortly after the $123,970 earner and five-race winner had been retired from the track. All seven of the mare’s foals were bred and raised at the Pabsts’ Buckley-based Blue Ribbon Farm. Melba Jewel’s most recent foal is a two-year-old filly by Blue Ribbon stallion Nationhood named Billyinthefridge.

Melba Jewel is one of four stakes winners and 11 named foals of racing age produced out of the stakes-winning Ohio-bred mare Chasseur Dame, a 1992 daughter of French Legionaire who won nine races and earned $110,406 while racing exclusively in her home state.

All but her first foal, the winning Lit de Justice gelding Lethal Justice, were bred by retired Montana State Senator and horseman

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Mr. Prospector, by Raise a Native Seeking the Gold Con Game, by Buckpasser Harbor the Gold Vice Regent, by Northern Dancer Harbor Springs Tinnitus, by Restless Wind Fappiano, by Mr. Prospector Cahill Road Gana Facil, by *Le Fabuleux Melba Jewel French Legionaire, by Grey Legion Chasseur Dame Raise a Stakes, by Raise a Cup 1st Dam MELBA JEWEL, by Cahill Road. 5 wins, 2 to 6, $123,970, Angie C. S., 2nd US Bank S., Diane Kem S.-R, 3rd Betsy Ross H., Kathryn’s Doll S. Dam of 4 other named foals, 4 starters, 1 winner— Pyscho Sister (f. by Freud). 3 wins at 3 and 5, 2018, $81,120.

2nd Dam CHASSEUR DAME, by French Legionaire. 9 wins, 2 to 5, $110,405, Royal North S.-R, 2nd Buckeye Belle S.-R, Glacial Princess S.-R, 3rd Tougaloo S.-R. Spangover S.-R. 10 other named foals, 9 starters, 9 winners, including— MARVA JEAN (f.. by West by West). 7 wins at 3 and 5, $144,520, Washington champion older filly or mare, Washington State Legislators H. Hasting Park H., Betsy Ross Overnight H., 2nd Pierce County S., etc. Producer.

SAX NOTES (g. by Helmsman). 22 wins, $172,108, Thoroughbred Claiming S., 2nd Answer Do S., etc.

SALTY LE MOUSSE (g. by Salt Lake). 16 wins, 3 to 10, 2017, $74,432, Norm Goeringer Memorial S., Claiming Series Leg 2 S.-R, Claiming Series Leg 1 S.-R, 2nd Bill Earll Memorial S., etc.

Zagreus (g. by Yonaguska). 6 wins, 2 to 6, $92,518, 2nd Premio Esmeralda S. Frank N Lloyd (g. by Swiss Yodeler). Winner at 3 and 4, $15,659, 3rd Garden City Futurity.

3rd Dam RAISE A STAKES, by Raise a Cup. Winner at 3. 3 other foals, 3 starters, 2 winners, including— ZIGGY ZAR (5 wins, 2 to 4, $45,843, Rollin On Over S.-R, 2nd Howard B. Noonan S.-R.

Dale Mahlum. In addition to Melba Jewel, Chasseur Dame produced 2005 Washington older filly or mare Marva Jean ($144,520), 13-race winner and $172,108 stakes winner Sax Notes, 16-race winner and three-time minor stakes winner Salty le Mousse ($74,432) and two other stakes-placed geldings. Her 2015 filly, Hold That Smile, by Smiling Tiger, won a $50,000 maiden claiming race last summer at Del Mar and has earned nearly $50,000. Chasseur Dame produced a full sister to that winner in 2016 who has been named Montana Sunset.

Washington Thoroughbred

BELLA MIA Freight NW Champion Two-year-old Filly Palmer Photography

John and Janene Maryanski, owners Mr. and Mrs. William T. Griffin, breeders Blaine Wright, trainer

Year 2017

Age 2

RACE RECORD Starts 1sts 2nds 5 4 0

3rds 0

Earnings $91,523

2017 1st Angie C. S. (EmD) ($50,000g) 1st Barbara Shinpoch S. (EmD) ($50,000) 1st WA Cup Juvenile Filly S.-R (EmD) ($50,000g)

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fter using her first start on June 11, in a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Emerald Downs, as a learning experience, John and Janene Maryanski’s Bella Mia remained unbeaten the rest of the season.

The Blaine Wright-trained miss came back 20 days later to score an impressive gate-to-wire win a five-panel maiden allowance, drawing clear by 5 1/4 lengths.

The first juvenile filly stakes of the Emerald meet, the 5 1/2-furlong Angie C. Stakes, attracted a field of nine. Bella Mia broke on top and was never headed, taking the race by 2 1/4 lengths.

Three weeks later came another gate-to-wire victory in the sixpanel Barbara Shinpoch Stakes, where Bella Mia, the even-money favorite, drew clear by nearly five lengths.

The Maryanski’s talented filly concluded her season with a one-length tally in the WA Cup Juvenile Filly Stakes, also at the six-furlong distance. Each of her victories came with Julien Couton guiding the reins.

Bella Mia was bred by Terry and Mary Lou Griffin, who in 1993 had ventured to Kentucky for the November Keeneland Breeding Stock Sale in search of a broodmare to add to their select band.

With a winning bid of $17,000, the Buckley couple came home with eight-year-old Outofthebluebell, a stakes-winning daughter of Mr. Prospector’s full brother Red Ryder. The $195,966, seven times stakes-placed mare was carrying her third foal, a filly by Time for a Change, who was foaled at Griffin Place the following April.

Outofthebluebell’s first foal, Dona Coquis, had been exported to Mexico where she placed in two stakes. As she was sired by the Seattle Slew son Fast Play, the Griffins decided to go back to that proponent sire line for the first of several successful times with the Outofthebluebell family. Bred to Metfield, a Grade 3 winner by the great “Slew,” Outofthebluebell produced Grade 1 winner and Washington horse of the year Rings a Chime. The 2000 Washington broodmare of the year also produced $123,200 earner Outofthe Blue Slew, by Slewdledo. Another of her daughters, Campanita, when bred to Slewdledo, produced stakes-placed Bella Campana, the dam of Bella Mia. Four-time leading Washington sire Slewdledo continues to leave his mark as a broodmare sire, as not only is Bella Mia out of one of his daughters, but so is stakes winner and 2017 most improved plater Exit Sixty Slew and 2017 plater of the year Mike Man’s Gold.

Chedoodle, the dam of Mike Man’s Gold and the 2017 Washington broodmare of the year, has so far produced two of the 25 stakes winners to represent Slewdledo as a damsire.

Spring 2018

Mr. Prospector, by Raise a Native Seeking the Gold Con Game, by Buckpasser Harbor the Gold Vice Regent, by Northern Dancer Harbor Springs Tinnitus, by Restless Wind Seattle Slew, by Bold Reasoning Slewdledo M’lle. Cyanne, by Cyane Bella Campana Son of Briartic, by Briartic Campanita Outofthebluebell, by Red Ryder 1st Dam Bella Campana, by Slewdledo. Placed at 2, $18,017, 2nd Northwest Stallion Knights Choice S.-R. Dam of 3 other foals, 2 starters, 1 winner— My Palmilla (f. by Tribal Rule). 2 wins at 2 and 3, placed at 4, 2017, $109,265.

2nd Dam CAMPANITA, by Son of Briartic. Winner at 4, $19,583. 9 other foals, 9 starters, 5 winners, including— Rain Shadow (f. by Stormy Atlantic). Winner at 3, $20,827, 3rd Federal Way H. Producer.

Bell Adieu (f. by Tribunal). Placed at 2, $18,016, 3rd Diane Kem S.-R., Northwest Stallion Knights Choice S.-R. Cyber Bell. 6 wins, 3 to 5, $36,366.

Racy Rascal. Winner at 3, 2017, $19,425.

Mattallie. 2 wins at 2 and 3, $12,308.

3rd Dam OUTOFTHEBLUEBELL, by Red Ryder. 8 wins, 2 to 4, $195,966, Matt Winn H., 2nd Miss Musket H., Illinois Breeders Debutante S.-R, Durazna S., Anita Peabody H.-R, etc. Washington broodmare of the year in 2000. 9 other foals, 7 starters, 5 winners, including— RINGS A CHIME. 4 wins at 2 and 3, $606,315, horse of the year, champion 2- and 3-year-old in Washington, Ashland S.-G1, Bay Meadows Lassie S., 2nd Kentucky Oaks-G1, Santa Ysabel S.-G3, Malcolm Anderson S., Juan Gonzalez Memorial S., 3rd Las Virgenes S.-G1, Doonesbury H. Dam of 4 winners, including COUNTRY STAR (3 wins at 2 and 3, $668,865, Alcibiades S.-G1, Hollywood Starlet S.-G1, 3rd El Encino S.-G3; producer).

Dona Coquis. 3 wins in Merico, 2nd Clasico Beduino, 3rd Clasico Velocidid.

Mr Bulldog, 8 wins, 2 to 5, $124,611.

Outofthe Blue Slew. Winner at 4 and 5, $123,200.

Bella Mia, Elliott Bay and Mach One Rules are among 20 state champions for the Hermiston, Oregon based Bar C Racing Stables’ exemplary stallion Harbor the Gold.

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MIKE MAN’S GOLD

EXIT SIXTY SLEW

Mahlum Thoroughbreds Plater of the Year

Save a Racehorse dba TRAC Most Improved Plater of the Year

2010 Gelding Liberty Gold—Chedoodle, by Slewdledo

2013 Filly Abraaj—Slew Tunes, by Slewdledo

Greg Conley, Chuck Conley and Terra Firma Farm, owners Keith and Jan Swagerty, breeders Joe Toye, trainer

Blaine Wright Stables LLC, Below the Rim Stables LLC and Mediocre Racing, owners Nina Hagen and Holly Sturgeon, breeders Blaine D. Wright, trainer

2017 Starts 9

1sts 5

2nds 0

3rds 2

Earnings $52,814

2017 Starts 9

3rd Muckleshoot Tribal Classic S.-R (EmD) ($50,000g)

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multiple stakes winner in his early days of racing, Mike Man’s Gold was claimed from his breeders, Keith and Jan Swagerty, for $10,000 in his first start in 2016 and then changed hands an additional three more times via the claiming box during his Emerald Downs season.

Twice he had been haltered by father and son Chuck and Greg Conley and trainer Joe Toye’s Terra Firma Farm; and twice by Kelly Dougan and Brett Brophy through trainer Jeff Metz. The Conleys and Toye prevailed and Mike Man’s Gold has run in their silks for his last 15 starts, including his nine outings last year.

Mike Man Gold ran fifth in his first two starts of 2017, both $10,000 claiming events, with the first over the grass at Turf Paradise.

He returned to Emerald Downs in May and promptly won a $22,500 claimer. He followed that with three more consecutive victories – one a month – at the $22,500, $20,000 and finally $40,000 levels, the latter which he won by nearly four lengths.

Next Mike Man’s Gold made his first attempt in a stakes race since the 2016 Governor’s Handicap, with a third place finish in the Muckleshoot Tribal Classic, a race he had won in 2014.

In his final two starts of the season, the consistent seven-year-old ran third in an allowance/$40,000 optional claiming race and then won a six-furlong starter allowance by 3 1/4 lengths.

1sts 5

2nds 0

3rds 2

Earnings $61,487

1st Washington Cup Filly and Mare S.-R (EmD) ($50,000g)

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fter placing as a juvenile at Del Mar, Exit Sixty Slew won a maiden $16,000 claimer at Golden Gate Fields in the spring of her sophomore season and wheeled right back to take a starter allowance at the Albany track, but was then sidelined after a nose defeat in May. She came back to Golden Gate later that fall, but the best she could do was two thirds in five starts.

The daughter of Abraaj made her 2017 debut at Emerald Downs with a 6 1/4-length tally for trainer Blaine Wright and Shawn Sudo and his partners’ Mediocre Racing in an $8,000 claiming sprint, where she was haltered by trainer Charles Essex for Joe Crawford and Jingyi Zhuang. She won both her starts for the couple, the first for a $15,000 tag (by three lengths) and the second for a $20,000 price, but was reclaimed at the higher value by Mediocre, with the addition of Kevin Haynes’ Below the Rim Stables LLC, and returned to her former shed row. Exit Sixty Slew then ran third in an allowance/$40,000 optional claimer before winning a $20,000 claimer by an easy 2 3/4 lengths in early August.

That win was enough to give the “green light” for her first stakes appearance in the WA Cup Filly and Mare Stakes, a race in which she upset 2017 champion Citizen Kitty by 3 1/2 lengths. Exit Sixty Slew finished her year with an unplaced effort in the British Columbia Distaff Handicap in October.

BACK TO WINE Drew and Jamie Baker Washington-bred OTTB of the Year 2010, Gelding, Baquero—Wine At Dawn, by Desert Wine Christina Klein, owner and rider; Henry O. Gott, breeder With 2,847 points recorded through The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (TIP) Performance Awards record number of Washington-breds were registered to compete in the 2017 The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (TIP). Christina Klein’s versatile Back to Wine (pictured at right) earned his second straight award A as Washington’s top OTTB winner in 2017 with 1,293 points. The eight-year-old chestnut gelding – who also

serves as Klein’s therapy horse – earned points while competing in English pleasure, Western, equitation and halter. In his prior life, the gelding by Baquero—Wine At Dawn, by Desert Wine, had three wins at the track for his then owner/breeder Henry Gott, who like Klein is from Yakima.

Finishing in the number two spot was Ruth Jelinkek’s 11-year-old Bucky B Lucky, who competed in dressage, English pleasure and halter, garnering 605 points. Also a winner of three races, Bucky B Lucky, a gelding by Kentucky Lucky—Dixie Dew, by Rolls Aly, was bred in Yakima by Steve Meredith and Roy Dane.

The third place horse, 20-year-old Brian’s Honor, is owned by Carrie Callahan of New Jersey. The son of Gumboy—Prima’s Best, by Gallant Best, excels in dressage where he earned 516 points. He was bred by Charlene Keys of Enumclaw.

Of the top dozen 2017 Washington-bred TIP horses, nine are geldings and three are mares. Eleven raced, of which nine were winners and the other two placed. Two were stakes-placed, Tiz I Is, a 2007 gelding by Cee’s Tizzy who finished fourth in the TIP standings, was bred by Al and Sandee Kirkwood and won 11 races and earned $60,605 as a runner. Sharper Edge, a 15-year-old gelding by Snowbound who ranked sixth last year, was bred by Elizabeth and William Ramsey and was a stakes-placed winner of three races and is the second leading money earner with $48,455.

Half of the 12 horses had been sold through the WTBOA Sales program as yearlings, for prices ranging from $1,200 to $16,000.

As far as pedigree similarities, two of the athletes were sired by sons of Seattle Slew, the aforementioned Bucky B Lucky (who is inbred 2x3 to Slew) and 12th place Ava Rose is a daughter of Slewdledo. Eleventh place Moondowner, by Nahuel, is also out of a Slewdledo mare.

Cee’s Tizzy is both the sire of Tiz I Is and the damsire of ninth place Office Hours. In addition to Bucky B Lucky, eighth place mare Mia’s Mystery is also out of a Rolls Aly mare.

No duplicate breeders were noted, but two additional horses competed on national circuits outside the Pacific Northwest. Sharper Edge is owned by Hannah Evenson of Utah and Skyler Icke Voss’s Office Hours is based in Virginia.

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CHEDOODLE Griffin Place Broodmare of the Year 1998 Mare Owned by Keith and Jan Swagerty

By SLEWDLEDO (1981). Unraced. Sire of 23 crops of racing age, 714 foals, 586 starters, 46 stakes winners, including 10 Washington champions Snipledo ($409,905, Longacres Mile H.-G3, etc.), Taiaslew ($398,781, Alberta Derby-G3, etc.), I’madrifter ($291,212, Berkeley H.-G3, etc.), Slewsbox ($261,085, Desert Stormer H.-G3, etc.), King Slewie, Queenledo, Ladyledue, Slew the Man, Bub, Crystal Mt. Stevie.

Sire of dams of 25 stakes winners, including Washington champions Hollywood Harbor and Bella Mia; and California Diamond, Hostility, Mike Man’s Gold, Burban and No Flies On Doodle.

1st DAM CHENA, by Chisos. 5 wins, 3 to 5, $30,837. Dam of 7 other foals, 6 starters, 4 winners, inc.— CHICKASAW PARK (g. by Delineator). 14 wins, 3 to 10, $205,021, Chinook Pass Sprint S.-R, 2nd Chinook Pass Sprint S.-R twice, Inaugural H. Extreme Adventure (g. by Adventure Road). 4 wins, 2 to 4, $31,380.

Cindy Slew (f. by Slewdledo). 3 wins at 2 and 4, $23,061.

She’s Got Turbo (f. by Outing). Winner at 3.

2nd DAM PACHENA BAY, by Piaster. 2 wins in 4 starts at 2, $23,535, Cinderella S. 10 other foals, 9 starters, 5 winners, including— Strike Capability. 4 wins, 2 to 4, $50,585.

Pachena’s Beau. Winner at 3 and 4, $27,889.

Piment Rouge. Winner at 4, $22,367.

Raizel. Winner at 3 and 4, $12,350. Dam of 3 winners, inc.— KISSNTHEBOYSGOODBY (f. by Tropic Lightning). 7 wins, 3 to 5, $136,618, Hastings Park H., Ocean Bay S., 2nd Senate Appointee H., Hastings Park H., etc. Producer.

Me O Me O My (f. by My Omen). 7 wins, 4 to 9, $124,834, 2nd Queen of the Green H., 3rd Belle Roberts S.-R, Wende S. Dam of Major Incident (g. by Tropic Lightning, 3rd Saskatchewan Lotteries H.).

Peppi’s Magic. Winner in 2 starts at 2, $10,948. Dam of Victor’s Magic (g. by Vying Victor, 3 wins at 2 and 5, $115,462, 2nd Chris Loseth H., 3rd Ascot Graduation S., Redekop British Columbia Cup Classic H.-R).

3rd DAM PACHENA, by *The Willies II. 9 wins, 2 to 4, $153,349. British Columbia Oaks. Milady H., Cover Girl H., Jack Diamond Futurity-R, Debutante S.-R., West Vancouver H.-R, 2nd Ballerina S., etc. 2 other foals, 1 starter, 1 winner–– PACHENA’S BOY. 3 wins at 2 and 3, $56,110, Richmond S., Inaugural S.-R, 2nd Juvenile S. RACE RECORD: Unplaced in 1 start at 3, $375 PRODUCE RECORD 2003 – Unnamed f. by Altazarr.

2004, 2005 – No report.

2006 – NO FLIES ON DOODLE, f. by Storm Blast. 8 wins, 3 to 5, $184,526, Washington Oaks, Washington’s Lottery H., Hastings H., Washington State Legislators H. Producer.

2007 – Seanchedoodle, g. by Saint Mercy. Unplaced in 1 start.

2008 – Bred to Storm Blast.

2009 – Stormin Bubsy, g. by Storm Blast. Placed at 3, $6,865.

2010 – MIKE MAN’S GOLD g., by Liberty Gold. 17 wins, 2 to 7, 2017, $296,347, Seattle Slew H., Premio Esmeralda S., WTBOA Lads S., Muckleshoot Tribal Classic S.-R, 3rd Emerald Downs Derby, Governor’s H., Muckleshoot Tribal Classic S.-R, Dennis Dodge S.-R. 2011 – Chedoodlejan, f. by Grindstone. Unraced.

2012 – Andiamo Deb, f. by Parker’s Storm Cat. 2 wins at 3, $16,533.

2013 – Chedoodlejo, f. by Liberty Gold. Unplaced in 2 starts 2014 – Mike Man’s Bro, g. by Liberty Gold. 4 wins at 3, placed at 4, 2018, $24,080, 3rd Oregon HBPA Overnight H.

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hedoodle made only one lifetime start, but her owners Riverside Thoroughbreds and Rob Sides must have thought highly of her, as that Emerald Downs race in August of her three-year-old year was not any kind of a maiden race, but an allowance/$40,000 optional claiming race – in which she didn’t run for a tag – and Spring 2018

Chedoodle, with her 2006 filly and future stakes winner No Flies on Doodle. in which every other entrant would be a stakes horse, including $226,761 stakes winner Que Fail Corazon and stakes-placed and future multiple stakes producer Knight Weave. The latter won the 6 1/2-furlong test, and according to the chart Chedoodle “broke awkwardly, then rushed up to duel for the lead from along the inside and stopped after a half mile.” Chedoodle’s future offspring would more than make up for her troubled and oh-so-short race record.

In the early 2000s Keith and Jan Swagerty were developing their 20-acre West Coast Training Center and farm in Auburn. The couple heard that Chedoodle, whose owners were getting out of the business, was for sale. After learning about the early talent she had shown and the fact that she was a daughter of Slewdledo, they purchased the then eight-year-old mare bred to the Storm Cat stallion Storm Blast.

That foal turned out to be their four-time stakes-winning mare No Flies On Doodle.

The Swagertys, led by Jan’s input, like to incorporate both the horse’s pedigree and a family member’s name in naming most of their horses. For example, 2017 Washington plater of the year Mike Man’s Gold, Chedoodle’s second stakes winner, was named for the Swagertys’ grandson Mike and the “Gold” came from his sire Liberty Gold.

Chedoodle’s final foal, four-year-old Mike Man’s Bro, placed in the Oregon HBPA Overnight Handicap in January, but the Swagertys have retained all four of her daughters.

No Flies On Doodle has had three foals of racing age, including winner Runmissnatalia, a daughter of Liberty Gold. That same stallion is also the sire of her two-year-old filly Cate’s Gold, No Flies On Doodle produced a daughter of Atta Boy Roy in 2017.

Chedoodlejan, who unfortunately bowed a tendon before her first start, has a two-year-old filly by Smiling Tiger named Nodoubtinmymind and a yearling colt by farm stallion Mr. Rancho Vista christened Movetotheright.

Andiamo Deb’s first foal is a yearling filly by Mr. Rancho Vista and Chedoodlejo is scheduled to produce a foal this spring from the only crop of state champion Noosito.

Pachena, Chedoodle’s third dam, won or placed in 11 stakes in her native British Columbia and was also stakes-placed at Santa Anita at four. Pachena, named after the region’s Pachena Bay, was a daughter of good province sire *The Willies II, a grandson of English champion and major sire *Tudor Minstrel.

As a yearling Pachena had been chased through a barbed wire fence by a dog, but that didn’t seem to hinder her at the track, as she won four races (two stakes) at Exhibition Park and was named co-champion two-year-old filly and outstanding BC-bred runner of 1979. She later added four more stakes tallies at the Vancouver oval, and while she would only produce three foals, two of them were stakes winners, including Chedoodle’s granddam Pachena Bay. 17

NINA and RON HAGEN (El Dorado Farms) Daily Racing Form Leading Breeders S. J. Agnew Special Achievement Award

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arried on horseback on the Pine Lake plateau (in what today is Sammamish) in May 1982, Nina and Ron Hagen brought a love of all animals and a background in horses when they purchased the Enumclaw property that would become El Dorado Farms in December 1983. Today El Dorado Farms – at 100 acres – consists of five individual properties in addition to the main farm.

Ron was raised in Montana and North Dakota where his dad had been a horse trader. A few years after Ron moved to Washington in 1969 he became involved with racing Quarter Horses. But after coming to the conclusion that while racing the sprint specialists was a lot of fun, it didn’t pay the bills, so he switched to Thoroughbreds in 1981.

Nina, who is proud of her “West Seattle accent,” rode as a girl but didn’t become actively involved with horses until her early 20s, and it wasn’t long before she was handling Quarter Horse and Arabian stallions in the breeding shed.

The two met at the stable where Nina was working when Ron was looking for a place to board his Quarter Horse.

The Hagens’ first stallion was Drum Score, a 1980 son of Drum Fire. Since that early start El Dorado Farms has been home to many of the state’s top sires, including the following stallions that have led the general, juvenile and/or freshman sire lists: Basket Weave, Cahill Road, Demons Begone, Free At Last, Liberty Gold, Matty G and Tribunal. The farm’s current stallions Abraaj, Coast Guard, Private Gold and Raise the Bluff have also led in one or more categories.

Besides being an active stallion station, the Hagens have led the state breeders’ list for a total of four years, 2008-10 and again in 2017 with $392,670, which is their highest figure.

Indian Weaver became their first stakes winner in 2004 and seven years later the gelding was still going strong, earning the title of Washington plater of the year. Among the couple’s other stakes winners are Knight Raider (2009 champion two-year-old filly), Slew the Man (2010 champion sophomore male and a half-brother to Indian Weaver), Knight Club (2016 plater of the year), Dallon’s Gold and Irene’s Bonus Baby.

In 2017 the Hagens were represented by two stakes-winning fillies – Exit Sixty Slew (co-bred with Holly Sturgeon and voted 2017 most improved plater) and Grace Bay – both who trace to their good foundation mare Moscow Symphony. The Enumclaw couple also bred Percy’s Bluff, who was named 2016 Washington most improved plater, and the now six-year-old Raise a Bluff gelding continues his winning ways after taking his 18th race in January and upping his earnings to nearly $225,000. Percy’s Bluff was also the top earner among the 22 2017 starters that the Hagens bred, with $106,725.

The Hagens’ broodmare population sits around 20, with another ten mares in well-deserved retirement pastures. Nina also helps others by being a part of the local nurse mare network.

As part of their full service commitment to the industry, the Hagens also offer racing and mare syndicates and partnerships, rehabilitation and conditioning, and sales preparation. El Dorado Farms has also been a prominent sales agent at WTBOA sales for many years.

Nina’s philosophy is to “Treat each horse, or any animal, with respect and love and as an individual.”

Both Nina and Ron have taken an active role at the WTBOA. Nina has been a board of trustee since 1997, as well as serving on the important sales committee since 2014. Ron was a member of the sales committee 2006-08.

When asked if she had a favorite horse, Nina replied (nationally) it would be Seattle Slew, whom she named one of her beloved Doberman Pinschers after; but at home it was Cahill Road. She also has a soft spot for current stallions Coast Guard and “RB” (Raise the Bluff); and, of course, Peterhof – who lived to 38 – will always be her special “Teddy Bear.” She also said she couldn’t manage the farm without the longtime aid of her Pony of America teaser Mr. Mango Man. When Ron was asked the same question he diplomatically replied that he had no individual favorite, but felt that all breeds and horses were special.

After dealing with mares and stallions for over 30 years, Nina laughingly said that the title of her autobiography will be “Nothing is Sacred in the Breeding Shed.”

Finishing in second on the top breeders’ listing were 2015-16 leaders Pam and Neal Christopherson (Bar C Racing Stables Inc.), who bred 2017 horse of the year Mach One Rules, with $334,502. Elwin and Patti Gibson ranked third with $263,513, led by three-year-old male champion Pulpits Power. Former (2011-14) leading breeders Rick and Debbie Pabst’s $236,937 was led by juvenile champion Elliott Bay. Rounding out the top five is Keith and Jan Swagerty, who bred plater of the year Mike Man’s Gold, with $158,482.

2017 Washington Leaders Leading Owner by Wins in Washington ........................................................................................................... John E. Parker (23 wins) Leading Owner by Money in Washington ......................................................................................................John E. Parker ($329,297) Leading Owner by Stakes Wins in Washington................................. Highlander Racing Stable LLC, John and Janene Maryanski, John E. Parker, Peter Redekop BC Ltd and R. E. V. Racing (3 wins each) Leading Trainer by Wins in Washington ............................................................................................................Blaine Wright (53 wins) Leading Trainer by Money in Washington ...................................................................................................... Blaine Wright ($819,232) Leading Trainer by Stakes Wins in Washington .................................................................................................Blaine Wright (10 wins) Leading Jockey by Wins in Washington ............................................................................................................ Rocco Bowen (126 wins) Leading Jockey by Money in Washington ......................................................................................................Rocco Bowen ($1,224,068) Leading Jockey by Stakes Wins in Washington....................................................................................................Julien Couton (6 wins) Leading Apprentice Jockey by Wins in Washington ..................................................................................... Osvaldo Gonzalez (6 wins) Leading Washington Sire by Wins in Washington.................................................................................... Parker’s Storm Cat (31 wins) 18

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PARKER’S STORM CAT

R. E. V. Racing (Roy and Ellie Schaefer)

El Dorado Farms Sire of the Year 2000, Storm Cat—Macoumba, by Mr. Prospector

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n 2017, for the seventh consecutive year, the impeccably-bred Parker’s Storm Cat led all Washington sires by progeny earnings. It also marked the first year since he was moved to Gibson Thoroughbred Farm in Thorp (for the 2009 breeding season), that his totals have not had the aid of his four-time Maryland horse of the year and 2017 Vox Populi winner, the late Ben’s Cat. Last year, the now 18-year-old son of national leader Storm Cat had 36 winners from his 66 starters – with 18 repeat winners – who earned a total of $459,747. His top earner was Parkers Delight, who won a trio of races at Emerald Downs last year and most of her $35,040 total. Parker’s Storm Cat is also the sire of Oregon and Montana stakes winner Storm On the River, who contributed $20,314.

The leading earner among his juvenile winners was maiden Hemi Cat, who had four seconds from his six starts and added $9,462 to his sire’s standings.

Parker’s Storm Cat is also becoming a useful damsire. Among the stakes horses produced out of his daughters last year were Moonlit Song, a five-time stakes winner of nearly $250,000; Washington champion sophomore male Pulpits Power; and Canadian stakes winner Whatsnottolike.

Finishing second on the general sire list was Blue Ribbon Farm’s 2016 leading freshman sire Atta Boy Roy. The Grade 2 stakes winner and multiple Washington champion was represented by 11 winners from his 23 starters who made $351,928. His leading earner, who also helped him top the Washington juvenile standings, was Minnesotabred two-year-old Mr. Jagermeister, a stakes winner of $103,000.

The son of Tribunal is also represented by two-time Washington champion filly Risque’s Legacy and 2017 WA Cup Sophomore Filly stakes runner-up Targa. Atta Boy Roy’s total among his seven juvenile runners last year was $143,751, which also included the earnings of two-time Emerald stakes-placed Faith Flys Again.

Coming in third and fourth places on the general sire list were El Dorado Farms’ veterans Abraaj – sire of 2017 most improved plater Exit Sixty Slew, who earned $61,487 of her sire’s $339,516 total; and Raise the Bluff – sire of 2016 most improved plater Percy’s Bluff, who added seven wins and $106,725 to his sire’s earnings last year and is already a winner in 2018. Raise the Bluff had a $329,315 total.

Dreamstar Farm’s Council Member ranked fifth with $326,443 and his six winners were led by the $40,740 earnings of Sea Myrtle, who is also a 2018 winner.

Finishing second on the juvenile list was 2015 leading freshman sire Coast Guard. The El Dorado stallion had two stakes-placed two-year-old runners at Emerald Downs last season: Bullet Drill and twice stakes-placed Trump Itz, who added $36,892 to his sire’s $70,305 earnings total.

Former Washington sire Understatement finished in third on the juvenile list with $56,517.

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NTRA Leading Owner

ort Orchard residents Roy and Ellie Schaefer’s Washingtonbred earners took home $184,620 last year, of which $145,595 was brought to the bank by Mach One Rules, who won a trio of stakes and was runner-up in three more. He was also named both Washington and Emerald Downs top older horse and amassed further accolades as horse of the year and horse of the meet.

The Schaefers are not newcomers to racing elite Washington-bred runners. Mach One Rules had been voted champion Washington-bred two-year-old in 2015 and the Schaefers also raced 2014 champion juvenile Trackattacker. But the best horse so far in their arsenal of quality runners has been three-time Washington champion, Grade 2 winner and now successful state sire Atta Boy Roy. The Schaefers, who own and run the family-operated Canopy World, first got into racing in 2002, purchasing “half” of Taylor James, a stakes-placed half-brother to Washington champion Candles n Moonlite, with trainer Valorie Lund. Lund, who handled Atta Boy Roy during his highly successful race career, and Frank Lucarelli, who trains the Schaefers’ West Coast-based runners, are tellingly the only two conditioners the couple have ever employed.

Roy, who firmly believes in the value of Washington-breds, was raised on farm on Miles City, Montana, where he first grew to love horses.

They currently have “5 1/2” runners, who are all slated to run during the 2018 Emerald Downs meeting. Besides, of course, Mach One Rule’s return to racing, Roy is excited about just turned threeyear-old C R Bullitt, who won a six-furlong maiden special weight race at Golden Gate Fields in January. The three-year-old son of Atta Boy Roy out of Washington champion racemare Aunt Sophie, by Altazarr, was another WTBOA Sale purchase, as were the couple’s three champions.

Nevadans Bruce and Cass Maller’s Highlander Racing Stables LLC finished in second place with Washington-bred earnings of $120,418, all earned by their 2017 champion racemare Citizen Kitty.

Northern California-based trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, who now races under Hollendorfer LLC, only had one Washington-bred starter in 2017, but Percy’s Bluff garnered a 7-0-2 record from his ten outings and earned $100,725 for the National Racing Hall of Fame conditioner to place him third. A son of Raise a Bluff, Percy’s Bluff was among the top statebred sprinters last year and had been awarded 2016’s Washington most inproved plater title.

Champion two-year-old filly Bella Mia led Auburn residents John and Janene Maryanski to their fourth place posting, as the daughter of Harbor the Gold handed in a $91,523 total.

Rising Star Stable II’s Elliott Bay’s campaign netted the Auburnbased syndicate less than $1,000 behind his juvenile champion counterpart, as the 2017 Gottstein Futurity winner and state champion, also by Harbor the Gold, earned $90,687.

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WTBOA SALES

Mark Kaufman Media Award

Best WTBOA-sold Two-year-old Performer in 2017 G., Harbor the Gold—Melba Jewel, by Cahill Road Owners: Rising Star Stable II (Vicki Potter, et al.)

Breeder: Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Pabst (Blue Ribbon Farm) Trainer: Howard Belvoir Starts 1sts 2nds 3rds Earnings 5 2 2 0 $90,697 1st Gottstein Futurity (EmD), WTBOA Lads S. (EmD); 2nd WA Cup Juvenile Colts and Geldings S.-R (EmD).

ELLIOTT BAY

For his many years of heartfelt and excellent coverage of Washington’s multifaceted Thoroughbred industry in South King County.

BLAINE WRIGHT Special Racetrack Achievement Award For his outstanding 2017 season at Emerald Downs where he led all trainers by wins (53 – 36%), earnings ($819,232), stakes wins (11) and had a 72% 1-2-3 placement.

JOE TOYE Special Racetrack Achievement Award For his 38 wins (30%) during the 2017 Emerald Downs meeting and the development of 2017 Washington plater of the year Mike Man’s Gold.

GRACE BAY Best WTBOA-sold Three-year-old Performer in 2017 F., Coast Guard—Moscow Symphony, by Moscow Ballet Owner: Billy Speed Racing Stable (William Greenstein) Breeder: Nina M. and Ron A. Hagen (El Dorado Farms LLC) Trainer: Frank Lucarelli Starts 1sts 2nds 3rds Earnings 7 2 1 2 $46,150 1st WA Cup Sophomore Filly S.-R (EmD).

JOHN PARKER

SMILING TIGER—PREMO COPY, by Supremo

Special Racetrack Achievement Award

Highest Priced WTBOA-sold Yearling Colt in 2017 Consigned by Halvorson Bloodstock Services LLC, Agent for Roche Farm.

Purchased by John Maryanski for $67,000.

For his big heart, generosity, participation and many contributions to the Washington Thoroughbred racing scene.

TONY LOFTON

HARBOR THE GOLD—FLYING MEMO, by Memo (Chi)

WHBPA Willing Heart Award In recognition of his countless contributions to backstretch programs and never-ending support of the Emerald Downs horse racing community.

Highest Priced WTBOA-sold Yearling Filly in 2017 Consigned by Bar C Racing Stables Inc., Agent for Bret Christopherson.

Purchased by Glen Todd for $47,000.

CLEMANS VIEW FARM (Jean Harris and Jeff Harris) TOBA Award Winner for 2016 Awarded to the individual/partnership, which breeds horses in Washington, which breeds primarily to race, rather than to sell, and which has enjoyed the greatest success during the previous year racing homebreds in or out of Washington.

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2017 horse of the year Mach One Rules’ breeders Neal and Pam Christopherson (left in each photo) joined the runner’s trainer Frank Lucarelli (plaid shirt) and owners Ellie and Roy Schaefer in the celebration. The son of Harbor the Gold also won titles as top older male and sprinter. Also pictured is WTBOA President Dana Halvorson (rear in left photo) and Dennis Snowden (red shirt).

Jeff Metz, trainer of champion older filly or mare Citizen Kitty, accepts her plaque on behalf of Bruce and Cass Maller’s Highlander Racing Stable LLC from WTBOA staffer Susan van 24 Dyke.

Halvorson presents the prestigious S. J. Award Special Achievement Award to Ron Hagen, whose wife Nina couldn’t be present due to equine maternity duties at the couple’s El Dorado Farms.

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Trainer Blaine Wright had a busy evening on the “Broadway” stage. He is shown receiving the champion sophomore male trophy won by Below the Rim Stable LLC and Woodway Stable’s Pulpits Power, joined by WTBOA board member Jenny Webber and her daughter Rachel Alexandra Jochimsen, who accepted on behalf of the runner’s breeders Elwin and Patti Gibson, and Halvorson.

Tim Rohloff (far left), representing award sponsor Freight NW, was on hand to present the best two-year-old filly award to the connections of Bella Mia. Trainer Wright (next to Rohloff) and owners John and Janene Maryanski flank the distaffer’s breeders Terry and Mary Lou Griffin.

Karl Krieg’s homebred Risque’s Legacy earned her second and third championship titles. The Tom Wenzel (at left) trainee was honored as state champion three-year-old and three-yearold filly.

Top two-year-old honors went to Rising Star Stables II’s Elliott Bay. Shown here are his trainer Howard Belvoir (left), Vicki Potter – who manages the runner’s syndicate – and the colt’s breeders Debbie and Rick Pabst. Celia Parker (right), daughter of Freight NW sponsor John Parker, joins in the celebration.

Hagen, who owns and operates the Enumclaw-based nursery and stallion station El Dorado Farms with his wife Nina – who at this juncture was present by phone – was awarded Washington’s leading breeder award from Halvorson for the fourth time.

Halvorson presents Ellie and Roy Schaefer with the award for leading owners of Washington-bred earners in 2017.

(Right) Gibson Thoroughbred Farm’s Parker’s Storm Cat led the state stallion ranks for the seventh consecutive year. Van Dyke presents the plaque to Webber and her daughter Rachel, who accepted on behalf of the Gibsons’ Central Washington farm.

Broodmare of the year honors went to Keith and Jan Swagerty’s multiple stakes producer Chedoodle. Their longtime farm manager Karen Angelos (far right), who remembered the Slewdledo mare as a tough kind of a gal, accepted on behalf of the Swagertys.

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(Far left) Van Dyke with Mark Kaufman Media Award recipient Dennis Box. (Left) Wright was also awarded a special training achievement award in honor of his impressive record last year at Emerald Downs, where he topped all trainers by earnings, wins and stakes wins.

(Right) Plater of the year went to Mike Man’s Gold.

Greg Conley, who owns the runner with his father Chuck Conley and trainer Joe Toye, was on hand to receive the honor. The younger Conley also accepted the second special training achievement plaque of the evening for Toye. Bred by the Swagertys out of Chedoodle, Angelos accepted the honor for the now seven-year-old gelding’s breeders.

Lisa Capellano (far right), founder of Save a Racehorse dba TRAC, sponsored the most improved plater award, which went to Below the Rim Stable LLC, Mediocre Racing and trainer Wright’s Blaine Wright Stable LLC’s stakes-winning Exit Sixty Slew, who was bred by the Hagens.

WTBOA General Manager Anne Sweet (far left) and award sponsor Drew Baker flank Christina Klein, whose Back to Wine was honored as the top Washington-bred OTTB performer for the second straight year.

(Left) Trainer Candi Tollett gave a heartfelt introduction to John Parker whose choice to receive a special achievement award received a standing ovation.

(Clockwise from above) Baker and Emerald Downs Director of Broadcast Publicity Joe Withee conduct the popular live auction. The Longacres “claim box,” filled with memorabilia from the old Renton track, was knocked down to Emily Parker. Attendees browse the tables loaded with various appealing silent auction items. A wonderful buffet dinner was enjoyed by the crowd of over 250 horse racing enthusiasts.

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Other 2017 Washington Champion Nominees DUANE WEBER INSURANCE SPRINTER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES CITIZEN KITTY (5YO, M., Proud Citizen—No Constraints, by Katowice) Owner: Highlander Racing Stable LLC (Bruce and Cass Maller) Breeder: Dunn Bar Ranch LLC (Charles Dunn) Trainer: Jeffrey Metz 2017 Sprint Record 4 1 3 0 $46,112 Stakes: Hastings S. (EmD); 2nd Washington State Legislators S. (EmD).

WTBOA Sales Graduate KAABRAAJ (5YO, G., Abraaj—Kaaaching, by River Special) Owners: Horseplayers Racing Club 240 (Scott Gruender, et al.) and Warlock Stables (Tim Floyd) Breeder: Clemans View Farm (Jean Harris and Jeff Harris) Trainer: Jeffrey Metz2017 Sprint Record 8 1 0 0 $24,801 Stakes: Luke Kruytbosch S. (TuP).

PERCY’S BLUFF (5YO, G., Raise the Bluff—Persephonie, by Conquistador Cielo) Owner and Trainer: Jerry Hollendorfer Breeders: Nina M. and Ron A. Hagen (El Dorado Farms LLC) 2017 Sprint Record 8 6 0 1 $95,925 WTBOA Sales Graduate RISQUE’S LEGACY (3YO, F., Atta Boy Roy—Risque Humor, by Distorted Humor) Owner and Breeder: Karl C. Krieg (KD Thoroughbreds) Trainers: Tom Wenzel and Valerie Lund 2017 Sprint Record 6 1 1 0 $40,174 Stakes: Kent S. (EmD); 2nd Seattle S.

FREIGHT NW TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY NOMINEES FAITH FLYS AGAIN (Atta Boy Roy—Jacobita, by Forest Wildcat) Owners: Swag Stables and Gallo Stables (William C. Gallo) Breeders: Keith and Jan Swagerty (Swag Stables) Trainer: David Martinez 2017 Record 6 0 3 2 $30,168 Stakes: 2nd Angie C. S. (EmD); 3rd WA Cup Juvenile Filly S.-R (EmD).

FRISKY BEAR (Nationhood—Cascade Corona, by Pine Bluff) Owners: Sabers Drawn Racing (Andy Evans) and Lucarelli Racing (Frank Lucarelli) Breeders: Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Pabst (Blue Ribbon Farm) Trainer: Frank Lucarelli 2017 Record 3 1 1 0 $18,785 Stakes: 2nd WA Cup Juvenile Filly S.-R (EmD).

WTBOA Sales Graduate SQUEEZE ME (Papa Clem—Great Mom, by Pioneerof the Nile) Owner and Trainer: Kevin Eikleberry Breeder: Connie Lynn Belshay (Only Me Thoroughbreds) 2017 Record 2 2 0 0 $49,188 Stakes: Turf Paradise Open Spring Futurity (TuP).

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FREIGHT NW TWO-YEAR-OLD COLT OR GELDING NOMINEES BROWN TIGER (G., Smiling Tiger—Sweet Nellie Brown, by Cape Canaveral) Owner: Art McFadden Breeder: Grasshopper Racing Stable Inc., (Paul and Lori Heist) Trainer: Jonathan Nance 2017 Record 5 0 1 1 $19,587 Stakes: 3rd Emerald Express S. (EmD), WTBOA Lads S. (EmD).

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BULLET DRILL (G., Coast Guard—Ms Moscow Mattie, by Matty G) Owner: Billy Speed Racing Stable (William Greenstein) Breeders: Nina M. and Ron A. Hagen (El Dorado Farms LLC) Trainer: Frank Lucarelli 2017 Record 3 0 1 0 $11,288 Stakes: 2nd Emerald Express S. (EmD).

WTBOA Sales Graduate SIPPIN FIRE (G., Harbor the Gold—Bahati, by Horse Chestnut [SAf]) Owner: How We Roll #4 (David Israel, Joe Withee, Al Adams, Charlie Clark, Angela Wilson and Steve Pilgrim) Breeders: Bar C Racing Stables Inc. (Neal and Pam Christopherson) and Desert Rose Racing LLC (Melodie Bultena and Doak Walker) Trainer: Steve Bullock 2017 Record 4 2 1 0 $47,888 Stakes: WA Cup Juvenile Colts and Geldings S.-R (EmD); 2nd WTBOA Lads S. (EmD).

WTBOA Sales Graduate TRUMP ITZ (G., Coast Guard—Knight Weave, by Basket Weave) Owners: John and Janene Maryanski and Riverbend Stable (Jerry and Gail Schneider) Breeders: Nina M. and Ron A. Hagen (El Dorado Farms LLC) Trainer: Blaine Wright 2017 Record 5 1 2 1 $36,892 Stakes: 2nd Gottstein Futurity (EmD); 3rd WA Cup Juvenile Colts and Geldings S.-R (EmD).

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CLAY WARK AGENCY LLC THREE-YEAR-OLD COLT OR GELDING NOMINEES KELLER’S GOLD (G., Liberty Gold—Glory Hallelujah, by Honour and Glory) Owners: Linda Eidel; Swag Stables and 20/10 Stables (Michael Shea) Breeders: Keith and Jan Swagerty (Swag Stables) Trainers: Pedro Hernandez-Sandoval and Felimon Alvarado; David Martinez 2017 Record 8 3 2 0 $39,995 Stakes: 2nd WA Cup Sophomore S.-R (EmD), Luke Kruytbosch S. (TuP).

SO LUCKY (C., Coast Guard—Miss Pixie, by Petersburg) Owners: Pegasus Too (Ray Loftis, Harvey Bell, Helen Wickstrom, James C. Aitken and Steve Kay) and Rising Star Stables (Vicki Potter, et al.)

Trainer: Howard Belvoir Breeder: Jean M. G. Welch (Tall Cedars Farm LLC) 2017 Record 2 0 1 1 $13,075 Stakes: 2nd Auburn S.(EmD).

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THE LEVINE LAW FIRM PLLC THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY NOMINEES GRACE BAY (Coast Guard—Moscow Symphony, by Moscow Ballet) Owner: Billy Speed Racing Stable (William Greenstein) Breeders: Nina M. and Ron A. Hagen (El Dorado Farms LLC) Trainer: Frank Lucarelli 2017 Record 7 2 1 2 $46,150 Stakes: WA Cup Sophomore Filly S.-R (EmD).

WTBOA Sales Graduate RETREAT YOURSELF (Harbor the Gold—Retreat After Me, by Liberty Gold) Owner and Breeder: Mark E. Malnati Trainer: Doris Harwood 2017 Record 6 1 1 2 $39,629 Stakes: 2nd Kent S. (EmD); 3rd Irish Day S. (EmD), WA Cup Sophomore Filly S.-R (EmD).

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TARGA (Atta Boy Roy—Eclatante, by In Excess [Ire]) Owner: Roy Schaefer Breeders: Dr. and Mrs. Duane Hopp (Castlegate Farm) Trainer: Frank Lucarelli 2017 Record 10 2 2 3 $32,455 Stakes: 2nd WA Cup Sophomore Filly S.-R (EmD).

CASTLEGATE FARM OLDER FILLY AND MARE NOMINEES EXIT SIXTY SLEW (4YO, Abraaj—Slew Tunes, by Slewdledo) Owners: Blaine D. Wright; Below the Rim Stable LLC (Kevin Haynes), Mediocre Racing (Shawn Sudo, Terry Mickleson, Todd Petit, Abel Pulver, Heather and Scott Sacha) and Blaine Wright Stable LLC; Joe Crawford and Jingyi Zhuang Breeders: Nina Hagen (El Dorado Farms LLC) and Holly Sturgeon Trainers: Blaine Wright; Charles Essex 2017 Record 9 5 0 2 $61,487 Stakes: WA Cup Filly and Mare S.-R (EmD).

WTBOA Sales Graduate LISTO (4YO, Preachinatthebar—Little Lyph, by Sultry Song) Owners: Tim Bankers; Candice Lumley and Horse Haven Creek Farm (Rosie Simkins) Breeder: Elliott Simkins Trainers: M. Ortiz Sr.; Rosie Simkins 2017 Record 10 4 1 2 $41,453 Stakes: 3rd City of Phoenix S. (TuP).

MY HEART GOES ON (4YO, Albertus Maximus—My Untamed Heart, by Value Plus) Owner and Breeder: Coal Creek Farm (Barbara Ratcliff) Trainer: David Martinez 2017 Record 7 0 1 2 $15,467 Stakes: 3rd WA Cup Filly and Mare S.-R (EmD), King County Overnight S. (EmD).

SPORT HORSE MEDICINE OLDER HORSE NOMINEES DEDICATED TO YOU (5YO, G., Purim—One for You, by Dayjur) Owner and Breeder: Coal Creek Farm (Barbara Ratcliff) Trainer: David Martinez 2017 Record 4 0 1 1 $40,710 Stakes: 2nd Muckleshoot Tribal Classic-R (EmD); 3rd Longacres Mile H.-G3 (EmD).

KAABRAAJ (5YO, G., Abraaj—Kaaaching, by River Special) Owners: Horseplayers Racing Club (Scott Gruender, et al.) and Warlock Stables (Tim Floyd) Breeder: Clemans View Farm (Jean Harris and Jeff Harris) Trainer: Jeffrey Metz 2017 Record 8 1 0 0 $24,801 Stakes: Luke Kruytbosch S. (TuP).

MIKE MAN’S GOLD (7YO, G., Liberty Gold—Chedoodle, by Slewdledo) Owners: Greg Conley, Chuck Conley and Terra Firma Farm (Joe Toye) Breeders: Keith and Jan Swagerty (Swag Stables) Trainer: Joe Toye 2017 Record 9 5 0 2 $52,814 Stakes: 3rd Muckleshoot Tribal Classic S.-R (EmD).

TOGRAMMASHOUSEWEGO (4YO, C., Houseofroyalhearts—Sophisticated Slew, by Slewdledo) Owners: Shirley MacKenzie, Derek MacKenzie and Donald MacKenzie Breeder: Shirley MacKenzie Trainer: Charles Essex 2017 Record 7 1 1 2 $31,550 Stakes: 3rd Governor’s S. (EmD), Budweiser S. (EmD).

More from the Awards Banquet Erin Palmer/Palmer Photography

(Left to right) Shellie Nicklos, Roddina Barrett, Sally Williamson and WTBOA staffer Tara Homfelt enjoy the evening festivities.

Vicki Potter, accompanied by her cousin Paul Goto, admires one of the many tasty desserts up for auction. Goto is one of the partners in Potter’s successful Rising Star Stable syndicates.

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Roy Schaefer and Karl Krieg, both who had champions crowned before the night was over, converse.

Faustino “Coco” Patino and Kyrie Baze Patino Popular rider Eswan Flores and his wife enjoy the Broadway-themed “horse show.”

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Washington Champions 1983 - 2017 Yr. 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97

Horse of the Year Chinook Pass Flag de Lune Hilco Scamper Delicate Vine Saratoga Passage Gallant Sailor Saratoga Passage Snipledo Captain Condo Staff Rider Peterhof’s Patea Happy La L.J. Express Let Bob Do It Smokin Mel

98 Guinevere 99 Salish Shaman 00 Rings a Chime 01 Tali’sluckybusride 02 Sabertooth 03 Taiaslew 04 Demon Warlock 05 No Giveaway 06 Pure as Gold 07 The Great Face 08 Wasserman 09 Reba Is Tops 10 Noosa Beach 11 Noosa Beach 12 Makors Finale 13 E Z Kitty 14 Stryker Phd 15 Stryker Phd 16 Stryker Phd 17 Mach One Rules Yr. 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Older Filly or Mare Brief Grief Flag de Lune Miss Theologist Shooting Pitch Popcorn Patti Finally Free Spring Trooper A Little Bit Tipsy Money by Choice Peterhof’s Patea Peterhof’s Patea Bonne Nuite Run Away Stevie Jazzie Act Cocktails Anyone Cocktails Anyone Guinevere Fleet Pacific Fleet Pacific Slewsbox Infernal McGoon Aunt Sophie Marva Jean Queenledo Gemstone Rush La Tee Reba Is Tops Clair Annette Point of Reference E Z Kitty E Z Kitty Madame Pele Lady Rosberg Ethan’s Baby Citizen Kitty

2-Year-Old Colt or Gelding Colonel Stevens Table Express Hilco Scamper* Staff Riot Saratoga Passage* Maharesred* T.D. Passer* Dancin’all the Way Tough to Crack Staff Rider* Al Renee* Aponus All Knights Image* Name for Norm* King Slewie*

2-Year-Old Filly Miss Ebony Got You Runnin Firesweeper Delicate Vine* Tortellini Roma Flame McGoon A Dollar One Peterhof’s Patea* Run Away Stevie* Family Acajun Dancing Ovation Favored One* Candles n Moonlite Return Call Casino Lights & Laurel Avenue Bay Runner Western Woman* No Curfew Rings a Chime* Jumron Won* Best Judgement Devil’s Enemy Tali’sluckybusride* Bub* Youcan’ttakeme Sundance Circle* Crystal Mt. Stevie Seattles Best Joe* Queenledo Schoolin You* Cinderella Liberty Immigration* Judicature Margo’s Gift* No Constraints Noosa Beach Ladyledue* Hollywood Harbor* Knight Raider Couldabenthewhisky* Lady Golightly Chu and I Talk to My Lawyer* Music of My Soul* Finding More Del Rio Harbor* Chu and You Trackattacker* Ethan’s Baby Mach One Rules* My Heart Goes On So Lucky* Risque’s Legacy Elliot Bay* Bella Mia Sprinter of the Year Chinook Pass Sharper One Holy Rascal Zulu Whiz Hilco Scamper Gallant Sailor Crystal Run Snipledo Zama Hummer Serenity Road Seattletoo L.J. Express L.J. Express Comininalittlehot Spite and Malice Cocktails Anyone Salish Shaman Love All the Way Slewsbox Slewsbox Unyielding Court’s in Session Sabertooth Pure as Gold The Great Face Wasserman Atta Boy Roy Atta Boy Roy Noosa Beach Hollywood Harbor Absolutely Cool Absolutely Cool Absolutely Cool Kaabraaj Mach One Rules

Plater of the Year Grits and Fritz Item Two Allowance Flash Your Wallet Madhuri Divine Jet Gallant Actress McClure Mountain Marvelous Wonder Abergwaun Lad Persian Sunshine No Small Buzz Twitter Bear to Be Krafty Briartic Blast Refried Dreams Refried Dreams Love All the Way Jazznwithwindy Sempai Que Facil Corazon Senfully Easy Slew Is King Individual Knight Ogieogilthorpe Polo Bender Vickys Fast Boy Bijou Barrister Indian Weaver Chukchi Sunrise Nico Suavé Touch the Sun Dare Me Devil Knight Club Mike Man’s Gold

3-Year-Old Colt or Gelding Prairie Breaker Sharper One Minutes Away§ Sissy’s Heller§ Staff Riot Steel an Emperor§ Harmony Creek§ Parnu Pic O Them All Jellystone Park Staff Rider§ Funboy Hoopstar Let Bob Do It§ Smokin Mel§

3-Year-Old Filly Heather Ala Roni Run Home Honey Bix’s Bet Firesweeper Soft Copy§ Nifty Misty Dawn Chalk Box Mahaska§ Zama Hummer§ Ladies Excuse Me§ Commercial Choice Happy La§ Favored One§ Another Sparkle Timely View

Older Horse of the Year Chinook Pass Chum Salmon Chum Salmon Zulu Whiz Leading Hour Gallant Sailor Saratoga Passage Snipledo Captain Condo Military Hawk Seattletoo Sneakin Jake L.J. Express Comininalittlehot Hoopstar

Turf Performer of the Year — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

Ito the Hammer Salish Shaman§ Makors Mark Jumron Won§ Bold Ranger Taiaslew§ Spanish Highway Norm’s Nephew Fast Parade§ Mulcahy§ Margo’s Gift Noosa Beach Slew the Man Jebrica§ Makors Finale§ Music of My Soul§ Noosito§ Betrbegone§ The Press Pulpits Power

Guinevere§ Weaving Justice Rings a Chime§ Graceful Cat No Turbulence§ Youcan’ttakeme Grinch§ Queenledo§ She’s All Silk Firetrail Enumclaw Girl§ Ladyledue§ Zenovit§ Castinette Dancer Quizzical Madame Pele Find Your Spot Ethan’s Baby Invested Prospect§ Risque’s Legacy§

Kittys Link Kittys Link Edneator Makors Mark Sabertooth I’madrifter Demon Warlock No Giveaway Pure as Gold The Great Face Wasserman Atta Boy Roy Noosa Beach Noosa Beach Absolutely Cool Stryker Phd Stryker Phd Stryker Phd Stryker Phd Mach One Rules

— — Classy Cara — — Handyman Bill — — Fast Parade — — Reba Is Tops Reba Is Tops Reba Is Tops — E Z Kitty Lady Rosberg Lady Rosberg — —

Most Improved Plater — Blue Rim Rock Exclusive Aim Rueful’s Rounder Spanish Smile Sucess Formula Chantalong Labeled Lady Premium Gallo Hostess Lady Aly’s Act Jessie Janey Casey’s Express Judgement Hour Just Diet Fleet Pacific Country Echo I Wood Be a Winner Avenging Passion Colterkind Badger K. Eli Ugotadowhatugotado Halonator Magoo Can Do Run Nicholas Run Hired Hand Blackcomb Run Sis’s Sis Chukchi Sunrise Kooky Saluki Skyribbon Dare Me Devil Among the Stars Percy’s Bluff Exit Sixty Slew

*Champion 2YO of the year; §Champion 3YO of the year.

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LINCHPIN Full brother to $2.2-million multiple G1 SW and Leading Sire QUALITY ROAD Out of a full sister to Champion AJINA ($1.3-million) QUALITY ROAD – • #1 FIFTH-CROP SIRE, #1 FOURTH-CROP SIRE, #1 THIRD-CROP SIRE, #1 FIRST-CROP SIRE • Top 5 active sire by Graded SWs in 2017, including Champions ABEL TASMAN and CALEDONIA ROAD • Over $24-million in progeny earnings; $85,708 average earnings per starter (AES) • “Stunning” individual who won four Grade 1 races and set three track records • “Well on his way to making his mark as a top-class sire.” –BloodHorse • What the trainers are saying about Quality Road and his runners: “A unique horse in that he had tremendous “... very genuine and very “Good minds.” speed and the ability to carry it over a route honest, which I have found –Bob Baffert, Chad Brown, of ground. He is off to an exceptional start in Quality Roads ...”

Mark Casse, Ralph Nicks, as a stallion, and it doesn’t surprise me ...”

–Neil Howard Wesley Ward –Todd Pletcher LINCHPIN, by Elusive Quality—Kobla, by Strawberry Road (Aus) Fee: $1,000 Live Foal, $200 booking fee

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Sire of 2017 WA Champion Colt/Gelding PULPITS POWER (pictured at left) Half-brother to Champion DECLARATION OF WAR Son of “Sire of Sires” PULPIT (TAPIT, SKY MESA, etc.)

Out of multiple stakes-producing half-sister to classic winner UNION RAGS (#2 Second-Crop Sire in 2017, #2 Freshman Sire in 2016) Pulpit—Tempo West, by Rahy • Fee: $1,000 Live Foal, $200 booking fee Also standing 7-time Washington Leading Sire PARKER’S STORM CAT Sire of Washington Champion 3YO BETRBEGONE • Sire also of Multiple Graded SW of $2.6-million BEN’S CAT Storm Cat—Macoumba, by Mr. Prospector • Fee: $2,000 Live Foal, $200 booking fee

GIBSON THOROUGHBRED FARM Elwin & Patti Gibson • (509) 964-2488 • E-mail gibsonfarm@fairpoint.net

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WASHINGTON RACING HALL OF FAME

Wesley Ward

From Selah farm boy ...

by Emily Shields 1984, collecting riding titles at Aqueduct, Belmont Park and The Meadowlands. In 1985, he guided a horse named Ferdinand to win a maiden race at Santa Anita; Ferdinand later won the 1986 Kentucky Derby (G1) under Bill Shoemaker.

As he aged, Ward dealt with an increasing weight issue by riding abroad, racing in Italy and Singapore before he was forced to retire as a jockey in 1989. [His final official ride occurred at Longacres on September 24, 1985.]

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ashington native Wesley Ward is one the great pioneers of modern day Thoroughbred racing. Though the Hall of Famer left to go on and conquer the world, first as a leading jockey and now as a reputable trainer, his global success traces right back to his Evergreen State roots.

Another Skill Set After two years of serving as an assistant to his father, Ward began training on his own.

He saddled his first winner – Martini Red – at Yakima Meadows on January 6, 1991. Just three years later he won his first stakes race as a trainer in the Will Rogers Handicap (G3) at Hollywood Park when Unfinished Symph scored a 16-to-one upset by a head.

The Aloha Prospector colt won the Cinema Handicap (G3) next out to prove his mettle.

At the end of the season, Unfinished Symph

Eclipse Award Winning Rider At 16 and under the eye of agent Lenny Goodman, who had handled the book for young Triple Crown winning rider Steve Cauthen, Wesley Ward made an immediate splash on the racing scene. He rode 335 winners during his march to be the Eclipse Award champion apprentice jockey title in 32

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Yakima County Roots Wesley A. Ward, born March 3, 1968, in Selah, hails from generations of horsemen, leaving him little choice but to excel on the same path. Maternal grandfather Jim Dailey was an outrider in New York, while paternal grandfather Glenn Ward rode races and later worked as a blacksmith. His father Dennis Ward is still training and Wesley’s mother, Jeanne, was also once a trainer Although as a four-year-old Ward made a somewhat infamous riding debut via a runaway horse that he fearlessly got under control, by the age of ten he was learning to ride properly under the tutelage of his father. By the time he turned 12, Ward was racing on the fair circuits in Washington and British Columbia, racking up wins with an eye on getting his riding license as soon as age allowed.

In 1984, at age 16, Wesley Ward earned the Eclipse Award as outstanding apprentice jockey. Four years later the hardworking young rider from Selah was aboard He’s a Cajun for his win in the Grade 3 Longacres Derby.

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finished third at 25-to-one in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1). He ultimately won a pair of Grade 2 contests the following year.

Ward’s career was stagnant for several years, but he never lost sight of his belief that as a trainer, he needs to be the first rider on the back of each young horse in his care, learning their quirks and talent before passing them on to other riders weeks later. When not in Kentucky or traveling the world, he spends

his hours at his Ward Ranch in Ocala, Florida, where he lives with his wife Kimberley and children Riley, Jackson and Denae. It is in Ocala that he breaks many of his equine charges himself.

This careful attention has led Ward to finding success with precocious juveniles.

Since 2009, Ward has won 48 percent of the two-year-old sprints run during the Keeneland spring meets, and he also trained Madman Diaries to be the 2010 Sovereign Award champion two-year-old male in Canada. Next, Ward took his show to Royal Ascot in England.

Foreign Firsts Ward became the first American-based trainer in history to win a race at the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting when his 33-to-one shot Strike the Tiger won the Windsor Castle Stakes in 2009. Just days later, Ward proved the first victory wasn’t a fluke when Jealous Again took the Queen Mary Stakes (G2) by five lengths.

He still considers receiving that trophy from the hands of Queen Elizabeth a thrill.

Since then, he won the 2013 Norfolk Stakes (G2) in track record time with No Nay Never, a son of Scat Daddy.

That runner became a Group 1 winner when taking the Prix Morny at Deauville

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... to Queen Elizabeth’s court

The ecstatic conditioner, decked out in top hat and tails as required by Royal Ascot protocol, gives Lady Aurelia a well-deserved drink of water after the three-year-old daughter of Scat Daddy won the King’s Stand Stakes (G1) at the prestigious English meet.

Ridden by John Velasquez, Lady Aurelia – the only sophomore in a field of 17 top sprinters – won the five-furlong race by three lengths. Her final time of :57.45 was just one-hundredth of a second past the course record. in France two months later. That trip to France was a triumphant return for Ward, who two years earlier had become the first American trainer to win at Longchamp with Tiz Terrific.

In 2014, Hootenanny won the Windsor Castle Stakes over 23 rivals, and Sunset Glow finished second in the Albany Stakes (G3). Sunset Glow, who raced for David Mowat’s Ten Broeck Farm, Inc., came back to win the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes at Del Mar less than seven weeks later, and three weeks after that added the Del Mar Debutante (G1) by a neck.

In 2015, Ward saddled a pair of brilliant

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The young trainer with his father and fellow trainer Dennis Ward and Unfinished Symph, who was not only Wesley’s first stakes (and graded) winner, but also did him proud as his initial Breeders’ Cup entrant with a third-place finish in the 1994 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

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chestnuts to Royal Ascot glory. The filly Acapulco broke her maiden in the Queen Mary Stakes and the Scat Daddy daughter won the Sole Power Sprint Stakes at the The Curragh in Ireland in 2017, increasing her record to four wins in seven starts. Ward’s popular runner Undrafted won the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1), a race where Ward had run second with Cannonball in 2009.

Undrafted has earned over $1.3-million with three stakes victories on his résumé.

Perhaps the most brilliant of all of Ward’s runners has been Lady Aurelia. Yet another Scat Daddy, the bay filly broke her maiden going 4 1/2 furlongs at Keeneland in 2016, scoring by 7 1/2 lengths as the odds-on favorite. She took the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot, then the Prix Morny, and was the first American-trained Cartier Award winner when named champion two-yearold filly that year. After an extended break, Lady Aurelia returned at three, once again at Royal Ascot, to win the King’s Stand Stakes (G1) by three lengths over older male sprinters. That effort earned accolades as an outstanding feat for a young, lightlyraced filly.

Other Clients Leading owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey, who are best known for the success of their champion grass runner and sire Kitten’s Joy, employ Ward as one of their trainers with the goal of winning a race at Royal Ascot.

So far, Ward’s best luck with the Ramseys has come domestically, with Pleasant Prince winning the Ohio Derby (G3) after running 33

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In 2014, Ward reached a high-water mark in his North American training career, when he not only won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Mile with Hootenanny and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint with Judy the Beauty, but placed with four other runners during the two-day world champion event at Santa Anita. the 1,000 win milestone as a trainer in 2011, now has over 1,600 victories and $53-million in purses to his credit. His ingenuity and courage in tackling new heights have not

only endeared him to those around the globe, but those in his home state of Washington, where he was enshrined in the Washington Racing Hall of Fame in 2015.

North American Jockey Statistics (1984-1989) Starts 5,933

1sts 740

2nds 662

3rds 673

Earnings $11,233,180

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Among the top horses he rode were: Longacres Derby (G3) winner He’s a Cajun, Grade 3 stakes winner Give Me a Hint, and stakes winners and graded stake-placed Lover’s Trust, Temerity Prince and Dynamic Star.

North American Trainer Statistics (1991-March 4, 2018) second by a nose in the Florida Derby (G1).

Grade 3 heroine Emotional Kitten missed by a half-length in the $350,000 American Oaks (G1), while Luck of the Kitten broke his maiden at Arlington Park, won the Zuma Beach Stakes at Santa Anita, and ran second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) in 2014.

That Breeders’ Cup day was the best of Ward’s career to date. He won the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) with subsequent Eclipse Award champion Judy the Beauty and ran one-two in the Juvenile Turf with Hootenanny and Luck of the Kitten. None of the six horses that Ward started that weekend ran worse than third, as he picked up second place finishes with Sunset Glow (Juvenile Fillies Turf), No Nay Never (Turf Sprint), and a third with Undrafted (Turf Sprint).

Ward, who in North America reached Emily Shields is a freelance writer based in Southern California. She has been covering horse racing since 2006.

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Starts 8,182

1sts 1,641

2nds 1,320

3rds 1,070

Earnings $53,215,986

Among the major horses he has trained are: Eclipse Award and Grade 1 winner Judy the Beauty, and additional Grade 1 winners Hootenanny and Sunset Glow; Canadian champion and Grade 3 winner Madman Diaries; Grade 2 winners Men’s Exclusive, Undrafted, Bear Fan, Unfinished Symph, Emotional Kitten, Shining Violet and Gypsy Robin; Grade 3 winners Pleasant Prince, Great Attack and No Nay Never.

Top Breeders’ Cup Finishes as Trainer (1994-2017, 32 starters) Unfinished Symph, 3rd 1994 Breeder’s Cup Mile Cannonball, 3rd 2007 Juvenile Turf Cannonball, 3rd 2009 Turf Sprint Holdin Bullets 3rd 2011 Juvenile Sprint Sweet Shirley Mae, 3rd 2012 Juvenile Sprint Judy the Beauty, 2nd 2013 Filly and Mare Sprint HOOTENANNY, 1st 2014 Juvenile Turf JUDY THE BEAUTY, 1st 2014 Filly and Mare Sprint (who he also owns) Luck of the Kitten, 2nd 2014 Juvenile Turf No Nay Never, 2nd 2014 Turf Sprint Sunset Glow, 2nd 2014 Juvenile Fillies Turf Undrafted, 3rd 2014 Turf Sprint Green Mask, 3rd 2015 Turf Sprint Also finished fourth with: Madman Diaries (2010 Juvenile Turf); Great Attack (2011 Turf Sprint); and Pleasant Prince (2011 Marathon).

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Dedicated to the memory of photographer Duane Hamamura

El Dorado Farms Open House 2018 Photos by Mitzi Tanis and M. Anne Sweet

El Dorado Farms held their annual open house on a crisp January afternoon, which saw over 70 interested horsemen in attendance.

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Mitzi Tanis

El Dorado Farm owner and manager Nina Hagen (below right) chats with Mullan and Pat Chinn and bloodstock agent Claudia A. Canouse.

Proven stallions Abraaj (above) and Coast Guard (above right) impressed those in attendance with their looks and condition, in addition to their lists of accomplishments as sires.

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Spokane horseman Tim Floyd (above left and below left) is responsible for El Dorado’s latest stallion addition, the well-bred Pontiff (at left and below right). Floyd and Yakima veterinarian Dr. Lutz Harfst (above right) look on as the bay son of Giant’s Causeway strutted out.

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Mitzi Tanis

Also new to El Dorado this year is Floyd and company’s 2004 Washington horse of the year and proven sire Demon Warlock (below).

WTBOA President and bloodstock agent Dana Halvorson (above center), shown with Nina Hagen, served as the event’s emcee.

Veterinarian Bob Campbell (above) provides details about the farm’s recent unforeseeable and tragic loss of champion racehorse and stallion Noosito.

Canouse converses with the other half of the El Dorado leadership, Ron Hagen (far right).

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Evaluating and Shoeing Foal Limb Deformities By examining and monitoring the horse early in life, the vet-farrier team can build a plan to provide a better outcome

by Jeff Cota Reprinted by permission of American Farriers Journal

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ime is not a friend when a foal is presented with crooked legs.

Growth plates close relatively quickly, which doesn’t leave a farrier and veterinarian much time if intervention is necessary.

“Growth is age and breed dependent, but the ballpark figure is that most of the fetlock growth is finished by 100 days,” Cornell University Equine Hospital veterinarian Norm Ducharme told attendees at the 2015 Cornell Farrier Conference. “If we’re going to do something, either with a shoe, with surgery or splints, we have to be working before 100 days. That means you have to do it before 99 days.”

Enough time has to be allowed for bone growth or change.

“We tend to deal with fetlocks in the first three or four weeks of life because there’s not so much growth,” he explains. “As it closes, it’s permanent. It is what it is.”

The hock generally is finished with most growth by 12 months and the growth plates close at 14 months.

“We tend to work later in life if we’re going to intervene,” Ducharme says. “That’s not true in all species. Draft horses grow longer, so big horses will have a longer window. The mini horse doesn’t grow at all, so their window is much shorter. So, depending on the joint, we’ll be more in a hurry or less in a hurry.”

He encourages vets and farriers to work together and have a plan in place.

“You and the veterinarian should look at the foal in the first few weeks of life to make decisions,” Ducharme advises. “Many crooked legs or deformities look better in a week and you don’t need to intervene. Some don’t. My advice to veterinarians is, look at the foal within two weeks of birth. If it’s crooked, you and the farrier should follow it.

If it’s not crooked, the farrier should advise you if it does get crooked. When you have to intervene, you shouldn’t wait too long because then nothing works.”

Why Are Legs Crooked?

Times have changed for the better regarding foals with deformities.

“The veterinary perspective used to be, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll put a screw in there and it’ll be fine,’” he recalls. “Now, if we can see them early enough and farriers have a chance to work with it, then I won’t have to do much surgery. That’s better for everyone – the cosmetic of the foal, the well-being of the foal and so forth.”

When looking at a foal for the first time, Ducharme and head farrier Steve Kraus determine the deformity and how it’s affecting the horse.

“Some mild deformity could have a tremendous effect on the foal’s gait,” Ducharme says. “Some mild deformity

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Examine a foal with two weeks of birth to ensure that deformities are identified and plenty of time is allowed for intervention, if necessary.

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When examing a foal with crooked legs, move to the side and line yourself up with the foot. This improves the rotational component.

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A mild varus or valgus limb isn’t necessarily bad. It can be protective of injuries. Deformities that are more severe or asymmetric are genuinely more problematic.

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When gluing on shores, layer the adhesive in small amounts to avoid creating a laminitic episode.

might barely affect how a foal walks. If the foal walks crooked and you let it walk this way, it’s going to get more crooked. If it walks well, despite the deformity, then there’s a good chance that the deformity will self-correct.”

A foal can be crooked for a number of reasons. It could have an angular deformity, a flexural deformity or rotational deformity.

Angular deformity. Angular limb deformities can take the form of a lateral or medial deviation.

“That’s a leg that’s going outward or inward,” Ducharme says. “If it’s going outward, we call it valgus. If it’s going inward, we call it varus. Rarely do foals have only one deformity – strictly valgus or varus.

They’re either toe-in or toe-out.”

Flexural deformity. This deformation commonly is referred to as contracted tendons, although it’s unlikely that true tendon contracture is the cause of the problem. The soft tissue structures of the forelimb, and less commonly the hind limb, align the limbs in varying extent of flexion.

Rotational deformity. The limb can have an acceptable alignment, but rotates outward because of variable muscle attachment. Foals with rotational deformation might appear to have a valgus fetlock at first glance.

“It can be rotated outward at the shoulder, the knee or the fetlock,” he says. “It could be rotated in multiple areas.”

Examining a Foal When presented with a foal, it might seem logical to examine it from the front.

“The first thing to do is not look at it from the front,” says Ducharme while displaying a photo of a foal that is toed-out. “From the front, you can tell the toes are facing outward (Figure 1). Now you want to decide, is this a valgus deformity or is this a rotational deformity. So, you move to the side and line yourself up with the foot (Figure 2).”

By doing this, you’ve removed the rotational component.

“You’re only looking at the bones,” he says. “Does the pastern line up with the cannon bone? If the answer is yes, then there’s Washington Thoroughbred

Figure 1.

Figure 2.

Figure 3.

no deformity. If the cannon bone is lined up with the radius, then you’d say there’s no angular deformity. The fact that the foot is outward is a pure rotational deformity.”

The foal in the photo that Ducharme is presenting, though, does not fit that description.

“When you look at the foal’s plumb line – or the mid-line of the cannon bone and the radius – there’s an angle,” he says. “This foal has a valgus deformity at the carpus.”

When observing the radius, Ducharme advises to avoid looking at the entire limb.

“If you look at the whole leg, the muscle on the outside will make it look like the forearm of the horse is bigger,” he says.

“The muscle is bigger laterally, so it makes you think the bone is more on the outside than it is.”

Not all deformities are bad, though.

“Many Thoroughbred racehorses are slightly varus behind, which is not necessarily a bad thing,” Ducharme says.

“A mild varus bilaterally might not be bad.

Just like a mild valgus at the knee is not necessarily bad. Actually, it’s protective of injuries. It’s when they are more severe or when they are asymmetric. Of course, it depends on what a horse does for a living.”

When taking radiographs, it’s important that a veterinarian pays attention to where the foot is.

“The radiograph is not a better way to determine whether the leg is straight,” he says. “The radiograph is a better way to tell us the cause of the deformity. If the veterinarian doesn’t line up the X-ray beam with the toe, then the fetlock will never be straight. You’ve got to line yourself up with the joint radiographically as well.”

There are instances, though, when a foal with an external rotation deformity or a valgus deformity breaks the mold.

“You still have to look at the leg because you have the odd horse that has a varus deformity, which is opposite as you’d expect,” Ducharme says. “The toes can be out in both directions. If you line yourself up with the foot, the pastern lines up with the cannon bone, but the radius, forearm and cannon bone will not line up. This is a varus deformity with an external rotation.”

Palpation can offer clues as well.

Actually, the farriers make the veterinarians look good.”

The final aspect to observe is the foot’s appearance and conformation.

“If a foal has yet to roll on the back of the heel,” he explains, “it will have a varus or valgus appearance when walking because they are rolling on the heel – it doesn’t have a flat heel.”

This will offer a clue to the problem, says Mike Wildenstein, the former head farrier at Cornell.

“The foot already changes shape within the first couple of days of life,” he says.

“That’s a road map to what is going on up above. If the heel is rolled under, that shows the horse has quite a deviation up above.”

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do a lot less “ Isurgeries because of the farrier work ...”

“If the bone is crooked, you can’t straighten bone,” he says. “If you can correct it by palpation (Figure 3), there’s either laxity present or there’s a condition called delayed ossification of the bone. The bones are not mature enough, so the leg is crooked because the bone has not ossified.”

Assessing the foal while it walks has the greatest value for Ducharme.

“That’s most important because it tells me how physiological it is,” he says. “If the foal is walking crooked, then it’s physical therapy is going the wrong way. The foal is going to get worse.”

This is when farriers have the greatest influence, he believes.

“I’ve been doing surgery since 1979,” Ducharme says. “I do a lot less surgeries on crooked legs now than I used to because of the farrier work. The shoes that were glued on back then would fall off every three days.

I think it was a glue problem, but this is fixed now. The shoes you put on stay on now.

Shoeing for Deformities When intervening with farriery, Kraus finds that he commonly uses the Ibex shoe on young foals.

“They’re very simple and quick,” he says.

“Wherever the foal needs support, you leave the tabs. Where you don’t need the tabs, you chop them off with your nippers. Then we glue it on real fast with Super Fast. You can do these by yourself, but it really makes a difference if you have a helper.”

It’s important that the client understands that a follow-up visit is absolutely necessary.

“If we didn’t tell the client to get this removed or bring the foal back within a couple of weeks, they’d leave it on as long as it would stay on,” Kraus says. “If it’s left on too long, we’d restrict the foot. So, we don’t want them on very long. Maybe we have it on for two weeks, off for a week and back on for a couple weeks.”

When applying quick curing adhesive, it’s critical to use care because it creates heat, which can lead to a foal sloughing its hoof.

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Cornell’s head farrier Steve Kraus drills holes in asymmetrical plates to provide more purchase with the adhesive. He recommends marking the shoes to avoid confusion during application. Care must also be taken when applying the adhesive to glue-on shoes, as it can cause a build-up of heat, which could lead to a foal sloughing its hoof. putting a great deal of glue on because it only takes a millimeter or two to hold those on,” Wildenstein explains. “The times we ran into trouble were when we tried to do a build-up on the outside of the hoof wall.”

To illustrate his point, Wildenstein recalls some experiments with cadaver limbs.

“We took a foal that had passed away for other reasons and brought the limb to room temperature,” he explains. “Then we did a build-up of Super Fast on the outside of the hoof wall with a thermometer and the sensitive tissues. We brought the temperature up to 245 degrees on the laminae. That’s the temperature that I cook my Thanksgiving roast at. So, that’s how you slough the hooves – too much heat creates a laminitic episode.”

Wildenstein recommends giving the foal breaks while gluing on the shoe.

“Use it in increments,” he says. “Just layer it in small amounts. Let it cool off, and then put some more on. You can get away with about a quarter of an inch in thickness.”

When intervening with a shoe, it’s important that the foal is not placed in a stall.

“The shoe is doing nothing if the foal is not walking,” Kraus says. “The foal has to have some exercise, some physical therapy that you’re creating.”

Another option when a foal needs lateral support is a Dalric Cuff.

“The side of the cup is mobile, so you wrap it around the foot,” Kraus says. “There will be a wing sticking out. Some of it you will cut off. Then you will screw it in to hold it in place. It’s very handy.”

It’s important to mind its placement, though.

“Be careful that the back of the cup is not hitting the back of the coronary band,” Ducharme says. “Some horses will get bruises there because it’s too high or it’s high for that fitting of the foal.”

There are deformities when a shoe won’t help.

“The red flag is when you’re dealing with a horse that has a valgus at the knee – the foot is outward and there’s a touch of varus at the

An Ibex shoe features tabs that provide support where the foal needs it. If the support is unnecessary, the tabs can be removed with nippers.

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fetlock,” Ducharme explains. “You shouldn’t use a shoe to try to bring that leg in because you’ll bring the fetlock in and cause a varus at the fetlock while the knee is out. That’s a lot harder to deal with.”

Asymmetrical plates are another option that both Kraus and Wildenstein have found are very effective.

“You can buy them or make them,” Kraus says. “It’s very quick and easy to do. I drill some holes in there just to give it more purchase for the glue.”

Preparing the foot and shoe is critical, though.

“The glues don’t stick as well to mill finish on shoes,” he says. “You definitely want a clean and roughened surface on the shoes.”

Kraus recommends marking the shoes to avoid problems during application.

“It’s very easy to get confused, especially when you’re trying to work fast with these foals and glues,” he says. “It’s very important to have a plan, mark your shoes and know what you’re doing. In recovery, when the foal is lying down, it’s hard to tell which is right and which is left. So, you really have to pay attention because it’s very easy to put them on backward.”

Ducharme reemphasizes that it’s imperative for the foal that the vet and farrier work together.

“I can look at the foal with a farrier and say, ‘Look how the foal is landing. What would you do or how would you adjust it?’” he says. “We pretty much always agree on how the foal is landing. We don’t always agree on the best way. Do you put on a shoe?

Do you put on an extension? Do you address the trim? I’ve learned through the years to let farriers do their jobs and discuss it, because you make the better choice.”

Jeff Cota has been a writer, photographer and editor with newspapers and magazines for 25 years. A native of Maine, he is the managing editor of American Farriers Journal.

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Key Statistics In Washington Breeding 2016 2017 Number of mares bred in Washington ...................................................................................346*................................................................257* Number of Washington-bred two-year-olds ...........................................................................214*................................................................260* Total purse monies earned by Washington-breds.........................................................$6,059,230......................................................$5,352,682 Average earnings per Washington-bred starter ...................................................................$8,880.............................................................$9,407 Number of Washington-bred starters .......................................................................................674..................................................................569 Number of Washington-bred winners ......................................................................................348..................................................................286 Number of races won by Washington-breds ............................................................................595..................................................................478 Number of breeders represented by a Washington-bred starter ...............................................286..................................................................259 Number of sires represented by a Washington-bred starter .....................................................141..................................................................126 Number of dams represented by a Washington-bred starter ....................................................503..................................................................422 Leading money-winning Washington-bred runner ....................................................SO LUCKY..................................... MACH ONE RULES ($103,835) ($145,595) Leading money-winning Washington-bred juvenile runner.......................................SO LUCKY..................................................BELLA MIA ($103,835) ($91,523) Leading money-winning breeder of Washington-breds .............BAR C RACING STABLES INC...................NINA M. AND RON A. HAGEN ($290,567) ($392,670) Leading money-winning owner of Washington-breds ............................... HOWARD BELVOIR........................................... R. E. V. RACING ($135,786) ($145,595) Leading Washington sire by money won ............................................ PARKER’S STORM CAT............................. PARKER’S STORM CAT ($686,895) ($459,747) Leading Washington sire by winners .................................................. PARKER’S STORM CAT............................. PARKER’S STORM CAT (33) (36) Leading Washington sire of juveniles by money won .......................................COAST GUARD........................................... ATTA BOY ROY ($125,625) ($143,751) Leading Washington sire of juveniles by winners ......................................................... ABRAAJ............................................COAST GUARD (3) (3) Broodmare of the year ................................................................................ NO CONSTRAINTS............................................... CHEDOODLE Revenue to the Washington Horse Racing Commission ..............................................$1,540,480......................................................$1,634,673 *Complete figures unavailable.

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2017 Breeders’ Awards

reeders’ awards distributed to breeders of Washington-breds who finished first, second or third in 2017 Emerald Downs races totaled $272,427, compared to B$345,678 in 2016.

Mandated by the state’s racing act in accordance with RCW 67.16.175, breeders’ awards are funded from a percentage of the exotic pari-mutuel wagering during live racing at Emerald Downs and its OTBs and are paid at the end of the race year. Beginning in 2004, of the Source Market Fees collected from advance deposit wagering, 2.5 percent goes to owners’ and breeders’ awards (WAC 260-49-070), split evenly at 1.25 percent to owners and 1.25 percent to breeders.

Breeders’ Awards Factor For many years, it was assumed that Emerald Downs retained six percent from daily gross receipts for exotic wagering on both live racing and simulcasting. Of that six percent, one percent was designated for breeders’ awards.

In 2017, it was determined that, in actuality, Emerald Downs had not been retaining six percent from the daily gross receipts on exotic wagering from simulcasting. Hence, going forward, breeders’ awards will be calculated on exotic wagering from live racing only. This dropped the distribution to breeders’ awards from $238,029 in 2016 to $59,049 in 2017. Emerald Downs provided a supplement of $100,000 to help make up the difference, in addition to $113,378 (1.25 percent) from Source Market Fees.

The total of $272,427 is allocated as 75 percent for first, 15 percent for second and ten percent for third. These totals are divided by the total amount of corresponding purse monies earned by Washington-breds, which creates three corresponding factors. The appropriate factor is then multiplied by the total purse monies won by each Washingtonbred to arrive at the breeders’ award amount.

Order of Finish Breeders’ Awards WA-bred Earnings Factor 1st (75%).................................. $204,230 .......................$1,682,625.................12.45% 2nd (15%) .................................. $40,864 ..........................$772,856...................5.29% 3rd (10%) ................................... $27,243 ..........................$510,128...................5.34%

Top 20 Recipients of 2017 Washington-bred Breeders’ Awards at Emerald Downs Nina and Ron Hagen....................................................................................$27,073.00 Bar C Racing Stables Inc. ............................................................................$26,044.03 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Pabst ..................................................................$18,772.72 Mr. and Mrs. Elwin F. Gibson .....................................................................$18,160.02 Dunn Bar Ranch LLC ..................................................................................$14,341.75 Mr. and Mrs. William T. Griffin...................................................................$12,184.07 Keith and Jan Swagerty ...............................................................................$11,213.36 Clemans View Farm .......................................................................................$6,345.10 Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Munger ...................................................................$5,447.35 Dr. and Mrs. Duane Hopp ..............................................................................$5,321.34 Dean and Ann Essex ......................................................................................$5,250.64 John Roche ....................................................................................................$4,869.70 Jeffrey Harwood ............................................................................................$4,076.42 Coal Creek Farm ............................................................................................$4,006.22 Karl C. Krieg .................................................................................................$3,868.04 Homestretch Farms ........................................................................................$3,596.01 Shady View Farm ...........................................................................................$3,516.03 Chris Stenslie .................................................................................................$3,255.17 Mark Malnati .................................................................................................$3,156.18 Robert F. and Phyllis Pulse ............................................................................$3,112.45

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2008 ...................................$722,448 2009 ...................................$617,720 2010 ...................................$338,009 2011 ...................................$337,485 2012 ...................................$371,505 2013 ...................................$353,048 2014 ...................................$350,636 2015 ...................................$355,846 2016 ...................................$345,678 2017 ...................................$272,427 Since breeders’ awards were first distributed in 1945, a total of $29,158,781 has been paid out to breeders of Washington-breds.

Owners’ Bonus Awards

The Washington-bred bonus was first established in August 1969. One percent of the pari-mutuel wagering, per RCW 67.16.102(1), during live racing at Emerald Downs and its OTBs (off-track betting locations) is paid at the end of the race year to all licensed owners whose Washingtonbred horses place first, second, third or fourth at Emerald Downs.

Beginning in 2004, of the Source Market Fees collected from advance deposit wagering, 2.5 percent goes to owners’ and breeders’ awards (WAC 260-49-070), split evenly at 1.25 percent to owners and 1.25 percent to breeders.

In 2017 the payment factor was 17.24 percent, compared to 16.70 percent in 2016.

Owners’ Bonus Awards 2008-17 2008 $670,524 2009 $655,803 2010 $363,095 2011 $463,440 2012 $526,448 2013 $530,218 2014 $533,672 2015 $539,014 2016 $525,805 2017 $553,454 Since the owners’ bonuses were first established in 1969, a total of $56,146,848 has been paid out to owners of Washington-breds.

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Top 50 Owners of Washington-breds The top 50 owners of Washington-breds of 2017 are listed on this page, arranged in descending order by total 2017 Washington-bred progeny earnings in North America and those foreign earnings available through The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

Owner YTD Starts YTD Earnings 1. R.E.V. Racing............................................................................... 19 ................ $184,620 2. Highlander Racing Stable LLC ...................................................... 8 ................ $120,418 3. Hollendorfer, LLC......................................................................... 10 ................ $106,725 4. John and Janene Maryanski.......................................................... 5 .................. $91,523 5. Rising Star Stable II ....................................................................... 5 .................. $90,687 6. Greg Conley, Chuck Conley and Terra Firma Farm ..................... 20 .................. $89,559 7. Don and Wanda Munger.............................................................. 77 ................. $69,837 8. Bryan W. Smith ............................................................................ 19 .................. $68,025 9. Terry Kristek .................................................................................. 8 .................. $60,774 10. John E. Parker ............................................................................. 40 .................. $57,996 11. Billy Speed Racing Stable ........................................................... 10 .................. $57,438 12. Coal Creek Farm ......................................................................... 10 .................. $55,952 13. John and Janene Maryanski and Riverbend Farm ........................ 7 .................. $50,717 14. Kevin Eikleberry ............................................................................. 2 .................. $49,188 15. How We Roll #4 ............................................................................. 4 .................. $47,888 16. Richard Sena ............................................................................... 11 .................. $46,434 17. Jerry Hollendorfer .......................................................................... 3 .................. $43,200 18. Chris Carpenter, Gina Esposito, Bill McLean and Greg Montano 12 .................. $43,005 19. Karl Krieg..................................................................................... 12 .................. $41,652 20. North American Thoroughbred Horse Company, Inc................... 10 .................. $40,299 21. Swag Stables and Gallo Stables ................................................. 15 .................. $39,778 22. Mark E. Malnati .............................................................................. 6 .................. $39,620 23. William Sandeman......................................................................... 9 .................. $38,835 24. Below The Rim Stable, Mediocre Racing and Blaine D. Wright Racing Stable LLC.................................... 3 .................. $38,680 25. Darrin L. Paul ............................................................................... 18 .................. $35,420 26. Todd and Shawn Hansen ............................................................ 11 .................. $34,468 27. Warlock Stables ........................................................................... 29 .................. $32,428 28. Shirley MacKenzie, Derek MacKenzie and Donald MacKenzie ..... 7 .................. $31,550 29. Swag Stables and 20/10 stables ................................................. 14 .................. $30,995 30. Shady Valley Ranch ..................................................................... 18 .................. $30,802 31. Mike Robbins ............................................................................... 17 .................. $30,792 32. Terry Hennessey.......................................................................... 11 .................. $30,660 33. James R. Craig ............................................................................ 25 .................. $30,017 34. Valentine L. (Picho) Garcia .......................................................... 21 .................. $29,837 35. Beate Holshouser ........................................................................ 19 .................. $29,346 36. Chris Stenslie .............................................................................. 22 .................. $28,925 37. Elwin Gibson and Arturo Arboleda .............................................. 34 .................. $28,350 38. Sue and Tim Spooner .................................................................. 24 .................. $27,710 39. Howard E. Belvoir ........................................................................ 31 .................. $27,702 40. Below The Rim and Woodway Stable ............................................ 2 .................. $27,085 41. Clemans View Racing and Bill Nicklos .......................................... 9 .................. $26,480 42. Warlock Stables and Horseplayers Racing Club 240 .................... 9 .................. $25,360 43. River Ridge Ranch LLC ................................................................. 6 .................. $24,408 44. Ed Zenker, H. R. Mullens and Richard Larson ............................... 6 .................. $24,380 45. Lori Going and Gonzalo Anderson Rodriquez ............................... 4 .................. $24,137 46. Homestretch Farms Inc. .............................................................. 14 .................. $24,119 47. Pegasus Too ................................................................................ 10 .................. $23,555 48. Luke Lindsey ................................................................................. 9 .................. $23,525 49. Prisco Vacca, Alan Bozell and Mike Phillips .................................. 9 .................. $23,504 50. Aithon Stable ............................................................................... 13 .................. $23,300 44

Leading Earner Earnings Mach One Rules ........ $145,595 Citizen Kitty .................. $120,418 Percy’s Bluff ................. $106,725 Bella Mia ........................ $91,523 Elliott Bay ....................... $90,687 Mike Man’s Gold ............ $52,125 Rifle Gernade................... $9,750 Westley .......................... $60,105 Can’t Get Enough .......... $60,774 Coast Is Clear ................ $19,786 Grace Bay ...................... $46,150 Dedicated to You ............ $40,710 Trump Itz ........................ $36,892 Squeeze Me ................... $49,188 Sippin Fire ...................... $47,888 Grinder Sparksaglo ........ $46,434 Percy’s Bluff ................... $43,200 Hal’s Buddy .................... $43,005 Risque’s Legacy ............. $40,175 Boundary Bay ................ $24,145 Faith Flys Again ............. $30,168 Retreat Yourself .............. $39,620 Gazing ........................... $29,125 Exit Sixty Slew ............... $38,680 Sugarseeker................... $16,135 Uno Trouble Maker ......... $12,945 Crimson Warlock ............ $18,460 Togrammashousewego .. $31,550 Keller’s Gold ................... $21,105 Cross Creek ................... $19,017 Ontheshadyside ............. $21,555 Never Everever .............. $30,660 Storm On the River ........ $20,314 Kenai King...................... $14,655 Rallying Market .............. $19,263 Island Girl....................... $12,335 Cat N Bird ........................ $9,340 Aprils Not Foolin............. $12,460 The Press ...................... $13,402 Pulpits Power ................. $27,085 Guardingthemoney ........ $26,480 Kaabraaj ........................ $25,360 Genithelamborghini ........ $24,408 Hit the Beach ................. $24,380 Raise a Dancer .............. $24,137 There’s No Doubt ........... $14,150 A Filly Can Dream .......... $15,875 Iwannabeadivatoo .......... $21,120 Pre Mo Diamond ............ $23,504 Zahabra ......................... $15,020 Washington Thoroughbred

Top 50 Washington Breeders Washington’s 50 leading breeders of 2017 are listed on this page, arranged in descending order by total 2017 Washington-bred progeny earnings in North America and those foreign earnings available through The Jockey Club Information Systems, Inc. In order to be included in any of the subsequent categories (number of wins, average earnings per runner or average earnings per start), the breeder must first have been included on the top 50 Washington breeders’ list by money won. Any breeder may receive his or her complete 2017 statistics by contacting the editor.

No. of Average Average 2017 Earnings Earnings Breeder (Leading 2017 Earner and Earnings) Starters 1sts Per Runner Per Start Earned 1. Nina M. and Ron A. Hagen (Percy’s Bluff, $106,725) ...................................... 22....... 30 ......$17,849 ........2,169 ... $392,670 2. Bar C Racing Stables Inc. (Mach One Rules, $145,593) ............................... 19....... 23 .........17,605 ........3,597 ..... 334,502 3. Mr. and Mrs. Elwin F. Gibson (Pulpits Power, $44,457) .................................... 26 ...... 30 ........10,135 ........1.351 ..... 263,513 4. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Pabst (Elliott Bay, $90,687) ..................................... 21....... 17 .........11,278 ........1,895 ..... 236,837 5. Keith and Jan Swagerty (Mike Man’s Gold, $52,819) ........................................ 8....... 12 .........19,810 ........2,780 ..... 158,482 6. Clemans View Farm (Never Everever, $30,660) ................................................ 9....... 15 .........17,385 ........1,932 ..... 156,468 7. Dunn Bar Ranch LLC (Citizen Kitty, $120,418) ................................................. 4......... 7 .........38,175 ........5,873 ..... 152,699 8. Mr. and Mrs. William T. Griffin (Bella Mia, $91,523) ........................................... 8....... 12 .........17,633 ........3,135 ..... 141,065 9. John Roche (Kota Copy, $22,295) ..................................................................... 7....... 11 .........15,443 ........1,613 ..... 108,102 10. Mr. and Mrs. Don L. Munger (Rifle Gernade, $19,880) .................................... 16......... 6 ...........5,776 ...........843 ....... 94,423 11. Coal Creek Farm (Dedicated to You, $40,710) .................................................. 5......... 1 .........17,560 ........1,909 ....... 87,798 12. Robert F. and Phyllis Pulse (Iwannabeadivatoo, $33,515)............................... 10......... 9 ...........8,774 ........1,487 ....... 87,735 13. Nina Hagen and Holly Sturgeon (Exit Sixty Slew, $61,487) .............................. 4......... 7 .........20,836 ........3,624 ....... 83,344 14. Jean M. G. Welch (Genithelamborghini, $24,408) ........................................... 13......... 5 ...........6,060 ........1,194 ....... 78,777 15. Dr. and Mrs. Duane Hopp (Targa, $32,455) ....................................................... 6......... 5 .........12,542 ........1,930 ....... 75,251 16. Bar C Racing Stables Inc. and Desert Rose Racing LLC (Sippin Fire, $47,888) ..... 4......... 6 .........18,354 ........2,159 ....... 73,417 17. Bryan W. Smith (Westley, $60,195).................................................................... 2......... 3 .........34,013 ........3,580 ....... 68,025 18. Connie L. Belshay (Squeeze Me, $49,188) ....................................................... 2......... 2 .........31,722 ........3,525 ....... 63,443 19. Prisco and Elizabeth Vacca (Pre Mo Diamond, $23,504) .................................. 7......... 7 ...........8,067 ........1,283 ....... 56,469 20. Shady Valley Farm (Cross Creek, $22,217) ...................................................... 5......... 6 .........11,111 ........1,852 ....... 55,557 21. Jill Fabulich and Kay Cooper (Rally Cup Rudy, $22,895) .................................. 3......... 7 .........18,168 ........2,271 ....... 54,504 22. Dean and Judy Anne Essex (Gazing, $35,175)................................................. 2......... 6 .........26,663 ........2,668 ....... 53,365 23. Allaire Farms (Cheese, $24,020) ....................................................................... 7......... 3 ...........7,432 ........1,269 ....... 52,027 24. Karl Krieg (Risque’s Legacy, $40,175) .............................................................. 5......... 1 .........10,297 ........3,029 ....... 51,487 25. Steve and Sally Meredith (Corky’s Luck, $24,098) ........................................... 6......... 5 ...........8,271 ........1,654 ....... 49,628 26. Mark Malnati (Retreat Yourself, $39,620) .......................................................... 2......... 1 .........24,429 ........4,071 ....... 48,857 27. Todd and Shawn Hansen (Call Me Cinderella, $14,160) ................................... 5......... 4 ...........9,725 ........1,870 ....... 48,623 28. Jeffrey and Doris Harwood (Hit the Beach, $29,820) ........................................ 2......... 5 .........24,173 ........2,544 ....... 48,345 29. Marvin Lynd and Richard Sena (Grinder Sparksaglo, $46,434) ........................ 1......... 4 .........46,434 .......4,221 ....... 46,434 30. Oak Crest Farm (Mixo, $17,091) ....................................................................... 6......... 2 ...........7,452 ........1,091 ....... 44,711 31. Mrs. Chris Stenslie (Kings Court, $22,659) ....................................................... 3......... 7 .........14,893 ........1,396 ....... 44,679 32. Quadrun Farms LLC (Pete’s Slew, $34,260) ..................................................... 2......... 5 .........22,089 ........1,921 ....... 44,178 33. Ray McCanna (Hal’s Buddy, $43,005) ............................................................... 1......... 2 .........43,005 ........3,584 ....... 43,005 34. Elliott Simkins (Listo, $41,453) .......................................................................... 1......... 4 .........41,453 ........4,145 ....... 41,453 35. Darrin Paul (Sugarseeker, $16,135) .................................................................. 5......... 1 ...........7,812 ........1,627 ....... 39,058 36. Homer Thoroughbreds (Fashion Prospect, $9,590) ........................................ 13......... 7 ...........2,889 ...........637 ....... 37,557 37. Ron McCormack and Ron Hagen (Raise a Dancer, $36,624)........................... 1......... 3 .........36,624 ........5,232 ....... 36,624 38. Charlene J. Keyes (Mykx, $14,570) ................................................................... 6......... 5 ...........5,964 ...........957 ....... 35,783 39. Tim Donohue (Atta Boy Bear, $27,538) ............................................................. 2......... 2 .........17,857 ........2,381 ....... 35,713 40. David Breiwick (Ready Set Jet, $16,520) .......................................................... 3......... 3 .........11,784 ........1.607 ....... 35,352 41. Bret Christopherson (Boundary Bay, $24,145) .................................................. 2......... 2 .........17,160 ........5,720 ...... 34,320 42. Jeff and Teresa Lynd (Ila Veiw, $24,552) ........................................................... 2......... 4 .........16,671 ........2,223 ....... 33,342 43. Mr. and Mrs. David A. Thorner/Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hoctor (Bella Angelina, $32,750) . 1......... 3 .........32,750 ........2,729 ....... 32,750 44. Shirley MacKenzie (Togrammashousewego, $31,550) ...................................... 1......... 1 .........31,550 ........4,507 ....... 31,550 45. Carlos Cerna, Bill Trabold and Ron Hagen (Gold Finga, $23,320) .................... 2......... 3 .........15,268 ........1,796 ....... 30,535 46. Chuck Peterson (Swingshift Deputy, $28,900) .................................................. 1......... 1 .........28,900 ........3,613 ....... 28.900 47. Howard E. Maggard (Betrbegone, $23,259) ...................................................... 3......... 2 ...........8,246 ........1,455 ....... 24,739 48. Carnation Racing Stables Inc. (Flood Watch, $12,421) ..................................... 3......... 3 ...........8,181 ........1,227 ....... 24,542 49. Howard Belvoir (Nightwalker, $11,108) ............................................................. 4......... 2 ...........6,111 ...........679 ....... 24,445 50. C. E. “Rich” and Ann Richardson (Rojo Bou Peep, $13,458) ............................. 3......... 2 ...........8,076 ...........757 ....... 24,228 Spring 2018

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Leading Washington-bred Money Winners of All Time Through 2017. Bold type indicates horses who raced in 2017.

Horse, YOB, Sire Starts Saratoga Passage, 1985, Pirateer ................................ 22 Military Hawk, 1987, Colonel Stevens.......................... 86 Peterhof’s Patea, 1988, Peterhof ................................. 52 Stryker Phd, 2009, Bertrando ..................................... 27 Rings a Chime, 1997, Metfield..................................... 13

1st 2nd 6 3 18 15 16 14 11 5 4 5

3rd 5 19 6 6 2

Earned $800,212 $686,128 $623,367 $619,841 $606,315

Horse, YOB, Sire Starts Crafty Native, 1973, Native Born.................................. 76 Sempai, 1998, Bertrando ........................................... 62 Harmony Creek, 1986, Sensitive Music ....................... 20 Foxy Sneakers, 1997, Son of Briartic ........................... 38 Crystal Run, 1984, Table Run ...................................... 40

1st 2nd 16 20 16 10 7 1 10 6 8 9

Atta Boy Roy, 2005, Tribunal ...................................... 36 Wasserman, 2002, Cahill Road .................................. 83 Noosa Beach, 2006, Harbor the Gold ......................... 22 Captain Condo, 1982, Captain Courageous.................. 70 Chinook Pass, 1979, Native Born ................................ 25

14 13 14 30 16

8 15 4 16 4

1 14 2 7 1

$602,276 $599,091 $524,472 $511,695 $480,073

I’madrifter, 1998, Slewdledo ........................................ 25 Table Hands, 1977, Table Run ..................................... 11 Minutes Away, 1982, Just the Time ............................. 32 Gallant Goalie, 1986, Gallant Best .............................. 109 Al Renee, 1991, Al Mamoon ........................................ 38

7 6 18 37 11

Funboy, 1991, Gumboy ............................................... 49 Pure as Gold, 2002, Stolen Gold.................................. 19 Fast Parade, 2003, Delineator ...................................... 11 Run Away Stevie, 1989, Table Run .............................. 40 Reba Is Tops, 2004, He’s Tops .................................. 30

13 7 6 12 14

8 3 2 10 6

9 1 0 6 5

$478,180 $476,444 $475,013 $468,267 $464,267

Diglett, 1998, Alnaab ................................................... 23 Kobuk Country, 1975, Eager Eagle............................... 81 Name for Norm, 1994, Jazzing Around ........................ 36 Demon Warlock, 2000, Demons Begone ..................... 28 Edneator, 1996, Delineator .......................................... 26

Refried Dreams, 1993, Lac Ouimet .............................. 51 Cadette Stevens, 1988, Colonel Stevens ...................... 30 Sneakin Jake, 1987, Table Run .................................... 76 Moscow M D, 1989, Moscow Ballet ............................ 69 Makors Mark, 1997, Son of Briartic ............................. 29

15 11 16 16 11

5 9 19 13 0

5 5 10 11 3

$453,570 $453,539 $439,590 $435,843 $430,753

Belle of Rainier, 1979, Windy Tide ............................... 43 Snipledo, 1985, Slewdledo .......................................... 45 Love All the Way, 1995, Majesterian ............................ 50 Absolutely Cool, 2007, Absolute Harmony .................. 48 Legendary Weave, 1998, Basket Weave ...................... 45

17 17 14 12 9

6 6 6 13 8

4 7 10 11 10

Classy Cara, 1997, General Meeting ............................ 10 Taiaslew, 2000, Slewdledo .......................................... 23 Kent Green, 1983, Jacango ....................................... 102 Comininalittlehot, 1991, Just the Time ......................... 36 Prairie Breaker, 1980, Sir Paulus .................................. 58

4 11 13 10 12

2 3 14 7 8

Jazznwithwindy, 1994, Jazzing Around ........................ 71 Delicate Vine, 1984, Knights Choice ............................. 5 Chum Salmon, 1980, Gaelic Dancer ............................ 29 Royal Reach, 1986, Son of Briartic.............................. 47 Hilco Scamper, 1983, Knights Choice .......................... 20

18 4 13 7 8

Item Two, 1978, Gray Dancer ...................................... 78 Bonne Nuite, 1989, Knights Choice ............................. 65 Trooper Seven, 1976, Table Run .................................. 28 Jumron Won, 1998, Jumron (GB)................................ 40 Staff Rider, 1990, Staff Writer ...................................... 18

3rd 9 7 3 3 4

Earned $295,254 $293,774 $292,347 $292,092 $291,252

1 0 4 16 8

4 3 5 21 2

$291,212 $290,595 $290,195 $287,894 $285,534

6 17 11 10 6

4 11 7 3 2

5 11 8 5 4

$280,894 $280,364 $278,367 $278,335 $273,785

Tiger Slew, 1998, Rolls Aly ......................................... 87 Abergwaun Lad, 1986, Island Whirl ............................. 33 El Diago, 1996, Santiago Peak ..................................... 75 Sprink, 1978, Canadian Gil .......................................... 54 Late Sailing, 1990, Capt. Don ...................................... 30

23 16 21 7 11

17 4 10 10 8

8 5 7 7 1

$271,190 $270,575 $268,933 $266,870 $265,419

$424,526 $409,905 $408,734 $406,892 $406,350

Son’s Corona, 1995, Son of Briartic ............................ 23 Icksnay, 1992, Mighty Courageous .............................. 66 I. M. Bzy, 1995, Kansas City........................................ 30 Slewsbox, 1997, Slewdledo ........................................ 14 Merlin of York, 1982, Table Run ................................... 96

4 15 7 9 17

8 19 5 3 14

2 10 6 0 14

$264,913 $264,712 $262,352 $261,085 $259,875

2 2 14 8 9

$405,847 $404,177 $395,469 $393,627 $392,815

Random Gold, 2001, Personable Joe .......................... 52 Peter’s Pond, 1995, Petersburg ................................... 88 Mustard Plaster, 1959, Mr. Mustard ............................. 75 Tilt the Balance, 1975, Balance of Power ..................... 53 Mine Tonight, 1983, Upper Nile.................................... 45

15 18 17 12 10

10 11 15 9 5

8 15 6 7 7

$257,847 $256,638 $256,010 $255,545 $254,844

10 0 4 4 5

15 1 5 6 0

$391,739 $390,370 $388,195 $383,885 $382,205

My Oooo Aah, 1992, Chisos ....................................... 42 My First Lady, 1997, Caller I. D.................................... 32 Flag de Lune, 1980, Flag Officer .................................. 15 Let Bob Do It, 1993, Percifal........................................ 13 Pataha Prince, 1965, Strong Ruler ............................... 84

7 12 5 5 27

7 6 3 3 16

9 2 3 1 9

$254,679 $254,620 $252,147 $251,960 $249,523

23 16 13 11 9

11 15 5 5 3

11 14 3 9 1

$379,580 $376,161 $371,435 $366,574 $364,699

Advancing Ensign, 1985, Blue Ensign .......................... 69 Guinevere, 1995, Fit to Fight ........................................ 24 Timely View, 1994, Just the Time ................................ 28 Tali’sluckybusride, 1999, Delineator.............................. 5 Mike Man’s Gold, 2010, Liberty Gold.......................... 39

8 8 6 2 12

11 2 8 0 5

10 1 4 2 5

$248,604 $248,510 $248,488 $245,160 $243,528

Firesweeper, 1983, Drum Fire ...................................... 34 Margo’s Gift, 2005, Polish Gift .................................. 28 Ambessa, 1984, Holy War........................................... 53 Marvelous Wonder, 1985, Pappagallo (Fr) ................... 49 Seattletoo, 1989, Taj Alriyadh ...................................... 66

13 9 18 17 20

5 3 7 4 18

3 4 6 9 7

$363,394 $356,507 $352,235 $350,015 $348,415

Queenledo, 2002, Slewdledo ....................................... 18 Cocktails Anyone, 1993, Petersburg ............................ 28 Spring Trooper, 1984, Trooper Seven ........................... 31 Full Power Ahead, 2004, Helmsman ............................ 66 Court Shenanigans, 1995, Petersburg ......................... 98

7 8 12 16 15

7 10 6 8 23

0 4 3 11 19

$242,824 $242,545 $242,544 $242,386 $241,924

T. D. Passer, 1987, Drouilly (Fr) ................................... 41 Jebrica, 2008, Liberty Gold ......................................... 35 Indian Weaver, 2002, Basket Weave ........................ 104 Court’s in Session, 1999, Petersburg .......................... 51 The Great Face, 2002, Cahill Road .............................. 16

8 8 15 10 7

4 5 25 8 2

5 8 10 10 2

$347,856 $342,253 $341,668 $341,155 $340,159

Del Rio Harbor, 2011, Harbor the Gold ....................... 21 Great Threads, 1992, Son of Briartic ........................... 50 Keen Knight, 1983, Knights Choice.............................. 44 Shes a Sure Bet, 1989, Staff Writer ............................. 20 Mahaska, 1987, Just the Time..................................... 28

7 10 15 8 6

5 9 8 5 5

4 10 4 1 4

$238,938 $237,830 $235,698 $235,300 $235,253

Program Thief, 1996, Son of Briartic ........................... 30 Dash Eight, 1993, Son of Briartic ................................ 76 Avenging Passion, 1997, Petersburg ........................... 63 Chalk Box, 1986, White Fir .......................................... 57 Point of Reference, 2006, Benchmark ......................... 27

4 12 13 13 10

4 8 14 9 4

3 14 11 13 7

$339,864 $338,808 $335,300 $330,824 $328,687

Snow Plow, 1979, Royal Ski........................................ 14 Jellystone Park, 1989, Skywalker ................................ 41 Dutch, 1992, Just the Time ......................................... 52 Kolob, 1997, Consigliere (GB) ..................................... 52 Wild Cycle, 2004, Free At Last .................................... 61

4 11 12 10 10

0 5 13 9 14

1 7 9 9 8

$234,495 $233,653 $233,395 $233,125 $232,791

Billy’s Echo, 1998, Personable Joe .............................. 40 Kittys Link, 1994, Mickey Le Mousse .......................... 40 Sabertooth, 1998, Petersburg...................................... 32 Pic O Them All, 1988, Drouilly (Fr) .............................. 92 Staff Riot, 1984, Staff Writer........................................ 23

8 10 8 24 7

7 8 9 20 3

6 7 1 16 2

$323,808 $323,376 $322,668 $320,919 $319,285

Pheiffer, 1998, Lyphaness ........................................... 28 Gallant Sailor, 1983, Gallant Best ................................. 77 Deacon Speakin, 2006, Timber Legend ....................... 63 A Little Bit Tipsy, 1985, Table Run................................ 38 Got You Runnin, 1982, Table Run ................................ 29

8 5 8 10 5

6 8 13 7 5

6 9 7 6 2

$232,270 $231,805 $231,532 $230,487 $228,925

Slew of the Night, 1999, Slewdledo ............................. 41 Smokin Mel, 1994, Phone Order .................................. 17 Soft Copy, 1984, Staff Writer ....................................... 30 Fleet Pacific, 1994, Colonel Stevens ............................ 30 Loto Canada, 1977, Saltville ........................................ 33

9 5 11 15 11

12 3 6 5 5

5 2 4 2 10

$318,822 $318,719 $313,153 $313,058 $311,993

Midwesterner, 2003, Petersburg ................................ 40 Moonlately, 1977, Philately.......................................... 63 Favored One, 1992, Son of Briartic .............................. 11 Zulu Whiz, 1981, Meritable .......................................... 78 Que Facil Corazon, 1998, Mr. Easy Money ................... 35

9 13 4 24 11

7 10 2 10 5

2 13 2 9 3

$228,425 $228,150 $227,965 $227,460 $226,761

Melanyhasthepapers, 2001, Game Plan ....................... 26 Gadget Queen, 2004, Flying With Eagles .................... 37 L. J. Express, 1990, Basket Weave .............................. 43 Biggs, 1960, *Domingo .............................................. 72 Super Seven, 1983, Trooper Seven .............................. 90

5 10 21 18 18

4 11 7 17 17

8 5 2 7 14

$311,152 $309,030 $306,230 $305,797 $303,929

Dancing Ovation, 1991, Northern Jove ........................ 43 Norm’s Nephew, 2002, Jazzing Around ...................... 30 We Will Prevail, 2000, Fit to Fight ................................ 77 Thoughtuknew, 2002, Delineator ................................ 53 Slew Is King, 2000, Slewdledo .................................... 39

7 7 20 13 12

5 7 10 11 1

5 4 8 6 4

$226,575 $226,373 $224,974 $224,934 $224,218

E Z Kitty, 2008, He’s Tops ........................................... 27 Miss Pixie, 1997, Petersburg ....................................... 62 I Wood Be a Winner, 1995, Knight Skiing ..................... 95 Ten Across, 2000, Cisco Road ................................... 65 Aunt Sophie, 1998, Altazarr ......................................... 35

14 8 27 21 10

3 8 15 17 5

4 13 16 9 7

$303,837 $301,619 $300,123 $297,158 $297,155

Whodatorsay, 1974, *Star Ice ..................................... 65 Hot Metal, 1983, Drum Fire ....................................... 102 Allowance, 1980, Champagne Supper ......................... 92 Maxibob, 1987, Pappagallo (Fr) ................................... 82 Blue Rim Rock, 1978, Second Pleasure ....................... 64

9 14 10 15 21

17 23 10 12 19

10 21 19 10 5

$223,936 $223,628 $223,270 $223,132 $222,521

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RALLYING CRY HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING? #2 2017 Leading Washington 3rd Crop Sire by Earnings #2 2017 Leading Washington 3rd Crop Sire by Wins – 10 winners/13 starters (76.9%) Sire of 2017 Sp Ila Veiw, 3rd Multnomah Falls H. (3-3-2 from 10 starts and earnings of $33,712) $331,400 SW with stakes placements in UAE (2,000 Guineas-G3), Saratoga and Belmont; winner on all three surfaces, going short and long 2004, War Chant-Turning Wheel, by Seeking the Gold 2018 Stud Fee: $500, $50 Booking Fee, balance due with live foal

TRICKEY TREVOR DURABILITY – TOUGHNESS – CLASS GET THAT WINNING ATTITUDE: 25% 2YO winners/starters Sire of Washington 2YO Champion Filly FINDING MORE BOLD RULER Sire Line 6-time SW of $701,224 (20 wins total), led by a 3-length tally in Grade 2 Churchill Downs H. 1999, Demaloot Demashoot—Show Your Pride, by Silver Deputy 2018 Stud Fee: $750, $50 Booking Fee, balance due with live foal

And introducing ...

OTTO’S ECHO “I had the pleasure to have Otto’s Echo in my stable for his first training experience.

When he arrived he was big, correct and athletic-looking. He had good bone and stood over a lot of ground. When he was asked to breeze he showed tremendous speed. A good stallion needs size, balance and speed like Otto’s Echo.”

— Rick Taylor, Special T By sire of 4 champions and a full brother to major racehorse and sire KINGMAMBO, both sons of twice leading sire and world-wide sire influence MR. PROSPECTOR Out of Hollywood Park MSW winner and full sister to $323,808 Southern California SW BILLY’S ECHO Family of Washington champion 2YO Filly TIME OF SALE, undefeated G2 winner WHAT A SONG and many other high-class stakes horses nationwide 2010, Kitalpha—Dafne’s Echo, by Personable Joe 2018 Stud Fee: $200 donation to approved animal charity Special consideration to first five approved mares. Owned by Tabish & Hartshorn.

Inquiries to Barbara Meeking (360) 779-9230 or Emily Wilmot (360) 932-4681 2651 NE Heron Pond Lane, Poulsbo, WA 98370

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History of WTBOA Mixed Sales 1981-2017 Overall Sale Date No. Total Receipts Average 12-81 .........................443 ..................$2,476,200 ......................$5,560 12-82 .........................388 ....................1,868,700 ........................4,816 12-83 .........................403 ....................1,335,300 ........................3,313 12-84 .........................317 .......................723,700 ........................2,282 12-85 .........................303 .......................678,300 ........................2,238 12-86 .........................433 ....................1,035,200 ........................2,391 12-87 .........................359 .......................873,350 ........................2,433 12-88 .........................365 .......................916,500 ........................2,511 12-89 .........................376 .......................855,900 ........................2,276 12-90 .........................403 ....................1,053,800 ........................2,615 12-91 .........................403 .......................980,200 ........................2,432 12-92 .........................221 .......................645,054 ........................2,919 12-92* ........................58 .......................704,600 ......................12,148 12-93 .........................245 .......................835,717 ........................3,411 12-94 .........................180 .......................742,800 ........................4,127 12-95‡ ......................334 ....................1,336,600 ........................4,002 12-96 .........................281 ....................1,113,550 ........................3,963 12-97 .........................241 .......................934,900 ........................3,879 12-98 .........................243 .......................927,100 ........................3,815 12-99 .........................246 ....................1,021,200 ........................4,151 9-00** ......................44 ....................1,625,800 ......................36,950 12-00 .........................256 ....................1,104,250 ........................4,313 12-01 .........................232 .......................897,600 ........................3,869 10-02 .........................167 .......................557,200 ........................3,337 12-03 .........................152 .......................730,100 ........................4,803 12-04 .........................217 .......................896,150 ........................4,130 12-05 .........................197 .......................634,000 ........................3,218 12-06 .........................186 .......................675,100 ........................3,630 12-07 .........................136 .......................458,900 ........................3,374 12-08 ...........................73 .......................146,900 ........................2,012 12-09 ..........................84 .......................100,000 ........................2,012 9-10§ ........................41 .........................50,800 ........................1,239 9-11§ ........................15 .........................27,500 ........................1,833 9-12§ ........................14 .........................16,200 ........................1,157 8-13§ ..........................7 .........................41,200 ........................5,886 8-14§ ........................28 .........................25,300 .......................... 904 8-15§ ..........................8 .........................29,000 ........................3,500 8-16§ ..........................8 ...........................7,100 ...........................888 8-17§ ..........................1 ...........................3,700 ........................3,700 * Dispersal of horses from the estate of Heather DeDomenico ‡ Included dispersal of horses from the estate of Diane C. Kem **Dispersal of horses from 505 Farms, Narvick International, Agent § Session included in summer yearling and mixed sale; includes paddock session horses

History of WTBOA Summer Yearling Sales 1968-2017 Date Sold Total Receipts Average Topper 8-68 ................67 ..................$251,600 ............. $3,757 ..............$6,700 8-69 ................74 ....................284,100 ............... 3,859 ..............11,500 8-70 ................81 ....................199,900 ............... 2,467 ..............10,000 8-71 ................71 ....................320,000 ............... 4,518 ..............17,500 8-72 ................85 ....................401,300 ............... 4,721 ..............23,500 8-73 ................77 ....................365,500 ............... 4,747 ..............25,000 8-74 ................86 ....................484,300 ............... 5,631 ..............16,000 8-75 ................77 ....................467,300 ............... 6,069 ..............17,000 8-76 ................83 ....................772,600 ............... 9,308 ..............38,000 8-77 ................76 ....................858,300 ............. 11,293 ..............45,000 8-78 ................77 ....................999,200 ............. 12,975 ............140,000 8-79 ................84 .................1,388,100 ............. 16,525 ..............52,000 8-80 ................83 .................1,572,000 ............. 18,940 ..............90,000 8-81 ................85 .................2,098,000 ............. 24,682 ............110,000 8-82 ................78 .................1,515,000 ............. 19,423 ..............70,000 8-83 ................91 .................1,787,700 ............. 19,863 ..............85,000 8-84 ................96 .................1,543,500 ............. 16,078 ..............45,000 8-85 ..............151 .................1,307,000 ............... 8,656 ..............45,000 8-86 ..............142 .................1,278,200 ............... 9,001 ..............70,000 8-87 ..............155 .................1,636,900 ............. 10,561 ............130,000 8-88 ..............153 .................1,362,100 ............... 8,903 ..............45,000 8-89 ..............164 .................2,081,500 ............. 12,692 ..............62,000 8-90 ..............159 .................2,215,400 ............. 13,367 ..............62,000 8-91 ..............156 .................1,456,800 ............... 9,338 ..............60,000 8-92 ..............159 .................1,450,500 ............... 9,123 ..............50,000 8-93 ..............160 .................1,845,600 ............. 11,535 ..............78,000 8-94 ..............160 .................1,861,500 ............. 11,634 ..............68,000 8-95 ..............162 .................2,427,900 ............. 14,987 ............120,000 8-96 ..............140 .................2,215,500 ............. 15,825 ..............95,000 8-97 ..............150 .................2,560,100 ............. 17,067 ............140,000 9-98 ..............140 .................2,357,800 ............. 16,841 ..............68,000 9-99 ..............154 .................2,810,600 ............. 18,251 ............125,000 9-00 ..............147 .................3,013,500 ............. 20,500 ............185,000 9-01 ..............136 .................2,289,900 ............. 16,838 ............105,000 9-02 ..............144 .................2,372,100 ............. 16,473 ............120,000 9-03 ..............156 .................2,482,500 ............. 15,913 ............105,000 9-04 ..............151 .................2,546,800 ............. 16,866 ..............92,000 9-05 ..............150 .................2,693,900 ............. 17,959 ............100,000 9-06 ..............154 .................2,376,300 ............. 15,431 ..............75,000 9-07 ..............176 .................2,146,600 ............. 15,190 ..............80,000 9-08 ..............111 .................1,271,300 ............. 11,453 ..............92,000 9-09 ..............102 ....................848,600 ............... 8,320 ..............60,000 9-10§ ..............80 ....................832,400 ............. 10,405 ..............80,000 9-11§ ..............75 ....................926,000 ............. 12,347 ............105,000 9-12§ ..............75 ....................833,200 ............. 11,776 ..............55,000 8-13§ ..............78 .................1,212,600 ............. 15,546 ..............70,000 8-14§ ..............81 .................1,300,500 ............. 16,056 ..............57,000 8-15§ ..............76 .................1,413,900 ............. 18,604 ..............80,000 8-16§ ..............84 .................1,431,400 ............. 17,040 ..............78,000 8-17§ ..............90 .................1,162,100 ............. 12,912 ..............67,000

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Washington Thoroughbred

Leading WTBOA Sales Earners of All Time Through December 31, 2017. Bold type indicates horse who raced in 2017.

Horse Smiling Tiger City to City Stryker Phd Peterhof’s Patea Grillhouse Rings a Chime Atta Boy Roy Time to Pass Funboy California Diamond Fast Parade Refried Dreams Collect Call Almost Golden Love All the Way Legendary Weave Classy Cara Kent Green Comininalittlehot Jazznwithwindy Chum Salmon Staff Rider Firesweeper Margo’s Gift T.D. Passer Polynesian Flyer Jebrica Indian Weaver Court’s in Session Program Thief The Great Face Avenging Passion Flying With Eagles Fair Apache R. Baggio Soft Copy Melanyhasthepapers Carrie With a C Crafty Native Harmony Creek Foxy Sneakers Mach One Rules Al Renee Island Echo Diglett Yacht Spotter Name for Norm Irguns Angel Son’s Corona I. M. Bzy Catahoula Rose Peter’s Pond Appealing Resume Flag de Lune Timely View Tali’sluckybusride Spring Trooper Notoriously Great Threads Shes a Sure Bet Ivanho Jellystone Park Dutch Kolob Wild Cycle Reve Du Deputy Sue Switzerland Midwesterner Zulu Whiz Dancing Ovation We Will Prevail Thoughtuknew Hot Metal Blue Rim Rock Fully Approved

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Sire—Dam, Sex Hold That Tiger—Shandra Smiles, c.

City Zip—Stormbow, f.

Bertrando—Striking Scholar, g.

Peterhof—Tea At Ten, f.

Metfield—Tinted Ivory, c.

Metfield—Outofthebluebell, f.

Tribunal—Irish Toast, r.

Time to Explode—Parsifal, g.

Gumboy—Sunday Fun, c.

Harbor the Gold—Carrie’s a Jewel, c.

Delineator—Parade of Gold, g.

Lac Ouimet—Country Jewel, g.

Meadowlake—Negative Pledge, f.

Golden Act—Admiral Minnie, c.

Majesterian—Lovewillfindaway, g.

Basket Weave—Graduation Time, g.

General Meeting—Anastastia Honey, f.

Jacango—Dark American, g.

Just the Time—Isle of View, g.

Jazzing Around—Windy to a Lark, f.

Gaelic Dancer—Saree, g.

Staff Writer—Sunrise River, g.

Drum Fire—Skysweeper, f.

Polish Gift—Burgundy Jones, g.

Drouilly (Fr)—Nuera (Chi), c.

Flying Lark—Dalphin Dancer, c.

Liberty Gold—Peaceful Wings, g.

Basket Weave—Go for Jackie, c.

Petersburg—Crafty Court, g.

Son of Briartic—Royal Millinery, c.

Cahill Road—Irish Toast, g.

Petersburg—Dubinnet, f.

Skywalker—Delightful Choice, c.

Bertrando—Skipping Beats, f.

Chimes Band—Taj Aire, c.

Staff Writer—Castinette, f.

Game Plan—One Last Bird, c.

Beau Genius—Nevercomesagain, f.

Native Born—Quick-n-Crafty, c.

Sensitive Music—Sunrise River, c.

Son of Briartic—Ticky Tac, c.

Harbor the Gold—Felice the Cat, g.

Al Mamoon—Renee’s Reflection, g.

Eastern Echo—Foxy Island, f.

Alnaab—Loridown, c.

Slewdledo—Sarna, g.

Jazzing Around—Brilliant Countess, c.

Irgun—November Morn, f.

Son of Briartic—Warna Corna, c.

Kansas City—Allazara, g.

Katahaula County—Norfair, f.

Petersburg—Cassal Pond, c.

Successful Appeal—Strong Credentials, m.

Flag Officer—Bal de Lune, f.

Just the Time—Islandia, f.

Delineator—Springhurst, f.

Trooper Seven—Spring Event, f.

Cherokee Run—Silver Echo, f.

Son of Briartic—Ticky Tac, f.

Staff Writer—Bix’s Bet, f.

Broken Vow—Mybrowneyedgal Skywalker—Oh Shucky Darn, c.

Just the Time—Lady Tavistock, g.

Consigliere (GB)— Queens Guard (NZ), c.

Free At Last—Northern Whirl, g.

Gallant Best—Play the Pontiff, c.

Silver Deputy—Lotareason, f.

Swiss Yodeler—Kid Friendly, g.

Petersburg—Cider Slew, g.

Meritable—Zulu Lady, c.

Northern Jove—Second Ovation, f.

Fit to Fight—Non Stop Chatter, c.

Delineator—Pe Ell Belle, g.

Drum Fire—Teekon, c.

Second Pleasure—Ky. Lina, g.

With Approval—Pebble Patter, f.

Year Sold 08 08 10 89 98 98 06 89 92 15 04 94 00 95 96 99 98 83 92 95 82 90 84 06 88 82 09 03 00 97 03 98 95 00 99 85 02 04 74 87 98 14 92 98 99 05 95 99 96 95 99 96 08 82 95 00 85 08 93 89 09 89 93 98 04 85 96 04 04 82 92 01 03 84 79 95

Consignor Halvorson Bloodstock, Agt. El Dorado Farms Char Clark Thoroughbreds, Agt. Halvorson Bloodstock, Agt. Douglas Clyde Griffin Place Blue Ribbon Farm, Agt. Northwest Farms, Agt. M/M Guy C. Roberts Critter Creek Farm Czech-Mate Stables Rainier Stables, Agt. 505 Farms K & J Farm Coal Creek Farm Chris & Nancy Webber Patrick J. Hurley Bob & Mary Ann Whitaker Diane C. Kem Lake Creek Thoroughbreds CE Ranch Savario Farm Dale Leach, Agt. El Dorado Farms, Agt. DanDar Farm Ken & Barbara Hebard Blue Ribbon Farm, Agt. El Dorado Farms Guy Bar Farm, Agt. McMurry TB Services Inc., Agt. Blue Ribbon Farm, Agt. M/M Guy C. Roberts Northwest Farms, Agt. 505 Farms Czech-Mate Stables McMurry Bloodstock McMurry TB Services Inc., Agt. Northwest Farms, Agt. Takhoma Farm Savario Farm Billie R. Murphy Bar C. Racing Stables Northwest Farms, Agt. Northwest Farms, Agt. Royal Match Stud Inc. El Dorado Farms, Agt. James & Linda Kirschman McMurry TB Services, Agt. Blue Ribbon Farm Prisco Vacca Paul L. Turner M/M Guy C. Roberts Northwest Farms, Agt. Bennett & Strugar Estate of Diane C. Kem Czech-Mate Stables Fairwood Farms (R.L. Roeper) Northwest Farms, Agt. Billie R. Murphy Time Wise Farm Castlegate Farm Northwest Farm, Agt. Dr./Mrs. A.L. Hallowell

Purchaser Jeff Bonde, Agt. Mark Dedomenico Mona Hour Roger L. Williams Nick Nosowenko Currie & Mason Roy Schaefer Bud Klokstad, Agt. Mark Hayden John Brocklebank Manuel Calvario Mike Pegram Rod Rodriguez Craig Roberts Ron Crockett Inc. Curt or Lila Lanning Sidewinder Inc. Mike McCann Coyote Creek Farm Susan Kay Stables II Gerald Schneider Bud Klokstad, Agt. Edwards Bloodstock Ken Alhadeff Jollie Four Stable Dorothy Grimm R & R Warren LLC Curt & Lila Lanning Dennis Ward Mark Glatt Ron Crockett Inc. Karla Laird Dave & Jill Heerensperger Rod Rodriguez Frank Lewkowitz John Roche Ron & Susie Anson Ron Crockett Inc. Bob Mead Brian J. Maier Omar Aldabbagh R. E. V. Racing Roger L. Williams North American TB Rodger Lam Mark Glatt, Agt. Sangara/Thompson Jeff Bonde Dave & Jill Heerensperger A. J. Segale Loren McDougall Craig Roberts Jeff Bonde, Agt. McMinimy/McMurtrie/Weber Curt & Lila Lanning Ron & Susie Anson Richard D. Wright Dave & Jill Heerensperger Heerensperger/Sept. House Alsdorf, Opas & Sadler Don M. Hopwood Heather DeDomenico Harry Aleo

Price Earned $40,000 $1,480,704 50,000 729,726 45,000 631,011 11,500 623,367 8,500 620,523 26,000 606,315 4,500 602,276 22,000 539,410 3,200 478,180 35,000 475,970 4,500 475,013 15,500 453,570 250,000 434,000 11,000 427,270 27,000 408,734 26,000 406,350 25,000 405,847 1,900 395,469 19,000 393,627 2,500 391,739 8,000 388,195 46,000 364,699 67,000 363,394 10,000 356,507 16,500 347,856 9,200 346,525 15,000 342,253 30,000 341,668 3,000 341,155 11,000 340,159 21,000 337,159 1,600 335,300 120,000 330,739 240,000 328,765 46,000 314,895 4,200 313,153 40,000 311,152 45,000 309,298 16,000 295,254 6,000 292,347 11,500 292,092 40,000 286,726 15,000 285,534 45,000 281,700 9,000 280,894 36,000 279,745 7,200 278,367 14,500 276,155 42,000 264,913 1,400 262,352 5,000 256,934 5,500 256,638 14,000 254,417 12,000 252,147 10,000 248,488 23,000 245,160 7,000 242,544 92,000 241,915 17,500 237,830 20,000 235,300 26,500 233,820 40,000 233,653 12,000 233,395

Allaire Farms Griffin Place, Agt. Magic Mountain Farm Crooked Tree Candi Tollett, Agt. M/M Guy C. Roberts L. Brulotte Ranches Inc. Northwest Farms, Agt. Northwest Farms, Agt. Woodstead Farm, Agt. A. Jo Postell Owens Farms Gunshy Manor

Sidewinder Inc. Frank L. Gaunt Ed Thompson L. S. Nordahl Art McFadden Curt & Lila Lanning Cliff Balcom, Agt. Heather DeDomenico Dave & Jill Heerensperger Junior Coffey, Agt. Mrs. Sidney Follin Robert Hutchinson John Myers

12,000 38,000 2,600 55,000 17,000 6,000 3,500 36,000 105,000 5,000 27,000 24,000 22,000

233,125 232,791 232,396 231,226 230,264 228,425 227,460 226,575 224,974 224,934 223,628 222,521 222,257

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Leading Washington Sires 1986-2017 Year Leading Sire

Sire

Dam, Damsire

Leading Juv. Sire

Sire

Dam, Damsire

1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

Never Bend Northern Dancer Northern Dancer Round Table Northern Dancer Drum Fire Northern Dancer Briartic Briartic Briartic

Mid Hour, *Ambiorix Twill, Swaps Twill, Swaps Theonia, Fleet Nasrullah Twill, Swaps Yang, *Turn-to Twill, Swaps Tabola, Round Table Tabola, Round Table Tabola, Round Table

Knights Choice Pirateer Staff Writer Drouilly (Fr) Knights Choice Son of Briartic Staff Writer Knights Choice Son of Briartic Tough Knight

Drum Fire Roberto Northern Dancer Mill Reef Drum Fire Briartic Northern Dancer Drum Fire Briartic Knights Choice

Briartic Briartic Briarctic Briartic Fappiano Briartic Fappiano Seattle Slew Seattle Slew Seattle Slew Seattle Slew Kris S. Capote Capote Capote Capote Storm Cat Storm Cat Storm Cat Storm Cat Storm Cat Storm Cat Storm Cat

Tabola, Round Table Tabola, Round Table Tabola, Round Table Tabola, Round Table Gana Facil, *Le Fabuleux Tabola, Round Table Safe Play, Sham M’lle. Cyanne, Cyane M’lle. Cyanne, Cyane M’lle. Cyanne, Cyane M’lle. Cyanne, Cyane La Chaposa (Per), Ups Star Gem, Pia Star Star Gem, Pia Star Star Gem, Pia Star Star Gem, Pia Star Macoumba, Mr. Prospector Macoumba, Mr. Prospector Macoumba, Mr. Prospector Macoumba, Mr. Prospector Macoumba, Mr. Prospector Macoumba, Mr. Prospector Macoumba, Mr. Prospector

Jazzing Around Son of Briartic Demons Begone Son of Briartic Slewdledo Delineator Slewdledo

Stop the Music Briartic Elocutionist Briartic Seattle Slew Storm Cat Seattle Slew

Yang, *Turn-to Joans Paris, Chieftain Twill, Swaps Provide for Me, Gun Shot Yang, *Turn-to Tabola, Round Table Twill, Swaps Yang, *Turn-to Tabola, Round Table Countess Courage, Captain Courageous Fantastic Miss, Jacinto Tabola, Round Table Roudy Angel, Halo Tabola, Round Table M’lle. Cyanne, Cyane Mountain Climber, *Grey Dawn II M’lle. Cyanne, Cyane

Slewdledo Basket Weave Free At Last Free At Last Matty G He’s Tops Tribunal Matty G Cahill Road Matty G Matty G Private Gold Abraaj Coast Guard Atta Boy Roy

Seattle Slew Best Turn Wild Again Wild Again Capote Seattle Slew Deputy Minister Capote Fappiano Capote Capote Seeking the Gold Carson City Stormy Atlantic Tribunal

M’lle. Cyanne, Cyane Pass the Basket, Buckpasser Miss Blanche, Faraway Son Miss Blanche, Faraway Son Star Gem, Pia Star She’s a Talent, Mr. Prospector Six Crowns, Secretariat Star Gem, Pia Star Gana Facil, *Le Fabuleux Star Gem, Pia Star Star Gem, Pia Star Temper the Wind, Elocutionist Kris’s Intention, Kris S. Vassar, Royal Academy Irish Toast, Synastry

Drum Fire Staff Writer Staff Writer Table Run Staff Writer Knights Choice Staff Writer Son of Briartic Son of Briartic Son of Briartic

1996 Son of Briartic 1997 Son of Briartic 1998 Son of Briartic 1999 Son of Briartic 2000 Cahill Road 2001 Son of Briartic 2002 Defensive Play* 2002 Slewdledo* 2003 Slewdledo 2004 Slewdledo 2005 Slewdledo 2006 You and I 2007 Matty G 2008 Matty G 2009 Matty G 2010 Matty G 2011 Parker’s Storm Cat 2012 Parker’s Storm Cat 2013 Parker’s Storm Cat 2014 Parker’s Storm Cat 2015 Parker’s Storm Cat 2016 Parker’s Storm Cat 2017 Parker’s Storm Cat *Co-leading sires

Washington Broodmares of the Year 1986-2017 Broodmare

Year

Sire—Dam

Damsire

Leading Earner, DOB, Sex, by Sire

Fool’s Miss Loridown Kitchies’s Girl Loridown Whimsical Aire Press to Test Sunrise River Tea At Ten Highly Favored Miss Stevenes Isle of View Sendosha Allazara Cocktail Talk Outofthebluebell Springhurst Kildare Taj Aire Crafty Court Takeaway Pure Wool Nightatmisskittys Exploded’s Girl Irish Toast Windsong Maria Peaceful Wings Coup de Foudre Julia Rose Striking Scholar Bahati No Constraints Chedoodle

1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Saltville—Watch Lucille Barrydown—Sherri Ruler Quadrangle—Lady Ebony Barrydown—Sherri Ruler Messenger of Song—Silky Steel Saltville—Rare Defense Barbaric Spirit—What Next Drone—Remuneration Favorecidian—Minie Ball Lt. Stevens—Pywacket Burd Alane—*Isle Lovagain Native Born—Seco’s Tanana Empery—Apsara Princely Native—Stress Test Red Ryder—Nachez Bluebell Lord At War (Arg)—Del Dun Gee Flying Paster—Tara’s Hall Taj Alriyadh—Whimsical Aire Crafty Native—Morning Court Fly So Free—Table Frolic Relaunch—Sheepish Grin Al Mamoon—Skysweeper Exploded—Western Starlet Synastry—Bix’s Bet Exclusive Bidder—Krugerrand Queen Halo—Belle Gallante Basket Weave—Lorrains Love Basket Weave—Cure My Blues Smart Strike—Degree Horse Chestnut (SAf)—Drouth Willow Katowice—Nightatmisskittys Slewdledo—Chena

*Daumier Strong Ruler *Tudor Minstrel Strong Ruler Steel Blade Polynesian *Tenerosa Mississipian Swoon’s Son Jester Combat Windy Tide Dancer’s Image Quadrangle Star Envoy Bold Dun-Cee Envoy Messenger of Song Prince o’ Morn Never Tabled Our Native Ack Ack Olympiad King Just the Time Turn the Trick *Gallant Man Sauce Boat Cure the Blues Vanlandingham Premiership Al Mamoon Chisos

Delicate Vine, 1984, m., by Knights Choice.........................$390,370 Saratoga Passage, 1985, g. by Pirateer ..............................$800,212 Honest John, 1986, g., by John Casey ...............................$120,057 Saratoga Passage, 1985, g., by Pirateer .............................$800,212 Mahaska, 1987, m., by Just the Time .................................$235,253 Zama Hummer, 1988, m., by Knights Choice ......................$214,355 Staff Rider, 1990, g., by Staff Writer ...................................$364,699 Peterhof’s Patea, 1988, m., by Peterhof..............................$623,367 Favored One, 1992, m., by Son of Briartic ..........................$227,965 Run Away Stevie, 1989, m., by Table Run...........................$468,267 Comininalittlehot, 1991, g., by Just the Time ......................$393,627 Classy Rolls, 1991, m., by Rolls Aly .....................................$75,306 I. M. Bzy, 1995, g., by Kansas City .....................................$261,802 Cocktails Anyone, 1993, m., by Petersburg ........................$242,545 Rings a Chime, 1997, m., by Metfield .................................$606,315 Tali’sluckybusride, 1999, m., by Delineator .........................$245,160 No Turbulence, 1999, m., by Skywalker ..............................$200,855 Tropics, 2008, h., by Speightstown ....................................$763,420 Court’s in Session, 1999, g., by Petersburg ........................$341,155 Hail to the NIle, 2011, g. by Pioneerof the Nile ....................$252,801 Pure as Gold, 2002, g., by Stolen Gold ...............................$476,444 Dandy Dora, 23006, f. by Katowice ....................................$127,910 I’madrifter, 1998, h., by Slewdledo .....................................$291,212 Atta Boy Roy, 2005, r., by Tribunal ......................................$602,276 Makors Mark, 1997, h., by Son of Briartic ..........................$430,753 Jebrica, 2008, g. by Liberty Gold .......................................$260,758 Absolutely Cool, 2007, g., by Absolute Harmony ................$406,892 Noosa Beach, 2006, g. by Harbor the Gold .........................$524,472 Stryker Phd, 2009, g. by Bertrando ....................................$631,011 Del Rio Harbor, 2011, h. by Harbor the Gold .......................$239,688 Citizen Kitty, 2012, f. by Proud Citizen.................................$199,221 Mike Man’s Gold, 2010, g., by Liberty Gold ........................$296,347

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Money Earned

Washington Thoroughbred

Washington-bred Stakes Winners of 2017 Listed below are the Washington-bred and/or WTBOA-sold horses who won 2017 stakes with a winner’s share of at least $7,500. Minor stakes winners of 2017 not included are: Ain’t Tellin’, Boss Talk, Grinder Sparksaglo, Stone Quarry and Storm On the River. WTBOA Sales = went through a WTBOA sale.

BELLA MIA (2015) f., Harbor the Gold— Bella Campana, by Slewdledo. Owners: John and Janene Maryanski. Breeders: Mr. and Mrs. William T. Griffin (Griffin Place).

Trainer: Blaine D. Wright. Won: Angie C. S. (EmD), Barbara Shinpoch S. (EmD), WA Cup Juvenile Filly S.-R (EmD).

At 2 5 4 0 0 $91,523 CITIZEN KITTY (2012), m., Proud Citizen—No Constraints, by Katowice.

Owner: Highlander Racing Stable LLC (Bruce and Cass Maller). Breeder: Dunn Bar Ranch LLC (Charles Dunn). Trainer: Jeffrey Metz. Won: Emerald Distaff S. (EmD), Hastings S. (EmD), Boeing S. (EmD).

WTBOA Sales.

At 5 8 3 4 0 $120,418 ELLIOTT BAY (2015), g., Harbor the Gold—Melba Jewel, by Cahill Road.

Owner: Rising Star Stable II (Vicki Potter, et al.). Breeders: Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Pabst (Blue Ribbon Farm). Trainer: Howard Belvoir. Won: Gottstein Futurity (EmD), WTBOA Lads S. (EmD). WTBOA Sales.

At 2 5 2 2 0 $90,697 EXIT SIXTY SLEW (2013), f., Abraaj— Slew Tunes, by Slewdledo. Owners: Below the Rim Stable LLC (Kevin Haynes), Mediocre Racing (Shawn Sudo, Terry Mickleson, Todd Petit, Abel Pulver and Heather and Scott Sacha) and Blaine Wright Stable LLC. Breeders: Nina Hagen (El Dorado Farms LLC) and Holly Sturgeon.

Trainer: Blaine D. Wright. Won: WA Cup Filly and Mare S.-R (EmD). WTBOA Sales.

At 4 9 5 0 2 $61,487 GRACE BAY (2014), f., Coast Guard— Moscow Symphony, by Moscow Ballet.

Owner: Billy Speed Racing Stable (William Greenstein). Breeders: Nina M. and Ron A. Hagen (El Dorado Farms LLC). Trainer: Frank Lucarelli. Won: WA Cup Sophomore Filly S.-R. (EmD). WTBOA Sales.

At 3 7 2 1 2 $46,150 KAABRAAJ (2012), g., Abraaj— Kaaaching, by River Special. Owners: Wa r l o c k S t a b l e s ( Ti m F l oy d ) a n d Horseplayers Racing Club 240 (Scott Gruender, et al.). Breeder: Clemans View Farm (Jean Harris and Jeff Harris). Trainer: Jeffrey Metz. Won: Luke Kruytbosch S. (TuP).

At 5 8 1 0 0 $24,801 MACH ONE RULES (2013), g., Harbor the Gold—Felice the Cat, by Distinctive Cat. Owner: R. E. V. Racing (Roy and Ellie Schaefer). Breeder: Bar C Racing Stables Inc. (Neal and Pam Christopherson). Trainer: Frank Lucarelli. Won: Budweiser S. (EmD), Spring 2018

Mt. Rainier S. (EmD), Muckleshoot Tribal Classic S. -R (EmD). WTBOA Sales.

At 4 8 3 3 1 $145,595 PULPITS POWER (2014), g., War Power—Parker’s Jewel, by Parker’s Storm Cat. Owners: Below the Rim Stable LLC (Kevin Haynes) and Woodway Stable (Paul Barbano). Breeders: Mr. and Mrs. Elwin F. Gibson (Gibson Thoroughbred Farm).

Trainer: Blaine D. Wright. Won: WA Cup Sophomore S.-R (EmD).

At 3 9 2 3 2 $44,457 RISQUE’S LEGACY (2014), f., Atta Boy Roy—Risque Humor, by Distorted Humor.

Owner and Breeder: Karl C. Krieg (KD Thoroughbreds). Trainer: Tom Wenzel. Won: Kent S. (EmD).

At 3 7 1 1 0 $40,175

SIPPIN FIRE (2015), g., Harbor the Gold— Bahati, by Horse Chestnut (SAf). Owner: How We Roll #4 (David Israel, Joe Withee, Al Adams, Charlie Clark, Angela Wilson and Steve Pilgrim). Breeders: Bar C Racing Stables Inc. (Pam and Neal Christopherson) and Desert Rose Racing LLC (Melodie Bultena and Doak Walker). Trainer: Steve Bullock. Won: WA Cup Juvenile Colts and Geldings S.-R (EmD). WTBOA Sales.

At 2 4 2 1 0 $47,999 SQUEEZE ME (2014), f., Papa Clem— Great Mom, by Pioneerof the Nile. Owner and Trainer: Kevin Eikleberry. Breeder: Connie Belshay (Only Me Thoroughbreds).

Won: Turf Paradise Open Spring Futurity (TuP). WTBOA Sales.

At 2 2 2 0 0 $49,188

Races & Monies Won by Washington-breds 2008-17 Year Starters Races Won Earned Avg. Per Starter 2008 1,430 1,093 $10,160,274 $7,105 2009 1,336 1,016 $9,417,806 $7,049 2010 1,249 992 $8,720,442 $6,982 2011 1,081 870 $7,747,086 $7,167 2012 974 861 $7,331,372 $7,527 2013 890 776 $7,520,653 $8,450 2014 794 724 $7,007,815 $8,826 2015 759 652 $7,241,472 $9,541 2016 674 595 $6,059,236 $8,990 2017 569 478 $5,352,683 $9,407 Since 1935, there have been a total of 134,892 Washington-bred starters who have won 129,547 races and earned $606,926,942 with $4,509 average earnings.

PREACHINATTHEBAR Top 5 on the 2018 Washington General

Sire List (to date) #4 on the 2017 Washington Turf Sire List #1 2014 Washington 2YO Sire by Winners Sire of multiple 2017 SP Rockinatthebar ($42,515), 2-time 2017 SP Surfinatthebar, 2017 SP Listo ($55,035), 2017 allowance winner Preacher Preacher ($75,602), SW IWANNABEADIVATOO ($84,186), SW SNOWBALL’S CHANCE, SP 2YO Distortedatthebar (2nd $50,000 WTBOA Lads S.), as well as SP Snow Bunny ($31,735), etc.

2018 Fee: $1,000 live foal, $200 booking fee Special consideration to stakes-winning or stakes-producing mares

PULSE RANCHES

Todd Pulse, farm mgr. (509) 453-6601 • Bob or Phyllis Pulse (509) 961-2045 303 Lower Ahtanum Road, Union Gap, WA 98903 51

2017 Washington-bred Foals (Yearlings of 2018) The information in this listing is provided by The Jockey Club. Any errors should be reported to their Lexington, Kentucky, offices by calling (800) 444-8521. Yearlings are listed alphabetically by dam under their breeder. While this list is not complete, it is inclusive of all state-bred foals with a live foal report and/or those registered through March 23, 2018.

BREEDER Horse, Sex, Sire—Dam ALLAIRE FARMS, SUE EDWARDS, JIM ERNEST & RYAN HURLEY unnamed, f., Rallying Cry—Nancy Perkins VICTOR GEORGE BAHNA unnamed, f., Nationhood—Crafty Vanessa BAR C RACING STABLES INC unnamed, c., Harbor the Gold—Brookie Girl unnamed, f., Harbor the Gold—Delicious Delight unnamed, c., Harbor the Gold—Emmy’s Storm unnamed, c., Harbor the Gold—Felice the Cat unnamed, c., Harbor the Gold—Renowned Cat unnamed, c., Harbor the Gold—Silver City Lilly BAR C RACING STABLES INC. & DESERT ROSE RACING LLC unnamed, c., Harbor the Gold—Bahati unnamed, c., Smiling Tiger—Carrabelle Harbor ALBERT & JOYCE BELL Playin Possum, f., Astrology—C C Silver HOWARD E. BELVOIR unnamed, f., Abraaj—Port Wakefield unnamed, f., Malt Magic—Star Protocol TOM & BECKY L. BIRKLID unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—La Mariah ANNIE BIRKLID, TOM BIRKLID & BECKY BIRKLID unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—Miss Sandra Sue ANGELA BLACKWELL Galaxy Gold, f., Guaranteed Gold—Easter Basket Elegance N Gold, f., Guaranteed Gold—She’s So Lucky BREWER THOROUGHBREDS LLC unnamed, f., Successful Appeal—Mo’orea Island CANADIAN SUNSHINE STABLE Rare Sunset Too, f., Hello Broadway—Rare Sunset PAT & MULLAN CHINN Cancale, f., Atta Boy Roy—Val de Saire DELORES CHRISTIANSON Smashing Success, f., Abraaj—Elttaes Nite BRET CHRISTOPHERSON unnamed, f., Harbor the Gold—Clever Bird unnamed, c., Harbor the Gold—Flying Memo CLEMANS VIEW FARM unnamed, c., Coast Guard—Bearlee Naked CLEMANS VIEW FARM & MICHELLE BEAUNAUX unnamed, f., Coast Guard—Windy Sails RON CROCKETT INC. unnamed, f., Abraaj—Cielator

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DESERT ROSE RACING LLC unnamed, f., Informed—My Red Lady DUNN BAR RANCH LLC unnamed, c., Clubhouse Ride—Da Burn unnamed, c., Abraaj—Firetrail unnamed, f., Ministers Wild Cat—For Real Too unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—Limitless Alex DUNN BAR RANCH LLC, RAY MCCANNA & AL HODGE unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—Fragrant Harbor I. M. GORASHT & J. MERRIMAN-COHEN unnamed, c., Makors Finale—Lasting Rose GRASSHOPPER RACING STABLE INC. unnamed, c., Jeranimo—Sweet Nellie Brown TOM GRETHER FARMS INC. Boss Hugo, g., Paynter—Tangerine Tickle unnamed, c., Harbor the Gold— Tonzabrightness MR. & MRS. WILLIAM T. GRIFFIN unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—Matching Skies unnamed, c., Ministers Wild Cat—Bella Campana unnamed, c., Vronsky—Campanita NINA M. & RON A. HAGEN unnamed, f., Coast Guard—Jasmine’s Melody unnamed, c., Abraaj—Knight Weave unnamed, f., Coast Guard—Lasting Kiss unnamed, f., Justin Phillip—Zenovit RONALD A. & NINA M. HAGEN & LARRY & MIRIAM BONWELL unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—Ms Moscow Mattie NINA M. HAGEN & HOLLY STURGEON unnamed, c., Dialed In—Knight Raider HALVORSON BLOODSTOCK SERVICES & DR. RODNEY ORR Silver Service, c., Abraaj—Silverclaw TODD & SHAWN HANSEN Huge Bigly, c., Midshipman—Gadget Queen Perfect Genes, f., Majesticperfection—Skinny Genes No Slo Mo, c., Uncle Mo—Striking Scholar Thundermun, c., Munnings—Thunderina JEFFREY & DORIS A HARWOOD & SHADY VALLEY RANCH Reddy to Star, c., Abraaj—Hit a Star DR. & MRS. DUANE HOPP unnamed, c., Abraaj—Eclatante HORSEHAVEN CREEK FARM unnamed, c., Lutes Gift—Sweet Pleasure HORSEPLAYERS RACING CLUB LLC unnamed, f., Abraaj—Holy Mama unnamed, f., Abraaj—Satin Bouquet

DAVID S. ISRAEL & CHARLES CLARK unnamed, f., Algorithms—Inquiry Miss IVOR A. JONES & JOHN R. JONES unnamed, c., Harbor the Gold—Grab Ahold JUST A DREAM STABLE LLC & JULIE ANN SCOFIELD Rolling Knolls, f., Raise the Bluff—Gold Hills Hoodoo GREGORY F. LUCE Beauty and Grace, f., Linchpin—White Truffle CANDICE LUMLEY & MICHAEL BALDOZ Tig, c., Lutes Gift—Minister Grayson KEITH MARKS Gabbi Chick, f., Car Talk (Ire)—Gaviota RON MCCORMACK & RON & NINA HAGEN unnamed, c., Abraaj—Crowning Camilla KATHY JO MCMANUS & RICHARD LEE MORRIS Gobo Nation, f., Nationhood—Hint of Lavender MELVIN & LORI MELLICK Tippy Too, f., Gallant Son—A Tip of the Coin Cambria’s Empire, f., Empire Way—Special Holiday ANTONIO MENDOZA unnamed, f., Sixthirteen—Miss Salome KEN W. MILES & SHERIDAN JONES Zabracadabra, c., Harbor the Gold—Athina Lee TODD & SHELLIE NICKLOS unnamed, f., Abraaj—Laurel L unnamed, c., Atta Boy Roy—Smokin Passion OAK CREST FARM unnamed, c., Abraaj—Victoria Cross MR. & MRS. FREDERICK L. PABST unnamed, f., Nationhood—Artic Mist unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—Cascade Corona unnamed, f., Nationhood—Muchas Coronas unnamed, f., Include—Sweet Fourty MR. & MRS. FREDERICK L. PABST, GRASSHOPPER STABLE & JACK FABULICH unnamed, c., Munnings—Find Your Spot JODY A. PEETZ Lumen Large, f., Atta Boy Roy—Lumen Took It TIM PETERSON Little House, c., Houseofroyalhearts—Cynfull Music CHARLES PETERSON & RON HAGEN unnamed, f., Coast Guard—Sweet Swinging Ms RAINBOW MEADOWS FARM unnamed, f., Harbor the Gold—Battle Shout unnamed, f., Sixthirteen—Lah Dee Dah Julia

Washington Thoroughbred

JED & URDENE RICKARD Urban Splendor, c., Nationhood—Little Town Flirt JOHN ROCHE unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—Basket Copy LARRY ROMAINE Angel’s Entry, c., Point of Entry—Beautiful Daniele Data Dancer, f., Data Link—La Menina JOE & LOLA SAMPLE Holy Zags, f., Smiling Tiger—Snowflake Obsidian SHADY VALLEY RANCH Something Shady, c., Coast Guard—Regal Blues ERNEST SHERMAN unnamed, f., Abraaj—Daisy Clover JOHN SHUMATE unnamed, c., Council Member—Seven Affairs unnamed, c., Dontmesswithkitten—Tenakee Tango

NANCY SORRICK unnamed, c., Desert Code—La Midnite Classic KEITH & JAN SWAGERTY unnamed, c., Gallant Son—Bullysima unnamed, c., Private Gold—Irene Flies unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—Jacobita unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—No Flies On Doodle KEITH & JAN SWAGERTY & WILLIAM GALLO unnamed, f., Mr. Rancho Vista—Andiamo Deb Movetotheright, c., Mr. Rancho Vista— Chedoodlejan MICHAEL THOMPSON Salty Tunes, f., Salt Water—A Moon Lit Ride Salty Dan, g., Salt Water—Deco Kcee’s Salty, g., Salt Water—Dee Dee K Salty Partay, f., Salt Water—Hot Tub Party Salty Twister, g., Salt Water—Joe’s Plum

WARLOCK STABLES unnamed, g., Vronsky—Colethan’s Cat unnamed, f., Demon Warlock—Discreet Miss WARLOCK STABLES, A. FLOYD, K. DOUGAN & M. HUDSON unnamed, f., Demon Warlock—Trainingat the Bar JEAN M. G. WELCH unnamed, c., Atta Boy Roy—Crafty Diva unnamed, f., Atta Boy Roy—Miss Pixie MR. & MRS. EDWIN THEODORE WELCH unnamed, c., Coast Guard—Lady Yodeler BRENDA & JOHN WOODS & SUE & TIM SPOONER unnamed, f., Justin Phillip—Sheza Silver Spoon TAB K. YOUNG Weebitwindy, f., Snowbound Rio—Sagoi Zayzoom TAB YOUNG & MARCIE RILEY Makyawonder, c., Snowbound Rio—Rediskia

Northwest Race Series Eligible Two-year-olds Class of 2018 Dam A Tip of the Coin Alpine Lass Ancient Holiday And One For Me Annie’s Bou Peep Artic Mist Aspenglow Bac Pac Barbara O’Brien

Sire Atta Boy Roy Harbor the Gold Slew’s Tiznow Creative Cause Running Tap Atta Boy Roy Twirling Candy Linchpin Sixthirteen

Sex c. c. c. f. g. f. c. g. f.

Battle Shout Bearlee Naked Bella Campana Bella Cavalla Bellomesa Bolshoi Ballet Bourbonette Brookie Girl

Street Hero Nationhood Haynesfield Demon Warlock Papa Clem Liberty Gold Creative Cause Harbor the Gold

f. f. f. f. f. c. c. c.

Brown Butterfly Belle Buzznalawng Cambia Sunrise Campanita Captain Philly Cascade Corona Cash No Credit Cashmere Miss Catherine Z’s Hope Chedoodlejan Chukchi Sunrise Cielator Courtroom Charmer

Atta Boy Roy Girolamo Eddington Trickey Trevor Munnings Coast Guard Nationhood Animal Kingdom Midshipman Girolamo Smiling Tiger Running Tap Raise the Bluff He’s Tops

c. c. c. c. f. g. f. f. g. f. f. c. c. c.

Crafty Diva

Atta Boy Roy

c.

Crème (Chi) Creole Delights Crowning Camilla

Abraaj Grazen Papa Clem

f. c. f.

Cynfull Music Da Burn Daddy’s Honor Dances On Water Dark Diva Deb’s Candy Girl Deja Views

Houseofroyalhearts Eddington Kantharos Preachinatthebar Atta Boy Roy Bodemeister Nationhood

f. c. c. g. c. c. c.

Spring 2018

1st Nominator/2nd Nominator Mel & Lori Mellick Bar C Racing Stables Inc. Chris Stenslie Coal Creek Farm C. E. “Rich” & Ann Richardson M/M Frederick L. Pabst Dr. George Todaro Jody Peetz Bar C Racing Stables Inc./ Ron Crockett Inc. Petra Lewin Clemans View Farm M/M William T. Griffin Tim Floyd Petra Lewin Karen Angelos Quadrun Farms LLC Bar C Racing Stables Inc./ Gary & Debbie Lusk M/M Frederick L. Pabst C. E. “Rich” & Ann Richardson Greg & Teresa Luce Dr. George Todaro M/M William T. Griffin Julie A. Scofield M/M Frederick L. Pabst Dr. Duane & Sue Hopp Jody Peetz Darrin Paul Keith Swagerty Preston Boyd Ron Crockett Inc. Ron Crockett Inc. & M/M W. T. Griffin Jean M. G. Welch/ Roddina Barrett, Lisa Martin & Diane Karl Nina & Ron Hagen/Jeff Metz Prisco Vacca/Ron Crockett Inc. Nina & Ron Hagen/ Wally & Bonnie Jenne Tim D. Peterston Charles Dunn/Tim Bankers Jody Peetz John Parker Ron Crockett Inc. Scatter Creek Training Center LLC M/M Frederick L. Pabst

Dam Delicious Delight Desert Liaison Dixie Dreamin

Sire Harbor the Gold Gio Ponti Paynter

Sex c. f. c.

Dolly’s Hit Lady East Side Charley Eclatante

Demon Warlock The Factor Harbor the Gold

f. f. f.

Essie’s Link Evelyn’s Dancer Feistee Deer Felice the Cat Fergie’s Fantasy

Algorithms Afleet Alex I Want Revenge Harbor the Gold Abraaj

f. f. c. c. c.

Fighting Fever Firetrail Flying Memo For Real Too Fragrant Harbor Gadget Queen Ghost Tree Gizmo Girl Go Jackie Go Goldazura Golden Arches Great Mom Hangover Saturday Hit a Star In Coronata In Vitro Infernal McGoon Inquiry Miss

Line of David Flat Out Harbor the Gold Smiling Tiger Smiling Tiger Majesticperfection Creative Cause Uncle Mo Atta Boy Roy Gold Aly Sidbey’s Candy Nationhood Big Drama Music of My Soul Boistrous Vronsky Smiling Tiger Algorithms

f. c. f. f. c. c. c. f. f. c. c. c. f. f. c. c. f. c.

Invitational Irene’s Bonus Baby Jackie’s Blingin’

Champ Pegasus Bluegrass Cat Harbor the Gold

f. f. f.

Jack’s Touch Joanie’s Hit Joy’s Jaguar Judicature Just Say Hey Karma Police La Mariah

New Years Day Harbor the Gold Regal Ransom Langfuhr Twirling Candy Goldencents Atta Boy Roy

f. c. f. f. f. g. c.

Lady Yodeler Lah Dee Dah Julia

Coast Guard Harbor the Gold

f. g.

1st Nominator/2nd Nominator Bar C Racing Stables Inc. Oak Crest Farm LLC Jeff & Shawn Stoddard/ Victor G. & Ann Bahna Tim Floyd David S. Israel Dr. Duane & Sue Hopp/ Bill Oppenheim Jody Peetz Randall & Rossi LLC Blaine Wright Racing Stable LLC Bar C Racing Stables Inc. Greg & Teresa Luce/ Craig Fredrickson & Friendship Stable Dr. George Todaro Charles Dunn/Tim Bankers Bret Christopherson Charles Dunn/Jeff Metz Charles Dunn Scatter Creek Training Center LLC DiPietro Thoroughbreds Chappelll Alpine Nina & Ron Hagen Jill Heerensperger Joseph B. Burke Connie Belshay Randall & Rossi LLC Harwood Thoroughbreds LLC DiPietro Thoroughbreds Tim Floyd Mike Phillips David S. Israel/ Charles Richard Clark Clifford & Leslie Balcom Nina & Ron Hagen/Roy Lumm Tom Grether Farms/Blaine Wright Racing Stable LLC Jody Peetz Tim Floyd Darrin Paul Ramer Holtan Charles Dunn/Tim Bankers Jody Peetz Tom Birklid/ George R. & Susie Warwick Jean M. G. Welch/Ron Crockett Inc. Petra Lewin/Claude Lyman

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Dam Lake Osceola Last Thoughts Lasting Rose Light My Ducks Lighten Up Role Lil Devilish Lilly Belle B Limitless Alex

Sire Champ Pegasus Harbor the Gold Second in Command Harbor the Gold Trickey Trevor Comic Strip Overanalyze Smiling Tiger

Lite Nite Liturgy Livia Drusilla Lumen Took It Marianne Rose Maria’s Tip Melba Jewel Mis Vietoria Mocha Time Ms Melange Ms Sutherland Muchas Coronas Murky Waters Music and Me My Dear Lady (Arg) Mystic Charm Nastika No Flies On Doodle Obligated Of One Heart Once Upon a Song One for You Oriental Dream

Atta Boy Roy Majesticperfection Arteides Nationhood Gallant Son Storm Victory Nationhood Coast Guard Atta Boy Roy Harbor the Gold Understatement Temple City Smiling Tiger Kafwain Sky Mesa Flat Out Gio Ponti Liberty Gold Slew’s Tiznow Sky Mesa Atta Boy Roy Shakin It Up Abraaj

f. c. c. c. f. c. f. f. c. f. c. c. f. c. c. c. c. f. f. f. c. f. c.

Our Henny Penny

Harbor the Gold

c.

Our Monstarr Owhatablast

Abraaj Coast Guard

f. c.

Pacific Ballet Passiona Pat Hand Peaceful Wings Peau de Vache Persiflage Plain Cheesecake Point Proven Popcorn Mike Prado’s Joy Premo Copy Pretty Cool

Trickey Trevor Birdstone Dialed In Atta Boy Roy Girolamo Private Gold E Z Dreamer Harbor the Gold Coast Guard Atta Boy Roy Smiling Tiger Bodemeister

f. f. f. c. c. c. c. c. c. f. c. g.

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Sex c. c. f. c. f. g. f. c.

1st Nominator/2nd Nominator David S. Israel Roy Lumm I. M. Gorasht & J. Merriman-Cohen Dean Essex DVM Dr. George Todaro Kenneth Elison Blaine Wright Racing Stable LLC Charles Dunn/ Highlander Racing Stables LLC Timothy Donohue Nina & Ron Hagen Below the Rim Stable LLC Jody Peetz Susan K. Wright &/or Judy Cherie Prescott Farms/David S. Yoshino M/M Frederick L. Pabst Nina & Ron Hagen Karen Angelos Scott Gruender Roddina A. Barrett M/M Frederick L. Pabst Jack & Jill Fabulich Nina & Ron Hagen/Tim Bankers David Matsumoto Steven J. Gula Norma N. Burnam Keith Swagerty John Parker Mike Waters Ron Crockett Inc. Coal Creek Farm Nina & Ron Hagen/ Howard Belvoir & Vicki Potter Barbara Eakin & Jonathan Nance/ R. E. V. Racing Connie Belshay Nina & Ron Hagen/ Frank T. Sample Dr. George Todaro David A. Thorner David A. Thorner M/M Frederick L. Pabst Nina & Ron Hagen Ron & Debbie Maus Arthur McFadden Living Trust Cornelis Sinnema Ron & Debbie Maus M/M William T. Griffin Roche Farm/John Maryanski Jody Peetz

Dam Private Fortune Queen Martha Queen’s Love Rain Shadow Retreat After Me Roar Baby Roar

Sire Nationhood Hard Spun Coast Guard Nationhood Harbor the Gold Sixthirteen

Sex f. g. c. c. c. f.

Ron’s Sister Royal Snowflight Royal Spun Sallie’s Memory Selva

Midnight Lute Graydar Majestic Warrior Shanghai Bobby Lemon Drop Kid

f. c. c. f. c.

Senorita Margarita She Prints Money She’s My Favorite Silver City Lilly Sister Kate Skinny Genes Slew Tunes

To Honor and Serve Arteides Coast Guard Harbor the Gold Tiznow Stay Thirsty Abraaj

c. f. f. c. f. c. f.

Soul in One Special Holiday Spectacular Sky Spiritofstorm Starlite Starbrite Stormy Bet Striking Scholar Sudden Departure Sugar Sleet

Idiot Proof Atta Boy Roy Super Saver Tizway First Samurai He’s Tops Majesticperfection Daaher Atta Boy Roy

f. c. c. c. f. c. c. f. c.

Sunday Geisha Sweet Fourty Sweet Nellie Brown Sweet Serendipity Tangerine Tickle

Oxbow Harbor the Gold Mineshaft Revolutionary Munnings

c. f. c. c. f.

Tenekee Tango That’s All Thunderina Tough and Quick Trainingat the Bar Vickie’slilsecret Voice Wildcat Heiress

Sixthirteen Mr. Sidney Shanghai Bobby Coast Guard Demon Warlock Preachinatthebar Paynter Munnings

f. c. f. f. f. f. c. f.

Winning View

Music of My Soul

f.

Witchy Meeting

Include

f.

1st Nominator/2nd Nominator M/M Frederick L. Pabst Jody Peetz Les D. Lynd M/M William T. Griffin Mark Malnati Bar C Racing Stables Inc./ Lucrelli Racing Corp.

Joseph B. Burke Tim Floyd Blaine Wright Racing Stable LLC Jody Peetz Greg Conley, Chuck Conley & Terra Firma Farm Mike Waters Jody Peetz Nina & Ron Hagen Bar C Racing Stables Inc. DiPietro Thoroughbreds Scatter Creek Training Center LLC Nina & Ron Hagen/ Billy Speed Racing Jody Peetz Mel & Lori Mellick Chappell Alpine Joseph B. Burke Howard Belvoir & Vicki Potter David S. Israel Scatter Creek Training Center LLC M/M Frederick L. Pabst W. R. Wulff/ Howard Belvoir & Vicki Potter DiPietro Thoroughbreds M/M Frederick L. Pabst Grasshopper Racing Stable Blaine Wright Racing Stable LLC Tom Grether Farms/ David S. Israel John Shumate Blaine Wright Racing Stable LLC Scatter Creek Training Center LLC Dr. Mary S. Hall Tim Floyd John Parker Dave & The Little Lady Stable Dr. Duane & Sue Hopp/ Wavertree Farm Nina & Ron Hagen/ Shady Valley Ranch M/M Frederick L. Pabst & Patricia Murphy

Washington Thoroughbred

News Items Washington-bred Stakes Winner GRINDER SPARKSAGLO

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2nd DAM FLYER AGLO (1992), by Polynesian Flyer. 10 wins, 2 to 4, $74,599, Yakima Matron H., Ladies H., Loose Sue H., etc. 5 other named foals, 4 starters, 3 winners.

PORTLAND MEADOWS MILE HANDICAP, Portland Meadows, January 28, $25,000 ($27,600), fouryear-olds and up, mile, 1:27.50, track wet fast.

GRINDER SPARKSAGLO (2011), 125, g., Grindstone—Cule Flyer, by Matricule (Wa) ..................................................... Richard Sena $15,180 Dynamic Scoring (2013), 121, g., Smoke Glacken—Fast Delivery, by Little Missouri (Ky) ...............................................Little Barn Racing $5,520 Roaring Rule (2013), 126. g., Tribal Rule—Ladylore,

by Video Ranger (Ca) ....................... John F. Martin and Troy Ononato $4,140 Margins: 1 1/4, neck, 4 1/4. Also started: Salty Minnow 118 ($2,070), Thunder 119 ($690), Ontheshadyside 122, Mike Man’s Bro 120, T. D.’s Gold 120, Oldtimers Vision 124. Trained by Robert Baze. Bred by Marvin Lynd and Richard Sena. Ridden by Kevin Orozco.

Fappiano, by Mr. Prospector Unbridled Gana Facil, by *Le Fabuleux Grindstone Drone, by Sir Gaylord Buzz My Bell Chateaupavia, by Chateaugay A. P. Indy, by Seattle Slew Matricule Maximova (Fr), by Green Dancer Cule Flyer Polynesian Flyer, by Flying Lark Flyer Aglo Sparkle Aglo, by Sea Aglo RACE RECORD: 11 wins, 3 to 7, $175,566. Also: won Flying Huey H., Mt. Hood H., Inaugural H.twice, Stallion S.-R, 2nd Portland Mile H., WA Cup Muckleshoot Tribal Class S.-R, etc.

SIRE: GRINDSTONE (1993), by Unbridled. Classic winner, Kentucky Derby-G1, etc. 3 wins at 2 and 3, $1,224,510. Stands at Oakhurst Thoroughbreds in Newberg, Oregon.

1st DAM CULE FLYER (2003), by Matricule. Winner at 3, $7,671.

Dam of 1 other named foal.

Spring 2018

Richard Sena’s seven-year-old campaigner Grinder Sparksaglo went off as the threeto-five favorite in the field of nine runners aged four and up in the 52nd running of the Portland Meadows Mile. With regular rider Kevin Orozco aboard, Grinder Sparksaglo was content to travel off the pace set by early leader Ontheshadyside for the first six furlongs.

Challenged by Little Barn Racing’s Dynamic Scoring, Grinder Sparksaglo pulled clear in the lane and drew off by 1 1/4 lengths over that rival to finish the race on the wet fast surface in 1:37.50.

Unraced at two, Grinder Sparksaglo was bred in Washington by Sena and the late Marvin Lynd. The runner broke his maiden by six lengths in a maiden/$25,000 optional claiming race (N) in August of his sophomore season and in his next outing four weeks later won an allowance/$40,000 optional claimer (N) by three-quarters of a length. His first stakes win came in the Stallion Stakes at Portland Meadows and he has won five other stakes – including both the Mile and the Oregon HBPA Overnight Handicap in 2018 – at the Rose City oval.

A son of 1996 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner and Oakhurst Thoroughbreds’ stallion Grindstone, Grinder Sparksaglo is the only foal to race out of the winning Matricule mare Cule Flyer, a daughter of three-time Yakima Meadows stakes winner Flyer Aglo.

Flyer Aglo was a daughter of 1984-85 Oregon horse of the year and $346,525 stakes winner Polynesian Flyer. One of the many stakes winners sired by multiple Oregon leading sire Flying Lark, Polynesian Flyer was voted state champion during each of his five seasons spent racing.

Sparkle Aglo, the third dam of Grinder Sparksaglo, won the 1988 Grants Pass Thoroughbred Futurity and was a halfsister to a trio of stakes-placed runners.

All were offspring of the winning Grenfall mare Grenetta, a half-sister to Grants Pass Futurity and Derby winner The Sea King,

by Sea Aglo.

AT THE TRACK 2018 Sun Downs Dates T h e Wa s h i n g t o n H o r s e R a c i n g Commission approved a six-day 2018 meet for Sun Downs Racetrack in Kennewick. The Eastern Washington meeting will run on the following Saturday-Sunday schedule: April 21-22, April 28-29 and May 5-6.

2017 Oregon Champions The 2017 Oregon champions were led

by James and Carol Owens’ homebred horse of the year Furious Fire, a daughter of Grindstone—Jimbo’s Fire Ant, by Baquero, who is trained by Ben Root. Also named best sophomore filly, Furious Fire won five of her seven starts, including the $25,000 Fall Challenge Stakes and the $15,500 Oregon Hers Stakes, earning $45,450. The Owenses were also named 2017 top breeders and lauded as Oregon’s TOBA winners of the year.

Oakhurst Thoroughbred’s 1996 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Grindstone was also responsible for two other year-end titleholders.

2016 state champion two-year-old male Gravel came back to earn his second title after the son of Grindstone—Cant Woman,

by Can’t Be Slew, won the $15,500 Oregon His Stakes and finished second in the $25,000 Fall Challenge Stakes. Gravel added $34,163 to the coffers of Lisa Baze and Jerry Carmody. Trained by Rigoberto Velasquez and bred by Larry and Gay Welliver, Gravel has won four races and earned $44,293.

Laurie Lukas and Margaret Root’s Milady Rocks was named champion older distaffer.

Unraced at two and three, Milady Rocks competed from January through May at Oaklawn Park, Keeneland and Churchill Downs while being tutored by her Racing Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. After placing in maiden special weight and $40,000 and $50,000 maiden claiming races, Milady Rocks finished first in a $40,000 maiden claiming race at Keeneland, only to be disqualified to third. In her final start of the year she finished second in a maiden $50,000 claimer at Churchill Downs. Bred by Dr. Jack and Margaret “Cookie” Root, Milady Rocks – who is out of Milady de Winter, by Wildcat Heir – earned $28,428.

Champion older horse honors went to Jacqueline Smith-owned and -trained Cantchaco, a 2010 gelding by Ochoco, also 55

bred by the Wellivers out of their stellar producer Cant Woman, who was named 2017 Oregon broodmare of the year. Cantchaco won six stakes among his ten victories from 16 starts last year: the $9,200 Great Falls Turf Club Feature and $5,000 Nobles Westside Features stakes at Great Falls; the $8,050 OTBOA Summer Series Stakes at Tillamook; the $7,000 Prineville OTOBA Summer Series Stakes at Prineville; and the $5,000g Jack K. Goodman and $5,000g Mr. Ed Stakes at Rillito. Cantchaco earned $31,599 of his so far $112,640 in 2017.

Two-year-old honors were shared by Shelly Nance, Steve Smith and Barbara Eakin’s Grinning Tiger and Carol Duby’s Stay in Grace.

Grinning Tiger, who is from the first crop of the California-based Smiling Tiger, was bred by Patrick Cosgrove and is trained by Jonathan Nance. Out of the Pioneering mare Karlee’s Kitten, Grinning Tiger won half of his six starts last year – including tallies in the $15,500 Bill Wineberg and $10,000 Willamette River stakes – earning $24,658.

Stay in Grace, who was also bred by the Roots, was undefeated in her three outings, which included wins in the $15,500 Janet Wineberg Stakes and $10,000 Detroit Lake Handicap. A member of the second crop of Understatement, she was produced from the Grindstone mare Bridled Style. Trained

by Linda Bartels Northam, the filly earned $18,607.

For the ninth consecutive year, Bar C Racing Stables’ Harbor the Gold led all state sires with 2017 earnings of $1,225,424.

Among his 58 winners from 89 starters were five stakes winners and he had another six who placed in 2017 stakes races.

Rolland Fergason was honored as 2017 Oregon trainer of the year.

2018 Oregon Summer Fair Dates The 2018 Oregon summer fair dates will once again be spread over five meets beginning in June and ending in September: Union–Eastern Oregon Livestock Show (three days), June 8-10; Grants Pass (nine days), June 16-17, 23-24 and 30, July 1, 4 and 7-8; Prineville–Crooked River Roundup (four days), July 11-14; Tillamook (four days), August 8-11; and Burns–Harney County Fair (three days), September 7-9.

WTBOA Sales Graduates in the News Team Hollywood dead-heated with Blue Chip Betty for the win in a maiden special weight run at Golden Gate on December 26. A daughter of Alternation— September Charmer, by Septieme Ciel, Team Hollywood is a Kentucky-bred filly who has made three trips through the sales ring, including as a $19,000 RNA at the 2016 WTBOA Sale while consigned by El Dorado Farms. After taking a starter allowance race in February, Team Hollywood rolled to her third win in four starts when taking a sixpanel allowance/$40,000 optional claiming 56

(N) race at the Albany track on March 11.

She has earned $37,640.

Ridgefield Rocket won a $30,000 maiden claiming race at Santa Anita on December 30. The 2015 colt by Stay Thirsty—Adorable Lydia, by Carson City, was bred in Washington by Terry and Mary Lou Griffin and High Point Bloodstock, races for Al and Saundra Kirkwood and is trained by Mark Glatt.

Rewired, a California-bred colt by Acclamation—Knows No Bounds, by Boundary, who races for Dr. Rodney E. Orr, won a 5 1/2-furlong starter allowance race at Golden Gate on February 19. The colt took his third win in four tries when he annexed a six-panel allowance/$40,000 optional claimer (N) on March 16 at Golden Gate.

He has bankrolled $45,100.

Mixo, who had been twice stakesplaced at Emerald Downs at two, won a maiden/$30,000 optional claiming (N) race at Turf Paradise on New Year’s Day. On February 20, Mixo added a tally in a six-panel allowance test at the Arizona track and upped his earnings to $57,400. The now four-yearold son of El Dorado Farm stallion Abraaj out of Valour Road, by Honour and Glory, was bred in Washington by Oak Crest Farm.

Martin Riggs, the first foal out of Washington horse of the year E Z Kitty (He’s Tops), went gate-to-wire to take a mile $100,000 maiden claiming race by 1 1/2 lengths over Santa Anita’s turf course on January 5 while racing for the partnership of Dan J. Agnew, Gerry Schneider and John V. Xitco. Bred in Kentucky by Highlander Racing Stable LLC, the three-year-old colt is trained by Mark Glatt.

Carat Queen improved her record to 4-20 from ten starts after she took an allowance test by 5 1/4 lengths at Portland Meadows on January 7. The four-year-old Oregonbred filly by Grindstone—Talent Queen,

by Elusive Quality, was bred by Gordon L. Tallman and Dr. Jack B. Root Jr., races for Marjorie Avery and is trained by Dennis Hurley. She has earned $23,097.

Mardi Gras Delight, in her second start, won a 5 1/2-furlong maiden/$35,000 optional claiming race by 2 1/4 lengths for owner Art McFadden on January 8 at Portland Meadows. Trained by Jonathan Nance, Mardi Gras Delight, a three-year-old Washington-bred daughter of Ministers Wild Cat, became the fifth winner from six starters for Prisco and Elizabeth Vacca’s Bertrando mare Creole Delights.

Percy’s Bluff took his 2018 debut on January14 in a 5 1/2-furlong starter allowance at Golden Gate. The six-year-old gelding races for and is trained by Jerry Hollendorfer and was bred in Washington by Nina and Ron Hagen. It marked the 18th win for the son of El Dorado Farms LLC’s Raise the Bluff—Persephonie, by Conquistador Cielo, who was Washington’s 2016 most improved claimer. Percy’s Bluff has earned $223,133.

Mitch and John E earned his second victory at the 2017-18 Portland Meadows meet when the four-year-old son of Run Away and Hide—Artic Mist, by Son of Briartic, went gate-to-wire to take an allowance test by 4 1/4 lengths on January 15. Bred in Washington by Rick and Debbie Pabst, the five-race winner competes for Lisa Baze and Chuck Hilton and is trained by Rigoberto Velasquez. He has earned $38,200.

C R Bullitt won a six-furlong maiden special weight race at Golden Gate on January 21 for R. E. V. Racing. Trained

by Frank Lucarelli, the new winner – a three-year-old son of Atta Boy Roy out of Washington champion racemare Aunt Sophie, by Altazarr – was bred in Washington

by Barbara L. Barth and Connie Belshay. C R Bullitt next finished second by three-quarters of a length in a six-panel allowance/$40,000 optional claiming (N) race at Golden Gate on February 19.

Pyscho Sister – a half-sister to newly crowned 2017 Washington two-year-old champion Elliott Bay – went gate-to-wire to take a mile allowance/$62,500 optional claiming race by 2 3/4 lengths at Golden Gate on February 24. The five-year-old mare

by Freud out of stakes winner Marva Jean, by Cahill Road, who was bred in Washington by Rick and Debbie Pabst, has earned $84,120.

Kaboom proved a five-length winner of a maiden $16,000 claiming race at Santa Anita on January 21. Bred in Washington by Billie Klokstad, Kaboom is a four-year-old gelded son of Gibson Thoroughbred Farm stallion Parker’s Storm Cat and is the fourth winner out of the unraced stakes-producing Slewdledo mare Special Return.

Always Enuff ran third in a six-panel allowance race at Fair Grounds on January 26 for owner Ten Broeck Farm Inc. and trainer Grant T. Forster. It was only the second outing for the four-year-old daughter of Tiz Wonderful—Witching Meeting, by General Meeting, who had won a maiden special weight race by ten lengths last year at Emerald Downs while under trainer Tim McCanna’s shedrow. Bred in Washington by Patricia Murphy and Rick and Debbie Pabst, Always Enuff next outdistanced her rivals by 5 3/4 lengths in a six-furlong allowance at Fair Grounds on March 15 in her third start to push her earnings to $40,706.

Smiling Tiger was named 2017 California leading freshman sire. The first crop of the multiple Grade 1 sprinter earned $485,752, over double what second place Indian Evening’s runners achieved. Smiling Tiger’s top earner was the stakes-winning filly Spiced Perfection ($167,260), and he is also the sire of Oregon champion juvenile colt Grinning Tiger and Emerald Downs twotime stakes-placed Brown Tiger.

Kast Intention, a three-year-old Washington-bred daughter of El Dorado Farms LLC’s Abraaj, won her first start for owner Brett Brophy and Beauttenmuller Washington Thoroughbred

Inc. on February 28 at Turf Paradise.

Trained by Jeff Metz and bred by Nina and Ron Hagen, the filly out of the unraced Chilean-bred Crémé, took the 5 1/2-furlong maiden/$30,000 optional claiming (N) race by one length. Kast Intention made it twofor-two when she won an allowance/$20,000 optional claiming (N) race by 2 3/4 lengths at the Arizona track on March 19. She is the fourth foal and winner for her dam, who has also produced stakes-placed Camano Comet.

Cinderella Liberty, Washington’s 2003 champion juvenile filly, has so far produced four winners from her first five starters.

Among them is the five-year-old gelding Nevadan, by Mesa Thunder, who earned his fifth victory when he took a mile starter allowance on the grass at Turf Paradise on March 4, pushing his earnings to $38,269.

Cinderella Liberty is a daughter of West Coast Training Center’s Liberty Gold out of Notjustanyknight, by Knight Choice, and was bred by Claudia A. Canouse.

Reba Is Tops, Washington’s 2009 horse of the year and a five-time stakes winner of $464,267, is the dam of the five-year-old Tribal Rule mare Rebarules Again, who won a six-furlong allowance at Golden Gate on March 4 for her owners and breeders Eric Schweiger, Gordy Jarnig and Kenny Marshall. The California-bred, who has earned $121,882, is trained by Tim McCanna.

Pep o’ Gold, a winning Washington-bred daughter of Slew o’ Gold who was a 1999 WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale RNA, is the dam of seven-race winner and $57,465 earner Tiz o’ Gold, by Cee’s Tizzy. Tiz o’ Gold’s first foal, Bravazo, who had run second in the 2017 Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland, won the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes (G2) at Fair Grounds on February 17.

The Calumet Farm homebred, by Awesome Again – who is trained by D. Wayne Lukas – has earned $436,528. Pep o’ Gold was one of ten foals – including stakes-placed Pewterville, by Petersburg – bred by Charlie and Cindy Hoctor and Hugh and Kathy Shiels, out of the winning The Irish Lord mare Ginger Up. With a Furlong to Go – California and the Southwest . . .

Dano’s Dream, a four-year-old Californiabred gelding by Dreamstar Farm’s Council Member out of the $197,777 stakes-placed Moscow Ballet mare Easy Obsession, took a nine-furlong turf allowance at Golden Gate Fields on December 26. Trained by Tim McCanna, he races for the partnership of Fred Desimone, Glyn C. Kelly and Roy McCanna. On February 10, Dano’s Dream improved his record to 4-4-4 from 19 starts after he won a nine-panel allowance at Golden Gate, increasing his earnings to $125,854. Council Member is also the sire of Sea Myrtle, who won a $18,000-$20,000 claimer by three lengths on February 4 and added another win at that level on March 18 at the Albany oval to record her sixth win Spring 2018

and up the seven-year-old California-bred’s earnings to $131,698 . . . Steven Sarkowsky and Martin J. and Pam Wygod’s three-yearold filly Paradise Woods finished second to future 2017 champion female sprinter Unique Bella in the $300,000 La Brea Stakes (G1) held at Santa Anita the day after Christmas. Bred in Kentucky by Sarkowsky’s late father – Washington Racing Hall of Fame inductee Herman Sarkowsky – Paradise Woods, a daughter of Union Rags, is a two-time Grade 1 winner at Santa Anita who has earned $713,545 while under trainer Richard Mandella’s care . . . Todd and Shawn Hansen’s homebred two-year-old Uno Trouble Maker took a maiden $20,000 claiming race by four lengths at Santa Anita

on December 29. The Washington-bred daughter of Successful Appeal is one of three foals and starters out of the Broken Vow mare Hope and Vow, whose first offspring is the Hansens’ three-time Washington champion racemare Ethan’s Baby. On March 4, the Hansens’ first-time starter Best of Me, a three-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by Super Saver, won a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Santa Anita by 3 1/4 lengths . . . Ron Crockett Inc. homebred Close the Show Lo, a 2013 Kentucky-bred daughter of Pure Prize, won a $40,000 claiming race at Golden Gate on December 31. It marked the third win for the Frank Lucarelli trainee who has earned $61,573. Close the Show Lo is one of nine winners out of four-time stakes

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winner and $309,582 earner Carrie Can, a daughter of Saratoga Six who has produced two stakes winners and two stakes-placed runners among her earners of nearly $1.2-million . . . Emerald Downs stakes winner Finallygotabentley took his eighth win in a $12,500 claimer run at Santa Anita on January 1. Bred in Kentucky by Northwest Farms LLC, the 2010 gelding

by Bernardini out of Emerald champion Smarty Deb, by Smart Strike, has earned $189,413 . . . Two-year-old Ippodamia’s Girl, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Stormy Atlantic, won the mile $85,320 Blue Norther Stakes run over Santa Anita’s turf course on December 31. Both she and her Grade 1-winning half-brother Georgie Boy are among the seven winners out of Washingtonbred stakes winner Ippodamia, a daughter of Peterhof whose dam and granddam were also Washington-bred stakes winners. Bred and raced by George and Martha Schwary – who had claimed Ippodamia from her breeder Richard Pasko – Ippodamia’s Girl has earned $95,525. Georgie Boy has also been successful in his second career, as the 2005 gelding by Tribal Rule finished with a first and a second at the 2017 CARMA Thoroughbred Classic Horse Show Holiday Classic . . . Al and Saundra Kirkwood’s homebred two-year-old Tribal Dance won her second start, a maiden special weight race run a Santa Anita on December 31. The Tribal Rule—Last Dance for Me, by General Meeting, distaffer is trained by Mark Glatt, as was the second place finisher. Another daughter of Tribal Rule, Washington-bred Judicial was also making her second start.

The filly out of Courtroom Charmer, by Tribunal, had finished third in an Emerald Downs maiden special weight race in September. Judicial, who races as homebred for her breeders Ron Crockett Inc. and Terry and Mary Lou Griffin, finished first in her third outing – winning a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Santa Anita on January 27. She has earned $62,576 . . .

Former Washington champion Del Rio Harbor earned his tenth victory at Turf Paradise in an eight-panel claimer on January 3. The now seven-year-old gelded son of Harbor the Gold—Bahati, by Horse Chestnut (SAf) – who was bred by Bar C Racing Stables Inc. and Desert Rose Racing LLC – also took his next start at the Phoenix track when he won a mile starter allowance on January 2. He has earned $260,360 . . .

Quadrun Farms LLC’s homebred Gray Gem won his debut on January 5 at Golden Gate.

The three-year-old Washington-bred gelding, who is trained by Tim McCanna, took the $40,000 maiden claiming race by 1 1/4 lengths. Gray Gem is from the final crop of former leading Washington sire Matty G and is the fourth winner from four starters out of Whatdidshesay, a $111,590 stakes-winning daughter of Knight in Savannah. On March 15, Gray Gem won for the second time in three tries when he took a starter allowance at Golden Gate . . . Four-year-old Gotham 58

Desire came home with her third win in five starts when the California-bred daughter of West Coast Training Center stallion Gotham City took an allowance over Santa Anita’s downhill turf course on January 5. The $55,115 earner races for Steve Moger and is trained by his brother Ed Moger Jr . . .

Horseplayers Racing Club and trainer Tim McCanna’s Bornonvalentineday took her second consecutive win when the three-yearold Kentucky-bred daughter of Data Link went gate-to-wire in a starter allowance at Golden Gate on January 12 . . . Dr. George Todaro and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer’s multiple graded stakes winner G G Ryder went gate-to-wire to win an allowance/ $62,500 optional claiming race at Golden Gate on January 21. The seven-year-old California-bred son of Emerald Downs stakes winner Chhaya Dance has won 14 races and earned $555,305. On March 10, To d a r o a n d H o l l e n d o r f e r L L C ’s Allaboutaction, a five-year-old gelding by Candy Ride (Arg), won a six-furlong allowance/$40,000 optional claiming race at Golden Gate. It marked the Kentucky-bred’s sixth win and he has earned $149,710 . . .

Pistolpakinpreacher went gate-to-wire to take a maiden/$30,000 optional claiming race by 3 3/4 lengths at Turf Paradise on January 22. He next was a 2 1/4-length winner of an allowance at Turf Paradise on March 3. The four-year-old gelding by Pulse Ranches’ Preachinatthebar—Canyon Wind,

by Tough Knight, was bred in Washington

by Todd Pulse . . . Cognitive, a three-year-old filly by Uncle Mo, won a Santa Anita maiden special weight race on January 26 in her first try for Juddmonte Farms Inc. Bred by Dr. Rodney Orr and trained by Bob Baffert, the $500,000 2016 Saratoga sale yearling is the second foal out of $50,502 earner Dream Sweeper, a daughter of Salt Lake who had finished third in the 2011 Washington State Legislators Handicap for Orr. A half-sister to two-time Grade 1 winner and $779,364 earner Dream Rush and stakes-placed Neeranjanie, Dream Sweeper’s first foal, Dreams of Reality, by Lookin At Lucky, placed in two stakes and earned $99,640. Orr also bred and owns three-year-old Classy Atlantic, who won a maiden special weight race over Santa Anita’s tuft course on January 28. The daughter of Stormy Atlantic is trained by Mark Glatt. Her $128,921 stakes-placed dam Classy Landlady – a full sister to $689,510 Grade 2 winner Stage Classic – had been purchased carrying Classy Atlantic by Halvorson Bloodstock Services, as agent, for $25,000 at the 2014 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale . . . Luigi DiPietro’s Lazzarella, a four-yearold daughter of Tizbud bred in California by DiPietro Thoroughbreds, won an turf allowance at Turf Paradise on January 28. It marked her third win and gives her $46,456 in earnings . . . In his first 2018 start, twotime Portland Meadows stakes winner Keller’s Gold ran third in the $75,000 Budweiser Handicap at Sunland Park on

February 10. The four-year-old son of Liberty Gold—Glory Hallelujah, by Honour and Glory, was bred in Washington by Keith and Jan Swagerty and now races for Linda Eidal. Keller’s Gold, who was runner-up in Washington Cup races at two and three, has won six races and has earnings of $60,344 . . . Edward and Theresa DeNike’s homebred Tortosa, a three-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Cape Blanco (Ire), took a mile maiden special weight race at Golden Gate on February 18 . . . 2017 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) winner Stormy Liberal – a full brother to El Dorado Farm stallion Coast Guard – finished second in his 2018 debut to his paternal halfbrother Conquest Tsunami in the February 24 Daytona Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita, while giving that rival four pounds. Both the Stormy Atlantic geldings are trained by Peter Miller. Stormy Liberal went over the million mark to $1,013,570 . . . Thirteen Squared, a three-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Liaison, finished second in the Santa Ysabel Stakes (G3) run at Santa Anita on March 3.

The $67,320 earner is the third winner from four starters produced out of $989,185 Grade 2 stakes winner and Grade 1-placed House of Fortune, a daughter of Free House and granddaughter of Washington horse of the year and Grade 1 winner Delicate Vine, by Knights Choice . . . Hollendorfer LLC, Mark Dedomenico LLC and George Todaro’s Street Sweets, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Street Sense, rewarded her owners with a gate-to-wire win in a mile maiden special weight race at Golden Gate on March 9 . . .

Jomelo, an eight-year-old gelding by Oakhurst Thoroughbreds’ Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Giacomo, took the 12-furlong Turf Distance Series Final Stakes run at Turf Paradise on March 17. Twice stakes-placed at two, the Ontario-bred runner has earned $437,810.

With a Furlong to Go – East of the Rockies . . .

Smiling Causeway, a 2014 Kentuckybred daughter of Giant’s Causeway, became the third stakes winner out of Emerald Downs stakes winner Shandra Smiles, by Cahill Road, when she took the $76,250 Lightning City Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs on December 30. Smiling Causeway – who also has two stakes seconds and earnings of $179,200 – is a half-sibling to Grade 1 winners She’s a Tiger and Smiling Tiger.

All were bred by Dr. Rodney Orr. The now 20-year-old Shandra Smiles has a yearling colt by Tale of the Cat . . . Horseplayers Racing Club LLC (HPRC) and Above the Crowd Stable LLC’s Fire Lake went over the $100,000 mark on January 27 with his gate-to-wire victory at Fair Grounds in an allowance/$12,500 optional claiming race.

The five-year-old Louisiana-bred gelding

by Haynesfield has seven wins and $115,980 in earnings. HPRC’s three-year-old Cajun Creed, a Louisiana-bred gelding sired by Jimmy Creed, took a mile allowance at Washington Thoroughbred

Delta Downs on February 23, He has earned $116,600 . . . Three-year-old Empire Line remained unbeaten after scoring his second victory in the Damon Runyon Stakes at Aqueduct on January 15. Sired by Grade 1 winner Morning Line, by Tiznow, Empire Line stems from the same female line as Illinois Derby (G3) winner Dynamic Impact, who is also a son of two-time Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Tiznow. $421,006 stakes winner Dynamic Impact entered stud this year at Bar C Racing Stables . . . Hogy, who was originally purchased for $17,000 by Dana Halvorson’s Halvorson Bloodstock Services LLC, as agent, as a short yearling out of the 2010 Keeneland January sale, took his seventh stakes win, and third Grade 3 race, when he won the $150,000 Canadian Turf Stakes at Gulfstream Park on March 3. The gelded son of Offlee Wild has won 19 races and earned $1,321,837 . . . Three-time graded-placed Wild About Deb, a five-year-old son of Eskendereya out of Emerald Downs champion Smarty Deb, by Smart Strike, bred by Northwest Farms LLC in Kentucky, upped his earnings to $309,270 after he won a nine-panel allowance at Aqueduct on March 3 . . .

Former prominent Washington jockey Jose Corrales, 57, saddled his first graded stakes winner when Stronach Stables’ Something Awesome, a seven-year-old son of Awesome Again, won the $250,000 General George Stakes (G3) at Laurel Park on February 17.

Ridden by Corrales’ nephew Elvis Trujillo, it marked the seventh win for the gelding and upped his earnings to $341,051. Corrales, whose last recorded mount came at Emerald Downs on September 11, 1998, won 1,031 races from his 6,860 mounts that earned over $4.4-million. Some of Corrales’ top mounts included Washington champions Harmony Creek, Spring Trooper and Zulu Whiz and Oregon horse of the year Polynesian Flyer.

As a trainer Corrales has had 358 wins – including 40 in 2018 – from 2,098 starters who have earned over $7.1-million through March 19 . . . Eight Da Hardway, a fiveyear-old gelding by Proud Citizen, won a six-furlong allowance/$25,000 optional claiming (N) race at Parx Racing on March 17. The five-race winner of $148,447 is one of eight foals and winners bred by Michael and Amy Feuerborn out of their 2004 Emerald Downs champion sophomore filly Bianconi Baby. The Kentucky-bred is a half-brother to 2017 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes runner-up Philly Baby, minor stakes winner Include the Baby and good Emerald runner Scat Daddybaby.

With a Furlong to Go – Internationally . . .

Brazilian jockey Jorge Ricardo, 56, tied multiple Hall of Fame rider Russell Baze’s win record (12,844) on February 5, 2018, aboard Jubilia at Hipodromo da Gavea in Rio de Janeiro, and then surpassed Baze with Hope Glory’s victory in the fourth race at San Isidro on February 7.

Spring 2018

AT THE FARM West Coast Training Center Adds Lord Lochinvar to Stallion Roster Lord Lochinvar enters stud at Keith and Jan Swagerty’s West Coast Training Center in Auburn for the 2018 breeding season.

A 2011 son of 1982 Horse of the Year and leading sire A. P. Indy, Lord Lochinvar is one of nine winners out the winning Lord At War (Arg) mare Lady Lochinvar.

A Golden Gate Fields maiden special weight winner, Lord Lochinvar is a full brother to five-time graded stakes winner and $1,137,188 earner Master Command and a three-quarter brother to Grade 3 winner Aurora Lights ($277,076) and G1-placed X Star, both daughters of Pulpit; and a half-brother to $94,215 stakes winner Street Lad, by Street Cry (Ire). Lady Lochinvar has a 2016 filly by Candy Ride (Arg) named Candavar.

Lady Winborne, the second dam of Lord Lochinvar, was a half-sister to multiple European champion Allez France, by *SeaBird. The Group 3-placed daughter of Secretariat excelled as a broodmare, producing six stakes winners among her 13 winners of over $2.7-million. Two were Grade 1 winners, Al Mamoon and La Guerierre, while Lost Soldier won a Grade 3 and Bold Wild won the 1995 Magna Austrian Derby.

Lady Winborne’s dam, Priceless Gem, beat the great Buckpasser in the (Aqueduct) Futurity and was a full sister to stakes winner Admiring, both by Hail to Reason, and halfsister to two-time champion and 18-time stakes winner Affectionately, who in turn produced 1970 champion three-year-old Personality.

Lord Lochinvar’s sire A. P. Indy needs little introduction, as the champion sire is one of many champions sired by 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and is one of two classic winners and top sires out of broodmare of the year Weekend Surprise,

by Secretariat.

West Coast Training Center also stands Liberty Gold, a Grade 3-winning son of Crafty Prospector, who has a trio of Washington champions to his credit; Gotham City, a $2-million two-year-old sired by Saint Ballado; and Mr. Rancho Vista, a 15-race winner by Northern Afleet, whose first foals arrived in 2017.

Each stallion will stand the 2018 season for a $1,250 fee (live foal), which includes a $250 booking fee. $492,130 Stakes Winner Raised a Secret to Oakhurst Thoroughbreds Dr. Rodney Orr’s Raised a Secret has been retired to stud for the 2018 breeding season to Dr. Jack and Margaret “Cookie” Root Jr.’s Oakhurst Thoroughbreds in Newberg, Oregon.

One of over 40 stakes winners sired by Grade 1 winner Songandaprayer, Raised a Secret won the $100,000 Harris Farm Stakes and placed in six other stakes while running

from two through six, including placements in the Grade 3 Los Angeles Stakes and the Gottstein Futurity.

Twenty of Raised a Secret’s 31 starts (510-8) came in dirt sprints where he tallied a 3-6-5 record and earned $290,610 of his $492,130 total. His race total SSI was 4.49, with a sprint SSI of 4.38.

Raised a Secret is the second leading earner sired by Songandaprayer, one of 120 stakes winners by major winner and sire Unbridled’s Song. The leading sire in North America in 2017, Unbridled’s Song is the sire of five champions, including North America’s leading money earner Arrogate and 2017 Eclipse Award winner Forever Unbridled.

Raised a Secret – who won an Emerald Downs maiden special weight race by 2 1/2 lengths in his first outing – is the first foal out of $50,080 winner Sensitive Soul, a daughter of Bernstein who has produced three other winners, including $283,157 stakes-placed Image of Joplin.

The second dam of Raised a Secret is twice Santa Anita stakes-placed Kindred Soul, a daughter of Woodman who earned $106,077.

Updated AAEP Biosecurity Guidelines Now Available The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) has published updated biosecurity guidelines to help minimize the occurrence and mitigate the spread of potential disease outbreaks.

The downloadable PDF file incorporates comprehensive information and stepby-step protocols in three distinct areas: identification of key personnel, important contacts and reference materials; routine biosecurity protocol; and outbreak response.

The AAEP’s Infectious Disease Committee updated the protocols.

The outbreak of an infectious disease can inflict significant economic hardship due to loss of horses, loss of use and shutdown of industry activity. To further reduce risk, the AAEP has a companion fillable PDF worksheet that will serve as a practical resource for practitioners to use with their clients in planning for an outbreak.

View the upda te d guidel i nes at aaep.org/sites/default/files/Guidelines/ BiosecurityGuidelines_Final_0.pdf.

Additional biosecurity information specific to common situations and locations, such as breeding operations, events and travel, are available from the Equine Disease Communication Center through the “Biosecurity” link at equinediseasecc.org.

Farm Bulletin . . .

Leo Tapia, 23, who worked as a groom at Emerald Downs from 2014-17, was profiled in the December 21, 2017, edition of The Paulick Report, as among the grooms who helped to save horses lives at the tragic fire at San Luis Rey Downs in Southern California in early December. Tapia was working for trainer Peter Miller, who lost five horses in 59

the blaze, including WTBOA Sales horse and California champion California Diamond. paulickreport.com/features/breeders-cuppresents-connections/san-luis-rey-horserescuer-leo-tapia-rich-in-heart/ . . . 2011 Washington champion three-year-old filly Castinette Dancer foaled a colt by Sky Mesa in February for Glen Todd’s North American Thoroughbred Horse Company Inc. Bred by John Roche, the three-time stakes winner of $219,164 was to be returned to Keen Ice.

AT THE SALES 2018 Keeneland Horses of All Ages Sale The four-day Keeneland sale (January 8-11) cataloged 1,583 horses, consisting mainly broodmares and short yearlings. Of those, 1,227 went through the ring with 909 changing hands for a $34,996,000 gross, $38,499 average (up 28.53 percent) and a $12,000 median (up 14.29 percent). RNAs were down 5.49 percent from the 2017 sale and 28 horses sold for $200,000 or more this year versus 17 in 2017.

Topping the Kentucky venue was broodmare prospect Mrs Mcdougal, a Grade 2 stakes-winning daughter of Medaglia d’Oro out of the Eaton Sales consignment, who was purchased by Steven G. Young, agent, for $1.6-million. The nearly $500,000 earner made her final career starts in the name of Washington Racing Hall of Fame breeder Theline Scheumann’s 2 TY LLC. A yearling colt from the first crop of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah topped all of the 2017 offspring offered with a $1-million bid.

Washington bloodstock agent Dana Halvorson signed for two horses: a yearling daughter of Flat Out, who is a half-sister to $256,659 stakes winner Wildeydsouthernboy and six other winners; and stakes producer Princess Hillary, by Maria’s Mon, who had been bred to Strong Mandate.

California-based Tom Grether Farms, which races and sells in Washington, purchased an Awesome Again yearling halfsister to Grade 3 stakes winner Tiz a Minister.

Don Lockwood, as agent, signed for Preciouspurplerain, a daughter of Dehere out of stakes winner Callmenicepick, who had been covered by Flat Out. Goodlookinwife, a $70,075 earning full sister to 2012 Emerald Downs horse of the meet Class Included (both daughters of Include out of 2005 Emerald champion sophomore filly A Classic Life), was sold bred to Verrazano for $60,000.

You Vow Me, a $85,172 winner by Broken Vow out of Angie C. Stakes-placed Light of a Star (family of graded winners Hilco Scamper and Summer Hit and Emerald champion sprinter Starbird Road) sold as a broodmare prospect for $50,000.

Stakes-placed Diva’s Seastar, a daughter of Broken Vow who has already produced the earners of nearly $400,000, was sold for 60

$45,000 while covered by Twirling Candy.

Diva’s Seastar is a half-sister to Washington champion Handyman Bill and Grade/Group 3 stakes winners Elusive Diva (dam of 2017 Eclipse sprint champion Roy H) and Tropics, all offspring of Washington broodmare of the year Taj Aire.

A yearling filly by Grade 1 winner Cross Traffic, out of 1998 Washington champion two-year-old filly Western Woman, brought $40,000. Western Woman has already produced six winners, led by $489,141 stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Modern Cowboy, Grade 3-placed Hype and stakesplaced Tis a Man. 2018 Barretts January Mixed Sale The California sale was held on January 17 with 189 cataloged and 13 supplemental entries. Of those 202, 112 horses were sold for a $1,226,400 total, $10,950 average (up 37.5 percent) and $5,750 median (up 55.4 percent). The RNA rate rose from 22.4 percent in 2017, to 30.4 percent.

Topping the venue was a two-year-old colt by Quality Road. Consigned by Andrian Gonzalez’s Checkmate Thoroughbreds LLC, agent, the handsome bay was purchased by O. I. Jauregui, agent for Highland Yard, for a $120,000 bid.

Washington trainer Candi Tollett, as agent, signed for three: a yearling filly by Lucky Pulpit out of a half-sister to Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed Just Wonder (GB), German stakes winner Just Time and French stakes-placed Just Queen; and two unraced four-year-olds, a gelding by Tiznow and a filly by Majesticperfection.

Conditioner Jonathan Nance purchased a yearling colt by Marino Marini out of a winning half-sister to $289,622 stakes winner Just for Keeps; and Bella San (GB), a $144,632 winning half-sister to three stakes horses bred to Grazen.

2018 Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale Fasig-Tipton held their annual two-day sale at their Kentucky headquarters on February 5-6. After the addition of 57 supplemental entries, this vear’s venue featured 574 horses, down 66 horses from 2017.

Girl Talk, a stakes-placed daughter of Medaglia d’Oro, was the top seller at $310,000. Overall, 471 head went through the ring with 364 selling for a $10,436,800 gross, $28,673 average (up 5.9 percent) and $10,500 median (up 16.7 percent).

Emerald Downs Vice President Jack Hodge purchased two yearlings: a colt

by Justin Phillip, who is a half-brother to Grade 1-placed $317,190 earner Aripeka, and a colt from the initial crop of Grade 1 juvenile winner Competitive Edge out of a $95,190 winning half-sister to $274,716 stakes winner Crumlin Spirit and $171,357 stakes-placed Henny’s Heart.

Kara Toye’s Moxie Bloodstock signed for a yearling filly by $1.1-million earner Bourbon Courage for Rick Kessler.

Corby, a $127,650 stakes-placed daughter of Quality Road and half-sister to Grade 1 winner Celtic Melody, brought $160,000 as a racing or broodmare prospect. The five-yearold mare stems from the immediate family of Washington horse of the year Delicate Vine and additional graded stakes winners House of Fortune, Altazarr, Irish Gypsy, Rendezvous and Georgie Boy. Among the others selling with a Washington connection were a Haynesfield yearling filly out of a winning daughter of Washington champion and Grade 2 winner Favored One; and four-year-old broodmare Seneca Theatre, a daughter of Gio Ponti out of $596,404 Grade 2 winner and stakes producer The Niagara Queen – a daughter of Washington-bred Inspirational, who is a half-sister to three Washington-bred stakes horses – bred to Justin Phillip.

GENERAL Roy H Among 2017 Eclipse Award Winners The 2017 Eclipse Award ceremonies were held in January at Gulfstream Park in Florida. There were few surprises during the festive night, which featured Gun Runner’s landslide coronation as Horse of the Year and champion older male dirt runner.

Another popular vote tally was the champion male sprinter title awarded Gary Hartunian’s Rockingham Ranch and David Bernstein’s three-time Grade 1 winner Roy H. The now six-year-old gelded son of More Than Ready – who was named to honor Hartunian’s late grandfather – finished the year with a 5-1-0 record from his six races with $1,270,900 in earnings. The “icing on the cake” was his length victory in the TwinSpires Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) last year at Del Mar. Though bred in Kentucky by Ramona S. Bass LLC, Roy H has deep ties to the Evergreen State. His dam, three-time Grade 3 winner Elusive Diva, was bred by Washington Racing Hall of Fame breeders John and Doris Konecny and their Czechmate Farm; and his second and third dams were the Enumclaw couple’s Washington broodmares of the year Whimsical Aire, by Messenger of Song, and her daughter Taj Aire, by Taj Alriyadh. This is also the immediate family of Washington champions Silky Steel (Roy H’s fourth dam), Handyman Bill, Mahaska, Enumclaw Girl and Quizzical.

There is also another Washington connection through Roy H’s trainer Peter Miller, as he trained two WTBOA Sales graduates who would become state champions. The first was 1986 Washington champion three-year-old and turf horse Fast Parade, who was bred by the Konecny’s son Dr. Michael Konecny; and the second was the late 2016 California two-year-old colt champion California Diamond, who was bred by now Eastern Washington resident Stormy Hull.

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Roy H easily took his 2018 debut in the $200,000 Palos Verdes Stakes (G2) on February 3 at Santa Anita, winning the sixpanel sprint by 3 1/2 lengths and improving his record to 7-4-1 in 18 starts. The six-yearold gelding has earned $1,479,765. Winning rider Kent Desormeaux said after his mount’s 1:09.68 clocking over a fast track, “He’s a super horse . . . he’s the best sprinter I’ve ever ridden.”

Quality Road – who is a full brother to Gibson Thoroughbred Farm stallion Linchpin, whose first crop races in 2018 – was represented by two Eclipse winners: three-year-old filly Abel Tasman and twoyear-old filly Caledonia Road.

The other horses and people honored with a 2017 Eclipse Award trophy were: Forever Unbridled (older dirt female); World Appeal (male turf horse); Lady Eli (female turf horse); Unique Bella (female sprinter); Good Magic (two-year-old male); West Coast (three-year-old male); Scorpincer (Ire) (steeplechaser); owner (Juddmonte Farm); breeder (Clearsky Farm); trainer (Chad Brown); jockey (Jose Ortiz); and apprentice jockey (Evin Roman – who rode John Parker’s homebred Gold Rush Dancer to victory in the 2017 Grade 3 Longacres Mile).

references. RRP’s selection committee evaluated candidates based on their ability to effectively retrain an off-track Thoroughbred, as well as their commitment to RRP’s mission of promoting off-track Thoroughbreds for second careers.

The accepted trainers include four-star eventers, dressage riders who have earned their US Dressage Federation Gold Medals, A-circuit hunter riders, grand prix show jumpers, high-goal polo players, decorated barrel racers and many horsemen who work within the racing industry. They represent 40 states and the District of Columbia, plus three Canadian provinces. Professionals make up 46 percent of the field; 42 percent are amateurs and 12 percent are juniors.

The youngest trainer is 11; the oldest is 71.

Thirty-one percent have participated in a prior Thoroughbred Makeover. Among the trainers listed are 11 from Washington and four from Oregon.

A full list of accepted trainers is on the Thoroughbred Makeover website: tbmakeover.org/accepted-trainers.

The tbmakeover.org, a brand-new website dedicated exclusively to the Thoroughbred Makeover, and separate from RRP’s organization website, is now available.

Three-year Racehorse Depreciation Returns Retroactively for Fiscal Year of 2017 In February 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act, which among other measures, extends retroactively for fiscal year 2017 uniform three-year racehorse depreciation, an important tax provision supported by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) that expired in 2016 alongside certain other expired tax provisions.

Three-year depreciation is an investment incentive for racehorse owners that had been in place for several years.

Prior to the 2008 Farm Bill, which became effective January 1, 2009, racehorses 24 months of age and younger when purchased and placed in service, were depreciated on a seven-year schedule that did not accurately reflect the length of a typical racehorse’s career; only racehorses over 24 months old were depreciated using a three-year schedule.

AHCF Announces Results of 2017 Economic Impact Study The American Horse Council Foundation (AHCF) announced the results of the 2017 Economic Impact Study of the US Horse Industry.

The equine industry in the US generates approximately $122-billion in total economic impact, an increase from $102-billion in the 2005 Economic Impact Study. The industry also provides a total employment impact of 1.74-million and generates $79-billion in total salaries, wages and benefits. The current number of horses in the United States stands at 7.2-million. Texas, California and Florida continue to be the top three states with the highest population of horses.

“Those involved in the equine industry already know how important it is to the US economy. Having these updated numbers is critical, not only to the AHC’s efforts up on Capitol Hill, but also for the industry to demonstrate to the general public how much of a role the equine has in American households,” said AHC President Julie Broadway.

Another bright spot for the industry: 38-million, or 30.5 percent of US households, contain a horse enthusiast, and 38 percent of participants are under the age of 18.

Additionally, approximately 80-million acres of land is reserved for horse-related activities.

The National Economic Impact Study, as well as the 15 state breakouts, is available for purchase through the AHC website: horsecouncil.org/horsecouncil-publications/.

If you have any questions, please contact the AHC at info@horsecouncil.org.

794 Trainers Accepted to Compete at 2018 Thoroughbred Makeover The Retired Racehorse Project (RRP) announced that a record 794 trainers have been accepted to compete for their share of $100,000 in prize money at the 2018 Thoroughbred Makeover, presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America and to be held October 4-7 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. This is a 37 percent increase from the 578 trainers accepted in 2017.

The application process for the 2018 Thoroughbred Makeover required trainers to demonstrate their skills and expertise through competition results, videos and Spring 2018

Over the Stable Gate . . .

The cover photo of the August 2017 The Racing Journal features a shot of jockey Isaias Enriquez aboard Mach One Rules as he “flys” with arms spread wide to the win in the July 16 Mt. Rainier Handicap. Taken

by Reed Palmer, who with his daughter Erin works under the Palmer Photography banner, the photo was among those given honorable mention in the 2017 Eclipse photography category. Congratulations to the Palmers and all those at the Idaho-based magazine . . . Former Emerald Downs race announcer Matt Dinerman – who is the youngest racecaller in North America – was the subject of a profile in the February 2018 California Thoroughbred titled “Off and Running,” written by Jack Shinar. The same issue featured a CTBA membership profile on longtime Washington horsewoman Rozamund Barclay titled “A Sporting Life in Full Bloom,” written by Washington Thoroughbred contributor Emily Shields . . . It was announced on February 22 that Mark Dedomenico LLC, John Carver, Peter Abruzzo and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer’s champion filly Blind Luck is among the nominees for induction into the 2018 National Racing Hall of Fame. The other nominees are: horses Gio Ponti, Havre de Grace and Heavenly Prize; jockeys Bobby Albarado, Corey Nakatani and Craig Perret; and trainers Mark Case, John Shireffs and David Whiteley.

The three fillies are all first-time nominees.

Any candidate receiving a majority vote (50.1 percent or higher) will be elected . . .

Artist Dagmar Galleithner-Steiner, wife of former jockey Joe Steiner (son of Emerald Downs’ Quarter Chute Café’s Joe and Sally Steiner), has teamed with Old Friends Farm in Kentucky to produce The Art of Old Friends, a book that features 47 of her pastel and pencil works of horses who have been retired to the Kentucky farm. Pre-publication orders can be placed by calling Old Friends main office at (502) 863-1775. According to Old Friends, “The anticipated publication date is August 2018 and the artist is graciously donating 100 percent of the sale proceeds to benefit the horses of Old Friends” . . .

California-based Emily Shields was among the nominees for a 2017 Sovereign Media Award for her article “How Secretariat gave the Canadians something to remember forever,” the first in a two-part report on the week the great champion went to Woodbine for the 1973 Canadian International, which appeared in the October 9 issue of the online Thoroughbred Racing Commentary. Shields regularly writes for various Thoroughbred trade journals, including Washington Thoroughbred . . . Washington HBPA Executive Director MaryAnn O’Connell was pictured and quoted in an article titled “Environmental Contamination, Transfer Headlines NHBPA Panel,” written by Jennie Rees in the March 17, 2018, edition of Thoroughbred Daily News.

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News from The Jockey Club TIP Increases Shows, Offerings and Youth Ambassadors for 2018 The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (TIP) will offer awards and classes at more than 1,200 shows in 42 states and six Canadian provinces in 2018.

Awards are available for multiple disciplines, including eventing, dressage, Western and English pleasure, hunter/jumper, endurance, Western performance, games and polocrosse. Awards are also available at some events for Thoroughbreds within their first two years of showing or for Thoroughbreds within two years of their last start.

In 2018, TIP has added championship divisions for dressage, Western dressage and Western pleasure. The second annual championships will be held on Sunday, September 9, 2018, at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.

In addition to the dressage and Western pleasure divisions, the 2018 TIP Championships will offer 12 divisions for hunters, jumpers and English pleasure.

All of the championship divisions will offer ribbons, prizes and prize money. The championships will again take place at the conclusion of the New Vocations AllThoroughbred Charity Horse Show, which is being held September 7 and 8. A full prize list is available on the TIP website.

Entries for the show will open on May 1.

All horse show entries must be received no later than August 15. A full calendar of shows offering awards is available at tjctip. com/CalendarOfEvents.

TIP also announced its Youth Ambassadors for the 2018 TIP Youth Ambassador Program.

The 12 ambassadors – which include Anna Phillips and Aubrey Newbrey from Washington – range from eight states and two Canadian provinces and cover multiple disciplines, including hunters, jumpers, eventing, Western, dressage and equitation.

Additional information about the Youth Ambassador Program can be found at tjctip. com/About/TBYPAM. The Jockey Club Adds $35 Fee to Support Aftercare The Jockey Club announced that beginning with the 2018 breeding season, it will charge $35 for each mare reported bred by a stallion on the annual Report of Mares Bred form.

The fee will supplement the industry support already provided by The Jockey Club for Thoroughbred aftercare initiatives, including the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA), Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) and Thoroughbred Incentive Program (TIP).

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said James L. Gagliano, president and chief operating officer of The Jockey Club.

“The Thoroughbred Incentive Program has done a tremendous job in furthering the careers of Thoroughbreds by giving owners and riders a goal to strive toward,” said Dell Hancock, Thoroughbred owner and breeder and initiator of TIP. “We should all be proud to support initiatives such as TIP, TAA, TCA and any program that betters the lives of Thoroughbreds.”

In coordination with The Jockey Club of Canada, funds raised from Canadian customers of The Jockey Club will be directed to Canadian Thoroughbred aftercare organizations to supplement their efforts, and likewise, funds from Puerto Rico will be dedicated to support Thoroughbreds at recognized programs in that commonwealth.

IN MEMORIAM Michael Bryan Baze Michael Bryan Baze, 58, passed away on December 15, 2017, from injuries suffered in a fall in Mesa, Arizona.

He was born on May 26, 1959, in Portland, Oregon, the fourth of six children of Carl and Alice Baze.

Michael was Longacres leading rider in 1978 at age 19 with 105 winners. He ranked tenth in the overall Longacres rider standings with 542 victories, including stakes wins aboard champions Briar Rose, Brief Grief and Crafty Native, as well as additional stakes victories at the Renton oval astride Courageous Charley, Firey Star, Knight O’Morn, Lovely Flight, Make Me an Offer, Montera, My Runaway, O K So Far, Palicia, Run n’ Prince and Splendid Bay. Michael rode consistently from 1976 through 1990. He was off for 1991, but back in the saddle in 1992. It would be another 15 years (2007) before his name was seen again in the jockey ranks. He also rode briefly in 2011. His last official ride came on November 28, 2011, at Turf Paradise.

All total, he had 9,081 rides with a 1,271-1,153-1,135 record and $5,538,904 in earnings.

He was preceded in death by his father, Carl; and son and fellow jockey, Michael Carl “M. C.” Baze. Michael is survived by his mother, Alice; brothers, Gary, Earl, Randy and Kelly; sister, Toni; daughter, Cheyenne; several grandchildren; and numerous other relatives from both the Baze and Cochran sides of the family.

Ruth Helen Baze Ruth Helen Baze, 88, passed away on January 19, 2018, in Kennewick after a lengthy illness. Helen was born January 25, 1929, in Ponderay, Idaho, the daughter of John and Susan (Neva) Pomerinke, the youngest of their seven children.

After her father’s illness, her mother became a hardworking single parent, a rarity at the time. Her mother’s examples of hard work,

integrity and deep faith were life lessons that Ruth carried with her throughout her years.

The family moved to Toppenish when Helen was five, where she grew up and attended school. On March 3, 1948, while attending a dance at the Sunnyside Community Hall, a handsome young man by the name of Rolland Baze asked her to dance.

They became lifelong partners and were married in Sunnyside on October 24, 1948.

Their early years were spent racing horses at various “bush” tracks in the Northwest. Their mornings started at 2 a.m. taking care of the horses. They were in the orchards working by 4 a.m. and were back at the track by 4 p.m. to take care of the horses again. They began farming in the early 1950s and continued over the next 18 years, settling in Prosser in 1955. In 1968 they returned to racing and breeding Thoroughbreds at their farm near Whitstran, a life they continued for more than 25 years.

Helen, raised a “city girl,” was fully engaged in their endeavors, driving tractor and truck in the 50s and 60s and conquering her fear of horses to the point of handling the high-strung Thoroughbreds both on and off the track. When times were tight, she worked off the farm in Prosser and drove to the tracks on weekends to be with her husband and help with the horses.

Helen was a loving and supportive mother, encouraging her children throughout their lives.

She had a wonderful sense of humor, loved music and was constantly singing snippets of songs. She eventually encouraged both of her kids to sing professionally.

Rolland and Helen sold their farm and retired in Kennewick in 1998, spending winters in Arizona. With declining health issues, Helen was moved to assisted living where Rolland was constantly by her side.

Helen was preceded in death by her parents; twin sister, Ruby Pomerinke; sister, Dorothy “Duck” Logsdon; and brother, Ernie Pomerinke. She is survived by her husband, Rolland; daughter, Rachelle (Dennis) Pleasant, of Prosser; son, Roddy (Rindi) Baze, of Kennewick; granddaughters, Denelle (Jared) Lind and Nikelle (Johnny) Hill; grandsons, Travis (Taryn) Baze, Justin (Jessica) Baze and Ron (Lyndsey) Baze; sisters, Isabel Noe, Elaine Reichert and Irene Gallipo; and eight great-grandchildren.

Ernest Matthew Braithewaite Ernie Braithewaite, 80, passed away peacefully in Surrey, British Columbia, on March 6, 2018. He had suffered from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) in his final years.

Born on October 20, 1937, and raised in Dewberry, Alberta, he was one of three children born to Joe and Olga Braithewaite.

The hard-working farm boy later became a highly-competitive hockey player at the University of Alberta, where Ernie pursued a bachelor of commerce degree.

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At 19, Ernie travelled to study at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and play and teach the locals hockey. After touring Europe, Ernie returned to Edmonton to resume his commerce degree. It was then that he met his future wife Marlene.

After graduation, Ernie worked in accounting for companies around Edmonton, ending up in the nearby oil boomtown of Drayton Valley, still playing hockey, then for the Lacombe Rockets. Taking advantage of a vocational training program, Ernie returned to the University of Alberta to become a teacher. The family later moved to Medicine Hat where Ernie taught high school.

Ernie taught business and accounting for two years. One of the speakers he invited was a securities broker. Ernie was impressed by the speaker’s success and soon moved the family to Calgary where he started in the securities business with Richardson Securities. Meanwhile, Ernie was recruited to play senior hockey with the Drumheller Miners, who won the Allen Cup in 1967 and were Canada’s representative team in European play.

He and Bill Grafam started the Calgary office of Cochran Murray. Ernie then completed part-time MBA studies at the University of Calgary, later teaching courses in the program. Ernie next shifted into the oil industry, working first with Sunningdale Oil. This broadened his horizons to Dubai and elsewhere. Eventually Ernie, Roy Gillespie and George Rostoker formed Cherokee Resources.

While in Calgary, Ernie met numerous colorful people, such as Jesse Knight, who flew Ernie into the bandito-lands of Mexico in search of silver; and the aristocrat-born White Russian painter Nicholas de Grandmaison, who survived German internment camps in World War I and eventually came to Canada to produce acclaimed portraits of Indigenous people that earned him an Order of Canada and burial – where Ernie served as one of the pallbearers – on the Peigan reserve in Southern Alberta where de Grandmaison had been made an honorary chief.

Ernie and Marlene then began pursuing their interests in horses, acquiring a couple of Thoroughbreds and soon moving to a farm south of Calgary. In the early 1980s, he and Marlene bought a mare in Kentucky and moved to Whidbey Island to breed Thoroughbreds. Ernie also made several trips to Saratoga, and he even got a trainer’s license, to better train his trainers.

The longtime horseman, WTBOA member and former Oak Harbor resident and his wife bred 1996 Washington champion three-year-old filly Another Sparkle, a daughter of Son of Briartic who earned $105,863. They also bred that filly’s $265,419 stakes-winning, graded stakes-placed half-sister Late Sailing.

Their best Washington-bred was the Son of Briartic gelding Royal Reach. The $383,885 Spring 2018

earner was acknowledged with a special Washington turf award in 1990.

More recently the Braithewaites had been active with British Columbia-bred runners with their Seattle-based partner I. M. “Sonny” Gorasht. Their stellar broodmare La Belle Creole, whose dam Sweet n Precious was a stakes-producing half-sister to Another Sparkle and Late Sailing, foaled five stakes winners for the partnership: British Columbia champions Suva and La Belle Rose, and Gotta Find Bubba, La Belle Fleur and Locket (her leading earner with $190,537). They also raced the latter two distaffers.

Ernie also served on the board of directors of the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society.

Other stakes winners they bred include Washington-bred Dash Eight and BC-bred Lasting Rose.

During the 1990s the Braithewaites were eight times ranked among the top 40 breeders in Washington, including their second place finish in 1990 and fifth place ranking in 1999.

From 2002-16, the Braithewaites, either alone or with Gorasht, had 26 wins and won over $490,000. Earlier US earnings are not available on Equibase.

The Braithewaite family spent many summers camping around Alberta and British Columbia, which included plenty of bridge, cribbage, fishing, ukuleles and singing.

Ernie is survived by his wife, Marlene; sons, Murray (Tracey), Gary (Silvia) and Neil (Michele); grandchildren, Ross, Allison, Emerson, Cesar and Martin; brother, Lorne; and sister, Sharon.

Allen Emery Floyd Allen Floyd, of Othello, 82, passed away on November 30, 2017, in Spokane.

He was born on September 12, 1935, in Harrah to Alfred and Nina (Allen) Floyd.

On June 11, 1955, he married Janet Humes and together they raised three children, Susan, Tim and Pat. Allen was an icon in Othello, both as an owner of Harvest Fresh Produce and as an avid supporter of the Othello community. He played an integral role in potato farming in central Washington and nationally throughout his career, finally retiring in March 2016. He and Janet moved to their cabin on Eloika Lake shortly thereafter.

Allen was involved with horse racing for over 50 years with runners at Longacres, Playfair, Yakima Meadows and Emerald Downs, as well as up and down California, at Arapahoe Park and in Canada.

His first win came at Coeur d’Alene Racetrack in the late 1960s with the Kaneohe Bay filly Dyes Inlet.

Some of the major horses that he was involved with include Yakima Futurity winner Turn to Glory, Kent Handicap winner Dolly’s Hit Lady and 2004 Washington horse of the year Demon Warlock, as well as on many of Demon Warlock’s successful offspring.

In 2017 Allen was involved in the partnerships that raced stakes-placed Oldtoytrain and Max the Kitty.

Among the many partnerships he raced under were Yo Racing, Clockwise Racing, Warlock Stables, Let’s Go Racing, Elite Racing and Pacific Rein.

One of the more important horses that he purchased was a weanling filly named Felice the Cat. After racing her with trainer Jonathan Nance, she was given to Pam and Neal Christopherson, for whom she produced multiple Washington champion and 2017 horse of the year Mach One Rules.

More recently Allen was instrumental in the purchase of the recently-retired Pontiff, who began his stud career at El Dorado Farms this spring.

His awards and accolades are too numerous to list and his impact and influence on those around him were immeasurable.

He was preceded in death by his father, Alfred Floyd; mother, Nina Herron; fatherin-law, Glenn Herron; infant son, Allen Floyd Jr; and brother, Charles Floyd. Allen is survived by his children, Susan Egbert, Tim Floyd and Pat Floyd; eight grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and siblings, Raymond Floyd, Marilyn Marsh and Marlene McMartin.

Michael Lee Marbet Mike Marbet, 56, of Maple Valley, passed away on January 4, 2018, after a lengthy illness.

He was born in April 1961 and grew up in Skyway near Renton. He graduated from Rainier Beach High School in 1979 and lived in Maple Valley for over 30 years. By trade, Mike was an electrician.

Mike became a Thoroughbred fan through his proximity to Longacres and his father Don’s interest. More recently he was a member of WWDD Stables, which claimed and raced the winning filly Ila Veiw. On June 23, 2017, Ila Veiw tied the Emerald Downs track record for six furlongs.

Mike enjoyed all sports and traveling with his family and friends.

Frank Andrew Williams Former jockey and trainer Frank Williams, 63, passed away in Spokane on March 6, 2018, after a long battle with cancer.

Frank was known for his love of horses.

He enjoyed spending time with them throughout his life and long career, in which he rode, broke and trained horses.

He was preceded in death by his sister, Donna R. Wallis. Frank is survived by his children, Amie Yeager, Nicki Williams, Dustin Wynn and Russell Wynn; grandchildren, Kassie Yeager, Brenin Scheufer, Payton Wynn, Riley Wynn, Charlie Wynn, Caleb Wynn and Caden Wynn; sisters, Janine C. Williams, Teri J. Stockner and Kim E. (Dale P.) Wright.

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EQUINE IN MEMORIAM Cocktails Anyone Three-time Washington champion distaffer Cocktails Anyone, 24, passed away on December 21, 2017. Bred and owned by Washington Racing Hall of Fame breeders Guy and Barbara Roberts, she was foaled on April 5, 1993, at their Guy Bar Farm in Sunnyside.

Cocktails Anyone made her racing debut – and only start as a two-year-old – at Yakima Meadows where she finished a close second to future stakes winner Cielo Otono in a maiden special weight.

At three, the daughter of Guy Bar Farm stallion Petersburg won her first out, a maiden allowance at Emerald Downs, by 5 1/2 lengths. In her next outing, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Handicap, the Tim McCanna trainee finished second.

In her final two starts of the year, Cocktails Anyone finished with a first and a second in allowance company at the Auburn track.

Her four-year-old debut came in a $50,000 claiming race at Emerald where she defeated 1995 Washington champion twoyear-old filly Candles n Moonlite.

Three weeks later she had her first meeting with a certain California buzz saw – Ropersandwranglers – and finished third to the future Washington Racing Hall of Famer in the Ingenue Handicap. After finishing in the top three in a trio of $50,000 Emerald claimers, whose fields read more like stakes races, Cocktails Anyone was sent to the barn of Michael Puhich at Del Mar and promptly won an allowance. Cocktails Anyone ended her 1997 campaign with a 3-1-2 record and $51,885 in earnings, and earned her first Washington champion older mare title.

Back once more at Emerald Downs, Cocktails Anyone’s first start of the 1998 season was in the Mountain View Stakes, where she again ran third behind the speedy Ropersandwranglers. After finishing back-toback seconds to that same rival in the Auburn and Boeing handicaps, Cocktails Anyone rebounded once more at Del Mar with a gateto-wire victory in an $80,000 optional claiming (N) race, which she won by three lengths.

She then finished second in both the Mae de Vol Sprint and Charles H. Russell handicaps at Bay Meadows. Sent to Golden Gate Fields, the Guy Bar mare impressively won the six-furlong Powder Room Handicap by seven lengths. She ended her 1998 campaign with a second in the Orinda Handicap in December. With a campaign that included seven stakes wins or placements from ten starts and with $125,045 in earnings, Cocktails Anyone was again voted champion older filly or mare and added the state sprint title as well.

In the talented mare’s final season of racing, Cocktails Anyone’s five races included a tally in the Vacaville Handicap at 64

Solano, a second to Washington champion Fleet Pacific in the Auburn Handicap at Emerald Downs and a third in the Golden State Lassie Stakes at Sacramento, in what would be her final outing.

In her 28 starts spent over five seasons at the track, Cocktails Anyone sported an 8-10-4 record – all in sprints – and earned $242,545.

Cocktails Anyone was a half-sister stakesplaced runners Champaigne Avenue, Tall Press and Bar Boy, all offspring of the Princely Native mare Cocktail Talk. Other prominent runners from this immediate female family include Grade 2 Belmont Park stakes winner and Washington champion Zama Hummer, 1984 Washington champion and Joe Gottstein Futurity winner Table Express, and additional Longacres stakes winners Speech Test, Soft Refrain, Delta Echo and Press to Test.

Cocktails Anyone would produce five named Thoroughbred foals, four of which would become winners. Her leading earners were the twice stakes-placed Siberian Summer gelding Siberian Cocktail, who won eight races and earned $102,824; and minor Emerald Downs stakes winner Free Cocktails, a gelded son of Free House who won nine races and earned $77,871.

Her final three named foals were offspring of Quarter Horse stallions. Her 2009 son Smr Bronte, by Brimmerton, won seven of his 18 starts, ran second in the Covered Bridges Stakes (G3) and had earnings of $63,995. In 2010 and 2011 she foaled fillies by the palomino Quarter Horse Frenchman’s Falcon, neither of which started. Her 2011 daughter, French Twizzler, is owned by the Roberts’ daughter and son-in-law Cindy and Charlie Hoctor.

Mula Gula Steven Gula’s four-time stakes winner and Grade 1-placed stallion Mula Gula died at Midas Hill Farm in Bryan, Texas, on March 3, 2018.

Originally purchased by Halvorson Bloodstock Services Inc., as agent, for $6,000 on Gula’s behalf as a weanling at the 1996 Kentucky Fasig-Tipton Kentucky sale, the son of 1992 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Lil E. Tee was bred by former WTBOA board member Jim Plemmons at his Old Frankfort Stud in Kentucky.

The bay colt began his racing career at Emerald Downs in the summer of 1998, where the Steve Bullock-trained runner broke his maiden in the WTBOA Lads Stakes. In his next start Mula Gula finished second to Vino Rossi in the $100,000 Gottstein Futurity.

At three, he returned to the races in California under the care of future Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, where he finished second to Red Sky’s in the $125,000 California Derby.

Next, in his first graded attempt, Mula Gula ran fourth in the Affirmed Handicap (G3) at Hollywood Park. Sent to Del Mar, Gula’s runner won the Oceanside Stakes.

Mula Gula also won the $150,000 Bay Meadows Breeders’ Cup Derby (G3).

In what would be his most important victory, Mula Gula won the $250,000 Oak Tree Derby (G2). He was ranked at 113 pounds on the Experimental Free Handicap for three-year-old turf runners.

Though Mula Gula didn’t win at four, his memorable season – all in graded races – included seconds in the Grade 2 Winnercomm Handicap at Churchill Downs, where he was beaten a head, and in Arlington Park’s Washington Park Handicap. Then, in his only Grade 1 appearance, Gula’s colt ran third in the $2-mllion Arlington Million.

In his 19 starts before retiring to stud at El Dorado Farms in 2001, Mula Gula had a 5-5-3 record with $684,070 in earnings and an SSI of 15.55. In the summer of 2002 Mula Gula was moved to Plemmons’ Old Frankfort Stud in Kentucky and later to Texas.

Mula Gula was the only foal produced out of the Ascot Knight mare Night Tan, a half-sister to stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Erin’s Word, before she was exported to Thailand.

In his 13 small crops Mula Gula sired 43 foals, including two yearlings of 2018, of which 36 started and 30 won. They had total earnings of $707,921, of which $154,853 came from his top earner Mula Gold, a 2004 Kentucky-bred mare.

Noosito 2014 Washington champion Noosito passed away unexpectedly on January 25, 2018, just a week shy of two years after the death of his champion brother Music of My Soul. Ken Alhadeff had raced two-time champion and Gottstein Futurity winner Music of My Soul in the name of his family’s historic Elttaes Stable. Upon the death of Music of My Soul, Noosito was purchased

by Alhadeff in order to give the handsome dark horse the chance at stud that his brother never had.

One of three champion brothers from the cross of Oregon leading sire Harbor the Gold to Washington broodmare of the year Julia Rose, Noosito – the youngest of the threesome – won four stakes at Emerald Downs and placed in six others from his 17 starts from 2013-16. The eventual $199,955 earner was named 2014 Washington champion three-year-old colt during a season in which he won the Seattle Slew and Auburn handicaps and Chinook Pass Stakes while racing for Last Rose Stable.

He was affectionately named Noosito (“Little Noosa”) in honor of his two-time Washington horse of the year brother Noosa Beach, a gelding who earned $524,472 and seven state champion titles.

All three of the champion siblings were trained by Doris Harwood, who with her husband Jeff bred both Noosa Beach – as well as racing him – and their dam Julia Rose, a daughter of Basket Weave.

Noosito’s only crop of foals will be born this spring. Music of My Soul’s single crop of foals arrives at the races in 2018. Both Noosito and Music of My Soul stood at El Dorado Farms.

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• $2,500 SIP Owners’ Incentive Bonus if a SIP-eligible horse wins its first race in a maiden special weight, allowance or stakes race.

• $1,000 SIP Owners’ Incentive Bonus if a SIP-eligible horse wins its first race in a maiden $25,000 or more claiming race.

A two-part process funds the SIP and is required to make the horse fully eligible: (1) Consignors – who must be current WTBOA members in order to consign a horse to the sale – will automatically contribute $50 to make each yearling or weanling in their consignment provisionally eligible for the incentive program.

(2) Buyers will then be offered the opportunity to make their purchase fully eligible by paying an additional fee. All buyers who wish to participate in the Sales Incentive Program must be WTBOA members in good standing for the year that the horse will be racing.

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(3) Should a SIP-eligible horse change hands prior to breaking its maiden, the new owner must be a current WTBOA member during the year the horse wins an eligible SIP race (either at two or three), payable by opening day of the race year.

In a $22,500/$25,000 maiden claiming race, the horse must be entered at the $25,000 level to qualify for the $1,000 bonus.

**WTBOA Homebred Incentive Program (WHIP) Beginning with the 2016 season, a one-time Owner’s Incentive Bonus of $1,000 will be awarded when a horse breaks its maiden at Emerald Downs. Two-year-olds and three-year-olds are eligible for the bonus.

• Payment goes to the owner of the horse at the time that the horse breaks it maiden.

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• The horse must not have gone through any sale (either sold or RNA).

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• The owner(s) must be members of the WTBOA by Emerald Downs’ opening day of the year in which the bonus is paid. A horse that is managed by a member will also receive the award. For instance, if a racing partnership or syndicate owns the horse, as long as the person who manages the entity is a member, they will receive the bonus.

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Rank

MIDWEST/CANADA

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2017 LEADING SIRES IN CANADA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Stallion (Foreign foaled), (YOB,Sire), Where Stands

2018 Stud Fee Can $

OLD FORESTER (01, Forestry), T. C. Westmeath Stud Farm $4,000 SILENT NAME (JPN) (02, Sunday Silence), Adena Springs North $10,000 MILWAUKEE BREW (97, Wild Again), Adena Springs North $5,000 GIANT GIZMO (04, Giant's Causeway), Adena Springs North $7,500 SLIGO BAY (IRE) (98, Sadler's Wells), Adena Springs North $5,000 WHERE'S THE RING (99, Seeking the Gold), Colebrook Farms Stallion Station $3,000 IMPERIALISM (01, Langfuhr), Esquirol Farms $2,500 WILKO (02, Awesome Again) N/A JERSEY TOWN (06, Speightstown), Road's End Farm $2,000 ROSBERG (01, A.P. Indy) Died, 2014 VALUE PLUS (01, Unbridled's Song), Strideaway Thoroughbreds $2,500 SIGNATURE RED (06, Bernstein), Adena Springs North $3,000 KENTUCKY BEAR (05, Mr. Greeley), Colebrook Farms Stallion Station Private STORM VICTORY (00, Storm Cat), Klimes Farm $2,000 SECOND IN COMMAND (00, Silver Deputy), Road's End Farm $2,000

Rnrs/ Wnrs

117/69 106/53 76/39 73/33 48/21 69/35 44/17 70/32 48/24 47/30 27/17 17/14 35/22 47/28 51/26

BT Rstrct SWnrs/ SW/ Wns BT SW (Chief Earner, Earnings)

3/10 6/8 3/4 1/1 1/2 0/0 1/4 2/5 1/2 3/4 0/0 1/1 0/0 1/1 1/1

2/3 5/6 2/3 1/1 0/1 0/0 0/1 0/2 1/1 1/3 0/0 1/1 0/0 1/1 1/1

(Pink Lloyd, $512,636) (San Nicola Thunder, $213,897) (Lilly's Goldie, $148,788) (Cooler Mike, $99,148) (Gran Will, $870,177) (Crumlin Queen, $87,457) (Imperial Hint, $660,350) (Melmich, $313,755) (Jersey Justice, $140,376) (Anstrum, $92,398) (Long On Value, $302,225) (Red Explosion, $109,131) (Nupogodi, $69,602) (Power Corrupt, $68,414) (Morning Blurs, $62,194)

Cumulative 2017 Earnings

$3,491,833 $2,983,491 $1,812,676 $1,479,007 $1,458,882 $1,293,513 $1,214,977 $1,186,615 $1,147,853 $735,873 $666,471 $649,629 $573,159 $524,557 $514,739

Stks A-E Comp Foals Wnrs Index Index

369 *356 *547 138 *392 333 228 *236 *84 86 *358 43 69 223 112

16 20 24 8 12 9 5 6 1 10 3 2 2 7 6

1.47 1.43 1.19 1.77 1.18 1.31 0.83 1.05 0.87 0.86 0.94 2.14 1.18 0.54 0.71

1.50 1.24 1.45 1.53 1.38 1.35 1.00 1.20 1.22 0.85 1.11 1.21 1.27 0.63 0.79

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